The company does a good job of accurately stating their computer battery life. The computers come with up to 10 hours of battery life. The 15-inch can also jump to a whopping 2TB for an extra $1,200. Buyers can configure them with 512GB or 1TB of flash storage on the 13-inch and 15-inch. The storage on these computers start at 256GB of flash storage.
The 15-inch models start with 16GB, but you can’t get any more RAM unfortunately. The 13-inch systems will come with a minimum of 8GB of RAM, but users can boost that to 16. The larger 15.4-inch model gets 2880-by-1800 resolution. These graphics options power some beautiful Retina displays with resolutions starting at 2560-by-1600 on the smaller 13.3-inch system. Configure it with up to a 460 with 4GB of memory. The entry-level 15-inch model starts with a Radeon Pro 450 graphics chip with 2GB memory. The cheaper 13-inch with Touch Bar has Intel Iris Graphics 550 Graphics. Graphics on the new MacBooks start with the Intel Iris Graphics 540 on the base model 13-inch without the Touch Bar. The base model of the 15-inch starts with a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7 and can jump to a 2.9 GHz i7. Users can boost that to a 3.3GHz Core i7. The model with the Touch Bar starts at a 2.9GHz dual-core i5 processor. Users can boost that to a 2.4GHz Intel Core i7. The 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar uses a 2 GHz Intel Core i5 dual-core processor. The other performance specs in the 2016 MacBook Pro will give users a slightly faster system. They also say the computers come with up to 2.4 times the computing power. 2016 MacBook Pro Performance SpecsĪpple promises 130% performance graphics bump on the 15-inch model thanks to faster processors and better graphics. The low-end model won’t have the Touch Bar and costs $1,499. It also comes on two of the three 13.3-inch models. The Touch Bar comes on both of the base 15.4-inch models and up.
The low-end 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro won’t get the Touch Bar or Touch ID.
Apple just updated their iWork apps and will update Sierra to support it by the time these systems ship in November 2016. Imagine zooming in on the video project’s timeline or tapping to advance in a spot later in the video while editing in Final Cut or Adobe Premiere.Īpple said that Adobe and Microsoft plan to support the Touch Bar in their suite of apps. For video editors, it can show the timeline. A photo editor could include their editing tools. For example a gaming app might put a weapons chooser in it. If you’re using a media player app, the Touch Bar shows play/pause and other media control shortcut buttons (first in image above).ĭevelopers can design their apps to use the Touch Bar as well. Holding down the keyboard’s Fn key at the bottom left corner brings up the traditional keyboard function keys in the Touch Bar (last in image above). For example, if the user opens Apple’s Messages app in macOS 10.12 Sierra, then they will see the emoji bar (2nd from the bottom in the shot above). The Touch Bar uses a narrow touchscreen that changes contextually depending on what the user is doing. Backups should be maintained regardless of what's being used.The new Touch Bar on the 2016 MacBook Pro will change based on what the user is doing. The controller might fail sooner but the failure rate of an SSD in RAID0 should still be less than half of a standard hard drive.
In terms of raw write endurance, SSDs have been tested to last into the hundreds of TBs.Įven for someone using a drive for large video files with 100GB of writes every day, they shouldn't get an error (correctable) for roughly 3 years and a drive failure for about 10 years from the memory itself. The consumer only needs to be concerned with how long the overall product will last and the one above has a 3 year warranty. Sometimes the use of RAID is due to cost where manufacturers can source e.g 2x 128GB components for less than 1x 256GB. The performance gain there isn't all that much with RAID0 but using JBOD where you don't write to both at once still means you have two drives, each of which can fail. Other drives might use RAID0 if there's a bandwidth limit somewhere.
Mechanical drives can have quite high failure rates and being mechanical, they will always wear out and be subject to environmental conditions.Īpple has no reason to put two separate SSDs internally as they can get enough bandwidth to a single drive and put all the NAND chips in parallel. Your issue with RAID0 is that by having two or more controllers, it increases the chances that one will fail but less data is being written to each drive so it's not an issue either way. Writing to the chips in parallel increases their lifespan. The SSD will write to each NAND chip in parallel, which is how RAID0 works but it's not two SSDs in RAID0. It's a custom one with Sandisk NAND chips and Apple's own controller chips.