Apple introduced a new MacBook Pro with OLED touch-panel – 3DNews

a Key innovation of Apple in the last event became the MacBook Pro 2016. It’s been a long time since Apple last significantly updated its flagship laptops. The impression was that the company abandoned these devices in the last two years the only significant change was the integration of the touch panel with tactile feedback Force Touch. But now Apple finally has fundamentally redesigned MacBook Pro.

the First thing to say about the new design 13 – inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro. Superior metal case, and a new active cooling system allowed to create the most thin and light MacBook Pro. The 13-inch model now weighs just 1.37 kg and has a thickness of just 14.9 mm vs 18 mm at the last version. The 15-inch 1.83 kg at a thickness of 15.5 mm. Available options in silver and dark gray colors.

the Next innovation is, of course, multi-touch OLED panel is Touch Bar. In fact this is a slim high resolution screen located above the main keyboard, and the replacement of functional and multimedia keys. The Esc key has become now software. In addition, the panel provides a variety of management capabilities, limited only by the imagination of developers.

to the Right of the Touch Bar fit a fingerprint scanner Touch ID, the second generation, covered with glass from synthetic sapphire. It works the same as in the iPhone 7, and the fingerprints are stored in a special protected area. To see the work of Touch Bar and Touch ID in the new MacBook Pro in the official commercials:

other important improvements we can mention the huge Force Touch trackpad twice the size, and keyboard with a modified mechanism butterfly keys, first applied in a thin MacBook. New display 17% thinner, 67 % brighter, provides 67% higher contrast and renders up to 25% more colors than sRGB — despite these improvements, it also consumes less power. Built-in speaker become louder and feature a doubled dynamic range.

Laptops have received a four-Thunderbolt port 3 USB-C, each of which can be used to charge laptop. These universal ports with speeds up to 40 Gbps, according to Apple, replace the power connectors, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C 3.1, DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA. This means that the new MacBook Pro has come to say goodbye to the usual magnetic MagSafe power port. But Apple has retained the 3.5 mm audio Jack. No more connectors, not even a SD card slot.

the battery life is 10 hours for the 13-and 15-inch models a little longer than professional laptops Apple the previous generation. There is support for 802.11 ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 and a 720p FaceTime HD camera. What are the options of laptops available?

first, it is the flagship 15.4-inch model. The basic version is $ 2400 is equipped with a 4-core Intel Core i7 2.6 GHz (Turbo — 3.5 GHz), discrete Radeon Pro 450 2 GB GDDR5, 256 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM LPDDR3 with a frequency of 2133 MHz. For $ 2800 you can buy a version with an Intel Core i7 @2.7 GHz (Turbo mode to 3.6 GHz), 512 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM LPDDR3 with a frequency of 2133 MHz. For a fee you can install the SSD up to 2 TB, graphics card up to Radeon Pro 460 4GB GDDR5 and a processor Intel Core i7 2.8 GHz (Turbo mode to 3.8 GHz).

More affordable option — a 13.3-inch. The basic version cost $ 1800 is equipped with 2-core Intel Core i5 2.9 GHz (Turbo mode 3.3 GHz), 256 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM LPDDR3 with a frequency of 2133 MHz. For $ 2000 you can buy a variant with 512-GB SSD. Unfortunately, the discrete graphics card in the 13 inch laptop is not provided, so we’ll have to be content with only Intel Iris Graphics 550. For a fee you can expand the HDD capacity to 1 TB, and install the 16 GB RAM and set the CPU down to the 2-core Intel Core i7 @3.3 GHz (Turbo mode to 3.6 GHz).

Finally, the most undemanding users for $ 1500 to buy a 13.3-inch laptop without OLED panel Touch Bar (instead of her usual 12 function keys), 2-nuclear processor Intel Core i5 @2.0 GHz (Turbo — 3.1 GHz), 256 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM LPDDR3 with a frequency of 2133 MHz. For a fee, the device can be equipped with a processor up to a 2-core Intel Core i7 @2.4 GHz (Turbo — 3.1 GHz), 1 TB SSD and 16 GB RAM.

Apple introduced a small movie, which recalled the history of their laptops, many of which were really innovative for its time:

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