pcper.com Updated:
2017-05-28 01:48:20
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I'm sure that a lot of our readers, even if they aren't Mac users, are familiar with some of the major changes the Apple made with this new MacBook Pro. One of the biggest changes comes when you take a look at the available connectivity on the machine. Go...
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Three months into using the new MacBook Pro, here's the good, the bad, and the conclusion!Rene Ritchie has been covering Apple and the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editorial director for Mobile Nations, analyst for iMore, video and po...
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The 2016 MacBook Pro is scandalous. Relative to its predecessor, it's missing ports, short on battery life, skimpy in the keyboard department, and more expensive.Following reports of battery issues, Apple ultimately chose to remove its estimate of how lon...
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We put the MacBook Pro against the last release in both FInal Cut Pro 10.3 and Premiere Pro CC 2017, Who will win? Watch to find out. Every year or so, Apple releases a new product and the world drools. A coveted brand, with a coveted price and a history...
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Good news: Apple finally revamped the MacBook Pro, after sticking with the same design for more than four years. The bad news: It's not quite the notebook we at Engadget had been waiting for. Though the refreshed MBP ushers in a series of improvements --...
Attractive and well-built, Thinner and lighter, Retina screen is brighter and more colorful than ever, Impressive audio quality, Fast performance, especially the disk speeds, Touch ID is a useful addition, Spacious trackpad...
Expensive with the Touch Bar, Easy to accidentally hit the Touch Bar instead of the Delete key, No memory card slot, The only ports are USB-C ports, Rated battery life is shorter this year, No more MagSafe...
The entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro has the typical Function row instead of the new Touch Bar, but depending on your preferences, that could be a good thing. The lower price also means you get half as many ports as the higher-end models -- just two US...
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Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar embraces the future, delivering it in a super light, portable, attractive and expensive package. But are users ready to embrace that future? And does the 13-inch model have enough horsepower and connectivity...
The first MacBook Pro with Retina display debuted in October of 2012. Its starting price was $1,699— $100 cheaper than this latest-generation model with Touch Bar and USB-C. We can't help but feel that the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar would hav...
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Live Review // The better 13-inch Pro? The MacBook Pro 13 Touch Bar is Apple's new 13-inch flagship model. Besides the obvious OLED display above the keyboard, however, there are more differences compared to the entry-level model with function keys. Is it...
excellent chassis and build quality, huge trackpad with great precision, quiet and good cooling, high WLAN transfer speeds, very good display with perfect scaling, good speakers, good battery runtimes, steady performance, also on battery, 4x Thunderbolt...
but reduced bandwidth for the ports on the right side, neither USB-A nor HDMI-out, 2.4 GHz WLAN issues with attached USB-C device, poor webcam, very expensive – especially the upgrades...
The two models of the new Apple MacBook Pro 13 are – as expected – similar in many respects. This includes the excellent chassis, which is still extremely sturdy despite the diet. You also get one of the best and brightest displays on the market, independ...
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Don't forget to VOTE! Each week, PhoneDog Fans vote for their #1 smartphone in the Official Smartphone Rankings. Vote now and contribute to the industry's most relevant weekly ranking charts.View the discussion thread.Select the amount of total data you n...
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If you have a new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, don’t think that putting your ears closer to the speaker grilles will make it sound louder. A recent teardown revealed that the grilles are just for show.According to a teardown of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar...
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My MacBook Pro is on its last legs. The anti-glare laminate began bubbling up some time ago, spreading across the screen like an untreatable rash, fogging up the webcam in the process. The hinge is loose, so the screen shakes when someone walks by. The li...
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The new design of the MacBook Pros is nice, and Apple's decision to put in nothing but Thunderbolt 3 ports has prompted a fresh wave of dongle talk, but the signature feature of the new MacBook Pros was always going to be the Touch Bar.This little touch-e...
Nice new designs that are thinner and lighter than their predecessors, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports each, two on each side—this is super convenient for charging, especially, Low-travel keyboard still isn't for everyone, but it's a marked improvement over the...
13-inch Touch Bar model doesn't have the same battery life as the non-Touch Bar model, Extremely limited repairability and upgradeability, Intel's CPU speed increases in the last few years have been discouraging, Need for dongles will be inconvenient, esp...
