The company on Monday cut the starting price of the 13-inch non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro, which is thinner than the Air and almost as light, down to a more competitive $1,299. In short, the new Apple iMac Pro 2017 comes packed with plenty of combinations. The 5K iMac Retina starts at $1,800. Then new MacBook Pro comes with 2.8GHz or 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, and supports Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz. There are 4 Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports, 4 USB 3 ports, a SDXC card slot, 3.5mm headphone jack and a 10Gb Ethernet. The iMac Pro features up to 18-Core Processors, 22 Teraflops of GPU performance, 128GB of memory, 4TB of internal memory, and improved graphic performance.
Display: While the 2017 MacBook Pro has the same 13-inch retina display as the 2016 MacBook Pro, but is supported by better graphics hardware.
Apple have announced a new, high-end iMac Pro which is due for release in December. Not only do all the iMacs get 7th generation Kaby Lake Intel processors, but the big screen they're known for is described as "the best Mac display ever" with a whopping 500 nits of brightness.
Now for the pricing, the MacBook costs $1299 for the base model while the MacBook Pro with function keys will start at the same $1299. It carries up to twice the memory as the past generation. Apple also offers a Space Gray color on the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models. The 21.5 inch iMac, 21.5 inches iMac Retina 4k at $1,099 While, iMac Retina 5k 27-inch begins at $1,799.
Apple also announced further updates to its iPad Pro line and detailed several upgrades to iOS 11 that would make it work a bit more like a Mac.
Bubsy: the retro platformer mascot is making a comeback
Bubsy is most known for the 1993 SNES platformer Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind , and its 1994 sequel Bubsy 2. Below, you can check out the announcement trailer and screenshots which accompanied the out-of-nowhere news.
When the MacBook Pro series adopted a similar flat keyboard a year ago, it at least had an improved Butterly mechanism (the x-shaped trigger under the individual keys on the keyboard), which made the typing experience feel more substantial, even if some people still preferred the old-style traditional MacBook Pro keyboard.
The upgrade should come with a marginal increase in performance and battery life, however Apple didn't care to elaborate acknowledging the change is a small one, not to mention they didn't address other complaints about the latest MacBook Pros not getting enough RAM expansion or their lack of ports.
The Cupertino-based giant has also introduced a new 13-inch MacBook Pro model at a starting $1299 in the US.
The 27in 5K variant will come with Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 graphics cards, and were demoed producing live VR content - a new area of exploration for Apple, which has joined with Valve to bring its Steam VR platform for the Mac as well as Unity and Unreal engines. It also doesn't have a "new" label at the top of Apple's Mac page, despite the upgrade.
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