15-inch Apple MacBook Pro (2018) review: The most powerful MacBook ever

By creative professionals and developers who need big screen, It's iMac Pro of MacBook range, if you will, and laptop that Apple envisages will be used, plenty of power and machine that can be in backpack and transported easily.. And Apple has brought over its True Tone from iPad Pro, of the screen to the environment you're working in at the time 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro review Price and competition. Price. 4-core 2.2GHz Core i7, Radeon Pro 555X, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD £2,349 4-core 2.6GHz Core i7, Radeon Pro 560X, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD £2,699 6-core 2.9GHz Core i7, Radeon Pro 555X, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD £2,699. In terms of the laptops we've tested, nothing matches the top-end 15-inch MacBook in terms of power and features and Razer Blade, Surface Book 2 15in and Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 all offer specifications that are competitive or better than MacBooks and are squeezed into similarly slim and lightweight packages.. Alternatively, for even more power, Razer Blade 15 comes with 2.2GHz, Intel Core i7-8750H CPU, 16GB of RAM, Nvidia GTX 1070 and 512GB SSD for £2,149. Second, it prevents dust and grit from getting under the keys and into the switch mechanisms, as problem with the previous model.. MacBook displays have always been calibrated in the factory and this one ships with selection of professional calibrations to choose from so whatever your workflow, you should be able to tweak the output to suit as long as the application you're working in is colour aware, of course.. For colour-critical work, it's magnificent display and it's also good to Apple improving things for everyone else, with True Tone adopted for this generation of MacBook Pro laptops on both on the main display and the touchbar. Just for some context, I ran 4K to 1080p down conversion using Adobe Premiere Pro the time taken to encode this 12-minute video clip is 13 minutes. Most of that price goes into 4TB SSD, 880 to the price of the base, £2,699 Core i9 machine. Read more

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