Apple is rolling out a major new hardware feature this year with the introduction of what it calls Force Touch. It is a catch-all term for a combination of pressure sensitivity và haptic feedback that you will find built into the táo khuyết Watch & the trackpad of the newly redesigned MacBook. Force cảm ứng 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 laptop macbook Pro.
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Though it was a mere footnote lớn Apple’s big event last month, the macbook pro will actually play a pioneering role for its maker. It’s going to lớn serve as the device on which many people experience Force cảm ứng for the first time, and it signifies Apple’s intention to make this a standard feature across all of its laptops. Unlike the more glamorous Watch and MacBook, the new apple macbook pro is practical & designed for everyone. 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. This is Apple’s most powerful sản phẩm điện thoại computer, so if smartphone computing is a thing you do, this is the máy tính xách tay for you. It really is that simple.
Left: 2013 macbook Air with original glass trackpad. Right: năm ngoái Retina macbook pro with new Force cảm ứng trackpad.
The new apple macbook Pro’s kiến thiết is, lớn borrow a famous Jony Ive adverb, unapologetically unchanged. Convinced in the superiority of its display, keyboard, và chassis, táo bị cắn has kept them all the same as in years past. All the upgrades have taken place within. Everything inside the machine is now faster: the processor, the memory, và the SSD have all been given a tốc độ boost. This dual approach of moving lớn new công nghệ while sticking khổng lồ a familiar aesthetic is best exemplified by the Force cảm biến trackpad.
The form size and shape of Apple’s new trackpad on the Pro are the same as the classic glass pad that’s been around for years now. Cảm biến it & you won’t notice anything different about its smooth surface. Press into it and you’ll hear and feel a familiar click. It’s the same reliable, satisfying user experience that Windows laptops have been so chronically unable lớn match. Only the click isn’t real.
It touches you as much as you are touching itForce cảm ứng uses a haptic feedback system, which vibrates the pad’s surface in a way that simulates the sensation of pressing a button in. In reality, the trackpad is fixed in place and barely moves at all. The sound of the click is simulated just lượt thích the sense of motion under my finger, but both feel real. As far as all my senses are concerned, I am clicking exactly as before. Táo has taken one of the last remaining mechanical parts in its laptops và replaced it with a more high-tech version that — successfully — recreates the familiar tactile response.
I came to lớn this reviews dreading the idea of táo apple tinkering with a thing that really didn’t need changing. The original glass trackpad is one of the MacBook’s clearest advantages, and it seemed lớn me that táo apple was tackling a problem that didn’t need a solution. But I’m gratified khổng lồ find that little has been lost in the transition to lớn an electronic alternative, and there’s plenty to be gained from it — in the future, if not immediately.
For example, the new kiến thiết means a click at the very vị trí cao nhất of the trackpad feels the same as at the bottom. The old hinge made clicking easier in the lower half of the touchpad. Another important advantage for Apple’s engineers, claims the company, is that the static pad is less likely to lớn break down over time & takes up a tiny bit less space than its predecessor. While that doesn’t make a difference for me today, Apple’s big kiến thiết revolutions are built upon small evolutions of precisely this magnitude: shaving off a millimeter here, improving space efficiency there, and suddenly a new laptop apple macbook is born.
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And yet, the apple macbook phiên bản pro isn’t the future-facing MacBook. It’s the machine for now, for today, which signals that táo considers Force cảm biến a công nghệ that’s mature enough to lớn be deployed widely và capitalized upon through software. That’s the thing that can make Force cảm ứng special: what Apple & its vibrant ecosystem of software developers vày with the new pad’s capabilities.
So far, practical uses for the Force touch trackpad’s pressure sensitivity are quite limited. I’ve made a valiant effort to try và use the functions táo has integrated into OS X, but they’re honestly no more useful or intuitive than bashing out a quick right-click. I can press down once for a click, or push further to get a Force click, which produces a contextual action lượt thích a dictionary lookup or a preview of a web link or a document. Even with three distinct settings of "firmness" for the regular click, I am never truly sure if and when I’m adding enough pressure to turn it into a Force click. And what’s worse, most apps don’t yet tư vấn the feature, which means I’d be wasting my time developing the proper Force cảm ứng habits if I spend most of my days inside unsupported apps.
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The most immediate benefits of Force cảm ứng on laptops are likely are lớn be felt when using drawing apps. Inklet was first out of the gate in announcing tư vấn for the new trackpad, turning it into a Wacom-like đầu vào field for styluses. With force sensitivity, you’re now able to lớn control the thickness of your digital brush’s tip by adjusting how much pressure you apply with the stylus. Táo has already enabled the same feature when signing documents in its Preview phầm mềm — even if you just use your finger — and the latest version of OS X contains the APIs necessary for more software makers to get involved.
