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Not only that, up till 2016 all the 'peripheral' parts (screen, battery, ports etc.) on MacBook Pros had been equal. Wether you sprung for the €1300 or €2200 13
by jorvi 9y ago
Not only that, up till 2016 all the 'peripheral' parts (screen, battery, ports etc.) on MacBook Pros had been equal. Wether you sprung for the €1300 or €2200 13" MacBook Pro, externally you'd get the more-or-less the same experience, with the performance delta usually within 15%. The 'gimp'book changed that. Now, if you spring for the base model you get two Thunderbolt ports less, a worse battery, and a ULV instead of a full-blown processor.
- maxsilver 9y ago> Now, if you spring for the base model you get a worse battery Except you don't get a worse battery, that's the crazy part. The base/cheaper model gets the better battery than the expensive model. The lower-end 13-inch base MacBook Pro gets a 54.5w/hr battery, and only drives one screen. The higher-end 13-inch touchbar MacBook Pro only gets a 49.2w/hr battery, and has to drive two screens. - https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ Presumably the TouchBar takes up enough space that they had to reduce the battery size to compensate. So, not only do you have a touch bar you (probably) don't want, wasting battery life you'd rather keep, you also have smaller total battery capacity too. The lineup goes out of it's way to double-punish the more expensive product.
- sigjuice 9y agoThe MacBook Pro with function keys has fewer than two Thunderbolt ports. There is no separate power.