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CONTENTS

  • New MacBook Pro announced!
  • Design
  • New features
  • Tech specs and performance
  • UK release date
  • UK prices
  • Macworld podcast – Apple’s 27 Oct launch event
  • MacBook Pro 2017
  • Read the event live blog

What are the prices, tech specs and new features of the new MacBook Pro 2016? And for that matter, when will the new MacBook Pro 2017 be released in the UK?

Welcome to our complete UK guide to the new MacBook Pro 2016, in which we cover everything you need to know about Apple’s new MacBook Pro models: UK prices and best deals, where to buy, new features, tech specs and performance stats. You can read more here: New MacBook Pro 2016 review.

But we’re not standing still now that 2016’s new MacBook Pro has been launched, and we’re already looking ahead to the next update. Later in this article we round up and analyse all the rumours related to the new MacBook Pro 2017 – its release date, specs, design, likely pricing and new features.

Updated, 30 November 2016, to expand our thoughts on the spec bump and price cut we expect the MacBook Pro to get in 2017.

New MacBook Pro 2016 release date, UK price and tech specs: New MacBook Pro announced!

Apple announced a long awaited update to its MacBook Pro laptops at an event in San Francisco on 27 October. The laptops, both 13in and 15in, feature USB-C ports and a Retina display, multi-touch Touch Bar, a versatile strip display that replaces the escape, function keys and power keys of a regular qwerty keyboard. We’ll look at all these in more detail in this article.

On 2 November, Phil Schiller (senior VP of marketing at Apple) was interviewed by The Independent and revealed the company’s plans and reaction to the MacBook Pro’s announcement. A key point raised in the interview is that Mac and iOS devices will always be separate from one another: the California-based company won’t try to integrate the two. Schiller also talks about the removal of the SD card and why Apple chose to keep the 3.5mm headphone jack.

New MacBook Pro 2016 release date, UK price and tech specs: Design

This is the first time a MacBook Pro will not include standard USB ports (that is to say, USB-A, the version we’re all used to), with both models featuring four USB-C ports which also serve as Thunderbolt 3 ports. This means the MacBook Air is now the only current-generation Apple laptop with standard USB ports. (Apple does still sell a few MacBook models from the previous generation, though, including the 2015 MacBook Pro models which feature the older USB ports: here’s the 2015 13-inch model, and here’s the 15-inch one.)

There is, thankfully, a headphone jack on the new MacBook Pro. The set-up is largely the same as on the current 12in MacBook, which has one USB-C and one headphone jack as its only ports – the Pro just gets a few more of those USB-C ports (either 2 or 4, depending on which model you go for). The new MacBook Pro no longer features MagSafe charging or an SD card slot.

 

Much like the 12in MacBook, the MacBook Pro now has butterfly mechanism keys, allowing for less travel and a thinner chassis. Apple says these second-generation butterfly keys improve on the typing experience from the 12in MacBook range.

The 13in model is 14.9mm thick, 17 percent thinner than the previous generation, and its volume is 23 percent less. It weighs 1.36kg.

The 15in model is 15.5mm thick and 20 percent less in volume than the last generation. It weighs only 1.81kg, which is very light for a 15in laptop. Apple has also added a larger Force Touch trackpad to this version.

The addition of the metal Apple logo on the casing means the iconic light-up Apple logo is no longer included on the MacBook Pro range. The 13in MacBook Air is now the last surviving MacBook to have a light-up logo, unless you count last year’s MacBook Pro.

 

 

 
[Source:- Macworld]