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The Touch Bar MacBook Pro, released in October 2016, adopted USB-C for all data ports and power and included a shallower "butterfly"-mechanism keyboard. On all but the base model, the function keys were replaced with an OLED touchscreen strip called the Touch Bar with a Touch ID sensor integrated into the power button.
The Touch Bar MacBook Pro - so-called because of its Touch Bar strip with a Touch ID sensor - released in October 2016, adopted USB-C for all data ports and power and included a shallower "butterfly"-mechanism keyboard. A November 2019 revision to the Touch Bar MacBook Pro [3] introduced the Magic Keyboard, which used a scissor-switch mechanism.
Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface for the connection of external peripherals to a computer.It was developed by Intel in collaboration with Apple. [7] [8] It was initially marketed under the name Light Peak, and first sold as part of an end-user product on 24 February 2011.
The MacBook has only two ports, a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a single, multi-purpose USB-C port; it was the first Mac with USB-C. The port supports transmission speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s, and can be used for data, and audio/video output, and charging; it was the first MacBook without MagSafe charging.
For displays it can only connect with computers with a Thunderbolt port (for data it has a Gigabit Ethernet and FireWire 800). It is incompatible with most non-Apple computers, along with Macs released before 2011 and the 2012 Mac Pro or the single USB-C Retina MacBook. For Devices with Thunderbolt 3 (such as MacBooks released after 2016) using ...
As part of the Mac transition to Intel processors, Apple released a 13-inch laptop simply named "MacBook", as a successor to the PowerPC-based iBook series of laptops. . During its existence, it was the most affordable Mac, serving as the entry-level laptop that was less expensive than the rest of the Mac laptop lineup (the MacBook Pro portable workstation, and later the MacBook Air ultra-port
Apple handled this issue by replacing the logic board and by telling its customers not to charge through those hubs. [34] macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 includes a fix to prevent 2019 or later MacBook Pro models and 2020 or later MacBook Air models from being damaged by certain third-party USB-C hubs and docks. [35] [36]
On June 6, 2022, at WWDC 2022, Apple introduced the 13-inch MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt ports based on the Apple M2 chip. This launched alongside an updated MacBook Air, with a new design, and also with the M2 chip. The specifications of the M2 MacBook Pro are almost the same, but it supports up to 24 GB of unified memory.