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It’s thinner, lighter and smaller all around, but the new MacBook Pro makes a big impression. The trackpad on the 15in version is downright ridiculous – twice as large as the trackpad on the previous generation – but we didn’t look down and say, “Wow, that is a seriously huge trackpad”. That is until we’d been using it for a couple of minutes because it’s all about that gorgeous Touch Bar.
Apple doesn’t do touchscreen Macs, but the Touch Bar adds a strip of ultra-handy iOS-style contextual controls right where you need them, and the rest of the MacBook Pro got great updates, too. After our limited hands-on time, we think it’s got the right mix of power, portability, and ports to satisfy users…