(Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.) Specs at a glance: 2018 15-inch MacBook ProĢ.9GHz 6-core Intel Core i9 (4.8GHz Turbo) with 12MB shared 元 cacheĨ02.11ac Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n Bluetooth 5.0Ġ.61-inch×13.75-inch×9.48-inch (1.55cm×34.93cm×24.07cm)ġ year, or 3 years with AppleCare+ ($379)ħ20p FaceTime HD camera, stereo speakers, three microphones It maxes out at 500 nits of brightness and supports P3 Wide Color and Apple’s True Tone feature. It’s a 13.3-inch LED-backlit IPS display with a resolution of 2,560×1,600 pixels-that’s 227 pixels per inch. The screen is unchanged compared to the previous one. The entry-level specification is priced at $1,299 (though the one with the Touch Bar starts at $1,799). Let’s start with the 13-inch model's specs. So what kinds of professionals are the newly revised MacBook Pros for? Is it a worthwhile investment for consumers? We recently spent a week with the top spec of the 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro to find out. These users buy it because it’s simply the best-performing Mac laptop.

Lots of people buy MacBook Pros who aren’t professionals-at least, not professionals at doing the sorts of things they might actually need a $3,000 computer for.

Then there’s the fact that the MacBook Pro has lived a double life not just as a pro workstation but as the high-end consumer Mac. Further Reading We tested throttling on the MacBook Pro-now Apple says it has a firmware fix

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