
I use a 2016 model on a day-to-day basis, and more than once I've gone to pick up my work laptop, only to grab the newer model instead. That's because Apple hasn't significantly altered the physical design of its premium laptop in any real way at all. Place the mid-2017 MacBook Pro next to its immediate predecessor, the late 2016 MacBook Pro, and you would be very hard put to spot the difference. Is a jump in processor architecture enough to make an upgrade to your existing MacBook Pro worthwhile?

Still, at the same time it was announcing the new iPad Pro, Apple also launched new models of the MacBook Pro, running on Intel's 7th generation Core i7 "Kaby Lake" processors.Īpple has always positioned the MacBook Pro lines towards the professional crowd, with the MacBook Air and, to a lesser extent, the straight MacBook being the more consumer-focused offerings. You could be forgiven for thinking that Apple had all but given up on its Mac line of personal computers, given that essentially all of its advertising activity is focused right now on telling you just how wonderful the iPad Pro 10.5 is as a laptop replacement, at least from Apple's perspective.

Purchase the new MacBook Pro (2017) from Apple StoreĪpple's updated MacBook Pro improves its internal performance thanks to a processor bump, and it's a superbly well-built machine as usual.
