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I mean I've only had it 24 hours so I'm clearly in the honeymoon phase and will be for quite some time, but I love it so far. I was a little apprehensive upgrading my '12 rMBP but in comparison this thing flies and has a way better screen and keyboard. Love it so far and don't anticipate that changing.
I actually didn't like mine as much for the first few days. Didn't realize how awesome Touch Bar could be with the right software, keyboard felt weird and I was typing slow, had to break some bad habits and adjust some settings to get along with the large trackpad.... Now that I've adjusted, I love it.
I have 2 - a 13" ntb everyday work machine and a 15" that stays at home.
Love them both - no problems - each better than the last yr models they replaced.
Got a perfect 15" the first time but took 3 times to get the 13" that was defective free and acceptable.
I upgrade every new release and each one is always worth it.
Love them both - no problems - each better than the last yr models they replaced.
Got a perfect 15" the first time but took 3 times to get the 13" that was defective free and acceptable.
I upgrade every new release and each one is always worth it.
On a 15" here and honestly not sold on the touch bar as well. I do enjoy being able to adjust the volume by sliding. Battery life is no where near that 10 hour quote. More like 5 on my end and I'm just playing music and doing word documents / power presentations side by side.
Love the keyboard though even though it's obnoxiously loud. Everytime I'm in the library typing, I feel like everyone's staring daggers at me even though I'm trying my best to type as soft as I can. The touchpad is big, maybe too big as sometimes when I type, my palm touches it and it clicks to somewhere else without me noticing. Screen is without a doubt, gorgeous. I no longer get headaches as I did with my 13" Air.
My 15" does seem to freeze up daily to the point where force shut down is necessary. Might be because my SSD is full. Didn't use to happen before that so not calling faults at the hardware yet. This laptop is almost as portable as the Air too. Just went touring in Hokkaido for a week and had this in my backpack the entire time. Didn't feel the weight difference.
Love the keyboard though even though it's obnoxiously loud. Everytime I'm in the library typing, I feel like everyone's staring daggers at me even though I'm trying my best to type as soft as I can. The touchpad is big, maybe too big as sometimes when I type, my palm touches it and it clicks to somewhere else without me noticing. Screen is without a doubt, gorgeous. I no longer get headaches as I did with my 13" Air.
My 15" does seem to freeze up daily to the point where force shut down is necessary. Might be because my SSD is full. Didn't use to happen before that so not calling faults at the hardware yet. This laptop is almost as portable as the Air too. Just went touring in Hokkaido for a week and had this in my backpack the entire time. Didn't feel the weight difference.
I purchased the ntMBP first and after a week, decided to get the 13" tMBP. I am so glad that I did that in November. I have been very pleased with my Mac thus far.
Me too.
They really need to figure out a practical way to offer non-touch bar but with Touch ID across the configurations.
I really think the touchbar will never develop into an essential thing, especially for power users.
I really liking my Macbook Pro 2016 Touchbar also I just wonder if I'll regret that I only have Radeon 455 as compared to the Radeon 460. Time will tell....
I also would have bought a 15" without the TB if that was possible. Why the 13" available without but not the 15"?
In all honesty if you wanted the non-touchbar going with a 2015 Macbook Pro Retina would have most likely been more or less the same thing.
Well not really. The new KB, screen, casing, trackpad, component bump...
It's not unreasonable to want the latest "most everything" and just not want the TouchBar.
Can you imagine using the touchbar in a desktop setting (assuming Apple ever brings it to the magic keyboard) ?? I really have a hard time. I think it would be extremely impractical. On a laptop it is very close to the screen and I can understand people using it (although I never do unless I have to). But on the desktop the keyboard is usually considerably lower than the screen, often barely in the user's field of vision. You would definitely need to switch attention from the screen to the keyboard to use it which is really bad...
And if it doesn't make it to desktop macs than it definitely isn't essential to the mac experience...
Well said. I know some will find this offensive so I apologize in advance, but honesty the TouchBar, to me, feels most at home on "Moms laptop" and in use cases where the keyboard shortcuts and gestures aren't known and ingrained.
95% of what was appearing per app on there was stuff that is WAY faster for me to do with long known and used shortcuts.
Could Devs make it better? Sure. But it's unlikely to truly be a better option than if you're highly experienced and already know very quick ways to navigate around and accomplish actions without even looking at anything.
95% of what was appearing per app on there was stuff that is WAY faster for me to do with long known and used shortcuts.
Could Devs make it better? Sure. But it's unlikely to truly be a better option than if you're highly experienced and already know very quick ways to navigate around and accomplish actions without even looking at anything.
That's what I've done, first had the 2015 15" sent back, wanted the latest and greatest got the 2016 15" loved everything except the TB and the loud keyboard sent that back and re ordered a 2015 15" will be here next week.