The new MacBook Pro’s design is, to borrow a famous Jony Ive adverb, unapologetically unchanged. This is Apple’s most powerful mobile computer, so if mobile computing is a thing you do, this is the laptop for you. Its price isn’t weighed down by a novelty premium, its versatility and power aren’t compromised, and its raison d'être isn’t in question. Unlike the more glamorous Watch and MacBook, the new MacBook Pro is practical and designed for everyone. It’s going to serve as the device on which many people experience Force Touch for the first time, and it signifies Apple’s intention to make this a standard feature across all of its laptops. Though it was a mere footnote to Apple’s big event last month, the MacBook Pro will actually play a pioneering role for its maker. Force Touch is Apple’s hallmark of newness for 2015, but it also finds a home in one of the Cupertino company’s less adventurous machines, the 13-inch MacBook Pro. It is a catch-all term for a combination of pressure sensitivity and haptic feedback that you will find built into the Apple Watch and the trackpad of the newly redesigned MacBook. The best way to characterize it is that the GPU intensive apps perform the same as the 'late 2013' MacBook Pro 15-inch and the CPU intensive apps perform the same as the 'mid 2015' MacBook Pro 15-inch.Apple is rolling out a major new hardware feature this year with the introduction of what it calls Force Touch. We added it to the Motion and Tomb Raider graphs.
We only had a brief test session with the 'mid 2014' MacBook Pro 15-inch with 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. So if you plan to buy a refurbished 2014, you've been warned. Oddly, another 2014 unit we tested was no faster than the 'late 2013' MacBook Pro 15-inch. We added storage results for the 'mid 2014' MacBook Pro 15-inch with 1TB PCIe-based Flash. And it can boast of being smaller and lighter. On the other hand, its flash storage is second in speed only to the latest 15" model. That's due to its having only the Intel integrated GPU. The 13" Retina MacBook Pro lags behind in all but one graphics test. However, the re-engineered keyboard with butterfly mechanism remains a 12" MacBook exclusive. Yet in some tests not yet published, we saw only a 5% gain.īesides storage and graphics, a notable new feature is the Force Touch trackpad with Taptic Engine. In the graphics intensive tests featured here, the new Radeon R9 M370X GPU was as much 62% faster than the GeForce GT 750M it replaces. (NOTE: The 256G version has a slower large sequential write speed of 1198MB/s.) It is faster than any single flash module we have tested to date. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro's PCIe-based Flash Storage is a screamer.
RED bar in graph indicates the FASTEST result. L2013 rMBP 15" = 'late 2013' Retina MacBook Pro 15-inch with Intel 2.6 Quad-Core i7-4960HQ CPU, 16GB 1600MHz DD3L SDRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Discrete GPU, Intel Iris Pro Integrated GPU, 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage (x2 Link Width)Į2015 rMBP 13" = 'early 2015' Retina MacBook Pro 13-inch with Intel 3.1GHz Dual-Core i7-5557U processor, 16GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM, Intel Iris Graphics 6100 Integrated GPU, 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage (x4 Link Width) M2014 rMBP 15" = 'mid 2014' Retina MacBook Pro 15-inch Intel 2.8GHz Core i7-4980HQ CPU, 16GB 1600MHz DD3L SDRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Discrete GPU, Intel Iris Pro Integrated GPU, 1TB PCIe-based Flash Storage (x4 Link Width) M2015 rMBP 15" = 'mid 2015' Retina MacBook Pro 15-inch Intel 2.8GHz Core i7-4980HQ CPU, 16GB 1600MHz DD3L SDRAM, AMD Radeon R9 M370X Discrete GPU, Intel Iris Pro Integrated GPU, 1TB PCIe-based Flash Storage (x4 Link Width) There are a two significant performance enhancements in the 'mid 2015' MacBook Pro Retina with 15.4-inch display: STORAGE and GPU.
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