Apple is refreshing its MacBook Pro line once again with new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro devices. The company today announced some major internal upgrades for both the devices, though there aren’t any exciting design changes.
The 15-inch MacBook Pro is getting an 8-core processor. That’s a first for any MacBook, and it comes with Intel’s 9th gen 8-core i9 processor, clocked at 2.3GHz, with the ability to Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz for $2799. You can also configure the model to come with an 8-core i9 clocked at 2.4GHz and Turbo Boost at 5GHz. But for the base model which starts at $2399, Apple is selling the 15-inch model with a 9th gen 6-core i7 processor clocked at 2.6GHz, with the ability to Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz.
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For the 13-inch Touch Bar model, Apple is sticking with the 8th gen processors. The base model now ships with a faster clock speed at 2.4GHz (compared to the previous 2.3GHz) for the quad-core i5 processor, and it can Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz (compared to 3.8GHz). Apple is also introducing a new quad-core i7 processor that can boost up to 4.7GHz.
Apple claims the new processors help the MacBook Pro deliver twice the performance than a previous-gen quad-core MacBook Pro and 40% more performance than a previous-gen 6-core MacBook Pro.
On the inside, Apple is also changing up the design for the butterfly keyboard. This is the fourth time Apple is tweaking the design of the infamous MacBook Pro keyboard that has been causing all sorts of trouble. Apple told The Verge that the company is now using new materials for the butterfly mechanism that should help reduce the number of double press and press misses.
But what is very interesting is the fact that Apple has no mention of the new material for the butterfly mechanism on its blog post. There is literally not a single mention of the tweaked internals of the keyboard on the press release. The company is, however, expanding its servicing program for affected butterfly keyboards to help resolve the issues with the previous (and current) generation devices.
dontbe evil
<p><span style="color: rgb(55, 62, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LOOOOL of course you have to spend at least $2400 to buy the new device with a fixed keyboard, like when it fixed the iphone 4 antenna problem in the 4s, or 6 bend problem in the 6s, or the ipad 3 (?) charging problem in the ipad 4 (?)…</span></p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#429802">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p>shhh don't tell this to the apple fans</p>
Stooks
<p>So what will throttle it first, more powerful CPU in the same super thin form factor or Intel CPU flaw?</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#429731">In reply to Kevin_Costa:</a></em></blockquote><p>Looks good. You just need to add in the Apple firmware update that purposely throttled the i9 6-core last go around when you-tubers were posting the throttle video show it spiking all over the place. The firmware basically never let it get to its full potential, so no heat issues.</p><p><br></p><p>Who in their right mind would buy one of these?</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#429727">In reply to Stooks:</a></em></blockquote><p>the best throttling and high temperature chassis evaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (good in winter)</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#429836">In reply to PeteB:</a></em></blockquote><p>yup, how much can apple fan boys pay to have a shiny bitten apple logo device</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#429845">In reply to codymesh:</a></em></blockquote><p>yup, that's apple style</p>