Apple really did think different about its new laptops.
The sheer number of big-picture changes to the iconic laptop line made my head spin during an exclusive hands-on preview of Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops at the company’s Cupertino, California headquarters earlier this week. While Apple kept the MacBook Pro name it’s used since 2006, nearly everything about the new generation of the high end notebook has changed.
And that’s a good thing. Apple’s last major update to the MacBook Pro, its priciest and most powerful computers, was back in 2014. That’s a long time in computer years. Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, and Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, said the wait had to do with making sure this revamp wasn’t just a “speed bump” with faster chips and memory. They were after a “big, big step forward.”
