Apple Updates MacBook Pro, Cuts price On iMac
Apple today introduced an updated MacBook Pro and iMac and lowered the price for its top-end iMac. The updated 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop with Retina display has the new Force Touch trackpad, faster flash storage and discrete graphics, and a longer battery life and starts at $1,999.
With built-in force sensors and a Taptic Engine that delivers haptic feedback, the Force Touch trackpad allows you to click anywhere and customize the amount of pressure needed to register each click. The new trackpad supports a range of new gestures, including the new Force click, and APIs are available for third-party developers to incorporate Force Touch capabilities into their apps.
The updated 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display also features up to 2.5 times faster flash storage than the previous generation, with throughput up to 2GBps, and offers an additional hour of battery life, with up to 9 hours of wireless web browsing and up to 9 hours of iTunes movie playback. In addition, MacBook Pro with Retina display discrete graphics deliver up to 80 percent faster performance using new AMD Radeon R9 M370X graphics for editing video in Final Cut Pro X, rendering 3D images in pro graphics apps or playing high-resolution games.
With a resolution of 5120 x 2880, the new $1,999 iMac with Retina 5K display has 67 percent more pixels than a 4K display, and features a 3.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost Speeds up to 3.7 GHz and AMD Radeon R9 M290 graphics. The new iMac also includes 8GB of memory and 1TB of storage, as well as four USB 3.0 ports and two Thunderbolt 2 ports that deliver up to 20Gbps each, twice the bandwidth of the previous generation.
Apple also lowered the price of the top-end iMac with Retina 5K display, which now starts at $2,299. It features a 3.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics and a 1TB Fusion Drive.
Available configurations:
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
- 2.2 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor - Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.4 GHz 16GB of memory
- 256GB of flash storageIntel Iris Pro graphics
- Price: $1,999
- 2.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor - Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.7 GHz
- 16GB of memory
- 512GB of flash storage
- AMD Radeon R9 M370X graphics
- Price: $2,499
Configure-to-order options include faster quad-core Intel Core i7 processors up to 2.8 GHz with Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.0 GHz and flash storage up to 1TB.
27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display
- 3.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor - Turbo Boost Speeds up to 3.7 GHz AMD Radeon R9 M290 graphics
- 1TB of storage
- Price: $1,999
Top-end iMac
- 3.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor - Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz
- AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics
- 1TB Fusion Drive
- Price: $2,299
Configure-to-order options include faster quad-core Intel Core i7 processors up to 4.0 GHz with Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.4 GHz and flash storage up to 1TB.