The MacBook Pro update will be pegged to one thing its processors. But even that change will be more of a ripple than a wave. Intel's Kaby Lake processors will be the one who will change the matters. The big design change has already happened. At the ending of 2016, the design of all the MacBook has been overhauled.

According to Forbes despite the fact that all of the new MacBooks are equipped with Intel's older Skylake processor the chipset which most of the PC laptop vendors were already using in the new high-end models by 2016, the jump to Kaby Lake won't blow the customers away.

According to express now Apple has made the Touch Bar on MacBooks more work-friendly, which is been possible by the new partnership with one of the world's biggest computing giants. MacBook Pro user is now able to get closer with their Microsoft Office documents in a move that looks to transform working on the go. The most popular Microsoft Office programs are covered in the update, including Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, all of which now get a bit more hands-on.

As MobileTechReview points out when they compared the performance of Dell's Skylake-based XPS 13 with the Kaby Lake XPS 13: There is not much difference than the last generation, the reviewer said, referring to the Key Lake XPS 13.

Of course with new Kaby Lake models users can expect Apple to boost the performance of the solid-state drive (SSD). There are a couple of Skylake laptops including a new 15-inches MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and 12-inches MacBook as well as a couple of new Kaby Lake laptops. In day-to-day life the real-world use, both processor, and SSD performance improvement are incremental. Translation

And the processor half of that equation is pretty easy to explain. Intel has been in a fight to make its processors more power efficient. So battery life and heat (or reduction thereof) are what it's aiming at -- not sustained speed.