It touches you as much as you are touching itįorce Touch uses a haptic feedback system, which vibrates the pad’s surface in a way that simulates the sensation of pressing a button in. It’s the same reliable, satisfying user experience that Windows laptops have been so chronically unable to match. Press into it and you’ll hear and feel a familiar click. Touch it and you won’t notice anything different about its smooth surface. The size and shape of Apple’s new trackpad on the Pro are the same as the classic glass pad that’s been around for years now. This dual approach of moving to new technology while sticking to a familiar aesthetic is best exemplified by the Force Touch trackpad. Everything inside the machine is now faster: the processor, the memory, and the SSD have all been given a speed boost.

All the upgrades have taken place within. Convinced in the superiority of its display, keyboard, and chassis, Apple has kept them all the same as in years past. The new MacBook Pro’s design is, to borrow a famous Jony Ive adverb, unapologetically unchanged. This is Apple’s most powerful mobile computer, so if mobile computing is a thing you do, this is the laptop for you. Its price isn’t weighed down by a novelty premium, its versatility and power aren’t compromised, and its raison d'être isn’t in question. Unlike the more glamorous Watch and MacBook, the new MacBook Pro is practical and designed for everyone.

It’s going to serve as the device on which many people experience Force Touch for the first time, and it signifies Apple’s intention to make this a standard feature across all of its laptops. Though it was a mere footnote to Apple’s big event last month, the MacBook Pro will actually play a pioneering role for its maker. Force Touch is Apple’s hallmark of newness for 2015, but it also finds a home in one of the Cupertino company’s less adventurous machines, the 13-inch MacBook Pro. It is a catch-all term for a combination of pressure sensitivity and haptic feedback that you will find built into the Apple Watch and the trackpad of the newly redesigned MacBook. Apple is rolling out a major new hardware feature this year with the introduction of what it calls Force Touch.

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