The true potential of Force cảm biến is only beginning khổng lồ be exploredBeyond practical và artistic applications, Force cảm biến also has great potential lớn benefit disabled users. The tactile feedback provided from Apple’s Taptic Engine can be used to help those with poor eyesight by augmenting information on the screen. The trackpad can give small sensory hints và help people navigate their way around the OS X interface. While very little of that potential has yet been tapped, it’s certainly available for both Apple và others lớn explore. With Force touch being a prominent feature of the apple Watch and new laptop apple macbook — two devices that are only just beginning khổng lồ figure out their best uses and applications — there’s good reason lớn expect a wave of innovative applications for Apple’s new technology.
As of today, Force touch is a neat enhancement, but far from a singularly excellent feature that you should go out & buy a new computer for. There are plenty of good reasons to lớn own a macbook Pro, though, even if they are as familiar as the computer’s appearance. For starters, the Retina display on my 13-inch review unit is simply stunning. Coming from a 2013 macbook Air, I notice major differences in color reproduction, viewing angles, contrast, and, of course, sharpness. The 2560 x 1600 resolution of the display embarrasses my incumbent laptop’s non-Retina screen. As someone who spends great stretches of time staring into text editors on screen, I really appreciate the crispness & precision of text rendering on this new laptop apple macbook Pro.
The Retina display is worth the price of admission aloneOne of the initial stumbling blocks for Apple’s Retina displays was the graphics chip’s inability lớn handle all of those pixels at once. Intel’s new Broadwell processor promises, as every new piece of silicon does, major improvements in performance, but there are still occasions where the macbook phiên bản pro is simply overwhelmed by the amount of information it has khổng lồ animate on the screen. This most commonly happens when switching in & out of the Mission Control multitasking overview with a bunch of apps open. I may be willing to lớn forgive such infractions on my laptop apple macbook Air, which trades away a sliver of performance for better battery life và a thinner profile, but the Pro is supposed to lớn be the no-compromise MacBook.
The comparison to lớn my present máy tính xách tay is also salient when looking at the new Retina apple macbook Pro’s general performance. It’s very fast, right from the start. It boots up in under 14 seconds, wakes from sleep in less time than it takes me to xuất hiện its lid, & handles multiple apps with aplomb. It can play back the new 60fps 4K videos that YouTube has just rolled out (provided I use Safari và not Chrome). But I can say the exact same things about my Haswell-powered Air, only adjusting the boot time to lớn a slightly slower 16 seconds.
A GeekBench score of 7,001 marks a nice bump over the 6,303 of the 2013 Retina model as well as the 6,057 of my laptop macbook Air from the same year. But in most of my daily activities, this extra nguồn goes completely unnoticed. The fast SSD storage in the new Pro machine is also capable of ludicrous speeds — doubling the previous generation’s numbers and achieving a read tốc độ in excess of 1GB per second — but I am again unable to lớn come up with daily use scenarios that make that apparent. The difference is between fast & ultra fast when handling specific, heavy workloads. A good example is the update lớn OS X 10.10.3, which took significantly longer on the Air than it did on the năm ngoái Pro — but how many times are you transferring and processing that volume of data?
Battery life isn’t a massive differentiator between the Air and Pro lines. The laptop apple macbook Air has the edge during our website browsing battery test, but it’s a slight one: the Air runs for 13 hours và 29 minutes whereas the 2015 MacBook Pro achieves 13 hours và 18 minutes. Mind you, that’s when using Safari for your browsing, and there’s a major drop-off when using Google’s Chrome browser, which chews through the Pro’s battery in 9 hours và 45 minutes. In daily use, I’m finding myself recharging both the Pro and the Air at roughly the same intervals. Pushing beyond 10 hours of use isn’t a problem with either máy tính and I can confidently leave trang chủ in the morning without worrying about bringing a charger.
It"s the same old macbook Pro: as excellent as everI’d be happy khổng lồ recommend the Retina apple macbook phiên bản pro on the strength of its display alone. Sure, I’m late khổng lồ the Retina party, but now that I’m here, I don’t want to lớn ever leave. The new Force touch trackpad has the potential to lớn be equally transformative, once compelling uses for its pressure sensitivity & haptic feedback are developed. As of right now, though, it’s just a really good trackpad, probably the best there is. It doesn’t feel lượt thích an obvious nâng cấp when moving to lớn it from the laptop apple macbook Air, but I do sense a downgrade when going in the opposite direction and having lớn tap instead of click at the đứng top of the pad.
Apple has deliberately camouflaged its new Force touch trackpad in the garb of its familiar hardware. It’s even simulating the click in an effort lớn keep the same trusty feel of the pad that macbook users know và love. While the company’s confident about the technology, it clearly recognizes that Force touch applications are yet to lớn come and it’s being honest with its customers by releasing a new apple macbook pro that looks identical to the old one. There really is no reason khổng lồ consider this new Pro mã sản phẩm if you have one of its recent forebears. It’s undergone the annual honing và improvement of specs, but in its essence, it is the same old apple macbook Pro. That might be a downside for any other machine, but in the case of the laptop apple macbook Pro, it just means that táo khuyết continues khổng lồ have one of the absolute best laptops in the world.
