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If you're the kind of person who likes lots of screen real estate you can have full native resolution on the built-in display and add an extra:

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High screen performance takes its toll on battery life, but the MacBook Pro has a switchable graphics feature that boosts performance when dealing with graphics-intensive tasks, such as rendering, and falls back to using the integrated Intel graphics for more pedestrian tasks, which contributes to battery life. While it's a gloss screen, Apple's anti-glare technology is second-to-none, so it handles reflections better than most laptops with reflective screens. We rate the screen as excellent when comparing colours, brightness and contrast, and viewing angles to other laptops. The MacBook Pro has 15.4-inch (diagonal) screen with resolution 2880 x 1800 pixels, giving it 220 pixels per inch – enough to claim the 'Retina' tag that Apple uses when the resolution is so high that the human eye (retina) can't detect individual onscreen dots at normal viewing distance. This keyboard will benefit light-fingered touch typists the most. If the MacBook Pro is your main computer and you're not switching to other keyboards you should get used to the MacBook Pro keys fairly easily. The second-generation mechanism has improved the feel of the keys somewhat, but if you're accustomed to keys with a lot more travel they can feel hard as they bottom-out quickly. Typing on the 1.5cm thick MacBook Pro is still an acquired taste for some, as it requires a light touch for best results because the keys have so little travel, just like on the super-thin (0.35cm–1.3cm) wedge-profile MacBook.

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The Touch Bar hasn't changed physically since we first looked at it but while it took some months to catch on fully with software developers, it has now been adopted by a large number of pro and consumer-level apps, so it's actually become more useful.

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A password is still required after a restart. The Touch ID panel can be used to authenticate when installing programs as well as to log in to the laptop when it comes out of sleep and to fast-switch between users. This is a big timesaver (especially if you're security conscious and lock the screen frequently). The Touch Bar also comes with Apple's Touch ID fingerprint reader built-in at the right-hand end. It provides a far more responsive way to explore editing options than using onscreen menus, even compared to a touchpad. The Touch Bar is at its best when showing sliders and scrubbing tools in image, video and audio apps. It gives you context-aware buttons that change depending on what program you're using and what you're doing within it. This keyboard-wide full-colour multi-touch strip is really a completely separate screen that replaces the top row of function keys. These are the same people who will benefit most from the Touch Bar.

As the name implies, it's aimed at professionals, especially creative professionals for whom it becomes their main workstation running heavyweight applications such as Adobe's Creative Suite of video editing, graphic design, and web development programs, as well as various other high-end apps.

The 1TB SSD option adds $640, while the 2TB SSD adds a whopping $1920.īut let's face it, this isn't everybody's laptop – this is a premium quality computer with premium performance and a premium price to match. You can option up the processor to 3.1GHz (with Turbo boost to 4.1GHz) for $320 but ramping up the storage will really cost you.

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Our top-end (off-the-shelf) review model was equipped with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz), 16GB of RAM (memory), Radeon Pro 560 graphics card (with 4GB of memory) plus Intel HD Graphics 630 and a 512GB SSD (solid-state drive).

But as with the 13-inch MacBook Pro, there are no external cosmetic changes to the 15-inch model this time around. While the timing wasn't right for Apple to include Intel's new seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors, Apple's latest laptops have remedied that issue, boosted the graphics and included speedier internal storage, which Apple claims is up to 50% faster. On the outside, Apple's latest laptop line doesn't look different from the models released late last year, when they received a substantial makeover after a couple years of only incremental improvements.

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