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Logging into your computer with your fingerprint isnt new, but it still makes me a little giddy when the MacBook Pros Touch Bar appears, glowing brighter than the backlit keyboard. I follow the Touch Bars direction, and like magic Im into laptop. Its...
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The mid-level 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro ($1,799) gives you better connectivity and a faster 2.9GHz Core i5 processor than you get from the $1,499 base model. But the big draw here is Apple's new Touch Bar with Touch ID, which gives you an adaptable row of...
Useful, versatile Touch Bar, Compact and sturdy chassis, Four USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, Display supports DCI-P3 color spectrum...
Shallow key travel, No USB 3,0 ports, Requires adapters for legacy peripherals...
The sleek new Touch Bar adds some genuine innovation to the well-designed and powerful 13-inch MacBook Pro, but as with all new Apple laptops, you'll need to carry lots of adapters or buy all-new peripherals...
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When you show someone Apple's new 13-in MacBook Pro -- the one with the virtual Touch Bar -- the first thing they'll want to do is play with the darn thing. They'll adjust the screen brightness or turn up the volume. Launch some apps to see the virtual bu...
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In the long history of Apple MacBooks, there is finally a touchscreen. That fact may or may not sit well with the ghost of Steve Jobs, Apple's founder and late CEO who once said it's “ergonomically terrible” to touch a laptop screen.The redesigned 13-inch...
Gorgeous design, Lighter, thinner, smaller than last MacBook Pro, Touch Bar will win you over, Another great showcase for macOS, Excellent Butterfly keyboard...
This is a pricey 13-inch device, Information on Touch Bar too easy to miss...
Apple 13-in MacBook ProThe GoodGorgeous design • Lighter, thinner, smaller than last MacBook Pro • Touch Bar will win you over • Another great showcase for macOS • Excellent Butterfly keyboardThe BadThis is a pricey 13-inch device • Information on Touch B...
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The new MacBook Pro comes in three flavors: two 13-inch models and a 15-incher. They all have thinner bodies, better screens, and trackpads so big they blot out the sun. And you can buy it in space gray. But the important addition is the Touch Bar. This c...
Thinner, lighter, prettier. There's no such thing as a toobig trackpad. The Touch Bar is remarkably wellexecuted. The ability to charge from any port is pretty great...
The world is not quite ready for USBC, and you're not either. The Touch Bar needs more customization, and soon. Laptops aren't supposed to be this expensive, are they?...
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wsj.com
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2017-05-28 01:49:17
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What's the best 13-inch Apple laptop? WSJ's Joanna Stern compares the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, the old MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air during a jam-packed day. Photo/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal...
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Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro sans Touch Bar and Touch ID is in many ways an evolutionary update, offering would-be buyers a lightweight, relatively powerful portable rig with a beautiful Retina display and solid keyboard and trackpad. But is a major re...
Overall, the 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar is an achievement in industrial design that fulfills Apple's commitment to usability and user experience. It is a happy middle ground between the thin-and-light 12-inch MacBook (MacBook Air is going away...
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In this week's top stories: Early MacBook Pro reviews roll in as Apple starts shipping the device to customers, a possible AirPods release date emerges, iOS 10.2 beta 2, iPhone 8 rumors, and much more.We kick things off this week with some early reviews o...
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Part mesmerizing, part helpful and part distracting. I have mixed emotions about the new Touch Bar on the 13-inch MacBook Pro, which Apple calls revolutionary. A narrow strip above the keyboard, this interactive display lets you do everything from togglin...
Excellent overall performance, Brilliant display, Powerful speakers, Superfast SSD...
Expensive, No USB Type-A ports...
The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar offers a fresh way to interact with apps, as well as more ports and speed than the base model, but the experience doesn't yet justify the premium...
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bgr.com
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2017-05-28 01:49:21
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In a curious turn of events, the French news site 01NetTV managed to get its hands on a MacBook Pro review unit, complete with Apple's newfangled Touch Bar. Typically, Apple doles out review units to select publications with embargoes that expire at the s...
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The wait for overhauled MacBook Pros is over, so let the shakeup begin. This entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2GHz Core i5 and function keys is a great replacement for my 13-inch MacBook Air. Whether it's powerful enough for MacBook Pro power users...
Great battery life, First P3 color gamut Retina display in a Mac laptop...
