Apple’s best MacBook Pro decision this week had nothing to do with touch

What the coverage shows

All three outlets center the new MacBook Pro and its touchscreen, with Tom’s Hardware alone also foregrounding the $2,899 starting price and mentioning the lighter design and updated speakers. The New York Times frames the launch as Apple’s first touch-screen MacBook Pro and emphasizes the company’s shift under its current chief executive. 9to5Mac spreads the coverage across several pieces, one of which bundles the MacBook Pro with other announcements like a new iPad mini and M6 iMac, and another that is only about shipment forecasts.

Written by Crossfiled from the 6 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.