MacBook Pro (2017) vs. MacBook Pro (2016): What's changed and what matters mostDo you really need the latest, greatest 2017 Kaby Lake MacBook Pro or can you save a few bucks on the 2016 Skylake model? Here's the deal!
The new MacBook Pro, launched in 2016, came with Intel's previous-generation Skylake architecture. That was thanks to Intel, who hadn't yet shipped quad-core versions of Kaby Lake or Iris Pro versions, which is what Apple uses in the MacBook Pro. Flash forward to 2017, though, and Kaby Lake is now a reality for MacBook Pro.
Other than that, last year's MacBook Pro and this year's are virtually identical. So what difference does a processor generation make?
Skylake vs. Kaby Lake
Once upon a time Intel was on a tick-tock processor clock. One year it would shrink the process, the next year revamp the architecture. But then things got hard. So now Intel is doing tick-tock-tock... maybe even tock. The result is that, while processors are still improving, those improvements are composed of several small steps instead of a couple strides.
And that...
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MacBook Pro (2017) vs. MacBook Pro (2016): What's changed and what matters most
