Let’s get the easy part out of the way: if you were actively put off by attributes of the MacBook Pro’s ultra-thin redesign in 2016, and its use of Thunderbolt 3 as the exclusive means of adding peripherals, Apple’s refreshed line-up for 2018 isn’t going to change your mind.
If you can live with those aspects though, and are keen on macOS over Windows, this is a solid but not all-out inspiring improvement.
However, it’s the two Touch Bar-equipped models, from four in total, that are truly upgrades.
Price and availability
In our view, you’ll want to ignore the lower-spec versions, which are still based on 7th-gen Intel Core processors. So, the real starting point for a new 13-inch model is $1,799 (£1,749, AU$2,699). That gives you a slightly tight 256GB storage, and for
$1,999 (£1,949, AU$2,999) that’s doubled.
As well as CPU and GPU upgrades that you’ll expect (which we’ll come to later), there’s a small but welcome change to the Thunderbolt 3 ports. Each of the Touch Bar models has four Thunderbolt 3 ports, and in previous versions the two on the right were subject to throttling. That’s no longer the case.
So, if you’ll use an external graphics card (eGPU), you …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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