The MacBook Pro refresh we’ve been eagerly anticipating for months is finally here, and it’s everything we dreamt it would be.

Apple’s new high-end notebook delivers a sleeker design, Intel’s latest Skylake processors, and that magic Touch Bar with Touch ID that we’ve been hearing so much about.

This year’s iPhone refresh may have been slightly disappointing (to most), but Apple is knocking it out of the park with its latest MacBook Pro, which is better than ever before.

Its new design is thinner, lighter, and more compact — measuring just 14.9mm thick if you choose the 13-inch model. That’s 17 percent thinner than the last 13-inch model, and half a pound lighter. The 15-inch model weighs just 4 pounds.

The MacBook Pro has a Force Touch trackpad that’s now twice as big as before, and now uses the same butterfly switches introduced with the 12-inch MacBook. But that’s not the biggest change you’ll find under the lid.

The new MacBook Pro is Apple’s first machine with a Touch Bar. It’s a long Retina Display that sits above the keyboard in place of the function keys. It provides similar shortcuts, but now it’s customizable and developers have the ability to add their own.

So, instead of seeing the same functions all the time, you can access more useful ones while you’re using apps like Photos or iMovie. In Safari, for instance, it displays favorites and lets you navigate. In Photos, it displays useful tools like crop and rotate.

The Touch Bar automatically adapts to the software you’re using, and you can customize it, so you choose which shortcuts you see inside your favorite apps. All of Apple’s apps already have Touch Bar support, including even Terminal!

While you’re typing, the Touch Bar displays Quick Type suggestions like on iPhone and iPad, emoji, and lets you quickly change things like font color. It also displays notifications and supports multitouch.

Alongside the Touch Bar is a Touch ID sensor, allowing you to unlock your MacBook Pro with your fingerprint for the first time. You can also register multiple fingerprints for different users, and quickly switch between accounts in a tap.

Touch ID can also be used to authorize Apple Pay payments on the web.

The new MacBook Pro has Apple’s best Mac display ever. It’s 67 percent brighter, has a 67 percent higher contrast ratio, and boasts 25 percent more colors than the last MacBook Pro. Despite all that, the display is even more efficient.

Every 15-inch MacBook Pro is powered by an Intel Core i7 processor with Radeon Pro graphics that feature 4GB of VRAM. They also have super-fast SSDs — they’re 50 percent faster than before — with up to 2TB of space.

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro is available with either Core i5 or Core i7 processors and Intel Iris Graphics 550.

All models have new speakers that are louder than before, with twice the dynamic range. They also offer four Thunderbolt 3 ports that use the USB-C style connector like the 12-inch MacBook, and any one of them can be used for charging.

Oh, there’s a headphone jack, too. Remember those?
 

The MacBook Pro “is the new gold standard in notebook computers,” said Apple’s Phil Schiller. It comes in silver and space grey (there’s no gold or rose gold), and it’s available to purchase today!

Prices start at $1,799 for the 13-inch model, and $2,399 for the 15-inch model. You can order yours now from Apple.com, with shipping in 2-3 weeks.

There’s also a new 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar (traditional function keys remain), Iris Graphics 540, and just two Thunderbolt 3 ports for $1,499. That starts shipping today, but who’s going to buy it?