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None of those are traditional Mac workstation workloads. No mention of rendering audio/video projects, for example. These are not the workloads Apple mentions when it wants to emphasize industry-leading power. (I mean, really, color grading?)

This MBP13 is a replacement for the previous MBP13; but the previous MBP13 was not a workstation either. It was a slightly-less-thermally-constrained thin-and-light. It existed almost entirely to be “the Air, but with cooling bolted on until it achieves the performance Intel originally promised us we could achieve in the Air’s thermal envelope.”

Note that, now that Apple are mostly free of that thermal constraint, the MBA and MBP13 are near-identical. Very likely the MBP13 is going away, and this release was just to satisfy corporate-leasing upgrade paths.