# Apple’s new laptop supports one of the coolest features for color pros

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/apples-new-laptop-supports-one-of-the-coolest-features-for-color-pros/
- Published: 2026-10-29T17:48:09+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T18:25:03+00:00
- Original publisher: The Verge
- Original article: https://www.theverge.com/1022347/apple-macbook-supports-new-cmf
- Topics: Gadgets, Technology

## Key points

- Apple CMF 2026 arrives on a laptop for the first time.
- It aims to improve colour consistency across displays and viewers.
- The MacBook also offers 16 reference modes and calibration tools.

## Summary

Apple’s new MacBook Pro is the first laptop to support Apple CMF 2026, a colour-matching system designed to make images appear more consistent across different display technologies and viewers. This matters to colour professionals who need reliable results across screens, and the laptop brings the feature to a portable device.

The established CIE 1931 standard was based on 17 people and can produce perceptual differences on newer displays such as OLED and quantum-dot LED screens. The MacBook offers two Apple CMF 2026 reference modes, alongside 14 modes using CIE 1931, and supports calibration tools; its peak brightness is 2,000 nits for both HDR and SDR. Apple is working with a CIE technical committee on a proposed standard.

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