Magic touchįrom Retina displays to Force Touch trackpads, new features provide talking points for successive generations of MacBooks. Even wallpapers take on a new vibrancy, and once you've clasped eyes on it, it's hard to go back. It's simply brighter, more color saturated and pleasing to the eyes. But, even so, there is a tangible difference between the screen quality on this year's 15-inch MacBook and the last-gen model. In one sense, that means that unless you're a pro who shoots on the regular, you don't need the new display in your life. That's a boon for photographers who shoot in RAW format and need to view files shot in the widest possible color gamut available. However, like Apple's Retina 5K iMac, it has received a vibrancy boost and now supports the P3 color space.

In fact, the resolution is the same as the previous 15-inch MacBook Pro. With a pixel-resolution of 2,880 x 1,800, it's not the most pixel-packed display out there.

Rated at 500 nits brightness, it’s one of the most luminous and color-saturated displays we’ve seen on a laptop, and the best we’ve seen since first laying eyes on the Dell XPS 15. One of the brightest points about the new MacBook Pro (quite literally) is its new Retina display. It now starts at £2,349 ($2,249 or AUS$3,140), rising to £2,699 ($2,599 or AUS$3,481) for the high-end version.īoth models can be further configured with faster processors, additional memory and beefier graphics cards for extra cost. In addition to the disruption posed by a move to USB-C, the 15-inch MacBook Pro remains the most expensive laptop in Apple’s line-up.

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