There's no telling what developers can come up with Touch Bar, but for something largely unexplored, the Touch Bar seems like a nice add-on instead of a compelling selling point. In fact, what users actually wanted more from an Apple laptop was a touchscreen. Are The New Features Worth The Added Cost?ĭespite the sizable possibilities with the new Touch Bar, it's safe to say that there was never a demand for the feature in the first place. Overall, it's not a colossal departure from last year's models. Aside from slight cosmetic changes and a considerably thinner chassis, the new MacBook Pro models don more powerful processors, with the higher end 13-inch and the 15-inch model coming with Touch Bar and Touch ID. It's the same Retina display that came with the MacBook Pro in 2015, only 67 percent brighter. The new butterfly-style keyboard and Force Touch trackpad are also present in the new MacBook Pro models.īeyond that, the changes aren't huge. The 15-inch model comes with the Touch Bar as a standard feature, and the most expensive model has a 2.7 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, an SSD with 512 GB, integrated Intel HD Graphics 530 and a beefed-up Radeon Pro 455 for its GPU with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching. It has 8 GB of RAM that can be configured to 16 GB, and it sports an Intel Iris Graphics 540 GPU.Īnother 13-inch model with the Touch Bar is available for an extra cost, which comes with a more powerful 2.9 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor and an Intel Iris Graphics 550 GPU.
The base 13-inch model MacBook Pro doesn't come with the Touch Bar or the Touch ID, but it does come with a 2.0 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor and an SSD with 256 GB.