Apple: Macbook Pro have a double RAM and a Siri call

There are new Apple Macbook Pro: The Cupertino manufacturer has equipped the 13.3-inch and 15.6-variant with faster hardware and therefore also integrated previously nonexistent features. There is no change in the Macbook and Macbook Air, despite the corresponding Intel components.

The Macbook Pro with 15.6 inches and Instead of a quad-core chip, Touchbar now uses a Core i9-8950HK with six hearts and up to 4.8 GHz. In addition, for the first time 32GB DDR4-2400 instead of 16GB LPDDR3-2133 RAM and a Radeon Pro 560X instead of 560 with 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The NVMe SSD can hold up to 4TB instead of 2TB. New is the ARM-based T2 chip, which is used for security features such as encryption and for the call. Hey Siri; Until now, a push of a button was necessary [13]. The 13.3-inch Apple is derived from dual-core to quad-core, especially up to the Core i7-8559U with up to 4.5 GHz and Iris Plus Graphics 655 at 28 watts. The LPDDR3 memory is limited to 16GB, but it doubles the NVMe storage capacity to 2 TB. For both Macbook Pro, Butterfly Keyboard has become quieter and the display with 500 cd / m² as well as the coverage of the # 39; P3 color space is particularly high quality. It supports True Tone to adjust the white point to ambient light. In addition, Apple has increased the watt-hours of the battery, but the manufacturer does not name any data and has not commented on the expected running time. Connections are still the same, so only Thunderbolt 3 plus jack

Apple sells both Macbook Pro for $ 1800 and $ 2400 more, so that's how much the cost of 2017-offs. New in the store is also a Blackmagic eGPU box for $ 700: It contains a Radeon Pro 580 with 8GB of memory, on the outside there are two TB3 ports, four USB-3 Type-A and an HDMI 2.0 output. The graphics card slot charges MacBook connected with up to 85 watts.

Supplement of July 12, 2018, 15:51

In the German store, both laptops start at 2,000 euros and 2,800 euros – up is definitively 4,450 euros and 7,960 euros. As usual, the extra costs for RAM and storage are very high: 32 GB instead of 16 GB cost 480 euros more and for 4 TB instead of 1 TB, Apple requires 3 360 euros.