15-inch MacBook Pro in Different Configurations; Features include Force Touch Trackpad, Radeon R9 M370X and More

By Staff Writer

Jul 21, 2015 08:03 AM EDT

The Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display for 2015 comes now with the power of the Force. Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro is also said to be offered in a few diverse configurations.

The company sports their innovative Force Touch trackpad to this invigorated 15-inch MacBook Pro that can make a host of pressure-sensitive commands. An optional AMD Radeon R9 R9 M370X GPU, which can deliver up to 80 times the graphics performance as last year's model according to Apple is also packed in this device.

On the other hand, this new Macbook Pro stuck in is the same unibody aluminum chassis Apple that has been using since the Retina model was introduced back in 2012 for the 15-inch model laptops. Thus, this shows that nothing about the design of the new MacBook Pro is a surprise. However, the latest MacBook Pro is still nicely skinny and fairly easy to carry device for measuring 14.13 x 9.73 x 0.71 inches with the weight of 4.49 pounds.

The 15-inch  Macbook Pro still acquires the exact same port layout of the 13-inch Pro: an HDMI 1.4 port, and USB 3.0 port on the right side, a headphone jack on the left side, an SD card reader, a MagSafe 2 connector, two Thunderbolt 2 ports, and  another USB 3.0 port. Since this new Macbook Pro is far bigger than the 13-inch model, it would be good if the company could attempt to fit a few extra USB ports on this gadget, but this is still going to be a fine selection of ports for a laptop.

According to 9to5mac, Apple has already moved away from NVIDIA this year and the newest 2015 MacBook Pro is now including an AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB of RAM. Even if  there will be no enormous performance difference among the two, the AMD card appears to perform better for the  video editing and motion graphics aspects.

The PCIe-based flash storage which is also on the new 13-inch model will primarily offer a better performance on the new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro.

The 2015 MacBook Pro  with 16GB of RAM, 2.2-GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 256GB of flash storage and integrated Intel Iris Pro graphics costs $1,999. This model's CPU can be boost by adding extra $300, and $300 or $800 for upgrading to 512GB or 1TB of storage, respectively. 

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