Apple announced the new line of MacBook Pro laptops in a press conference on October 27th. A number of new innovations have been introduced in the 2016 MacBook Pro, but these changes might surprise a lot of users, avid Mac fans or not.

One of the biggest changes of the MacBook Pro is its thickness: it is now 12 percent thinner and 0.5 pounds lighter than its older brother, the MacBook Pro with Retina display. Despite being thinner, the aluminum unibody construction still looks and feels solid. The 13-inch, 2560x1600 screen now has 25 percent more colors, 67 percent brighter, and 67 percent higher in contrast ratio than the previous generation MacBook, according to Forbes.

The 2016 MacBook Pro that went on sale on October 28 is almost the same with the previous generation in terms of functionality, but the other models of the 2016 MacBook Pro, which will be released at a later time, will have two new features: the debut of the Touch Bar, a multi-touch OLED strip on the top of the keyboard.

The Touch Bar is essentially an interactive replacement for the function keys, as some parts of it changes dynamically as you change apps, Ars Technica says. The Touch Bar may result with some confusion for people, especially pros, who are used with using the function keys as part of their workflow.

Alongside of the Touch Bar is the Touch ID, which is a fingerprint sensor that does exactly the same thing as the Touch ID in iOS: it registers your fingerprints and integrates it with your System Preferences, App Store and Apple Pay purchases, and system locking/unlocking. It supports a maximum of 5 fingerprints, which can be used to log in up to 3 different users.

The keyboard has gone to a minor change: a reduced travel time. Some may have a hard time adjusting to the new keyboard, but it has been a significant improvement over the first-generation keyboard in the older MacBook. The charger has gone into significant changes as well: say goodbye to our beloved Magsafe connector, as USB Type-C Chargers will provide wall power to the new MacBook.

Another noteworthy change in the MacBook Pro is the removal of the standard USB connectors to make way for the Thunderbolt 3 ports. The 13-inch, non-Touch Bar model has two Thunderbolt 3 ports; the 13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar model has four of them.

With this change, there have been several complaints already with the need of daisy-chaining adapters and purchasing those adapters for those ports, so Apple is offering price cuts on their adapters to make compatibility with legacy connectors easier. The company is offering up to 50% off their list price, The Verge reports.

Among these things are improved GPU performance for 4k and 5k resolutions, dual-core Intel Core i5 Processor with quad-core i5 and i7 variants in the near future, 8 to 16 GB of RAM (which is unfortunately, not upgradeable to 32GB), 256 to 2TB onboard SSD, and an impressive 10-hour battery life for light to moderate usage. It also comes with macOS 10.12 Sierra out of the box.

At $1,499, the 2016 non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro is $200 more expensive than the previous generation. While the upcoming 13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar models have no prices yet, it is unfortunate to say that with this price, the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro lacking features present in the Touch Bar models is quite frustrating.