Apple’s latest MacBook Pro has landed, and in some ways it’s an improvement over the previous offering, but it may have just made the MacBook Air pointless. 

Since the announcement and official unveiling of the new MacBook Pro, the backlash against Apple has being strong, with complaints more or less centering around the (not all that surprising considering the iPhone 7) lack of ports on the new MacBook models. It many ways, it seems ironic that a company that was so often lauded and that so often spoke about an Apple ecosystem, has no removed the possibility of connecting an iPhone to a Macbook without an adapter.

In terms of features, the top of the pile MacBook Pro has got something called a ‘Touch Bar’, which has essentially replaced the function keys at the top of the keyboard with a contextual touch screen, allowing different functions to be present depending on what you’re doing. Under the bonnet, everything is more or less as you would expect, with the higher end model coming with Intel’s Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM (apparently with no 32GB upgrade available), and a GPU which has been greeted with worries of being underwhelming. In all honesty though, a lot will depend on the benchmark tests after the release of the system before we will have any performance based data. 

On the surface of it, Apple’s eagerness to pull consumers into the future of computers may be a little premature; by ditching card readers and HDMI ports and USB ports they will undoubtedly annoy and alienate some users, but sometimes MacBook users are left with the decision to get used to it or move on. All in all, I feel that most will get used to it, despite the amount of panic flying around online at the moment.

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