Apple has put out confirmation of an upcoming event, and the expectation attached to it is a MacBook with a touchscreen. If it happens, this would be the biggest change to the MacBook line in many years, as the report frames it. A touch Mac would reverse a stance Steve Jobs defended more than a decade ago, when he argued that trackpads beat touchscreens on laptops. Apple's one earlier attempt to bridge the two worlds, the Touch Bar, was quietly dropped after poor uptake. Interest in touch controls on the Mac never really went away, and the iPad has been absorbing Pro-grade hardware for years. The company has not detailed what else the event will include. The timing points to the usual autumn hardware window, when Apple tends to refresh its laptops. Whether the touchscreen MacBook really appears on stage will be settled at the event itself.