New MacBook Pro

Microsoft has just opened a conference, a very interesting conference, especially the Surface Dial with the Surface Dial module, so many designers have been astonished. As a brand that makes designers fanatical, Apple has just held a press conference. As expected, this conference is a MacBook special event.

The second half of the conference is all about the introduction of the new Macbook Pro features - so titanium media journalists prefer to call this conference "The Use and Case of the Touch Bar."

Because the biggest highlight of this generation of MacBook Pro is the touchable control bar, Apple officially named it "Touch Bar". This Touch Bar can be used not only as a regular function key, what kind of new MacBook becomes ?

MacBook Pro becomes light and thin, but there is something missing

The new MacBook Pro continues the past design, but its appearance is more like a 12-inch Macbook - it becomes lighter and thinner:

In terms of weight, the 13-inch version was reduced from the previous 1.58 kg to 1.37 kg, and the 15-inch version was reduced from 2.04 kg to 1.83 kg.

In terms of thickness, the 13-inch version was reduced from the previous 18 mm to 14.9 mm, and the 15-inch version was reduced from 18 mm to 15.5 mm. Compared to the old MacBook Pro, the 13-inch MacBook Pro is 23% smaller and the 15-inch MacBook is 20% smaller.

At the press conference, Jonathan Yves compared the new MacBook Pro with the equivalent MacBook: They were stacked together, the MacBook Pro was smaller than Air, and the refreshing "Apple Breathing Light" was also missing .

Compared with Macbook Air

Of course, this time it is necessary to pay a "heavily heavy" price for the slimming down. In the past, the interfaces on the MacBook were readily available, from HDMI to SD card sockets, USB, and Thunderbolt all erased – replaced by four USB-C shaped lightning ports. Any of them can be used for charging, external display, storage device and so on. The maximum data transfer can reach 40 Gbps, and in USB 3.1 mode, the transfer rate is up to 10 Gbps.

Although the USB-C interface on the 12-inch MacBook has already given us a shot in advance, the MacBook is always a notebook for light office use. On the MacBook Pro, which focuses on multi-interface applications, all interfaces are replaced at one go, and all USB-Cs are replaced. This is actually a bit unprepared.

All interfaces are erased, leaving only the USB-C interface

We have reason to believe that only USB-C-based notebooks are the direction of computer evolution in the future, but Apple has taken this step too far. Although this step is also for convenience, but the current is more inconvenient, all the old devices need an interface to connect with the MacBook Pro, which also means that the MacBook Pro replacement costs are much higher.

Touch Bar examples and instructions

The highlight of the conference was the new touch bar "Touch Bar" added to the MacBook Pro. Before the conference started, everyone had guessed, but the role of the Touch Bar is not just to replace the function keys on the MacBook. It serves different functions in different scenarios.

In summary, its function does not exceed the following three:

Function keys: This function does not need to say much, it is the function keys such as adjusting brightness, volume and so on in our notebook. Because it is an OLED touch function key, the user can customize the function of each touch area. Users can add options that did not appear on the function keys in the past, such as Do not disturb mode.

In-app support functions: For example, when writing an e-mail, Touch Bar will switch to text editing functions such as “send”, “bold”, and “italic”. In the Safari browser, it can also be turned into a website navigation bar, users can quickly click on the webpage in the favorites.

Security Verification: Because Apple’s second-generation Touch ID fingerprint recognition module is integrated in the upper right corner of the Touch Bar, this is the first time that Apple has made the fingerprint identification module on a laptop. Users can use it to unlock verification and purchase applications on the App Store. The program - curiously, it is not known whether this function can be connected with future online payment.

Next, Apple invited the people of related applications to show us exactly how the Touch is going to be used. In Final Cut, the Touch Bar can quickly adjust the progress of the video, doing some simple special effects, such as audio Fade In, Fade Out. DJ Xiaoge used Touch Bar to play electronic music live. Unsurprisingly, Adobe also came to the show to show us how Touch Bar can get us out of mouse's fast hands.

Touch Bar features

But here it is, this reminds me of a problem: As early as a few years ago, the touch screen in the Win camp had become the standard laptop, and the MacBook had an excellent Trackpad, so there seemed to be nothing wrong with this aspect.

With the advent of mobile devices, touch has become the most intuitive way of handling. Apple also updated their touch interactions in a timely manner - not a single touch screen, but a touch strip. There is no Force Touch feature that Apple first introduced. How practical is it? This will be time tested.

Endurance unchanged, the price is touching

MacBook Pro performance has been regularly upgraded. On the CPU side, Intel's sixth-generation Skylake architecture processor is used, with a dual-core i5. On the GPU side, the 13-inch MacBook Pro uses an integrated Intel Iris 550 graphics card, the 15-inch version comes standard with AMD's Radeon Pro 450/455 discrete graphics (2GB memory), and the Radeon Pro 460 (4GB memory) can be customized. In addition, the speed of the SSD has also become faster, and the 15 inch version can be customized with a maximum of 2TB of SSD.

Configuration list

Since the new iPhone 7/7 Plus has adopted the new P3 color gamut, it is not surprising that this MacBook also supports the P3 color gamut. The official claims that the brightness and contrast of the screen have both increased by 67%. The built-in speakers increase the volume by up to 58% and the bass up to 2.5 times. At the same time, with the power connected, the speaker peak power is increased up to three times.

With the increase in hardware performance and thinning of the body, the new MacBook Pro can maintain its 10-hour battery life , which is worthy of our praise. After reading these parameters, we are even more aware that the MacBook Pro has never been a priority in performance, so if you want to play a large game, you don't want to choose a MacBook Pro.

New MacBook Pro Price

As far as price is concerned, Apple has provided three versions: 13-inch “Quiet Edition” without Touch Bar down to 2.0GHz i5 processor and 13-inch and 15-inch version with Touch Bar 2.9GHz i5 processor. . The selling price was 11488, 13888 and 154888 yuan respectively. The MacBook Pro capacity is also 256GB, but it lacks two USB-C interfaces .

However, Apple still retained the entry-level version of the old 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro, the same price, respectively 9288 yuan and 14288 yuan.

Write last

This time, the MacBook Pro is quite a bright spot. The appearance has inherited many of the MacBook's design language. The body has become lighter and thinner, and the Touch Bar and Touch ID have been added. While improving performance, it has not lost its life.

However, it has also made some changes that people may not be able to accept in a short period of time. For example, the MacBook Pro lacks refreshing apple lights and has no practical interfaces because of its size. USB-C may be able to "unify the world" in the future, but at present, we still have a large number of interfaces. (This article starts with Titanium Media, a reporter/Tang Zhitang, with the map source TheVerge and Apple's official website)

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