 Hey guys, it's Stian with The Verge. I'm here on the Apple campus in Cupertino. Apple just released a new line of MacBook Pros, which are super cool. They take a lot of inspiration from the MacBook, the super small and thin MacBook, and now they brought it to the Pro size with Pro horsepower. But the big feature is the new touch strip on the mid-level 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 15-inch MacBook Pro. So here, you can see I'm just in a finder, and what you've got is kind of like the classic function key shown up on the screen. But if I press right here, you see this opens into the classic one. I can close it. I can press right here on the volume keys, and instead of that, I get a touch display that's controlling the volume. That's neat, that's fine, but the real action here is that this is context-sensitive to apps. So I'm hearing this message, I wanna type, I wanna send an emoji, I push the emoji key, and now I have a full access to emojis and a touch display, just like you would on a phone. The move here is really bringing a lot of touch elements that we've seen on phones and tablets to the Mac without putting in a touch screen. So here, you can see the keyboard is gonna make typing suggestions, auto-correct suggestions as I type, which is pretty neat. You can see it just letting me type right with the keyboard, just like the smart keyboard on an iPhone. But instead of touching the screen, I'm touching this touch panel here. There's all kinds of other things you can do with this. I can open QuickTime. This is a video. You can see I can scrub in the video just by touching the thing. I can hit play. I can scrub back and forth. That's pretty cool. They've got photos here, so I can switch over to photos. So photos is open here. I can scroll through all the photos I have. I can press the edit key right here. I can click filters, and now I can bang through photo filters right on the keyboard without having to go to the screen and use the mouse over here. I can push this button. I can set the cropping. I can rotate the photos right with the touch pad, or I'm sorry, right with the touch bar, right on the keyboard without lifting my hand here. So a very interesting way of bringing touch controls to the keyboard without actually bringing touch to the screen. Apple's also showing off some third party apps. So here I've got Word. You can see Word has a bunch of editing controls. I can hit bold. Now I'm typing in bold. I can hit italic. All the classic stuff that you would see, usually in the menu bar, brought down right in front of your screen. When you open Safari, you get a bunch of favorites in the new tab window. It also remembers all your tabs. So you can switch tabs just by touching the screen. You can also hit search right from the bar. When you hit search, it brings up a bunch of your favorites here. I think it's really funny that Apple has given itself the biggest button with its own name spelled out and nobody else gets that button on screen. So that's pretty neat. And then on a system level, you can hit the Siri button. You hit Siri, Siri can barely hear me right now. What's going on, Siri? She doesn't understand because it's super loud in here. And over here on the touch bar, you have the touch ID sensor and the power button. So that's just a regular power button. Siri's just trying to listen to me. So if I hold this down, it's actually a button over here. If I hold it down, you can see I get a bunch of things happening. And it's touch ID. So if I try to buy something or if I had Apple Bay set up, I could just touch right here and it would be touch ID and either log me in or approve an Apple Pay purchase. So that is the big touch bar. You can also see this trackpad is absolutely massive. It's two times as big as the previous trackpads. It's force touch, it doesn't move. It just has the Taptic Engine underneath it. The keyboard is really much shallower than the current MacBook Pro. It's not quite as shallow as the MacBook, but it's definitely noticeably shallower. It feels really fast. I like a shallow keyboard, so it's fine. But you're gonna have to try it out and feel it for yourself. And then along the side, hey-o, there's a headphone jack, it's my favorite. And then you've got four, what Apple's calling Thunderbolt 3 ports. They're actually the same form factor as USB-C. So you get two on this side and then two over here. All of these are also charging ports because they are, in fact, the same form factor as USB-C. So you can plug in any charger, all four ports will charge. They'll all be Thunderbolt 3, and then all of your docks and accessories can plug right in. So just the four Thunderbolt 3 ports that are the same form factor as USB-C and a headphone jack, nothing very special on the bottom. This whole thing is very thin and light. It's four pounds. It feels incredibly light to me, I am a current 15-inch MacBook Pro user. This thing feels great. The retina display is thinner than before, it's 65% brighter. All in all, a really solid update to the MacBook Pro with a really new, interesting UI convention and a touch bar that it seems like third-party developers are going to take a lot of advantage of as they create UIs for touch on the Mac that don't rely on a touchscreen. So the new MacBook starts at $1499 for a model without the touch bar that's 13-inch with two Thunderbolt 3 ports and no touch bar, just regular function keys. And it goes up, the 15-inch model here with the quad core processor goes up to about $2399. There's a million custom configuration options in there. Sure you can make this thing as expensive or as inexpensive as you want, but the cheap ones start shipping really soon, like tomorrow. These bigger ones with a touch bar start shipping in two to three weeks, and we will have a review very soon. So the new MacBook Pro is really cool, but there's one thing that's sad. The Apple logo doesn't glow anymore, which is incredibly depressing because I love the glowing Apple logo. It's super shiny now, and you get a touch bar like that, which is cool, but no more glowing Apple logo.
 Hey guys, it's Stian with The Verge.
 I'm here on the Apple campus in Cupertino.
 Apple just released a new line of MacBook Pros,
 which are super cool.
 They take a lot of inspiration from the MacBook,
 the super small and thin MacBook,
 and now they brought it to the Pro size with Pro horsepower.
 But the big feature is the new touch strip
 on the mid-level 13-inch MacBook Pro
 and the 15-inch MacBook Pro.
