Apple launches 16-inch MacBook Pro with scissor keyboard

Apple has ‘silently’ launched its long-rumoured 16-inch MacBook Pro, its biggest laptop ever, at a starting price of Rs 1,99,900. It is, as expected, Apple’s ‘most powerful MacBook Pro ever.’ But this one, contrary to all the Mac laptops that Apple has launched over the last few years, isn’t gunning for sheer power alone. Apple is going back to the basics, finally, and trying to solve two big problems with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro – the typing experience and thermals. 

The MacBook has had a troubled record over both these aspects. Apple has even publicly acknowledged (and even apologized for) them. And it has gone back to the drawing board finally, so it seems.

Scissor keyboard makes comeback

For starters, the new MacBook Pro sees Apple replacing the controversial butterfly keyboard with a more reliable scissor mechanism. Apple is apparently so confident about its ‘old school ways’ that this one doesn’t figure in its extended keyboard repair program – like most of its recent MacBooks. Apple is going a step further, adding a physical Escape key and an inverted-“T” arrangement for the arrow keys, in the new MacBook Pro to deliver “a keyboard with a comfortable, satisfying and quiet typing experience.” 

Moving on, the new MacBook Pro packs “the most advanced thermal architecture ever in a Mac notebook to enable the system to run at higher power for sustained periods of time,” according to Apple. The seemingly redesigned thermals comprise of a 35 per cent larger heat sink and fans capable of pushing through 28 per cent more air - over the last-generation.  

Speaking of core specs, the maxed-out model of the new MacBook Pro packs an 8-core i9 chip clocked at 2.4GHz, that’s capable of chalking Turbo Boost speeds up to 5.0 GHz. This can be paired – this is optional – with up to whopping 64GB of RAM and 8TB SSD storage. The new MacBook Pro is further backed by a 100Wh battery which is claimed to offer up to 11 hours of wireless web browsing on a single charge. 

Elsewhere, the 16-inch MacBook Pro has a 6-speaker sound system with two force cancelling woofers for “more clear and natural sound” with improved bass.

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