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The new MacBook Pro is faster and more powerful than before, yet remarkably thinner and lighter.¹ It has the brightest, most colorful display ever on a Mac notebook. And it features up to 10 hours of battery life.² It’s a notebook built for the work you do every day. Ready to go anywhere a great idea takes you.
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Let's get something out of the way real quick. I have probably owned somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 Macs since 1984. From an original Mac, to an LC, to just about every Mac in between. Now, there have been times when I have wanted to strangle Apple for some of the decisions they made. See removing the floppy disk, CD Drive, etc for reference. They have done it again. I bought a 2015 MacBook last year and had it exactly two days before I wanted to throw it out a window. One port. Just one, and USB-C at that. This has four Thunderbolt 3 ports, but the frustration is still there. If you buy this know upfront it will be adapters on top of adapters. Also know they aren't cheap. At the time of writing this, Apple has slashed the prices on some of them nearly 50%, but they will go back up after the backlash quiets down.
Pros
The keyboard is MUCH better on this model than the original 2015 MacBook. I actually type faster on it than on the Mid 2015 15" MacBook that I returned so that I could get this one.
The keyboard is MUCH better on this model than the original 2015 MacBook. I actually type faster on it than on the Mid 2015 15" MacBook that I returned so that I could get this one.
The TouchBar. I thought that it would be a gimmick, but it is actually useful. It takes a bit of getting used to as when you use it it makes your mind think that touch is suddenly available on the entire MacBook. It isn't. I keep reaching for the screen after touching the TouchBar.
The TrackPad. Here they have nailed it. The palm rejection is flawless and it is nice to have a larger trackpad when executing gestures.
4 Thunderbolt 3 ports. 40GBs per second. Come on that is just sick.
The screen is so much brighter and has so much better color depth and contrast than the 2015 model. Brighter as in over 500 nits of brightness. Like it will blind you at night in a dark room.
The speakers are the best I have ever hear on a laptop other than the Alienware 18. There is no distortion and they really will fill a room.
The size is SUPER small. It doesn't feel much bigger than the 12" and weights what a 13" MacBook Air did, but yet it is smaller.
Hard drive speed is amazing. 1700MBS write and over 2000 reads. That is just sick. SICK!
Cons
Processor is only dual core. Ram is only 8GB. Only has 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports (No SD card slot WTH!). The TouchBar won't be mind blowing until 3rd party developers get to it and until there is a best practices that works well. No dedicated graphics. I mean this is supposed to be a pro machine. The price. It is hard to pay $1799 for a computer that has a Core i5, 8GB of Ram and a 256GB Hard drive. That is just tough. A PC will give you much more bang for the buck, but you will be using a PC. The death of MagSafe. That was one of the best inventions that Apple ever put on a laptop. It is sad to see it go. Last con is the battery life. Apple made the battery smaller and thus the battery life is a bit shy of last years.
Processor is only dual core. Ram is only 8GB. Only has 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports (No SD card slot WTH!). The TouchBar won't be mind blowing until 3rd party developers get to it and until there is a best practices that works well. No dedicated graphics. I mean this is supposed to be a pro machine. The price. It is hard to pay $1799 for a computer that has a Core i5, 8GB of Ram and a 256GB Hard drive. That is just tough. A PC will give you much more bang for the buck, but you will be using a PC. The death of MagSafe. That was one of the best inventions that Apple ever put on a laptop. It is sad to see it go. Last con is the battery life. Apple made the battery smaller and thus the battery life is a bit shy of last years.
It sounds like I don't like it, but that isn't the case. This is a great little laptop with the best build quality of any laptop on the market. The only PC that can come close is the Razer Blade and Blade Stealth. Those have amazing build quality. Now this is a great buy, it is going to last you many years, and has plenty of power even if the specs seem lacking. Apple controls the OS and the hardware and streamlines it so well that it will actually out perform other systems, albeit if you use Apple software like Final Cut Pro instead of Premier. It is super portable, and is a joy to use. Just know that you are going to have to have adapters to get work done. I would give it a 4.5 if I could but that isn't an option.
My Best Buy number: 3787026171
I would recommend this to a friend!
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