Today Apple is releasing new revamped variations of its 13” MacBook Pro line-up, most notably updating the sequence with the brand new scissor-switch model Magic Keyboard, in addition to giving the choice for Intel’s new 10th era Ice Lake CPUs within the greater finish fashions.
Apple final winter had rolled out its new 16” MacBook Pro which had launched the brand new Magic Keyboard, making the selection to drop the controversial butterfly change keyboard again to a scissor change design. Today’s 13” line-up adopts the identical adjustments throughout the smaller kind issue fashions, together with the brand new Touch Bar design that has been narrowed all the way down to now embody a bodily escape key on the keyboard.
The new design in any other case doesn’t considerably diverge from its summer-2019 refresh, though this 12 months it’s each so barely thicker at 1.56cm as an alternative of 1.49cm – definitely unnoticeable in on a regular basis utilization. It’s additionally 30g heavier at as much as 1.4kg now (3.1lbs).
The most importantly inside change is the choice for a brand new 10th era Intel Ice Lake based mostly CPU, working at 2.0GHz base clocks and Turbo Boost to as much as 3.8GHz. As all the time with Apple merchandise, this probably is a customized SKU only for Apple’s line-up as there’s no matching public half with these frequencies – the closest half is an i7-1060G7 which options the identical peak clock, however solely a meagre 1.0GHz base clock. Apple right here probably is working the next base TDP of 20-25W. For a $200 upsell, you possibly can select a higher-end 2.3/4.1GHz CPU configuration.
Whilst the Ice Lake based mostly elements are new, Apple will proceed to promote 8th era Coffee Lake based mostly elements on the decrease finish value spectrum within the $1299 and $1499 value factors. Aside from the CPUs themselves, the 2 generational choices of CPUs will even differ of their DRAM configuration as the brand new ICL elements include 16GB of LPDDR4X-3733, while the CFL elements proceed to simply supply 8GB of LPDDR3-2133. The ICL elements are upgradeable to 32GB for an additional $400, and the CFL elements improve to 16GB for $100.
The show panel seemingly stays unchanged, that includes a 13” 2560 x 1600 IPS LCD panel with a large Display P3 color gamut, 500 nits peak brightness, and True Tone ambient color adjustment.
| MacBook Pro 13-Inch 2020 | ||||
| Model | 2020 13-Inch Higher-End |
2019 13-Inch Higher-End |
2018 13-Inch Entry-Level |
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| CPU | 2.zero GHz/3.Eight GHz Core i5/7-10??? Four CPU Cores (Ice Lake) |
2.Four GHz/4.1 GHz Core i5-8???U Four CPU Cores (Coffee Lake) |
1.Four GHz/3.9 GHz Core i5-8???U Four CPU Cores (Coffee Lake) |
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| GPU | Intel Iris Plus | Intel Iris Plus 655 (128MB eDRAM) |
Intel Iris Plus 645 (? eDRAM) |
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| Display | 13″ 2560 x 1600 IPS LCD DCI-P3 Gamut True Tone |
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| Memory | 16 GB LPDDR4X-3733 | Eight GB LPDDR3-2133 | ||
| SSD | 512 GB PCIe SSD | 256 GB PCIe SSD | 128 GB PCIe SSD | |
| Touch Bar | Yes | |||
| I/O | 4x Thunderbolt 3 (helps DP1.2 & USB 3.1 Gen 2 modes), 3.5mm Audio |
2x Thunderbolt 3 (helps DP1.2 & USB 3.1 Gen 2 modes), 3.5mm Audio |
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| Battery Capacity | 58 Wh | 58.2 Wh | ||
| Battery Life | 10 Hours | |||
| Dimensions | 1.56 cm x 30.41 cm x 21.24 cm | 1.49 cm x 30.41 cm x 21.24 cm | ||
| Weight | 3.1 lbs (1.Four kg) | 3.02 lbs (1.37 kg) | ||
| Launch Price | $1799 | $1799 | $1299 | |
Connectivity-wise, the brand new 2020 13” MacBook Pros are available in two favours: the lower-end $1299 and $1499 Coffee Lake based mostly fashions function two Thunderbolt Three ports, while the Ice Lake based mostly elements get 4. We additionally see an addition of a 3.5mm headphone jack. Unfortunately, Apple seemingly hasn’t upgraded the Wi-Fi on the brand new fashions, and WiFi 6 / 802.11ax nonetheless isn’t current as they nonetheless make due with WiFi 5 / 802.11ac functionality.
Battery-wise, there’s no adjustments in capability as…
