#Apple new macbook pro 2016 review pro
I recommend that your read the excellent reporting at if you own a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. There are several promising utilities and hack for Touch Bar (including Rocket and Touch Switcher) and I look forward to see what developers dream up next. You can customize the Touch Bar to your needs in System Preferences > Keyboard > Touch Bar Shows. After I did that a couple of times, I switched the Touch Bar back to ‘Expanded Control Strip,’ which helped a bit. I’d be typing away, accidentally touch the Touch Bar, and I’d be switched into another app – or worse – I’d accidentally touch it and auto-complete some random word, insert random text or even send a half-written email or text message. Not visually, but in the form of the random context switches that occur when my fingers overreach the top row of keys. Touch Bar is moderately useful with the Photos app and in Safari, but I don’t use Safari because it doesn’t support favicons in tabs and favorites.Īfter the novelty wore off, the Touch Bar became more of a distraction for me. I don’t do much editing in iMovie or Final Cut Pro, so no fancy timeline scrubbing for me. I love swiping through emojis (the best demo) but that only works in Messages. Much has been made about the Touch Bar and I admit to be seduced by early demos and the slick “ design film.” Adaptable keyboard shortcuts that are contextually aware to your current app? Yes please! In practice the Touch Bar is much less useful than I thought. I’m ok with it because I’ve been training on the new keyboard for 18 months. Keep in mind that there is a learning curve to the new keyboard. Keyboards are super-subjective and you need to type on it in person, for a while. But it could also be that the 2016 MBP on display in the Apple Store was brand new and just out of the box and the MB12 might have been on the display table for months. Switching back and forth, the new keyboard feels slightly firmer with a little more “click” (to my fingers, anyway). I’ve heard people say that the new “second generation” flat keyboard is better than the keyboard in the MP12 but it’s only marginally better. Is the MBP 2016 keyboard “better” than the keyboard in the MP12? That’s debatable. I generally like Apple’s 2015, flat-style keyboard and I can type on it at my highest typing speed and accuracy.
I like my keyboards to be the same, so I also bought new Magic Keyboards for my work and home desk setups, so my keyboard is the same when I bounce between computers. I’m not saying that I love the new thin keyboard or anything, but I adapt quickly and I’m now used to it. I’ve been using Apple’s new flat-style, low-travel keyboard since the MacBook 12-inch debuted in April 2015, so I’m used to it. I bounced back and forth between both of them for a while. There was a MB12 right next to it, so I opened Notes on it and typed away. While you’re there, type on all of them.įor my test I went into the Apple Store (in Palo Alto, CA), found the new MBP (non-Touch Bar model), and I typed into the Notes app for about 20 minutes. Before buying the new MacBook Pro: go into an Apple Store, find a 2016 MacBook Pro, open the Notes app, and type into it for a while. The switch from the previous MBP keyboard to the new keyboard is dramatic. I type for a living and I type a lot for pleasure too, so keyboards are important to me. I’m looking for a MacBook with a better screen to replace my MacBook Air 13-inch.
#Apple new macbook pro 2016 review mac
While not quite my “weekend/vacation” laptop (the minimalist MacBook 12-inch would be better there), my MBP13 isn’t my workhorse/power user Mac either (I need discrete graphics for that), so it’s somewhere in between. I prefer the 13-inch model over the 15-inch because I commute by bicycle and the 13-inch weighs a pound less: I also use it on the couch, in my recliner, at the kitchen table, coffee shop, shuttle bus, airplane, train, and Uber. I have a large monitor/keyboard/mouse setup (when I need it) at home and work, so I don’t need the largest screen possible on my laptop. My 13-inch MBP is primarily for use on my lap. Laptops, like mobile phones, are extremely personal devices. I ordered mine (MBP 13.3 Space Gray, 256GB, S3136LL/A) on Octoand it arrived on November 18, 2016. Like most Mac users on the planet, I eagerly awaited Apple’s 2016 MacBook Pro refresh – 500 days in the making. I chose the 13-inch MacBook Pro (over the larger, 15-inch) to replace an aging MacBook Air 13-inch in my fleet. I’m a textbook early adopter and have always purchased new Macs (especially notebooks) day and date when they come out. I can’t think of the last time I returned a new Mac.
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