13-inch MacBook Pro differences: More than just Touch Bar

28 October 2016
Yesterday, Apple announced the brand new MacBook Pro with the cool new Touch Bar, a strip of display above the keyboard that replaces the function key row with context specific functions that can be customized by users and developers.

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  • 28 Oct 2016

Anonymous, 28 Oct 2016cost-cutting under the hood, a non-techie user doesn't care... moreBut at the end of the day. When he's all alone. He's gonna wish that he bought a better speced windows machine for less the price.

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    • 28 Oct 2016

    Anonymous, 28 Oct 2016cost-cutting under the hood, a non-techie user doesn't care... moreNice narrative, but DDR4 is cheaper than DDR3 for quite a while now.
    Yes, it's more expensive (and worst performing) to use DDR3 than it is to use DDR4. -- Yet Dell pulled the exact same stunt on their latest XPS 13.

    As for the "why", you'll have to either ask them or come-up with a better theory.

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      • 28 Oct 2016

      asdfwww, 28 Oct 2016Is there really a big difference between 1866MHz and 2133MH... more"Is there really a big difference between 1866MHz and 2133MHz DDR3-RAM?" -- When your GPU is using the system RAM to render, yes there is.

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        • 28 Oct 2016

        Gsmarena is wrong apple is using ddr4 check on apple.com

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          • 28 Oct 2016

          AnonD-92238, 28 Oct 2016can anybody explain why they aren't using DDR4/5 RAMs?cost-cutting under the hood, a non-techie user doesn't care ddr3 ddr4 ddr5 ddr6 he just wants to show off his new macbook....yawn

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            • 28 Oct 2016

            Is there really a big difference between 1866MHz and 2133MHz DDR3-RAM? I don't think so. The big CPU-difference is way more to question.
            It's rather a shame that they are still using DDR3 in 2016.

            btw: I thought Apple lowered their macbook-prices in the last years to make them more affordable and more attractive. Now they seem to be ridiculous expensive as in 2008 - Good Hardware, excellent Manufacture, horrible prices.

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              • 28 Oct 2016

              can anybody explain why they aren't using DDR4/5 RAMs?

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