At the event it organized in Cupertino today, Apple presented the new MacBook Pro. The latest version of the company's laptop is the thinnest and lightest MacBook Pro ever made. It will be available at two 13- and 15-inch variants.
The 13 inch model is 14,9 mm thick and weighs 3 pounds, which means it is 17% thinner than its predecessor. The 15 inch model is 15,5 mm thick and has 20% less than volume from the latest MacBook Pro.
It has a multitouch-responsive OLED display that runs over and along the keyboard.
The new TouchBar has contextual buttons and controls to help you customize your settings and control the applications that are running.
For example, it offers word suggestions while typing, like your phone keypad, and recommends folders for sorting your emails at the touch of a button.
In addition, it has a Touch ID fingerprint sensor second generation that combined with an Apple T1 Chip will allow you to unlock your Mac safely and use Apple Pay for online online transactions. For those of you who are wondering when they went to the function keys, they will appear on the TouchBar when you need them. Support for TouchBar has been added to Pages, Keynote and Terminal.
The new MacBook Pro also has a dedicated key for using Siri. The keyboard has "butterfly" switches for better response when typing, while the trackpad (has Force Touch) is double the model of 15 inches.
Apple says the new MacBook Pro's display is 67 percent brighter, offers 67 percent higher contrast and 25 percent more colors than the previous generation. Its thickness screen remains the same as a 12-inch MacBook display. The device's built-in speakers offer twice the dynamic range of sound compared to the last model.
The 15-inch model "wears" an i7 Intel Core processor clocked at 2133MHz. Combined with AMD's Polaris GPU it offers 4GB VRAM and up to 2.3x faster performance graphics. It features a massive Superfast SSD with a capacity of up to 2TB that is 50% faster than the last generation with speeds transports 3,1 GB/s.
Apple says the 15-inch MacBook Pro will deliver significantly faster performance than the latter: 60% for gaming, 130% for 3D graphics, and 50% for video editing.
The 13 inch model offers a choice of dual-core i5 and i7 processors, and an Intel Iris GPU that is two times faster than the latest model.
As for ports, both models come with four Thunderbolt-powered USB-C ports, which can be connected to USB, VGA, DisplayPort and HDMI devices, as well as sources energys to charge the device.
The company also says that both models will offer more than 10 hours of lifetime with a full battery charge.