I bought a MacBook Pro sans Touch Bar in late 2016 – love it – and it’s perfect for me, but I’m basically using it for writing, web browsing and some coding.

More importantly, Apple really designed the 2018 MacBook Pros for their “pro” user, meaning app developers, photographers, videographers, music producers and other power users who are going to push their laptop to the full extent of its capabilities in the company’s press release, Apple says that the 2018 MacBook Pros are “ideal for manipulating large data sets, performing complex simulations, creating multi-track audio projects or doing advanced image processing or film editing.” So if you’re not a power user or don’t really care for the Touch Bar, it’s probably better to just get a non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro (2017 model) or even a MacBook.Īdmittedly, I’m not the ideal user for Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pro. The 2018 MacBook Pros are more expensive than Apple’s non-Touch Bar model, first of all, which still haven’t been upgraded since 2017. Basically, these were Apple’s best and most powerful MacBook Pros ever.

And they had a few upgraded features, too, like a quieter keyboard and hands-free Siri. They had more memory and SSD storage, better-looking displays and better graphics cards. They had newer and faster processors, capable of speeding up their performance by as much as 70 percent. Earlier this summer Apple rolled out new 2018 MacBook Pros that looked nearly identical to its 2017 MacBook Pros, but they were they were better in almost every way.

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