Mid 2015 macbook pro 13 retina i7 upgrade#
Apple might not need to upgrade its screen, but it wouldn’t hurt either. While this was impressive when Retina was first announced, competitors like the Dell XPS 13 come with a 3200x1800 display that barely has a border. Your photos and videos are going to look gorgeous on the display, while text remains crisp and clear to your eye. The new Pro packs 227 pixels per inch into its display. Retina display was a pretty big deal when it first hit the market. On the inside, you’ll find the same backlit, chiclet style keyboard, the new Force Touch trackpad, and a 2560x1600 Retina display. With the right adapter you'll be able to connect to ethernet, an external display, and even hard drives or daisy-chain multiple devices without needing a bulky hub. Thunderbolt is the Swiss Army knife of ports and the 13-inch Pro packs two so you connect even more devices. If you take a look on the sides, you’ll find a healthy dose of ports to handle most of your needs: two Thunderbolt 2 ports, two USB 3 ports, an SDXC card slot, a full-sized HDMI input, and a headphone jack. VAT) with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and an AMD Radeon R9 M370X GPU.It still has the clean aluminum unibody construction and comes in at a cool 3.48 pounds. If you need a dedicated GPU to enhance graphics performance, your only option is to step up to the even more expensive 2.5GHz model which costs £1,999 (inc. That will be perfectly acceptable for many users running Photoshop and other creative applications, but it's still relatively modest for a laptop costing £1,599. However, this model's reliance on Intel's integrated Iris Pro 5200 graphics rather than a dedicated GPU means that it only manages a relatively modest 31fps for OpenGL performance when running Cinebench R15. The MacBook Pro's 15.4-inch, 2,880-by-1,800-pixel (220ppi) Retina display also remains outstandingly bright and colourful, and well suited to video- or photo-editing work.
To be fair, the quad-core Haswell Core i7 processor used in the MacBook Pro still provides plenty of raw horsepower, with Geekbench 3 reporting a multi-core score of 13,281 that outpaces even the top-of-the-range 5K iMac that's aimed at video editors. That's not the sort of upgrade that will have existing users queuing up to purchase the latest model. VAT) with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of solid-state storage. Pricing remains the same too, with our 2.2GHz review model starting at £1,599 (inc. The 15-inch MacBook Pro now features the pressure-sensitive Force Touch trackpad. CloseĪpple 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display (mid-2015): Force Touch trackpad and faster SSD, but no Broadwell
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