MacBook and iMac hands-on reviews: Slicker, faster, cheaper

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. So this week’s announcements of upgrades across the entire Apple computer range, including improved processors for the entry-level Apple MacBook Air which is especially popular with students for instance, weren’t entirely surprising. I’ve spent the last 24 hours locked in a room with the new 27-inch iMac and the latest, top-of-the-range 15-inch MacBook Pro to see if the new configurations are worth the wait. open image in gallery John Ternus, Vice President, Mac and iPad Hardware Engineering speaks under a graphic of price points for the Macbook laptop family during Apple's annual world wide developer conference in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017 The updated MacBook Pro laptops all now have the faster Kaby Lake processors and the solid-state flash memory is now faster in all the MacBook Pro models. open image in gallery Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President Software Engineering speaks under a projection image of an iMac computer during the company's annual world wide developer conference in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017 I’m not a fan of benchmark processing programs like Geekbench, useful though they are, because it seems to me that real-world results are more persuasive if they chime with user experience, but certainly the raw figures are different here, too.