New MacBook Pro’s monster storage
Apple has announced a notebook boasting the largest capacity on a consumer laptop to date.
Apple has announced a 16-inch MacBook Pro notebook sporting a massive 8-terabyte solid state drive.
Storage of 8 terabytes or 8,000 gigabytes is the largest capacity we’ve seen on a consumer laptop to date.
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Apple says the notebook is designed for developers, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, music producers and anyone who relies on a Mac to create their life’s best work.
The 16-inch MacBook Pro starts at $3799. There’s also a new 13-inch version of the Pro costing $1999.
The 16-inch model has an LED backlit IPS display with 3071x1920 pixel native resolution and 226 pixels per inch. There’s a choice of ninth-generation Intel Core i7 and i9 processors with solid state drive storage starting at 1TB and configurable to 2TB, 4TB and 8TB.
It supports up to 64GB of DDR4 memory and up to 8GB of VRAM (video RAM).
The 16-inch MacBook Pro replaces an earlier 15-inch model.
The graphics has been boosted with a choice of AMD Radeon Pro 5300M and 5500M graphics with Intel UHD Graphics 630 on board.
There’s four Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports, Apple’s Touch Bar and Force Touch trackpad on the keyboard, but Wi-Fi support only goes as far as 802.11ac, according to Apple’s product website. There’s a 720p FaceTime HD camera at front.
You get a six-speaker audio system with wide stereo sound and support for Dolby Atmos playback, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a three-mic array with directional beamforming.
There’s a 100-watt hour battery which Apple says supports up to 11 hours of wireless web surfing or up to 11 hours of Apple TV app movie playback.
Apple has revamped its troubled butterfly keyboard, replacing it with a refined scissor mechanism with one millimetre of key travel. They keys have an Apple-designed rubber dome that Apple says stores more potential energy for a responsive key press.
Apple says the MacBook Pros use a new thermal architecture featuring a larger impeller with extended blades along with bigger vents, resulting in a 28 per cent increase in airflow. The heat sync is 35 per cent larger than the previous MacBook Pro models.
Apple released some claims of how the performance on the new premium Pro improves when compared to the fastest quad-core 15-inch MacBook Pro.
It says music producers can play back large multi-track projects with up to 2.1 times more Amp Designer plug-ins in Logic Pro X. Scientists and researchers will enjoy from 2.1 times faster simulation of dynamical systems in MATLAB and developers using Apple’s Xcode language can compile code up to 1.8 times faster.
It claims photographers can apply complex edits to photographs 1.7 times faster in Photoshop.
In Australia, the new MacBook Pro models are available online now.
We’ll have more to say about the new MacBook Pro once he have tried it for ourselves.
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