Things get choppier if you use a higher scaling mode on either or both displays, though it remains more than usable. In the Radeon model with switchable graphics, hooking up an external display always causes the laptop to kick over to the dedicated GPU, which keeps animations and transitions nice and smooth if you're pushing an external 4K display and the built-in screen at its native resolution. Since it's got relatively powerful Intel and AMD GPUs and DisplayPort 1.2 (thanks to Thunderbolt 2), the Pro also continues to be able to support external 4K displays-it can do 4K at 60Hz over DisplayPort or 4K at 24Hz over the HDMI 1.4 port. It gets smoother when the system switches over to the dedicated GPU, though, assuming you spent the extra cash on the AMD Radeon-equipped model.
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When you're just using the internal display, the OS X UI and all its animations and transitions run fairly smoothly on the GPU in either of those scaled resolution modes even if you have more than a dozen windows open (we tested with Mission Control, which is one of the more intense animations in the OS once you're running a bunch of apps). Out of the box, it's set to look like a 1440×900 screen, but you can set it to look like a 1680×1050 or 1920×1200 screen, too. The display is the same 15.4-inch 2880×1800 display Apple has used in all the Retina MacBook Pros, and it still looks great-it's nice and sharp and has good-looking colors and great viewing angles. The 15-inch model uses the extra space well-it’s drastically more powerful than the other MacBooks even though none of its year-to-year updates since 2012 have been very impressive. The 13-inch Pro only weighs 3.48 pounds, the 13-inch Air weighs 2.96 pounds, and the MacBook weighs 2.06 pounds. Of course, compared to any other product in the modern MacBook family, the 15-inch version is chunky. Those models weighed 5.6 pounds where the Retina version weighs 4.49 pounds they were 0.95 inches thick where the Retina model is 0.71 inches thick. If you’re upgrading from an older 15-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro, this laptop will still seem relatively thin and light. This is the same unibody aluminum chassis Apple has been using for the 15-inch model since the Retina model was introduced back in 2012. Nothing about the design of the new MacBook Pro is a surprise. Look and feel, 4K and 5K, and the Force Touch trackpad Apple sent us the high-end $2,499 model for review so we could at least test out all of those tweaks, but if you were hoping for something significantly better than the 20 models, you’ll come away disappointed. A different dedicated GPU in the high-end model, a marginally larger battery, and faster PCI Express-based storage are all welcome improvements.
The new MacBook Pros do include a handful of other upgrades, though. It’s not clear why this happened-given the timing I’d guess Apple knows something we don’t about how well Intel’s quad-core parts are ramping up-but whatever the reason, the new model is neither as significant nor as interesting as it might have been. Instead, Apple released the new MacBook Pros with the exact same chips they’ve been using for almost two years now, quad-core Haswell chips with Intel’s Iris Pro 5200 GPU. Assuming they follow the same pattern as the dual-core Broadwell parts, those chips would have provided small CPU and battery life boosts and larger increases to graphics performance. Those were just announced and should begin showing up at retail within the next 30 to 60 days. When the company held off refreshing the 15-inch model alongside the 13-inch Pro and both MacBook Airs earlier this year, we assumed it was waiting for the oft-delayed quad-core Broadwell processors from Intel. Webcam, backlit keyboard, dual integrated mics, Force Touch trackpadĪpple released a new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro last month, but it’s not the update we were expecting. Specs at a glance: 15-inch 2015 Apple Retina MacBook ProĢ.5GHz Intel Core i7-4870HQ (Turbo up to 3.7GHz)
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