Apple MacBook Pro Price & News: MacBook Gets Longer Battery Life, Price Cut for High-End iMac
Apple has updated its MacBook Pro to include a new trackpad, faster flash storage and longer battery life. The company also has introduced a low-end iMac for $1,999 and cut the price on its high-end iMac from $2,499 to $2,299, ABC News reports.
The 15-inch MacBook Pro will have the new Force Touch trackpad. Force Touch technology can detect the amount of pressure placed on the trackpad between a light tap and a long press to perform different functions.
The MacBook Pro's storage will become faster as well thanks to the increase in the number of PCI Express lanes. The older MacBook Pro models had two lanes of PCIe, while the updated models will have four lanes, Ars Technica reports.
The high-end MacBook Pro, selling for $2,499, will get an update to its graphic card. It will go from an Nvidia GeForce GT 750M to an AMD Radeon R9 M370X graphics card with 2 GB of DDR5 RAM. The entry-level MacBook Pro, selling for $1,999 will keep its Intel Iris integrated graphics card.
The MacBook Pro models will still use the older Intel Haswell-based CPUs, despite rumors of the laptops getting upgrades to the latest Intel Broadwell CPUs.
According to Apple, the new MacBook Pro has increased its battery life by one hour. The latest MacBook Pro models will now get up to nine hours of wireless web browsing, up from eight hours on the previous models.
A new low-end iMac desktop was also introduced Tuesday at a cost of $1,999. The iMac will come with a 3.3 GHz quad-core Core i5 processor, 8 GB of RAM and a 1 TB hard drive.
The high-end iMac called the Retina 5K received a $200 price cut to $2,299. This model comes with a 3.5 GHz quad-core Core i5 processor, 8 GB of RAM and a 1 TB Fusion Drive. No changes were made to this model since its debut last fall, except the price reduction.
All new MacBook Pro models and iMacs come with the OS X Yosemite operating system, the latest, most advanced operating system from Apple.
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