This is one of the best screens you can get in a laptop under £1000. It’s a glossy screen so is fairly reflection-happy, but the backlight is bright enough to let you use the MacBook Pro 13 outdoors. You get a 13.3-inch 2,560 x 1,600 Retina IPS screen with great colour, excellent sharpness and pretty good contrast. Now, this hasn’t changed in the 2015 model much, but is still great. Still, what really sets the Pros apart from the Airs is screen quality. The 13-inch MacBook Air lasts for an incredible 12 hours on light duties. Of course, MacBook Airs are still the reigning kings of battery life. It’s about that extra security of getting all-day stamina even if you do play a couple of games over your lunch break. Having used the new version as my main laptop for a week, upgrading from the 2014 one, the difference is definitely noticeable. The MacBook Pro 2015 lasts for up to 10 hours off a charge, up from nine hours in last year’s model. Levelling-up to Broadwell comes with a side benefit too. Keep your expectations in check and all will be fine. That model will cost you a cool £2000, mind. Apple hasn’t actually updated the 15-inch models for 2015 yet, but they’re the only ones that can fit in discrete graphics cards.
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However, if gaming is your life, you’re probably better off buying a Windows gaming laptop or the 15-inch MacBook Pro. And, sure enough, it can handle recent games at low settings and juggle less demanding games such as The Sims 4 with relative ease. Part of the new Broadwell family is an upgraded Intel Iris 6100 GPU that gets you more grunt than last year’s Iris GPU. The only element that is still a tiny bit malnourished is gaming. The 15-inch MacBook is still stuck with last year’s processors, but its top models pack serious power – just remember the extra size means extra weight means less portability. Really, those who need serious muscle should be considering the 15-inch model, as it’s the only one that offers quad-core processors instead of dual-core ones.
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Our Core i5 review sample is certainly very snappy, and most people won’t really need to upgrade to a Core i7 – which is for the best as it’s a £250 upgrade. This year’s class doesn’t come with a gigantic performance boost, but our tests show that we’re looking at about a 10-15 per cent boost over last year. While the chipsets aren’t quite as all-guns-blazing as you might see on a desktop that’s always going to be plugged in, each and every configuration has enough power for video editing, music production and pretty serious Photoshop hijinx. These are generations in Intel’s Core series, and supply the Pro troupe with far more power than the new 12-inch MacBook, which uses an Intel M CPU.Įvery Pro comes with at least 8GB RAM these days, and a Core i5 or i7 CPU. Last year the Pro used Haswell processors, and now they’ve been upgraded to Broadwell. The other deep and meaningful change for 2015 is the MacBook Pro 13’s processor. Still, as ever the keyboard is great, full-size and comfy enough to tap out novels on. Apple has altered the keyboard backlight a bit, but you’d honestly be hard-pressed to notice. It doesn’t use the fancy (but contentious) new butterfly mechanism you may have heard about, as used in the 12-inch MacBook. Is it going to change your life? Probably not.īut when every app developer under the sun starts using it, we’ll all be wondering how we got by without it in the first place. For example, in Safari it’ll bring up web link previews that you can even scroll through. Press down harder and you’ll get a second, deeper click that’s already used for secondary functions in a bunch of Apple apps. The trackpad knows not just when you’re tapping, but how hard too. Not only does this mean you can press down on the whole pad with zero dead zone, it also enables a neat new pressure sensitive feature. In the 2015 MacBook Pro, Apple has done away with the hinge movement, relying entirely on haptic feedback. It has been the norm for years, taken for granted.
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