On Thursday it announced the new MacBook Pro laptops.
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Touch Bar of MacBook Pro 2016 is something new and the device is having a touch bar above the keyboard which displays all the latest applications a customer used. If the Touch Bar is in another mode, you can hold down the fn key on the lower left of the keyboard. Users also have the room to control what default actions show up on the touch bar.
As for pricing, the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro will start at $1,499, with the first 13-inch Touch Bar MacBook Pro running in at $1,799. In Safari, the Touch Bar will display shortcuts to favorite sites and a search engine bar. That’s a change from before, when ISPs only had to offer a way to opt out of tracking behaviour like browsing habits, app usage and location or financial data. It also has functions familiar to many iPhone users, showing word suggestions or emojis. The 13-inch model of the new MacBook Pro comes with an option of either Intel Core i5 or i7 along with an Intel Iris GPU. It also has 16GB RAM, but a maximum of 1TB SSD storage.
Processing Power and Memory: The high-end 15-inch model of MacBook Pro is powered by a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor along with AMD Radeon Pro graphics which is backed with up to 4GB worth of video memory. The Air has no Touch Bar, however. It is a tiny boost versus the old 15-inch Pro, but the same than the older 13-inch Pro. The 13in version costs£1,749, the 15in costs £2,349. There is no Display port, MicroSD card slot or regular USB ports. The specs are a welcome update. “The 13″ model is 17% thinner and weighs a half a pound less than the previous generation of 13” laptops.
The pricing for MacBook 13-inch without “Touch Bar” is priced at $1,499 (Rs 1,00,159) in U.S., $1,899 (Rs 94,783) in Canada, 1,449 pound (Rs 1,17,563) in United Kingdom, HK$11,588 (Rs 99,852) in Hong Kong, S$2,188 in Singapore (Rs 1,04,826), and A$2,199 (Rs 1,11,359) in Australia. Both Macbooks are available to pre-order right now.
Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus also confirmed in July that it was raising the price of its OnePlus 3 by £20 to £329 after the Brexit vote and its effect on the value of the pound.
It had been unusually long since the last release of MacBook Pro. This major announcement confirms what tech insiders have been ruminating about in the last few months.
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Now all the models are only available in a silver or space grey shade.
