Everyone has been focused on the new gadgets coming out of Cupertino, but Apple’s Mac team has been killing it lately. First the new MacBook, and now updated MacBook Pro and lower-priced iMac with a 5K display.
The new MacBook Pro features the Force Touch trackpad first introduced on the MacBook. The trackpad has built-in force sensors and a Taptic Engine that delivers haptic feedback. I’ve been using this on the MacBook since it was released and I love the interaction and feedback you get from it.
Apple didn’t just add the Force Touch trackpad. According to Apple, it also features up to 2.5 times faster flash storage than the previous generation, with throughput up to 2GBps, and offers an additional hour of battery life, with up to 9 hours of wireless web browsing and up to 9 hours of iTunes movie playback. Graphics on the computer are up to 80 percent faster performance, as well.
This is the new iMac:
With a resolution of 5120 x 2880, the new $1,999 iMac with Retina 5K display has 67 percent more pixels than a 4K display, and features a 3.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost Speeds up to 3.7 GHz and AMD Radeon R9 M290 graphics. The new iMac also includes 8GB of memory and 1TB of storage, as well as four USB 3.0 ports and two Thunderbolt 2 ports that deliver up to 20Gbps each, twice the bandwidth of the previous generation. The top-end iMac with Retina 5K display now starts at $2,299 and features a 3.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics and a 1TB Fusion Drive.
I couldn’t have said it any better than that. The only thing I can add is: I want one!
The new MacBook Pro is available today and starts at $1,999. The new iMac is also available today starting at $1,999.
No USB-C. Huh.
Weird. Only 16GB ram and no upgrade options, and only 1 graphics card option.
edit – that was for top of the line 15 inch… for the lesser models you can choose 8 or 16 ram, or a smaller card by model, not a menu option.
Still odd that 16 is max, though 4 per core should be ok.
Might have to order one of these…
That’s because it’s much more a refresh than “new”.
Give them until the next actual generation…
I still want a touchscreen on the laptop.
(I know, I know. I was dubious, too, until I used my girlfriend’s Windows laptop with a touchscreen.
And then remembered how I always wanted to touch my old MBA’s screen to dismiss dialogs.
The only thing stopping me from buying a MacBook right now is the lack of a touchscreen, and knowing it’d irritate me in its absence.)
(And I do not support “make OSX into some hybrid touchscreen thing like Windows 8”; that’s the most annoying part of Windows 8.
But “a touchscreen” for dialogs and the like – it’s brilliant.)
i read someone saying that there is no controller for these mobiles that addresses more than 16gb.
That would make sense, thnx.
no, a touchscreen for dialogs is not “brilliant”. its an obvious, old idea — one plainly rejected by apple. google “gorilla arms”, the fatigue experienced when one constantly has to move their arms up or keep them up while at their computer.
OS X wasnt designed for touch. that hasnt changed.