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Apple launches new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad
Apple Insider ^ | 5/19/2015 | Neil Hughes

Posted on 05/19/2015 7:53:15 AM PDT by Loud Mime

Apple on Tuesday issued an update to its 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, adding faster Intel processors, as well as the new pressure-sensitive Force Touch trackpad.

The new trackpad, previously available on the 13-inch MacBook Pro and 12-inch MacBook, has built-in force sensors and a Taptic Engine that delivers haptic feedback. It allows users to click anywhere with a uniform feel, and users can even customize the amount of pressure needed to register each click.

Force Touch opens up a range of new gestures, including the new force click. Developers can tap into these expanded capabilities with new APIs available in the latest builds of OS X Yosemite.

(Excerpt) Read more at appleinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; forcetouch; macbookpro; retinadisplay
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To: kevkrom

Your pitiful Apple super-ego is duly noted. To repeat: 90% of laptop users do not need to spend $2500. They will get by just as well with a $400 windows laptop. Preach your Apple
brainwashing to someone who is not aware of what the real world computer markets are like.

And in the real world Apple laptops are wildly overpriced for what average computer users need.


61 posted on 05/20/2015 7:54:16 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: RayChuang88

8gb ram is the max from what I see. I have 16gb on one computer and it works no better that the one with 8gb. My uses are internet, email, Office, other light stuff

You might find some Windows 8 computers at a great discount when windows 10 rolls out. And of course you will get a free Windows 10 upgrade with them


62 posted on 05/20/2015 8:02:33 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Loud Mime

“Now with Tint Control.”


63 posted on 05/20/2015 8:04:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Swordmaker

Yep, I’d think he’d want a “Do Over” on that one.


64 posted on 05/20/2015 8:07:13 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RayChuang88

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=512gb+ssd&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3A512gb+ssd

512GB SSD are at less than $200 now. And still Apple cheaps out by only putting a 256gb SSD in the new 15” Macbook going for $2000. Anyone who buys into this is a slave and a fool.

For $2500 the AppleBots will include a 512gb flash drive plus upgraded other stuffs


65 posted on 05/20/2015 8:09:14 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

I think by September we may see 1024 GB SSD’s going for under $300. That could make possible for a Windows 10 laptop with 8 GB of RAM and a 1024 GB SSD selling under US$900—maybe way under that.


66 posted on 05/20/2015 8:35:15 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

My opinion-— Buy the laptop you like with conventional hard drive X and put in the SDD of the size that you like. 512gb is enough for me


67 posted on 05/20/2015 9:17:06 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Swordmaker

It is good to know you endorse Yosemite. I will take that to heart and try to find somebody using it so I can see for myself.

Thanks for the help.


68 posted on 05/20/2015 10:00:09 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Lord God help us.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

There’s a much, much smaller visible difference from Mavericks to Yosemite than there was from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.


69 posted on 05/20/2015 11:15:57 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: dennisw
I want a laptop with NO spinning hard drives, period. That way, when the system boots, it boot in 1/5 to 1/8 the time it does with the operating system on a spinning hard drive.
70 posted on 05/20/2015 12:47:54 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

How about this one>>> For $349
http://www.staples.com/Toshiba-C55-B5362-Intel-Core-i3-4GB-RAM-500GB-Hard-drive-15-6-TruBrite-TFT-display-Laptop/product_1389315

Comes with a 500gb drive so remove that and put in your own 512gb SSD

4gb ram and should have an empty slot for another 4gb giving you a total of 8GB


71 posted on 05/20/2015 1:29:14 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: RayChuang88

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RH69VT6/ref=psdc_565108_t2_B00O65HZKS


72 posted on 05/20/2015 4:59:56 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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