Apple today refreshed the MacBook, switching to Intel’s six-generation “Skylake” processor architecture for slightly longer battery life.

The new MacBook is priced starting at $1,299, the same as the initial model introduced more than a year ago.

With a new graphics chipset — Intel’s HD Graphics 515 — the MacBook boasts a 25% improvement in graphics performance, Apple claimed. The 1.1-GHz Skylake processor’s lower-power demands should add an hour to the time between charge: Up to 10 hours of browsing, up to 11 hours of video playback. Apple also increased the speed of the flash memory that composed the 256GB SSD (solid-state drive) storage, from 1600MHz to 1886MHz.

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