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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2016 20:57:05 GMT
The sheer number of big-picture changes to the iconic laptop line made my head spin during an exclusive hands-on preview of Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops at the company's Cupertino, California headquarters earlier this week. While Apple kept the MacBook Pro name it's used since 2006, nearly everything about the new generation of the high end notebook has changed. And that's a good thing. Apple's last major update to the MacBook Pro, it's priciest and most powerful computers, was back in 2014. That's a long time in computer years. Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller and senior engineering lead Craig Federighi said the wait had to do with making sure this revamp wasn't just a "speed bump" with faster chips and memory. They were after a "big, big step forward." The long-rumored "Magic Toolbar," an OLED-display strip for context-sensitive touch commands, is real. Apple calls it the Touch Bar, and it's worth all the hubbub. Just 60 pixels high (and 2,170 pixels wide), the Touch Bar could be a tool with the potential to be the Swiss Army Knife of laptop input, changing itself on the fly to work across different apps, imitating a series of touch buttons, control sliders, and even jog dials. This is Apple's answer to the touch screens found on most Windows laptops.
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