The problem for me is that the 16-inch Pro is now considerably heavier than the 15-inch Pro with TouchBar and about the same weight as the 15-inch Pro released in 2012.
It's not that the previous 16" or the Retina 15" Macbooks had ever been "too heavy" - seriously, 2kg for such a powerful and versatile machine is unmatched. The (crappy) 15" models with touchbar were simply too light. For just 200g less you had to make serious compromises on the keyboard, thermals, ports and reliability (flexgate). I rather carry +10% but have the ultimate portable machine. The same goes for the 14" by the way (heavier than the touchbar 13" models, but same weight as the 2013-2015 models)
Bigger, heavier, uglier, old ports. Feels like 2015. I miss jony ive. ?
They should’ve kept 2019 design and only added magsafe, and removed the touch bar.
Dunno if just trolling, but thank goodness, we have function over design finally prevailing again.
Say what you want, but all they really did was square off the body to make room for ports and get rid of the taper.
Indeed, and actually the ports aren't even at fault, the primary benefits are generous batteries, even better speakers and an improved cooling system. That old tapered design might have looked a bit more sleek, but didn't provide any actual for the pro users.
But people whined and now we have an out of date HDMI 2.0 port and an SD card slot that most will never use. I would have rather had a 4th universal TB4 port
Arrogance at its best ?. Just because YOU don't need them doesn't mean the wide
majority plus pretty much every reviewer is more than happy about the return of
legacy useful ports. The SoC limits the maximum amount of total bandwidth, that's the only reason why the HDMI port is "just" 2.0 - which is still more than sufficient for its purpose - having the convenience to directly plug your Macbook into a TV, projector or monitor without any stupid dongle (most of them having reliability issues btw). It take this and the UHS-II SDXC slot, which is super helpful not only for many photographers but even more music/producing/DJ enthusiasts, over a useless and redundant 4th TB port anytime. One of those ports was occupied for charging anyway, so unless you charge via your home monitor, you can simply use Magsafe now - no port lost.
Sure, for (some) people who did the mistake and bought a 2016-2019 model together with several dongles, those returned ports might feel 'useless'. But imagine, there are
plenty of people including me that still own 2010-2015 Macbooks, the ones with plenty of ports, Magsafe and no silly Touchbour. For us, these new machines finally became Pro again. I bet the selling numbers will prove that just within a few months.
You know what's even funnier about the legacy HDMI 2.0 port on these new MBPs. If you have need for HDMI 2.1 you still need to use a dongle!
The most funny part is that you can simply continue to use your TB dongle for that. Again, that HDMI port serves another purpose. You still have
three TB4 ports. That's absolutely sufficient for 90% of all users, especially on the go. For home and everyone else, you can simply use or a dock and/or daisy-chaining.