 So here, you can see I'm just in a finder,
 and what you've got is kind of like
 the classic function key shown up on the screen.
 But if I press right here, you see this opens
 into the classic one.
 I can close it.
 I can press right here on the volume keys,
 and instead of that, I get a touch display
 that's controlling the volume.
 That's neat, that's fine, but the real action here
 is that this is context-sensitive to apps.
 So I'm hearing this message, I wanna type,
 I wanna send an emoji, I push the emoji key,
 and now I have a full access to emojis
 and a touch display, just like you would on a phone.
 The move here is really bringing a lot of touch elements
 that we've seen on phones and tablets to the Mac
 without putting in a touch screen.
 So here, you can see the keyboard
 is gonna make typing suggestions,
 auto-correct suggestions as I type, which is pretty neat.
 You can see it just letting me type right with the keyboard,
 just like the smart keyboard on an iPhone.
 But instead of touching the screen,
 I'm touching this touch panel here.
 There's all kinds of other things you can do with this.
 I can open QuickTime.
 This is a video.
 You can see I can scrub in the video
 just by touching the thing.
 I can hit play.
 I can scrub back and forth.
 That's pretty cool.
 They've got photos here, so I can switch over to photos.
 So photos is open here.
 I can scroll through all the photos I have.
 I can press the edit key right here.
 I can click filters, and now I can bang through
 photo filters right on the keyboard
 without having to go to the screen
 and use the mouse over here.
 I can push this button.
 I can set the cropping.
 I can rotate the photos right with the touch pad,
 or I'm sorry, right with the touch bar,
 right on the keyboard without lifting my hand here.
 So a very interesting way of bringing touch controls
 to the keyboard without actually
 bringing touch to the screen.
 Apple's also showing off some third party apps.
 So here I've got Word.
 You can see Word has a bunch of editing controls.
 I can hit bold.
 Now I'm typing in bold.
 I can hit italic.
 All the classic stuff that you would see,
 usually in the menu bar,
 brought down right in front of your screen.
 When you open Safari, you get a bunch of favorites
 in the new tab window.
 It also remembers all your tabs.
 So you can switch tabs just by touching the screen.
 You can also hit search right from the bar.
 When you hit search, it brings up
 a bunch of your favorites here.
 I think it's really funny that Apple has given itself
 the biggest button with its own name spelled out
 and nobody else gets that button on screen.
 So that's pretty neat.
 And then on a system level, you can hit the Siri button.
 You hit Siri, Siri can barely hear me right now.
 What's going on, Siri?
 She doesn't understand because it's super loud in here.
 And over here on the touch bar,
 you have the touch ID sensor and the power button.
 So that's just a regular power button.
 Siri's just trying to listen to me.
 So if I hold this down, it's actually a button over here.
 If I hold it down, you can see I get
 a bunch of things happening.
 And it's touch ID.
 So if I try to buy something or if I had Apple Bay set up,
 I could just touch right here and it would be touch ID
 and either log me in or approve an Apple Pay purchase.
 So that is the big touch bar.
 You can also see this trackpad is absolutely massive.
 It's two times as big as the previous trackpads.
 It's force touch, it doesn't move.
 It just has the Taptic Engine underneath it.
 The keyboard is really much shallower
 than the current MacBook Pro.
 It's not quite as shallow as the MacBook,
 but it's definitely noticeably shallower.
 It feels really fast.
 I like a shallow keyboard, so it's fine.
 But you're gonna have to try it out and feel it for yourself.
 And then along the side, hey-o,
 there's a headphone jack, it's my favorite.
 And then you've got four,
 what Apple's calling Thunderbolt 3 ports.
 They're actually the same form factor as USB-C.
 So you get two on this side and then two over here.
 All of these are also charging ports
 because they are, in fact, the same form factor as USB-C.
 So you can plug in any charger,
 all four ports will charge.
 They'll all be Thunderbolt 3,
 and then all of your docks and accessories
 can plug right in.
 So just the four Thunderbolt 3 ports
 that are the same form factor as USB-C and a headphone jack,
 nothing very special on the bottom.
 This whole thing is very thin and light.
 It's four pounds.
 It feels incredibly light to me,
 I am a current 15-inch MacBook Pro user.
 This thing feels great.
 The retina display is thinner than before,
 it's 65% brighter.
 All in all, a really solid update to the MacBook Pro
 with a really new, interesting UI convention
 and a touch bar that it seems like third-party developers
 are going to take a lot of advantage of
 as they create UIs for touch on the Mac
 that don't rely on a touchscreen.
 So the new MacBook starts at $1499
 for a model without the touch bar that's 13-inch
 with two Thunderbolt 3 ports and no touch bar,
 just regular function keys.
 And it goes up, the 15-inch model here
 with the quad core processor goes up to about $2399.
 There's a million custom configuration options in there.
 Sure you can make this thing as expensive
 or as inexpensive as you want,
 but the cheap ones start shipping really soon,
 like tomorrow.
 These bigger ones with a touch bar
 start shipping in two to three weeks,
 and we will have a review very soon.
 So the new MacBook Pro is really cool,
 but there's one thing that's sad.
 The Apple logo doesn't glow anymore,
 which is incredibly depressing
 because I love the glowing Apple logo.
 It's super shiny now, and you get a touch bar like that,
 which is cool, but no more glowing Apple logo.