MacBook pro 2017
ll start off with the good news. If you splurged on one of Apple's very expensive high-end 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops when its big redesign was launched in the fall of 2016, you're not going to feel especially put out by this modest mid-2017 update. The aluminum outer body remains the same as does the port selection, the excellent Retina-resolution display, the new keyboard, bigger touchpad and even the second-screen Touch Bar. The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for 2017 keeps the same design as last year. What is new is a move to current 7th-generation Intel Core i-series CPUs, sometimes referred to by the codename "Kaby Lake." The MacBook Pro models that we reviewed late last year had older 6th-gen Intel chips (although they were certainly fast enough for almost any tasks as-is). Of course, Intel is already starting to talk about 8th-gen Core chips now, so it's best not to obsess too much on the exact CPU model in an...