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In Apple-speak, it's a 'Retina Display', although it's worth noting that this is purely a marketing designation, not a technical term. The display on the 15-inch MacBook has a 2560x1600 pixel resolution.

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USB-C is becoming more standardised, although it's somewhat amusing to note that I can directly plug most of this year's premium Android phones directly into the MacBook Pro, but to get an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus connected I need an adaptor. There is part of me that misses the older 'magsafe' connector that quickly dropped off if the cord snagged, but I can't deny that it's very handy to have the ability to charge the MacBook Pro from any of its ports. In terms of interfaces, there's no change with the new MacBook Pro 15 inch, which features four USB-C based USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports with support for 40Gbps Thunderbolt and charging. Again, if you want a touch-enabled Apple OS, look to iOS instead.

Apple has been notably reluctant to turn macOS into a touch-enabled interface, and this is something of a halfway solution towards that.

I touch type, and for any touch typist, it's an annoyance because the last thing I actively want to be doing is looking down at the keyboard. If you're a user of standard function keys, you can access these by holding down the function key at any time.ĭevelopers have done some interesting things with the Touch Bar, but it remains very much a personal taste productivity tool. The Touch Bar is a thin OLED strip above the main keyboard, which changes contextually depending on the application in use as well as serving as a general home for features such as volume control, brightness and the escape key. The star of the show here is the 'Touch Bar', which is also available on select 13-inch models. The MacBook Pro features a wide keyboard with relatively little travel on it, and quite how you take that will depend on your own typing style. I don't tend to agree, based on my experiences with the otherwise excellent iPad Pro 10.5 inch. Then again, given Apple's current iPad Pro push, that's the market they're suggesting should be using a tablet anyway.

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What that means is that you get the same design that Apple has honed over time, so it looks like a MacBook Pro of years gone past-just a little smoother around the edges.Īpple's proud claim with the MacBook Pros is that they've continually made them thinner and more portable, and at 1.49x30.41x21.24 cm with a carrying weight of 1.37kg for the 15-inch model, they may have a point, although you don't have to go too far to find even lighter portable workhorses. I use a 2016 model on a day-to-day basis, and more than once I've gone to pick up my work laptop, only to grab the newer model instead. That's because Apple hasn't significantly altered the physical design of its premium laptop in any real way at all. Place the mid-2017 MacBook Pro next to its immediate predecessor, the late 2016 MacBook Pro, and you would be very hard put to spot the difference.

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Is a jump in processor architecture enough to make an upgrade to your existing MacBook Pro worthwhile?

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Still, at the same time it was announcing the new iPad Pro, Apple also launched new models of the MacBook Pro, running on Intel's 7th generation Core i7 'Kaby Lake' processors.Īpple has always positioned the MacBook Pro lines towards the professional crowd, with the MacBook Air and, to a lesser extent, the straight MacBook being the more consumer-focused offerings. You could be forgiven for thinking that Apple had all but given up on its Mac line of personal computers, given that essentially all of its advertising activity is focused right now on telling you just how wonderful the iPad Pro 10.5 is as a laptop replacement, at least from Apple's perspective. Purchase the new MacBook Pro (2017) from Apple StoreĪpple's updated MacBook Pro improves its internal performance thanks to a processor bump, and it's a superbly well-built machine as usual.

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