Today Apple brings Intel’s latest Broadwell Core i5 and Core i7 processors to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, beefing up both laptops with additional CPU and graphics power. The updated MacBook Airs are shipping today with Intel’s HD Graphics 6000 GPUs, which are smaller,faster, and capable of superior shading. Also shipping today is the updated 13″ MacBook Pro, which will get the new Force Touch trackpad introduced in the all-new 12″ MacBook today, as well as faster flash memory and 10-hour battery life. Here’s how much they’ll cost
13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
- $1,299 — 2.7 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 128GB flash storage
- $1,499 — 2.7 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 256GB flash storage
- $1,799 — 2.9 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 512GB flash storage
MacBook Air
11-inch
- $899 — 1.6 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB flash storage
- $1,099 — 1.6 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, 256GB flash storage
13-inch
- $999 - 1.6 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB flash storage
- $1,199 — 1.6 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, 256GB flash storage
Intel has announced its first 10-core desktop CPU, the Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition, today at Computex. The new processor will run at 3GHz (with boost speeds up to 3.5GHz), pack in 25MB of cache and feature Intel's new Turbo Boost 3.0 technology. Just but be prepared for you and you wallet crying, as the 10-core i7 Extreme Edition will cost $1,723. Intel claims it's 2X as fast as the quad-core i7 6700K when it comes to 3D rendering, and 35% faster than the last-gen Core i7-5960X. It's 25 % faster than the 5960X when it comes to gaming in 4K while encoding and broadcasting a 1080p Twitch stream. The new Extreme Edition of i7 processors will also be available in an 8-core version (the i7-6900K for $1,089) and 6-core variants (the $617 i7-6850K and the $434 i7-6800K). All of the new chips also support DDR4-2400 RAM.
