From DailyTech: At its unveil event for its smartwatch wearable Apple, Inc. (AAPL) refreshed its laptop PC line by reviving the Macbook w/ a new 12-inch netbook-like ultrathin. It also refreshed the existing 13-inch Macbook Pro to have Force Touch. It also added Intel Corp. (INTC) Broadwell CPUs to the 13-inch MacBook Pro and assorted MacBook Air models. But left out of the party was the 15-inch MacBook Pro model.
Yesterday Apple rectified that by refreshing the 15 inch MacBook Pro model to include the new Force Touch trackpad. It also made other improvements to the 15 inch MacBook Pro. While the storage capacity stays the same, the speed of the SSD is bumped 2.5x (I'm assuming that's read speed) for a claimed 2 Gbps throughput.
Also improved is the battery. Apple estimates that the refreshed model will get an extra hour of battery life to bring the estimated iTunes video playback battery life to 9 hours. It also adds in faster quad-core processors, although it's important to note that these are fourth-generation i-Series Haswell (22 nm) chips, not the newest 14 nm Broadwell chips that are in the 13-inch Retina display MacBook Pro model. That's to be expected, though, as Intel has yet to make quad-core 14 nm parts widely available.
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