2016 Macbook Pro 15" first impressions

Nice, thanks!

 

Thank you for the review, have a lot of fun with it.

Did you benchmark the SSD ?

 

-Full specs 2.9Ghz/2TB SSD/16GB ram/Radeon 460 dGPU

Holy BLING Jebus!

 

Thank you for posting your Day 1 observations! I am currently using a mid-2012 MBP, so I enjoyed reading your thoughts since you came from the same model machine. Do you feel like you see a significant performance increase compared to your 2012 MBP?

Much appreciated!
Bryan

 

Ordered the same thing but mine doesn't arrive until thursday :-(

 

WOW! Not bad at all.

 

I don't think you'll miss once you get used to it. Do I miss those clunky keyboards from the 90's? Hell no. Did the people from the 90's miss the typewriters? I don't think so. You should come back to this thread in a few weeks to tell us your updated impressions

They do already, and lo and behold, it sticks out like a mf. I had the link somewhere, if you're interested. MagSafe will be missed, no doubt about that...

 

Got a similar setup (2.9GHz/1TB/460M) and came from a similar 2012 (2.7GHz/16GB/768GB) and was pleasantly surprised at the performance increase (considering how much people booed this release). First, the machine is deafly quiet. Just so eerie. Second, the battery life is amazing (again, my 2012 is over 4yo now, so going back up to 10 hours is awesome). TouchBar is great. It adds features that we simply didn't have before. For example, I can keep my hands on the keyboard, change the text color to red without touching the trackpad.

I can right justify,

1. Or return to left justify, and add numbered points​

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• or bullet​

All without moving my hand away from the keyboard.

And obviously, I can add emojis​

 

It's the worst keyboard Apple has ever released. And I've been using Macs since the Mac Plus (although the Mac Plus keyboard is probably runner up). I think I'm going to return the MBP tomorrow. It's that bad.

 

To each his own, lots of people love the new keyboard too. I've tried it myself, sure it takes some getting used to, but I don't deny that there would be some people who would like it. I know I can type faster on that, but it does get slightly louder.

 

I just don't get the hate for the thinner keyboards. Besides the fact its loud when typing i don't see the issue with it. Then again i don't type for hours on end so it may affect other differently.

 

If that is the only thing you don't like, it seems like an over-reaction on your part. Once you use it for awhile, you will grow into it.

 

Overreaction? The lack of key travel makes it literally painful to use with extended typing. It is not ergonomic and will probably cause RSI issues if I continue to use it. Sure, I can use an external keyboard, but that's not the point.

 

You're right, should not be the point to using alternatives with a $3k macbook pro. I think it's just a matter of your opinion and he feels it isn't that big an issue. You may think it's that big an issue to return it, if so, you should really return it! Apple did lose a customer then, because of its new keyboard design, but surely a another 99.9% of the users are going to get used to it and like the new keyboard.

 

Thx for review.
A question: what gaming/video editing have you tried?
Do you think that 450 can be good for both tasks?

 

so is your 15" MBP reaching 10 hours when you do little/low things?
" It seems on par with previous Macbook Pros" and thats a step back since the 2012 has 7 hours for web surfing for example. So a difference of 3 full hours...it is a big thing. Maybe after your mac indexing etc you can test that, just with it at 100% surf the web for 3-4-5 min

 

I'm sure that's what Apple is hoping, but I'm not sure. All I know is that I don't think shaving off a few more millimeters was worth it. I think the loudness is equally problematic. I'm not sure you could type in a quiet coffee shop or open office without annoying people around you. Even the sound of the keys is not very pleasing. The old keyboards had this muted, pleasing thump to them. These keys have this sharp plasticky sound. There's something un-Apple about the overall industrial design of it.

 

Strange, I believe your read score should be around 50% higher? Ars got almost 3GB/s. Maybe the 2TB SSD is slower in that aspect.

 

Think he was using the BlackMagic Speed Test which seems to max out at 2GB/s.

 

How is the keyboard clearance from the screen? Do the keys leave marks on it?

 

Wait, are you saying this keyboard is louder than previous ones???

 

Yep, pretty much. It seems to hit the base with a much louder tick sound rather than the muffled sound on the old ones.