Apple introduced the thinnest and lightest MacBook Pro yet in October 2016, along with a new interface innovation that replaces the traditional row of function keys with a Retina-quality Multi-Touch display called the “Touch Bar.” The new MacBook Pro features what Apple claims is its brightest and most colorful Retina display yet, the security and convenience of Touch ID fingerprint sensing, a keyboard claimed to be more responsive, a larger Force Touch trackpad, and an audio system with double the dynamic range. It’s also the most powerful MacBook Pro ever, featuring sixth-generation Intel Core “Skylake” family quad-core and dual-core processors, up to 2.3 times the graphics performance over the previous generation MBPs, super-fast SSDs and up to four Thunderbolt 3 ports.
The Touch Bar places controls right at the user’s fingertips and adapts when using the system or apps like Mail, Finder, Calendar, Numbers, GarageBand, Final Cut Pro X and many more, including third-party apps. For example, the Touch Bar can show Tabs and Favorites in Safari, enable easy access to emoji in Messages, provide a simple way to edit images or scrub through videos in Photos and more.
Building on innovations pioneered in the 12-inch MacBook with Retina Display, new MacBook Pro features an entirely new enclosure design and all-metal unibody construction that creates a rigid and dense notebook that is still amazingly thin and light. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro, at just 15.5 mm thick, is 14 percent thinner and takes up 20 percent less volume than before, and weighing just four pounds — nearly half a pound lighter than its predecessor.
What Apple clains is the best Mac display ever delivers images described as more vivid, revealing even greater detail and appearing more lifelike than ever. As thin as a 12-inch MacBook display at .88 mm, the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro at 500 nits of brightness is 67 percent brighter than the previous generation, features 67 percent more contrast, and is the first Mac notebook display to support a wider color gamut. With power-saving technologies like a larger pixel aperture, a variable refresh rate and more power-efficient LEDs, Apple says the display consumes 30 percent less energy than before.
Apple says the new MacBook Pro’s powerful processors, cutting-edge graphics, fast SSDs, high-speed memory and an advanced thermal architecture deliver pro-level performance in a dramatically thinner enclosure. Sixth-generation dual-core Core i5 with eDRAM, dual-core Core i7 with eDRAM and quad-core Core i7 Intel processors deliver pro-level processing performance while conserving energy. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro features more powerful Radeon Pro discrete graphics delivering up to 2.3 times more performance than the previous generation. All models feature SSDs with sequential read speeds over 3GBps and Thunderbolt 3 which consolidates data transfer, charging and twice the video bandwidth in a single port allowing users to drive a 5K display and power their MacBook Pro with a single cable.
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