Still available in Apple’s standard space gray or silver colors (no rose gold yet), the MacBook Pro’s unibody aluminum shell is as gorgeous as ever, giving off a subdued shine through the anodization.Īpple also maintains its achievement of cramming a 13-inch screen into an 11-inch frame, much like the Dell XPS 13, but this laptop’s bezels are still noticeably larger. That said, not much – if anything – has changed about the MacBook Pro design year over year, and that’s A-OK. Luckily, Apple’s pedigree does wonders for maintaining the MacBook Pro’s shining reputation as an absolutely beautiful and sensible computing device.
Still, now that the new MacBook Pro is here, you should expect the 2017 MacBook Pro to see plenty of deals in time for the holiday. Similarly, you can pick up the Surface Laptop, which can be configured with a stronger Core i7 CPU and equally capacious storage and RAM for a full 200 clams less, albeit with a slightly lower-resolution 2,256 x 1,504 touchscreen and only two legacy ports. Still, you can save a ton of cash by trading in your old Macbook Pro to Apple itself for up to $2,500, if you live in the US.įor $100 less in the US, however, you can get a Dell XPS 13 with double the RAM and storage of the $1,799 MacBook Pro we’ve reviewed here and with a more capable Intel Core i7 CPU at that – not to mention a sharper 3,100 x 1,800 touchscreen as well as both Thunderbolt 3 and an SD card reader. Looking at these prices, it’s not hard to see that you’re paying extra for that logo etched opposite your display, paired with a brilliant trackpad and a familiar operating system. Moreover, the processor speed has been bumped from 2.3GHz to 3.1Ghz as well. That’s due in part to the fact that it sports four Thunderbolt 3 ports, double that of the non-Touch Bar models, all of which can be used to charge the device.
Now, while you could simply fetch more storage than the base configuration for another couple hundred bills, the unit we reviewed is a supercharged beast. That’s a lot more than the presumably forthcoming entry-level MacBook is going to be. If the Touch Bar, along with Touch ID verification, is a must-have feature for you, you can expect to shell out no less than $1,799 (£1,749, AU$2,699). Of course, that base MacBook Pro lacks another key element – the OLED Touch Bar that replaces the function keys.
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