This MacBook Pro laptop has a Touch Bar to show your relevant tools and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645 integrated graphics for everyday multi-display use. The 13-inch Pro is the current champ for combining price, performance and features, while the 13-inch Air is, while a bit dated in its design, still a tremendously useful laptop available at a very accessible price. The super-speedy Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM let you enjoy fast speeds across all your programs, and a compact 13-inch Retina display lets you enjoy lots of color. It's the biggest and most powerful laptop Apple makes, and unless you're moving up to a 5K iMac or the Mac Pro desktop, it's going to be on the wish lists of photographers, designers, video makers and others.īut for everyone else, there may be a better choice in the MacBook lineup. But it's also slim and light enough to make an occasional trip without being a burden, which is why Apple feels free to charge such a premium for it above both other high-end 15-inch laptops and the rest of the MacBook line.

The 15-inch MacBook Pro is a powerful, but still portable, laptop that feels more at home on a desk (perhaps tethered to external hard drives and docking stations) than in your travel bag. This system ran for 9:34 in our video playback battery test, about 15 minutes longer than the 2014 configuration we tested. Again, perhaps because this year's test unit has to support a separate graphics card while the one we tested last year did not, the battery life we saw in the 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro versus the 2014 model was nearly identical. Apple claims tweaks to the operating system and battery chemistry should give you about an hour of extra battery life in this 2015 MacBook Pro, versus a comparable 2014 model.

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