From DailyTech: One of the footnotes on yesterday's "Spring Forward" event hosted by Apple, Inc. (AAPL) was the announcement of upgrades to the MacBook Air and Pro lines.
The MacBook Air gets:
- 14 nm Intel Corp. (INTC) Core i5-5250U SoC
- 2x Broadwell CPU cores @ 1.6 GHz (turbo at 2.7 GHz)
- Intel HD Graphics 6000
- 2x GPU slices with 48 execute units (EUs) @ 300 MHz (950 MHz turbo)
- Thunderbolt 2 ports (double the bandwidth of first gen. Thunderbolt ports)
- Optional upgrade to 512 GB SSDs
The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro gets a slightly bigger upgrade. It gets the new "Force Touch" click-free pressure sensitive trackpad and a variety of hardware bumps. Here's a full summary of its upgrades:
- 14 nm Intel Core i5-5257U SoC or (more expensive SKU) Intel Core i5-5287U SoC
- 2x Broadwell CPU cores @ 2.7 GHz (turbo at 3.1 GHz) or (more expensive) @ 2.9 GHz (turbo at 3.3 GHz)
- Intel Iris Graphics 6100: 2x GPU slices with 48 execute units (EUs) @ 300 MHz (1100 MHz turbo)
- Replaces 1600 MHz DDR3L modules with 1866 MHz LPDDR3 memory
- Thunderbolt 2 port
- I/O -- Force Touch Trackpad
- 74.9 Wh battery (rated @ 10 hr. battery life) (4.3 percent bigger)
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