Big Tech’s latest batch of mixed-reality headsets are ready for you, but are they just stopgaps on the way to something else?

Apple has been using this laptop design for about four years now, since it released the M1 Pro and M1 Max versions of the MacBook Pro in late 2021. But for people who are upgrading from an older design—Apple did use the old Intel-era design, Touch Bar and all, for the low-end M1 and M2 MacBook Pros, after all—we’ll quickly hit the highlights.