Unlike the smaller 13-inch system, the manufacturer still sells the old MacBook Pro Retina 15 with the 2015 design. The following table shows Apple's current line-up for the 15-inch MacBook Pro.

Apple once again uses up to 16 GB of LPDDR3-RAM (2133 MHz), but the maximum SSD storage has been doubled to 2 TB. There is no successor to the Radeon Pro 450, but there is an option for the more powerful Radeon Pro 560. The entry-level spec is equipped with the AMD Radeon Pro 555, which is the direct (and basically similarly powerful) successor to the old Radeon Pro 455. Apple now reacts with an unusually early update after just 8 months – we originally expected an update this autumn.īesides the new processors, Apple now also ships slightly more powerful GPUs by default.

The Skylake processors were still up to date when the previous model launched last autumn, but the competition started shipping models with new and faster Kaby Lake chips soon after that. For the original German review, see here.Īpple announced an update for the MacBook Pro 15 at this year's WWDC in June.

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