Apple has also reportedly made the keys more resilient to dust and other contaminants, which was a widely reported vulnerability of MacBooks for the past two years.Īdditionally, every single 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard will now be complemented by Apple’s Touch Bar - it’s no longer an optional extra like last year. The Touch Bar has been polarizing, to say the least. Apple’s ultra-low-profile keys are noticeably quieter than last year, achieving a more subtle clicking sound on each tap without sacrificing any of that reassuring visceral feedback. The keyboard represents another significant change this year. Or better still, a higher-end Windows laptop with an NVIDIA GPU. That means things like gaming or rendering advanced 3D work would require an upgrade to the 15-inch model. The only disappointment here is that there’s no option for a discrete graphics card in the 13-inch unit. It really puts last year’s comparatively old-fashioned dual-core chip to shame, packing quite a punch for a unit so small. The improved performance of the new quad-core chip is especially evident when doing more intense operations, such as encoding a video or multitasking with several apps open. In fact, this is one of the biggest year-over-year gains we’ve seen in Apple laptops for quite some time. Apple made the jump to Intel’s cutting-edge 8th generation microchips, which means a significant performance boost over last year’s model. The most critical improvement to this year’s 13-inch MacBook Pro is with its processors.

802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n compatible.

Touch Bar with integrated Touch ID Sensor.

2.3GHz Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz.Product Review 28518 Apple MacBook Pro Full Specifications (13-inch, 2018 model, as tested)

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