Apple Debuts New 15-Inch MacBook Pro With Force Touch And $1,999 27-Inch Retina iMac

Apple has updated both the 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display, and the 27-inch iMac, with new specs that include 5th-generation Intel Core “Broadwell” processors, as well as a new Force Touch trackpad for the MacBook, which provides opportunities for unique input via a secondary, deeper click, as well as Apple’s trademark “taptic” feedback, which makes it feel like the trackpad is physically clicking even though it is not. The 27-inch iMac with Retina Display now starts at $1,999.

Apple updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display with improved processors, GPU and the new Force Touch trackpad back in March, at an event where it also detailed its retail plans for Apple Watch and introduced the brand new 12-inch MacBook. Both that MacBook and the Apple Watch also use Force Touch technology, which uses pressure sensitivity to trigger additional input commands via secondary, deeper clicks.

On the Watch, Force Touch often exposes additional actions that would be clumsy in a standard, swipable interface on the small screen. On the MacBook, including now this updated 15-inch Retina model, it enables new actions like previewing links and looking up Wikipedia definitions of words in Safari, as well as previewing Map locations and Calendar events. Developers also have access to Force Touch tech, allowing them to do additional things with pressure-based trackpad input.

These new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros likely would’ve arrived earlier, but they were depending on Intel shipping its latest ‘Broadwell’ 5th generation Core processors, which were delayed compared to Intel’s original launch timeframe. The inclusion of this generation of chips enabled significant performance boosts for this 15-inch notebook vs. the version of the MacBook Pro that debuted in July, 2014.

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