Apple upgrades the 13-inch MacBook Pro! The smaller Mac stays at 13 inches but gets up to 32GB of RAM and up to 4TB of SSD storage space, along with 10-gen Intel processors.
Samsung's brand-new portable SSD, the X5, lets you haul around up to 2TB terabytes of audio (the most expensive model) and other data, transferred from your computer over Thunderbolt 3.
Thanks to NVMe, Toshiba's newest 64-layer 3D-TLC NAND memory chips, and a custom controller, these SSD drives race at up to 1600MB/s - more than you need even for high resolution audio recording.
Lenovo has announced a new workstation-class laptop in its ThinkPad series, the P52, which can be configured as a music and video production monster, and has plenty of connectivity.
The 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros didn't come off as convincing upgrades for musicians with reduced connectivity, somewhat gimmicky OLED touch bars, and price increases. Can Apple win them back?
A full teardown of the new iMac Pro reveals that the CPU and RAM could be relatively easy to upgrade after all, but storage and graphics are perhaps another story.
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