the new MacBook pro review
With the MacBook Pro 15”, Apple did exactly what you may expect from them- they went thinner, lighter, more powerful, more secure, and added additional physical UI features. Ironically, this sounds exactly like what they do with an iPhone refresh. Before launch, as I was formulating what Apple would do with the new MacBook Pro 15”, I had figured they would reset the industry once again by being super-aggressive and taking a bunch of risks. After having used the new MacBook Pro for a few days I believe Apple moved the industry forward on design center but didn’t shut the door on the competition like they did with the first MacBook Air.
Design
the MacBook Pro 15 is made of aluminum and it looks and feels premium because of the good material. You will be proud to show this off at the coffee shop or the boardroom as executive jewelry. For a 15” notebook with discrete graphics and high-end, 35-watt processor, with very long battery life, it is very thin at 15.5 mm, very narrow at 34.93 cm and light at 4 lbs. It’s the thinnest and narrowest 15” performance laptop I’m aware of.
Retina Display
Apple improved brightness, contrast, and added “wide color” on the new MacBook Pro and the company says it is 30 percent more power efficient than the previous generation using TFT-oxide technology. It isn’t an OLED display, but then again, I don’t think it has to be as long as it hits the right brightness and clarity characteristics at the right power draw. The Retina Display displays content at 2,880 x 1,800 for 5M pixels at 220 PPI. Having a 4K, 3,840 x 2,160, 8M pixel display seems like something professionals would want, but it does drains a lot of battery. I believe the rationale is that if they are photo professionals, they will have an external, 4K or 5K display.
Keyboard and Trackpad
Apple shanged the physical user interface. They updated the same keyboard technology Apple pioneered with the 12” MacBook and I like it a lot. Some have said the keys don’t go down far enough but I disagree and I feel a sense of improved accuracy with this keyboard....(my opinion).
Apple also pulled over the Force Touch trackpad from the 12” MacBook.widened the trackpad to where it’s absolutely gigantic now, and added the sensation that you are actually clicking on something. This is enabled by Apple’s Taptic Engine. It’s so realistic that you really can’t believe you aren’t clicking on something. Apple also added a third dimension, depth, to the MacBook’s trackpad. This does take some practice as it’s not something we normally do, but after using the 12” MacBook, I quickly got the hang of it. What I really liked was that when you pressed harder, you got a second haptic “click” indicating that you were doing it right.
Touch Bar and Touch ID
The new Touch bar was the biggest new thing Apple brought to the table with the new MacBook. Any time Apple brings something new to the UI table, it’s only after huge deliberation, debate and testing. I mean this is the company that first popularized the mouse and trackpad and brought high quality, capacitive touch with the iPhone. The industry was looking hard for the “what’s next” after the Windows world went touch displays, which added huge scrutiny to any decision Apple made.
The Touch Bar is a display strip with multi-touch capabilities that replaces the function row keys. Its dynamic, customizable and changes based on the context of what the user is trying to do. The Touch Bar capability is integrated all through macOS and in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Final Cut Pro X, and even Office 365 in the future. APIs are available for developers to add Touch Bar functions to their apps and I am expecting many of them.....(it will get better with time)
Apple also integrated a Touch ID sensor to login and buy things with. I have thoroughly enjoyed Touch ID on the iPhone and iPad and it’s really about time they brought it to the MacBook.
Speakers
The speakers are amazingly loud and when you factor in the small chassis, there is some art going on here. I didn’t expect this at all. There are separate stereo tweeters to the left and right of the keyboard for highs and subwoofers on the bottom for lows. You can see the holes on the bottom where the sub comes from.
Performance features
Performance-wise, my MacBook Pro 15” starts with a Skylake-based, Intel Core i7-6820HQ processor operating at 2.7 Ghz. with 8MB cache and a max Turbo of 3.6 GHz. You can go up one more bin to a heaftier 2.9 Ghz. That’s some pretty heavy iron, and while I would have preferred to use Intel’s latest Kaby Lake platform as it added some very important 4K transcoding capabilities, but the higher-end models for a MacBook Pro are just not available.Apple used industrial-strength discrete graphics, the AMD Radeon Pro 455 from Advanced Micro Devices, which works alongside the Intel HD 530 graphics chip integrated into the Core i7 processor. These aren’t workstation-level graphics, but a nice, mid-range discrete graphics solution. You’ll only likely need more graphics performance if you want to play the highest-end games at the highest resolution and settings on an external display or are into heavy-duty 3D renderings.
Battery Life
Apple is the most accurate and detailed manufacturer when it comes to battery life and I can typically take their claims to the bank. Apple isn’t as detailed with battery life claims on MacBooks as they are with iPhones and iPads, but still really good. I did not run sophisticated battery life tests primarily because when something lasts 8-10 hours, you only have so much time over a weekend.
Apple says you will get up to 10 hours of web over Wi-Fi or up to 10 hours watching a movie from iTunes. Again, I didn’t do detailed tests, but I did get 8 hours on the web at 75% brightness. This is really, really good, and when you consider how small they made the new MacBook, it is a real feat. This is also where the new, low-power display comes into use as well as having ownership of the operating systems and drivers.
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The new macbook is a big improve from the past year but i dont think that you should upgrade it if you have the past year edition.
Apple is the most accurate and detailed manufacturer when it comes to battery life and I can typically take their claims to the bank. Apple isn’t as detailed with battery life claims on MacBooks as they are with iPhones and iPads, but still really good. I did not run sophisticated battery life tests primarily because when something lasts 8-10 hours, you only have so much time over a weekend.
Apple says you will get up to 10 hours of web over Wi-Fi or up to 10 hours watching a movie from iTunes. Again, I didn’t do detailed tests, but I did get 8 hours on the web at 75% brightness. This is really, really good, and when you consider how small they made the new MacBook, it is a real feat. This is also where the new, low-power display comes into use as well as having ownership of the operating systems and drivers.
AT LAST...
The new macbook is a big improve from the past year but i dont think that you should upgrade it if you have the past year edition.
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