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This is aweome! As expected, today’s event at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters was all about the MacBook Pro and it didn’t disappoint. And the highlight? That uber-hyped OLED touch strip.
Officially dubbed the Touch Bar, the new addition sits above a revamped keyboard (one based on the 12″ MacBook‘s butterfly mechanism), as well as a larger Force Touch trackpad and replaces the traditional function keys that have graced computers since IBM introduced them in 1971.
As far as design goes, the new MacBook Pro is Apple’s thinnest and lightest ever. Aluminum on all sides, the 15″ and 13″ notebooks measure just 15.5mm and 14.9mm thin and weigh four and three lbs, respectively — making them 14% and 17% thinner than their predecessors and a half-pound lighter while also taking up 20% and 23% less volume. A newly revamped display is also the best Retina to grace a notebook yet and is 67% brighter with 67% higher contrast while displaying 25% more colors.
While the 15″ comes with an Intel quad-core i7 processor with 16GB memory, a Radeon Pro GPU, and up to 2TB of storage, the 13″ comes with either an Intel dual-core i5 or i7, 8GB memory and Intel Iris graphics with 64MB eDRAM. Both also employ all-new speaker designs with a better dynamic range and air displacement, advanced thermal architecture to run cooler and quieter, four Thunderbolt 3 ports and up to 10 hours of battery life.