All you need to know about the new 2016 MacBook Pro Series

"The new MacBook Pro achieves a design that optimizesboth performance and portability."
-Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer of Apple Inc.

Apple is out with the MacBook Pro 2016. The Cupertino giantunveiled the new line-up of MacBook Pros on Thursday. According to the company,the new MacBook line-up is the amalgamation of high intensity processing andportability.

Compact Design with a few sacrifices

The new Pro will be is 14-17 percent thinner and nearlyhalf-a-pound lighter than the previous versions of the Retina MacBook Pro andwill also occupy lesser volume. Though the device ends up being much morecompact, the user will have to sacrifice connectivity due to the lack of ports.The new Pro line-up will only feature 4 USB-Type C thunderbolt ports. Both Touch BarNotebooks will feature 4 USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports that are capable of handlingpower. The Notebooks won't be featuring an escape button but it still featuresthe 3.5mm head-phone jack.

All-new Touch Bar

The new 15-inch and 13-inch Macbook Pros come with aninteresting Multi-touch bar which will be replacing the traditional row offunction keys. The Touch Bar will change the key set up according to theapplication running on the screen and will be customizable according to theuser's needs. There's no haptic feedback to the keys that can otherwise befound on the main touch pad of the machine.

MacBook's first Touch ID

Another first for these new MAcBooks will be the TouchID,located right next to the new row of touch-bar. A long-press on TouchID willturn the computer off. The Butterfly keyboard that was found on the MacBook,will be featuring in the new set of MacBook Pros. While this might be anunpleasant addition for many, the company claims that the keyboard will providebetter key-travel.

Brighter and more colourful Retina Display

The notebooks will feature a Retina display, which accordingto Apple is brighter by almost 67 per cent higher contrast ratio and  a brightness of 500nits. LG built a 5Kdisplay specifically for the new Macbook Pro.

Double sized trackpad

Along with that, the notebooks feature a massive newtrackpad which according to Apple is pretty adept at palm-rejection. The trackpadis twice the size of the previous MacBook Pro and has a taptic engineunderneath. The trackpad will be featuring the force touch functions, similarto what can be found on the MacBook Air.

Marginally evolved performance

In the performance segment, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro willfeature a quad-core Core i7 processor, AMD Radeon Pro graphics with up to 4GBof video memory, and up to 16 GB of RAM. The 13-inch MacBook Pro will feature either an i5 or i7 processor alongwith an Intel Iris GPU.

Price

The MacBook Pros seem to have updated their prices as wellbut this might not please the prospect buyers. The 13-inch MacBook Pro withoutTouch bar will be available at Rs 1,29,000. It is only available in a i5,256SSD model.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar will cost around Rs1,55,900 for the i5 variant and 1,72,900 for the i7 variant.

The 15-inch variant will cost a whopping Rs 2,05,900 for thei5 variant and Rs 2,41,900 for the i7 variant.