Categories
battery Bluetooth Hardware MacBook Pro News Processors Touch Bar

iFixit releases 13-inch 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro teardown, finds larger battery, new power supply, other changes

The cool cats at iFixit have just published their teardown of the 13-inch 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, the results indicating larger battery and speaker components, which appear to have come without an increase in overall weight. The notebook has been upgraded from a five-cell, 49.2 watt-hour battery to a 58 watt-hour six-cell part. The […]

Categories
Hardware MacBook Pro News Touch Bar

iFixit video points to protective under-keyboard membrane on 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro models, possible effort to fix butterfly keyboard issues

Following an assortment of complaints about some of the mechanical issues involved with the butterfly action keyboard on the 2016 and 2017 models of its Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks, Apple appears to have included a membrane under the keys to keep debris from getting stuck underneath. The cool cats at iFixit offered the following […]

Categories
MacBook Pro News retail Touch Bar

2018 model Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks available for same day in-store pickup from U.S. Apple Store locations

If you’re hankering for Apple’s newest notebook, you can grab it the same day from your local Apple Store. Following Apple’s announcement of the new 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks on Tuesday, the company announced that the units are available for in-store pickup. This means customers can now place an order via the Apple […]

Categories
Hardware MacBook Pro News Touch Bar

2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro models can support True Tone functionality on some external displays

This is definitely spiffy. Apple’s newly-released 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro functions as the first MacBook Pro with a True Tone display. As such, the notebook can also extend this functionality to a couple external displays such as Apple’s Thunderbolt display as well as the LG UtraFine 4K and 5K displays. True Tone first showed […]

Categories
MacBook Pro News retail

Apple discontinues 2015 MacBook Pro, places remaining inventory at clearance pricing

It’s out with the old, even if the old thing is a seriously nice piece of hardware. Apple has just officially discontinued the 2015 MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 2 and MagSafe 2 ports, meaning you’d better get your posterior in gear if you’d like one. The model has been replaced by the brand new Touch […]