Apple Introduces New MacBook Pro With Up to 4TB Storage & 32GB RAM

MacBook Pro More power. More performance. More pro.

Apple MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar now offer latest eighth-gen Intel Core processors, include True Tone displays, and a quieter keyboard. Price of base models stays the same.

Apple on Thursday introduced new MacBook Pro, with new 13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar models. These laptops becomes the most advanced Mac notebooks with faster performance and new processor features. The new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar deliver more power to pro users. These new notebooks can also compile code faster and run multiple virtual machines and test environments easier than before. With the new update and features, Apple plans to make the MacBook even more ideal for professionals and content creators.

Apple has updated its MacBook Pro lineup, with new 13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar models now featuring faster processors with up to 6 cores, up to 32GB of RAM, up to 4TB SSD, True Tone Displays, and the Apple T2 security chip. In the US, the new MacBook Pro models go on sale from Thursday and start at $1,799 for the 13-inch model, with the 15-inch model starting at $2,399.

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The new MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar feature 8th-generation Intel Core processors, with 6-core on the 15-inch model for up to 70 percent faster performance and quad-core on the 13-inch model for up to two times faster performance — ideal for manipulating large data sets, performing complex simulations, creating multi-track audio projects or doing advanced image processing or film editing. The new MacBook Pro models also come with an "improved third-generation keyboard for quieter typing", and are expected to have solved the issue affecting the earlier Butterfly switch design, though obviously Apple didn't explicitly address the subject in a release announcing the new launches. Non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro models remain unrefreshed.

The MacBook Pro 2018 model features the same TouchBar with up to six-core Intel Core eighth-generation processors and comes in two sizes – 15-inch and 13-inch.

Inside the 15-inch model is a 6-core Intel Core i7 processor or Core i9 processor clocked at up to 2.9GHz and reaching up to 4.8GHz with Turbo Boost. It can also be configured to up to 32GB of RAM and 4TB of SSD storage.

The 13-inch model with Touch Bar can be configured to come with a quad-core Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor clocked at up to 2.7GHz and reaching up to 4.5GHz with Turbo Boost. Apple says it also now supports double the eDRAM, 16GB RAM max, and up to 2TB SSD.

With 500 nits of brightness and support for the P3 wide colour gamut, the Retina display on MacBook Pro is the best Mac notebook display ever. Now with True Tone technology, the display and Touch Bar deliver a more natural viewing experience for design and editing workflows, as well as everyday tasks like browsing the web and writing email.

With the Apple T2 chip, MacBook Pro now delivers enhanced system security with support for secure boot and on-the-fly encrypted storage, and also brings “Hey Siri” to the Mac for the first time.

And with its powerful Radeon Pro graphics, large Force Touch trackpad, revolutionary Touch Bar and Touch ID, dynamic stereo speakers, quiet Apple-designed cooling system and Thunderbolt 3 for data transfer, charging and connecting up to two 5K displays or four external GPUs, it’s the ultimate pro notebook.

MacBook Pro showing renderings of 3D models on screen. MacBook Pro now delivers faster performance for complex simulations and data manipulation.

“The latest generation MacBook Pro is the fastest and most powerful notebook we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Now with 8th-generation 6-core processors, up to 32GB of system memory, up to 4TB of super fast SSD storage, new True Tone technology in its Retina display and Touch Bar, the Apple T2 chip for enhanced security and a third-generation quieter keyboard packed into its thin and light aluminium design with all-day battery life, it’s the best notebook for pro users”, wrote in Apple’s blog.

In India, Apple will be pricing the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 15-inch MacBook Pro at Rs 149,990 and Rs 199,990 respectively. Both laptops will go on sale through Apple authorized resellers later this month.