Keyboard is a step backward from old MacBook Pro keyboards, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports instead of four, Limited to 16GB RAM maximum, and graphics aren't upgradeable...
Which should you buy? As solid as this entry-level MacBook Pro is compared to the aging MacBook Air I use day-in and day-out, pro users seeking a real MacBook Pro replacement will probably compare this model's specs and price against the Touch Bar ve...
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The wait for overhauled MacBook Pros is over, so let the shakeup begin. This entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2GHz Core i5 and function keys is a great replacement for my 13-inch MacBook Air. Whether it's powerful enough for MacBook Pro power users...
Great battery life, First P3 color gamut Retina display in a Mac laptop...
Keyboard is a step backward from old MacBook Pro keyboards, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports instead of four, Limited to 16GB RAM maximum, and graphics aren't upgradeable...
Which should you buy? As solid as this entry-level MacBook Pro is compared to the aging MacBook Air I use day-in and day-out, pro users seeking a real MacBook Pro replacement will probably compare this model's specs and price against the Touch Bar ve...
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Earlier this year, Phil Schiller stepped onto a stage on Apple's campus and threw some sick burns at the PC industry. “As we all know,” he told the crowd, “Windows PCs were originally conceived of before there was an Internet. Before there was social medi...
So light, and so thin. Never buy a laptop without a screen this good. The battery is actually allday this time. There's almost certainly enough power here for you...
It is so, so very expensive. The transition from many ports to one is scary. No one's going to look good in this webcam...
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computershopper.com Updated:
2017-05-28 01:49:23
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While Apple has been busy trotting out the Apple iPhone 7 and a new Apple Watch in recent months, the company hadn't done a whole lot with its laptop lineup (apart from the super-thin Apple MacBook , refreshed earlier this year) in quite some time. And th...
Superb screen, Thinner and lighter than previous MacBook Pro models, Excellent touch pad is now bigger...
Pricey, given the components, Only two ports, requiring added-cost adapters for most users, Shorter battery life than previous-gen model, Last-generation CPU means some similarly slim Windows machines perform better, last longer...
The entry-level version of Apple's 2016 MacBook Pro line is impressively slim and solid. But the battery life, keyboard, and (overly) future-looking ports are tricky trade-offs for a bigger touch pad and a brighter, more colorful Retina display. Read Mor...
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You can't fault longtime die-hard Mac users for being a little frustrated with Apple. In the space of just a decade, they've watched their favorite platform go from being the center of the company's attention to a minor line item . The iPhone gets refresh...
Rock-solid design that looks and feels great, Thunderbolt 3 is a tremendously versatile port, and Apple will benefit from increased adoption in the wider PC industry, Low-travel keyboard still isn't for everyone, but it's a marked improvement over the fir...
Limited number of ports, limited port selection, and need for dongles will be inconvenient, especially at first, Extremely limited repairability and upgradeability, Intel's CPU speed increases in the last few years have been discouraging, Occasional probl...
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Live-Review // Brilliant, even without Touch? The new MacBook Pro laptops have arrived. The most striking new feature: a Touch Bar instead of function keys. Apple still offers a model without this novelty, and wants to target the "entry-level sector" – pr...
excellent chassis and build quality, huge trackpad – still best in class, silent without high workloads, very good speakers, fast WLAN, very good display with perfect scaling (typical for macOS)...
connectivity issues with 2.4 GHz WLAN and USB-C devices, clattering fan on our test model, only 3 ports, very expensive – especially the upgrades, poor webcam...
Before we can get our hands on Apple's highly praised Touch Bar, we can review the entry-level model of the new MacBook Pro 13, which is already available. It is also supposed to replace the less expensive Air models in the medium-term if you ask Apple. A...
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The latest 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro ($1,499) is the least expensive model in Apple's high-end laptop line. The redesigned ultraportable resembles the 12-inch MacBook, and features a 6th Generation Intel Core i5 processor with Intel Iris graphics and a Re...
Almost 12 hours of battery life, Compact and sturdy chassis, Two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, Display supports DCI-P3 color spectrum...
Shallow key travel, No USB 3,0 (Type-A) ports, Requires adapters for legacy peripherals...
The redesigned Apple MacBook Pro laptop is undeniably slim and sleek, with a better screen and improved performance over its predecessor. But because of its sole reliance on USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, you'll have to either update all of your old periphe...
