Yesterday’s report of a new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad, together with a new 27-inch iMac, have been confirmed via an official announcement by Apple.
Apple today updated the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with the new Force Touch trackpad, faster flash storage, longer battery life and faster discrete graphics, delivering even more performance and capabilities to the MacBook Pro line. Apple also today introduced a new $1,999 configuration of the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display featuring a breathtaking 14.7 million pixel display, quad-core processors and AMD graphics, and lowered the price of the top-end iMac with Retina 5K display to $2,299.
While the upgrade to the latest Broadwell processor doesn’t show a speed-bump, Apple says that the flash storage is 2.5 times faster and greater power efficiency provides an extra hour of battery-life …
The flash storage now offers throughput of up to 2GB/s, and Apple also says that the discrete graphics is up to 80% faster using new AMD Radeon R9 M370X. Battery life is up from 8 hours to 9 hours. In real-life use, the updated model is likely to feel significantly faster than the one it’s just replaced.
The 27-inch iMac with Retina display has seen a big price-cut, with the base level machine reduced from $2499 to $1999.
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.
However, the price cut isn’t a free lunch: the CPU speed has been cut from 3.5GHz to 3.3GHz (with no option to upgrade), and the fusion drive has been replaced by a conventional 1TB hard drive, so expect the new model to feel a little slower than the original entry-level machine.
The top-end machine is now just $2,299, getting you 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.
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