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one of our favorite laptops has been just ever so slightly updated I'm Dan Ackerman and this is the 2015 edition of Apple's 15 inch macbook pro now this looks and feels a lot like last year's 15-inch MacBook Pro and that's because it's essentially the same system it's gotten a few minor tweaks fewer tweaks actually than the MacBook Airs have gotten in 2015 or even the 13-inch MacBook Pro we do get the new force touch trackpad that is a trackpad that is actually a flat piece of glass that's on four sensors doesn't have that sort of diving board click down mechanism anymore what it has is a series of little haptic feedback centers underneath it so when you click on it it gives you a little jog it feels like you're clicking down although you're really not it's actually uncanny and if you press down harder you actually get two levels of click you also get faster flash storage drive in here you know from moving a lot of files back and forth certainly that could be helpful we didn't notice a huge difference in our benchmark tests one thing you don't get however that other new 2015 Mac books new models and updated ones have gotten is Intel's Broadwell generation processors that's the fifth generation of the you know Core i3 Core i5 core i7 processors this guy keeps last year's core i7 still plenty fast enough frankly performance wise you're not going to notice a big difference you do lose out I think probably on some potential battery life games Apple says that this model due to some new tricks with the battery chemistry should run a bit longer than last year's similar comparable model we found this thing ran I think for about nine hours pretty much the same as last year's 15-inch MacBook Pro this is both the largest and most powerful laptop that Apple makes right now especially since the much-beloved 17 inch version of the MacBook Pro has been discontinued for many years and of course you get that super high resolution what Apple calls the Retina screen and lots of ports and connections even though it's very slim for a 15-inch laptop you also get in the higher-end model we have here a new graphics card it's the Andy Radeon r9 M 370 X which was decent and 3d gaming certainly not as fast dedicated gaming laptop will be but on a Mac your gaming options are pretty limited anyway without that this guy starts at $19.99 and this updated version with a graphics card is $24.99 I'm Dan Ackerman and that is Apple's 15 inch macbook pro