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here's the good news if you splurge someone if Apple's very expensive high-end 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops when they got a big redesign last year you're not going to feel especially put out that they're already getting updated that's because almost everything here is the same same aluminum body which is still thinner and lighter than the older MacBook Pros same great Retina resolution display inside you do get some important new parts including 7th generation Core iSeries Intel CPUs and new AMD Radeon graphics now up to the Radeon pro 555 and 560 it's not a gaming machine but you can do some pretty good gaming on it if you have a much older MacBook or even waiting for newer parts that's great however if one or more of the quirky features of the redesigned MacBook Pro kept you away before then this set of revisions isn't going to do anything much to change your mind it's still got the same touch bar control strip instead of a function key row some people love it some people don't use it at all I think the fingerprint reader works great and there are a handful of controls like brightness and volumes that I use a lot but not all the time you still only get four USB C port so get ready to buy some adapters or extra cables someday USB C will be the universal standard but we're not there yet the flatter than ever keyboard is also a sticking point for some shoppers it does take a little getting used to but I think it's more than made up for by the gigantic touchpad which may be the best one I've ever used bonus fact it's literally bigger than an iPhone screen