Alongside other updates, Apple at its World Wide Developers Conference this morning announced some modest updates to the MacBook line of notebooks.
Starting with the MacBook Pro, we see an across the board upgrade to Kaby Lake processors. As we saw on the desktop side with Kaby Lake, there aren't radical differences with these new processor, however we do see a 200MHz bump across the line on clock speeds. Essentially these are the same relative chips in Intel's Kaby Lake processor lineup as Apple used in the Skylake generation.
MacBook Pro 13" with Function Keys | MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar | MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar | |
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MSRP | $1,299+ | $1,799+ | $2,399+ |
Screen | 13.3" 2560x1600 with DCI-P3 Color Gamut, 500-nits | 13.3" 2560x1600 with DCI-P3 Color Gamut, 500-nits | 15.4" 2880x1800 with DCI-P3 Color Gamut, 500-nits |
CPU | Core i5-7360U (2.3GHz up to 3.6GHz) | Core i5-7267U (3.1GHz up to 3.5GHz) | Core i7-7700HQ (2.8GHz up to 3.8GHz) |
GPU | Intel Iris Plus 640 | Intel Iris Plus 650 |
AMD Radeon Pro 555 (2GB) AMD Radeon Pro 560 (4GB) |
RAM | 8 or 16 GB DDR3-1866 (non-upgradeable) | 8 or 16 GB DDR3-2133 (non-upgradeable) | 16 GB DDR3-2133 (non-upgradeable) |
Storage | 128, 256, 512, or 1TB NVMe SSD (non-upgradable) | 256, 512, or 1TB NVMe SSD (non-upgradable) | 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB NVMe SSD (non-upgradable) |
Connectivity | 2 x Thunderbolt 3, headphone jack | 4 x Thunderbolt 3, headphone jack | 4 x Thunderbolt 3, headphone jack |
Disappointingly, we do not see the rumored expandability to 32GB of RAM that many power users have been asking for.
Additionally, graphics are generationally upgraded to Intel's Iris Plus 640 and 650 on the 13" models with and without the touch bar respectively.
The 15" MacBook Pro models see refreshed Polaris GPUs in the form of the Radeon Pro 555 and 560. It's worth nothing that the old entry level 15" MacBook Pro previously had the Radeon Pro 450 GPU, so the base configuration is now a more capable GPU even after you take away the expected improvements to the improved Polaris architecture seen in the RX 580.
In addition, the MacBook saw an upgrade to Kaby Lake processors. Apple also claimed that the onboard SSDs in this machine have seen a speed bump, but provided no real data on such claims.
Finally, the stalwart MacBook Air sees a processor speed bump. We aren't sure exactly what processor is in the new Air, but it seems to only have a 100MHz speed increase. Interestingly enough it still retains HD graphics 6000branding, which would lead us to believe this is still a Broadwell -based mobile processor.
These updated models are now available from Apple.
15 inch screen ,16 g
15 inch screen ,16 g RAM,$2,400.00. Insane.