Both of the new 13- and 15-inch Pros are thinner, lighter and more compact than their predecessors, with faster graphics and disk performance, a brighter, more colorful screen, Touch ID fingerprint sensor and louder, clearer audio. Thanks to that stale design and often neglected internals, many Mac fans out there have delayed upgrading - surely a new model was just around the corner, right? Though we're not sure you all were able to hold off until now, Apple has finally updated its MacBook Pro line, and it's not just a processor refresh either. Though Apple has occasionally refreshed the processors (the last time being all the way back in early 2015), that design from 2012 is virtually the same one we've been reviewing all these years. It weighed 4.46 pounds (a heavyweight by today's standards) and it ushered in some newfangled thing called the Retina display. The lesson here is that you’ll need to pay closer attention to data backups once you purchase either a 13-inch or 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.The last time Engadget reviewed a brand-new MacBook Pro design was in June of 2012. If anything on the brand new MacBook Pro’s logic board fails, you’ll have to take in the entire thing to a shop, and wait for Apple to service it. With Macs, you’d be able to simply remove the drive, and then use it with a different Mac without paying a visit to the nearest Apple store first. But what if you’re not doing regular backups? So even if the SSD is damaged for good, your data would still be safe. Sure, in theory, you’d backup everything on your machine with regularity. If the MacBook doesn’t boot up, you won’t be able to transfer any files to an external drive either. You won’t be able to take out the SSD yourself, place it in an enclosure, and connect it to a different machine just to see whether your data is still there. Imagine not being able to do anything about it without Apple’s help. Imagine not being able to boot up to retrieve your data. Just imagine having your MacBook Pro damaged by water or something else. “Scuttlebutt in the comments on our last teardown is that Apple may have included this to access the soldered-in SSD for data recovery,” iFixit said.
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