The processor platform is good but it does miss out on Intel’s ‘tick’ revamp, which would have seen a process shrink from 22 to 14 nm. There should at least be graphics performance improvements in the top of the range model, with its new discrete graphics chip, but as with the other new features, we will have to wait until we are able to fully test the new models before we can state whether this latest update is a good one. However, unlike the new 2015 model of 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display, the 15in models doesn’t get the Broadwell processor, due, no doubt to Intel’s dawdling over producing the quad-core variant.Īnother point of note is the fact that the top of the range 15in MacBook costs more than the top of the range iMac with Retina Display The 15-inch maintains its place as the premium mobile workstation laptop, and puts that much more clear distance between it and the Windows tributes. Meanwhile the uplift in flash storage speed may look like a nerdy numberfest but will reward any user with some real-life leaps in daily productivity. However this refresh sees two aspects expanded that are always in demand – faster graphics and longer battery life – while also introducing to the machine the highly versatile Force Touch trackpad interface.

We must admit to feeling a tinsy bit short-changed by the no-show of quad-core Intel Broadwell processor in this year’s 15-inch MacBook Pro model.

Macbook pro 2015 15 inch specs