Price Of 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro, Full Specification And Review.
Like its predecessor, The 2018 MacBook Pro comes with excellent built quality and the exterior colour option is still either Silver or Space Grey. In fact, when it comes to Physical appearance, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro is identical to previous model. Inwardly, however, the latest laptop is now upgraded with new specs. Also, with the aid of the T2 Chip, which just found its way into the MacBook Pro, the innovative laptop now possesses some enhanced AI-driven features. for instance, unlike previous model, this year MacBook Pro now comes with "hands free" Hey siri. Meanwhile, many old specs remain the same in the new laptop, still, a few changes have been made to this year 15-inch MacBook Pro;
True Tone Display : The 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro Display still comes with 15.4-inch retina display and IPS-LED backlit, the aspect ratio is still 16:10 with native resolution of 2880*1800.
Note: if you want a good laptop with thinnest bezels, touchscreen and 4k display that covers 100% Adobe RGB spectrum, you might want to check out 2018 Dell XPS 15.
Back to MacBook, though, some experts said the last year MacBook Pro brightness peaked around 460 nits, in this latest model and as usual, Apple still boasts of 500 nits of the display's brightness. Furthermore, this year's display also supports DCI P3 wide colour gamut. However, the newly introduced feature for this year's model, unlike before, is True Tone Display, which was first introduced in iPad Pro in 2016, which can also now found in iPhone 8 and iPhone X. True Tone Display makes use of light sensors to measure the ambient light of your surroundings and automatically adjust the white-balance (white point) of the MacBook display to be in tune with the ambient light of the your environments, in other words, True Tone automatically adjust the MacBook Display's white point to be in tune with/reflect the colour temperature of the room. This is quite useful for those who stare at the laptop screen for long time, because True Tone Display can now reduce the eye strain that come with such long usage.
Inclusion of Apple T2 Chip: The T2 Chip, which was first introduced in the iMac Pro, is now integrated into the new MacBook Pro for the enhanced security of the laptop, not only that, the T2 makes the integration of many features into MacBook possible, for instance, T2 Chip now makes Hands free "Hey Siri" to be possible on the new laptop, just like in recent iPhone. In other words, instead of manually activating the familiar Virtual Assistance through the Siri icon or its button on the Touch bar, "Hey Siri" will always be ready now for your voice commands without touching any key or icon. So, while your are really busy with another task (on the laptop), you can easily tell Hey Siri to play your favorite music track or open an application.
Processing Power: According to the Apple, the 2018 MacBook Pro is 70% faster than its predecessor, this statements is due to the two obvious reasons;
First, the Use of latest 8th-Gen. Coffee Lake Processors; While its predecessor came with Intel Kaby Lake 7th-Generation processors, the highest of which is Quad-Core Core-i7, the latest MacBook Pro features faster Intel Coffee Lake 8th-Generation processors, and this year MacBook Pro 15 starts with Core-i7, instead of usual Quad-Core, this latest Core-i7 has 6-Cores with 2.2GHz clock speed that, with Turbo Boost, can run up to 4.1GHz. While the high-end of the 2018 MacBook pro features 2.9GHz 6-Core Core-i9 processor that can run up to 4.8GHz of clock speed also with Turbo Boost.
Second, The expansion of RAM to 32GB: The maximum amount of RAM that previous models of the 15-inch MacBook Pro have always supported is 16GB. Though 16GB is enough for majority of the laptops' users, but some users, who needs higher RAM for the optimum running of certain applications or task on their laptops, wish they could have more of the RAM.Therefore, instead of using LPDDR3 RAM, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro make use of DDR4 SDRAM, which now makes it possible for the laptop to have option of 32GB of RAM.
AMD Radeon Pro 555X and 506X: The base model of the 2018 MacBook Pro with 15-inch comes with AMD Radeon Pro 555X with 4GB GDDR5 VRAM. This means this year base models are equipped with more graphic power and VRAM when compare to the last year's base models that have AMD Radeon Pro 555 with 2GB GDDR5 RAM. Although, like the last year's high-end ones, the 2018 high-end models of the laptop also have 4GB VRAM Graphics Card. However, unlike their predecessors that came with AMD Radeon Pro 506, this year high-end models come with better and more powerful AMD Radeon Pro 506X.
Option of 4TB storage drive: In addition to the existing ones, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro now have another storage option of 4TB to choose from, in other words, the laptop storage can now be configured up to 4TB. Apart from this new upgrades, everything is still the same just like in previous models i.e. the storage type is still NVMe PCIe SSD and the users are still presented with the options of 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, 2TB and the newly introduced 4TB.
Improved Keyboard?: Since its adoption in 2015, Different reactions have followed the Butterfly mechanism keyboard, while some said they preferred the old Scissors mechanism keyboard that can now only be found on the outgoing 2015 MacBook Pro, others are having either 1 or 2 problems with the keyboard for instance the issue of the spec of dust or sticky key of which Apple offer solutions through its keyboard service program. Despite this, however, Apple continues to make use of butterfly mechanism for its Full-size backlit keyboard in the MacBook Pro laptops. Therefore, this year MacBook Pro comes with new and 3rd Generation Butterfly mechanism keyboards, and there are few reports that this keyboard may be better than the previous ones, for instance, this latest one runs quiet and some said typing experience reminds them of that of 2015 MacBook Pro Scissors mechanism keyboard. On the other hand, the trackpad still remains the same as before.
