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Apple has announced their latest custom silicon powered MacBook Pro's. The refresh, which basically ends the last of the intel MacBook devices from Apple's existing lineup also consists of improved M1 processors dubbed the Apple M1 Pro and Apple M1 Max Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max The two new processors are basically an evolution of the already successful ARM based M1 Soc, the processors, which still use the base M1 architecture, offers 70% more CPU power thanks to a 10 core design with 8 high performance cores and 2 efficiency cores, while the GPU Core count is basically where the M1 Pro and M1 Max blows the year-old SOC out of the water as the M1 Pro offers 1x more graphic power (16 cores) over the M1 while the M1 Max consists of 4X the performance (32 Cores) while the Pro has a total of 32GB RAM support while the Max has support for 64GB. Of course the MacPro still holds on to its Intel internals, but Apple will surely update that to a variant of the M1 in the future, and it won...

Apple has officially set their entire MacBook lineup to the new 7th generation Kaby Lake format today . The lineup , which consists of the MacBook and the  MacBook pro have received the new processor generation while the aged MacBook air has a minor 5th generation Broadwell upgrade .Although the 2017 lineup has no structural improvements , the addition of the new hardware in the form of 7th gen intel processors and slight upgrades in AMD graphics and SSD's will flow nicely with Apple's upcoming MacOS High sierra (10.13)  . Apple MacBook 17 *12" 2304x1440 IPS LCD sRGB gamut *Intel Core M3 7Y32 1.2GHZ Boost 3 GHZ *Intel HD graphics 615 *8GB ddr3 -2133 *256GB PCIe *1XUSB c 3.1 ,3.5MM COMBO *41.4Wh battery ,10 hours battery life *$1299 Apple MacBook Pro 2017  13" *13' 2560x1600 IPS LCD ,P3 gamut *Intel Core i5-7360u  2.3GHZ *Intel IRIS PLUS graphics 640 *8GB ddr3 -2133 *128GB PCIe *2XUSB c 3.1 thunderbolt 3 ,3.5MM...