Despite Apple launching its new MacBook Pro range this year, the 2015 model is still incredibly attractive thans to its lower price, great performance and fantastic screen. It makes the MacBook Air look kind of pointless and sets a very high bar for rivals to match, and might even cannibalise sales of the 2016 model until stocks run out. Read on to find out why we gave the MacBook Pro 10/10 in 2015.
The current MacBook Pro design is nearly three years old now, but it looks and feels as fresh as the day Apple first unveiled it. It's remarkably thin and light considering it uses "full-power" processors, as opposed to the low-voltage ones used in the MacBook Air, upcoming 12-inch MacBook, and potential rivals such as the Dell XPS 13 2015.
What's more interesting, however, is how the Force Touch trackpad gives you same "click" sensation wherever you press. You have to press halfway down or lower to get a satisfactory click on the standard clickpad, but the Force Touch trackpad feels the same when you press the top corners as it does in the middle. It's a subtle piece of engineering you'll quickly grow to love.
This also means you can choose between three different click strengths - light, medium and heavy. Heavy feels the closest to current mechanical clickpads, medium feels more precise and less clunky, while light is arguably too subtle.