![]() Jump up to 15-inches and quad core Kaby Lake, and you're starting at 2,399.00, with BTO options, including discreet graphics, that can take you all the way to 4,199.00. A maxed out 13-inch MacBook Pro will run you $2,899.00. If you want a faster i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, more SSD storage, 4x USB-C / Thunderbolt 3, and Touch Bar with Touch ID, the price goes up. If price is your most important feature, that gets you into the MacBook Pro for less than last year. This year, the 13-inch sans Touch Bar has been made even more affordable.įor $1299 you now get a 13-inch DCI-P3 Retina display, 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Kaby Lake Core i5 processor that Turbo Boosts up to 3.6GHz, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640, 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory, a 128GB SSD, and 2x USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 ports. The 2017 MacBook Pro comes in three models: 13-inch, 13-inch with Touch Bar and Touch ID, and 15-inch with Touch Bar and Touch ID. And even more so than you might initially expect. I suspect, for the vast majority of people, they will. For others, like me, they'll be terrific and once again deliver on the future, right now, today.Įither way, unless you loved the new MacBook Pro at first sight, I strongly encourage you to try before you buy, and when you buy, push them as hard as you need to, as fast as you can, so you can see if they meet your real-world needs. What this means to you will depend entirely on your personal preferences and professional requirements. They've got Touch Bar and Touch ID but not a touch screen, and there's no option for anything but Apple's incredibly flat, incredibly divisive new keyboard. (eGPU, coming soon, might fix that - but at an additional cost.) They've got a 16 GB memory limit that, while mitigated by compression and SSD speed, may not prove enough for the most demanding professionals. The potential unlocked by all of it is enormous.īut they've got graphics that, while they can run dual 5K displays at the high end, can't run VR or the highest end games. ![]() It's got a more expansive Force Touch trackpad and the option for an all-new Touch Bar input strip and new-to-Mac Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor. ![]() The ports, 2 or 4 depending on the model you choose, are the new, unified Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C and are faster and more flexible than ever. It's got SSD so fast you might just mistake it for RAM. The high-density Retina display now supports wide color, higher brightness, and better contrast. Often at the expense of traditional processing and graphics power, memory, and price. Every few years Apple flips the table on MacBooks, going thinner and lighter in design and more cutting edge in display, input technologies, storage, and ports. ![]()
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