MacBook Pro 2016 first look: One week laterA week with Apple's new MacBook Pro.
For the last week hours, give or take, I've been working on the new 13-inch MacBook Pro 2016. No, not the one with the fancy Touch Bar instead of function keys — that'll come soon enough — but the superlegere version that strips away the bar, a couple of ports, and some of the performance in order to become something else: A replacement for the 13-inch MacBook Air.
The bad news is that the starting price is $500 more than the 13-inch MacBook Air — $1499 vs. $999 and, for some people, those bleeding edge ports are more of a dongle-edged annoyance. The good news is that even the stripped down 13-inch MacBook Pro (late 2016) still includes the same, high-density Retina display, now with eye-popping wide color, a version of Intel's Skylake processor and Iris graphics, and Apple's high-speed storage architecture.
So, is the new baseline 13-inch MacBook Pro a legit replacement for the trust 13-inch MacBook Air, the computer that was my primary...
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MacBook Pro 2016 first look: One week later
