MacBook Pro 2016 (With Touch Bar) - 15" Buyer's Guide

Apple launched the fourth-generation MacBook Pro (Touch Bar) in October 2016. This generation brought numerous noteworthy changes to the MacBook Pro lineup, with the most outwardly visible being its namesake multi-touch OLED strip positioned at the top of the keyboard. The OLED Touch Bar takes the place of the previous model’s traditional function keys, and offers context-specific functions and controls depending on which application you have open. The fourth generation model also introduces a sapphire glass-covered Touch ID sensor that doubles as the power button, as well as an all-new external housing that is thinner and makes room for a Force Touch trackpad that is now twice as large as its predecessor. Finally, internal specifications were given a healthy boost, courtesy of Intel’s sixth-generation Core i7 (Skylake) processors, 16GB of speedy 2133MHz DDR3 RAM, and the substantially faster AMD Radeon Pro 450, 455, or 460 discrete graphics cards.