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There's one 2016 MacBook Pro feature you're going to hear a lot about for the foreseeable future: the Touch Bar, an iPhone-like touchscreen strip that replaces the Fn keys, living just north of the keyboard. But if you don't want to fork over US$1,800 or...
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Apple's entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro would be considered an exciting, if not innovative, laptop, if it wasn't for the fact that Apple already teased us with the Touch Bar-sporting version.Instead, the $1,499 MacBook Pro comes across as a strong, sexy u...
Excellent design, Great keyboard and trackpad, Lighter and thinner than ever, Beautiful Retina screen, Solid performance, Excellent battery life...
No legacy ports, No signature innovation, You're still paying an Apple premium...
Entry-level 13-inch MacBook ProThe GoodExcellent design • Great keyboard and trackpad • Lighter and thinner than ever • Beautiful Retina screen • Solid performance • Excellent battery lifeThe BadNo legacy ports • No signature innovation • You're still pay...
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The entry-level, 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn't have the buzz-worthy Touch Bar everyone is talking about, but that doesn't mean this isn't a formidable laptop. For $1,499, you get a brighter and more colorful screen than the previous 13-inch MacBook Pro, a b...
Compact design, Very bright and colorful display, Improved butterfly keyboard, Excellent battery life, Impressive stereo speakers...
Not as fast as 7th-gen Intel-powered laptops, No SD card slot...
The new MacBook Pro is an excellent ultraportable with a brighter display, more compact design, and superb battery life, but it's not the fastest...
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Twelve hours with Apple's new MacBook Pro.For the last twelve hours, give or take, I've been working on the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. No, not the one with the fancy Touch Bar instead of function keys — that'll come in a week or two — but the superlegere ve...
An incredibly portable pro laptop, Blisteringly fast storage, The latest ports, Touch Bar and Touch ID, Strong, sleek unibody design...
High end graphics, Large amounts of RAM, Legacy ports, Touch screen, Low, low pricing...
Apple has been making computers into appliances for years now. It started with the iMac and, more recently, the MacBook Air and iPad. Step by step, Apple has sealed up everything from the minis to the pros and, in so doing, made them better for the mainst...
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The new MacBook Pro , available in 13- and 15-inch versions, looks like Apple's 12-inch MacBook. It borrows the extra-springy keyboard and the reflective Apple logo on the back. And it's slimmer and lighter like the MacBook. But as you would expect, the P...
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Apple claims 10 hours of battery life, and unlike most PC manufacturers, their claims are generally accurate if not conservative. In a mix of productivity work, photo editing using Adobe Photoshop CC and streaming video with brightness set to 150 nits and...
Fantastic build and good looks. Superb display, OS X Sierra is a fine OS...
Expensive- what a price hike! More for good looks than Pro work: oddball butterfly low travel keyboard, no legacy ports except headphone jack...
I've been a Mac user since the late 1980's when they were tall beige boxes with floppy drives. Apple has had their ups and downs, but I've stuck with them because their OS is solid, their build and materials excellent, the hardware and features often abov...
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After less than a year on the market, the 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar has been upgraded with Intel's Kaby Lake processor —and a lower price. Are the changes (and downgrade, in one notable case) to get the price down enough to get you to buy...
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Apple gave its new MacBook Pro a thinner, sleeker case, which demanded a new, lower-travel keyboard, a new venting system, and even a smaller battery. But while I appreciate a Mac that's smaller and lighter, I'd rather have a Mac that's easier or just mor...
These new MacBook Pros have a lot going for them. Their biggest weakness, across the whole Touch Bar line, is price. The 13-inch model I tested is $1799 without any upgrades, and the 15-inch is $2399. Going to 512GB of storage is $200 extra, and 1TB i...
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Posted November 4th, 2016 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientistHow does the 'slowest' 2016 MacBook Pro compare to the 'fastest' 2016 MacBook? And how do both compare to the 2016 Razer Blade Stealth (Windows 10) and 12.9 inch iPad Pro?GRAPH LEGEND13" MacBook Pr...
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Posted September 11th, 2018 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientistOn the eve of Apple's rollout of the 2018 iPad Pro (3rd Generation), I thought it would be a good time to revisit how the 2017 iPad Pro (2nd Generation) compares to the top 2018 13-inch MacBook...
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