Apple has made a 16-inch MacBook Pro. The new 16-inch MacBook Pro has a slightly larger screen that sports a 3072 by 1920 resolution and has support for the P3 color gamut and Apple’s True Tone. The company fitted a bigger, brighter display that can get up to 500 nits, but doesn’t support HDR. The display panel has a slightly higher density of 226 PPI and Apple managed to keep the overall body size of the 15-inch MacBook, it’s just slightly thicker and slightly heavier 0.7 mm thicker, 0.3 pounds heavier.
The most anticipated improvement, however, is the keyboard. Apple has finally moved back to use the tried-and-tested scissor switch mechanism that many people have come to appreciate in models prior to the 2016-2019 MacBook Pros.
The new “Magic Keyboard” does have a smaller, 1mm travel when compared to the 2015 MacBook Pro, but Apple believes it has nailed the balance by making the keys slightly smaller to leave more ample space between them. And they should also prove easier to repair, with no need to replace the entire front part.
There’s still a touchbar at the top of the keyboard, but now there’s a physical Esc key, and the arrow keys are now placed in the standard, inverted T alignment.
The base $2,399 configuration comes with a 2.6GHz six-core Core i7 Processor, 16GB of RAM, a 4GB AMD Radeon Pro 5300M GPU, Intel UHD Graphics 630 and a 512GB SSD. That’s double the storage of the outgoing base model.
The $2,799 model starts with a 2.3GHz eight-core Core i9 CPU, a 4GB Radeon Pro 5500M GPU, the same Intel 630 graphics and a 1TB SSD.
Both configurations are upgradeable to a 2.4GHz eight-core Core i9 processor, the 64GB of RAM, a Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB GPU and either 2TB, 4TB or 8TB of storage. They’re available to order today and are expected to ship by the end of the week.