The new laptop has the same 4 Ports of Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) and 3.5mm audio jack. The weight of 2018 15-inch MBP is still 1.83kg (4.02 pound) and thickness is 15.5mm. Still presents in this year models are Touch bar; which replaced the function keys and the Touch ID; which helps you secure your laptop and at the same time, let you unlock your MacBook Pro quickly. Others are the Face Time HD (720p) camera, 3 microphones, and stereo speakers with high dynamic range. Instead of former Bluetooth 4.2, 2018 MacBook Pro comes with Bluetooth 5.0 wireless technology and 802.11ac Wi-Fi.
The 2018 MacBook Pro with 15 has 83.6Wh non-removable battery which Apple claims will last for up to 10 hours of use. The operating system (MacOS) is still the same but it will be upgraded easily to the incoming macOS Mojave. The starting price of the 2018 15-inch MacBook is $2,399, and for the one with highest configuration i.e. Core-i9, 32GB of RAM and 4TB of storage drive, the price is $6,699.
And with $199, you can protect your MackBook Pro with leather sleeve, which also comes in 3 different colours.
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True Tone Display : The 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro Display still comes with 15.4-inch retina display and IPS-LED backlit, the aspect ratio is still 16:10 with native resolution of 2880*1800.
Note: if you want a good laptop with thinnest bezels, touchscreen and 4k display that covers 100% Adobe RGB spectrum, you might want to check out 2018 Dell XPS 15.
Back to MacBook, though, some experts said the last year MacBook Pro brightness peaked around 460 nits, in this latest model and as usual, Apple still boasts of 500 nits of the display's brightness. Furthermore, this year's display also supports DCI P3 wide colour gamut. However, the newly introduced feature for this year's model, unlike before, is True Tone Display, which was first introduced in iPad Pro in 2016, which can also now found in iPhone 8 and iPhone X. True Tone Display makes use of light sensors to measure the ambient light of your surroundings and automatically adjust the white-balance (white point) of the MacBook display to be in tune with the ambient light of the your environments, in other words, True Tone automatically adjust the MacBook Display's white point to be in tune with/reflect the colour temperature of the room. This is quite useful for those who stare at the laptop screen for long time, because True Tone Display can now reduce the eye strain that come with such long usage.
Processing Power: According to the Apple, the 2018 MacBook Pro is 70% faster than its predecessor, this statements is due to the two obvious reasons;
First, the Use of latest 8th-Gen. Coffee Lake Processors; While its predecessor came with Intel Kaby Lake 7th-Generation processors, the highest of which is Quad-Core Core-i7, the latest MacBook Pro features faster Intel Coffee Lake 8th-Generation processors, and this year MacBook Pro 15 starts with Core-i7, instead of usual Quad-Core, this latest Core-i7 has 6-Cores with 2.2GHz clock speed that, with Turbo Boost, can run up to 4.1GHz. While the high-end of the 2018 MacBook pro features 2.9GHz 6-Core Core-i9 processor that can run up to 4.8GHz of clock speed also with Turbo Boost.
Second, The expansion of RAM to 32GB: The maximum amount of RAM that previous models of the 15-inch MacBook Pro have always supported is 16GB. Though 16GB is enough for majority of the laptops' users, but some users, who needs higher RAM for the optimum running of certain applications or task on their laptops, wish they could have more of the RAM.Therefore, instead of using LPDDR3 RAM, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro make use of DDR4 SDRAM, which now makes it possible for the laptop to have option of 32GB of RAM.
Option of 4TB storage drive: In addition to the existing ones, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro now have another storage option of 4TB to choose from, in other words, the laptop storage can now be configured up to 4TB. Apart from this new upgrades, everything is still the same just like in previous models i.e. the storage type is still NVMe PCIe SSD and the users are still presented with the options of 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, 2TB and the newly introduced 4TB.
The new laptop has the same 4 Ports of Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) and 3.5mm audio jack. The weight of 2018 15-inch MBP is still 1.83kg (4.02 pound) and thickness is 15.5mm. Still presents in this year models are Touch bar; which replaced the function keys and the Touch ID; which helps you secure your laptop and at the same time, let you unlock your MacBook Pro quickly. Others are the Face Time HD (720p) camera, 3 microphones, and stereo speakers with high dynamic range. Instead of former Bluetooth 4.2, 2018 MacBook Pro comes with Bluetooth 5.0 wireless technology and 802.11ac Wi-Fi.
The 2018 MacBook Pro with 15 has 83.6Wh non-removable battery which Apple claims will last for up to 10 hours of use. The operating system (MacOS) is still the same but it will be upgraded easily to the incoming macOS Mojave. The starting price of the 2018 15-inch MacBook is $2,399, and for the one with highest configuration i.e. Core-i9, 32GB of RAM and 4TB of storage drive, the price is $6,699.
And with $199, you can protect your MackBook Pro with leather sleeve, which also comes in 3 different colours.
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