The entry-level, 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn’t have the buzz-warranty Touch Bar everyone is talking about, but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a formidable laptop.
For $ 1, 499, you get a brighter and more colorful screen than the previous 13-inch MacBook Pro, a bigger touchpad, louder speaker, performance, all wrapped up in a design that’s thinner, lighter and smaller than its predecessor. The battery life is pretty awesome, too.
If you wanted an adaptive multi-touch screen above the keyboard that provides all sorts of nifty shortcuts, you’d have to fork over $ 1, 799 for the Touch Bar model. Is the affordable new MacBook Pro we reviewed worth it? Yes, but it isn’t as fast as cheaper Windows laptops with Intel’s newer 7th-generation processors, and Apple ditched some useful ports to achieve this svelte design.