Purple118/v4/d8/ce/58/d8ce586e-1ce1-ea8a-c692-b1f4701804d6/source/480x351bb.jpg' alt='Spreadsheet Software For Macbook Pro' title='Spreadsheet Software For Macbook Pro' />Mac. Book Pro 1. 5 inch 2. Faster, stronger, same high price. Its always an event when Apple launches a Mac. Book, both literally and figuratively. This year though Mac. Book Pro fans will have to settle for an internal spec improvement rather than radical design overhaul. As has been the case since Apple ditched the 1. Mac. Book Pro back in 2. Mac. Book Pro in the 1. As we said in our preview of the 1. Mac. Book Pro, the 1. Spreadsheet Software For Macbook Pro' title='Spreadsheet Software For Macbook Pro' />Pro than its smaller sibling. However, is it truly a pro machine The Pro status of Apples 1. Mac. Book depends on what sort of pro you are. Traditionally creative pros would have turned to the Mac for their needs, be it design work, editing photos, working with video and animation, or other jobs that require decent graphic capabilities. Other Mac. Book Pro users might include gamers, programmers, and office workers who need a capable Mac with a larger screen than the 1. Mac laptops.  We will be considering all these users as we evaluate the 2. Mac. Book Pro. Is the new Mac. Book Pro going to answer their requirements or would they be better off with a different Mac, or dare we say, a PC or Linux machine. The two changes to the Mac. Book Pro models launched at WWDC in June 2. Kaby Lake processors and the improved graphics. Do those updates combine to make this a five star machine You can also read our comparison of all the pro Macs here, find out which is the best Mac for pros, and we also have a comparison of the two Mac. Book Pro models here. Price and availability The Mac. Book Pro remains an expensive computer 2. GHz Kaby Lake i. 7 quad core processor, Touch Bar, 1. GB RAM, 2. 56. GB storage, Radeon Pro 5. GHz Kaby Lake i. 7 quad core processor, Touch Bar, 1. GB RAM, 5. 12. GB storage, Radeon Pro 5. Build to order options 3. With expert service from. Monthly protection of your APPLE MacBook Pro 15 with Touch Bar Space Grey 2017 for only 10. More info. With expert service from. Monthly protection of your APPLE MacBook Pro 13 Space Grey 2017 for only 10. More info. GHz Kaby Lake i. TB SSD 3. 604. TB SSD 1,0. Apple also offers the older 2. Broadwell chip 1. Mac. Book Pro priced at 1,8. It is now the only Mac. Book that Apple sells, in any line and any screen size, that has ports such as USB A, HDMI and an SD card slot. Design and build quality. Reservations about the price aside, this is out and out a premium laptop. For a 1. 5 inch device it is remarkably slim, keeping an identical profile to the 2. Our review unit was Space Grey, our preferred colour, but you can go for the classic Mac. Book silver too.  This means you are faced with a stunning Retina display with pleasingly thin bezels a full size keyboard with Apples improved second generation butterfly keys and that now famous infamous Touch Bar. Well get more into that further in. There is also a convenient Touch ID fingerprint reader worked into the Touch Bar, while the 1. As usual, Apple excels in its positioning of the trackpad here it is huge but we never found our palms encroaching on it. The Touch Bar itself remains, and it will again continue to divide opinion. From a purely design point of view, its great. It works well with no lag and the interface is surprisingly intuitive for such unique hardware. At first its jarring, but over extended use you will start to enjoy its quirks though if you use many programs that simply need function keys at all costs, its going to really annoy you. The impressive slim form factor is largely possible thanks to Apples removal of some, debatably pro, ports. Long gone is the CD drive, but also carried over from last years model is the absence of any ports other than four USB C Thunderbolt 3, two on each side and a solitary headphone jack. Apples design here is commendable in how it is instantly recognisable as a Mac. Book. So far down the product line, its still exciting to open it up out the box and still be familiar with the lineage. If this turns out to be your first Mac. Book though, then you will be truly spoilt by the attention to detail, from the precise cut of the chassis to the minimalist cut keys. Features and specs. The form factor for a 1. Pro measuring 3. 4. Yes, 1. 5. 5cm thick on a Mac. Book Pro. 2. 01. 7 eh, its the future Its 1. You may not want to carry it in a messenger bag but its certainly in the portable bracket more than ever before. Display. The laptop has a 1. Retina display and yes, it looks amazing as weve come to expect from Apple. The 2. 88. 0x. 18. It boasts 2. 20 pixels per inch with an often blinding 5. P3 wide colour gamut. Viewing angles are outstanding and there is zero light bleed from any corner or edge. It supports several scaled resolutions up to 1. HDMI means youll need the requisite adapter. Its worth noting that many Windows rivals now have 4. K displays, something that Apple has never offered on a Mac. Book. Considering the high price of the 1. Mac. Book Pro, if you need a 4. K display then the 2. Mac starts at 1,2. Trackpad and keyboard. Yet with just 1. 5 inches, multi window use is exemplary, particularly in conjunction with the excellent trackpad, which measures a massive 1. Digital Rebellion Pro Maintenance Tools Serial. Apple remains a class leader in input with Force Touch, the pressure sensitive technology that allows for simulated clicks and actions using only haptic feedback under the pad. You can, for example, press harder for a deeper click and take advantage of another function depending on the app or program you are in. It becomes second nature after a while. Its also preferable to a mechanical trackpad because you can click anywhere on it, even at the top. Multi touch gestures take a while to learn and they are limited in the main OS but become useful for editing purposes in pro apps like Final Cut. Being able to apply two kinds of pressure to a trackpad has opened up a wealth of existing and future possibilities for developers too, and is a clear and well executed advantage over PC counterparts. Typing on the Mac. Book Pro is practially a desktop experience such is the quality of the set up. The 6. 5 keys on the UK version 6. US models use Apples second generation of butterfly keys that respond excellently no matter where pressed. They have shallower travel than all Mac. Book Pro models 2. If youre used to that kind of travel, youre probably still going to be frustrated at the adjustment required. Each key is backlit with its own LED, which is pretty luxurious. The combination of expansive, responsive trackpad and high quality keyboard in a 1. In a minor change from 2. PC users translate Mac functions. Processor, RAM and graphics. The update for 2. There are finally Kaby Lake processors, Intels seventh generation chips. They offer higher boosted clock speeds than their predecessors, and means Apple has caught up with the HP Pro. Book 4. 00 range, Dell XPS 1. Touch, Acer Aspire E, and Asus Zen. Book 3 that all have Kaby Lake chips. Our review unit is the high end 2. GHz quad core Intel Core i. GHz and has 5. 12. GB storage with 1. GB of 2. 13. 3MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory. This RAM tops out in the range at 1. GB, but works at a higher frequency than last years 1,8. MHz. There are calls for Apple to offer up to 3. GB RAM in the Mac. Book Pro, with fingers pointing to Dells Precision 5. GB RAM build to order configuration. Back in November 2. Apples SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller spoke out after criticism that the Mac. Book Pro topped out at 1. GB RAM, saying that if Apple was to offer more RAM it would be detrimental to battery life. This is because the higher amounts of RAM would require a power hungry memory controller. Schiller said To support 3.