Hi all, I finally ordered and received my new MBP and here my rep about.
This is the 4th MacBook I have, every time I used them all about their AppleCare season, I already found if possible to order them fully pack with enough ram and disk to extend their efficient working life at least tree years. I ordered this model : MBP 13” 16 Gb ram & 512 Gb ssd.
I came from about 4 years time MBA 11” supercharged that I used mainly for word processing, powerpointing , excelling and simulating in virtual machines system test environment. In 2013 when I bought it I was preferring as much having a low weight machine for traveling being most sue that intensive task were done at my desk place in office.
The limit was the screen size that were not matching with virtualization needs.
The new MBP has a great screen sometimes even not fully used, perception is that some case limit are my old eyes and not the great pixelling on the screen. Now I can run on screen most Vbox scenarios and use a second screen only for most sophisticated environment.
Office applications are running smoothly and only excel in mac version has still some limits where data are poorly formatted and in big quantity.
Multitasking with up to 2 Vbox each about 4 Gb ram still very nice.
Browsing, emails and internet stuff not even discussable, all that is just running fast and perfectly.
The new OS (I move from Capitan to High Sierra) was the biggest things to adapt. Annoying issues like attach documents in email again showing automatically their content and not iconized. (Not workaround yet)h
Some line command things that disapperead and disk usage to fully understand.
The OS is using, I would like to say abusing, your ssd storage in a very hidden way. It means you rarely has the full control of what is on it. How many times and how many copies of documents it exist and where is difficult to be say. A lot of backupping stuff. Often unwanted. Features 99% thinked for non power users that need being protected from themselves.
Still the system is very fast and carefully working on it, learning in a day by day on the job approach will made it very performing.
We cant speak about the new MBP and OSX without considering that the software ecosystem is thinked to be best used in an environment where users has also an IPhone and maybe an IPad or an Iwatch. Most of the synchro function we found, mostly iCloud based, has an impact in term of overall performance of about 5% but they are giving, most of us, data availability in all our devices, including email and password.
MBP new 2nd generation keyboard took me about 2 weeks getting used and is now fine, the previous one I had on my 11” MacAir I think was probably the best ever, but we have to see the overal picture and now I have a 13” high res screen packed with a powerful cpu, a lot of ram, in the same weight of the previous 13” MacAir.
What gave and is still give me some headache is the new trackpad that is a huge difference from 2 generation ago. Some time it take me a while move file from location to desktop or else and is nothing to do except getting used to a different way to “touch” it. I spoke with an apple representative in a store and effectively it seems this is the most questioned issue from people coming from previous generation macs. After a month spent on my new 13” I am getting used and I am quite sure in a quarter it will be the normal way to me.
Back to computation big instruction documents more than 500 Gb open easily and even poorly formatted excel files exported from Oracle JDE are now computable, (better is to setup export function correctly but some times this is out of our range
and we need a good machine to work with them) .
Unix Vbox and W10 Vbox run smoothly often making MS people considering swap to Mac so fast they act.
I do not work with big or huge graphic stuff, the most I do is manipulating some big PDF and here too performance are fine.
Interfacing my new work instruments with external world is some times an issue but after having bought a couple of usb to usbc adapters now is all fine. Performance are absolutely superior than previous MBP in terms of I/O. I think it is related not only to port performance, usbc is really amazing about, but also to a different controller the MB must have. No time yet to investigate deeply but moving data from ext disk 1 to ext disk 2 both usb30 and using adapter were about 230Mbits/sec real throughput. Me sound enough. Using usbc projected disk probably will double this score but we’ll manage the transition.
The point in real life I find to complain are two. First. Where the hell is my MagSafe ? This is a critical point that I overwhelmed buying various “alternative” cables from third part resellers, still I really think should be time Apple to make it own and stop us this workarounds. Maybe is complex because the electrical and data stuff don’t nicely go together, again if we have to choice between having limited data capability but having MagSafe, again will choose for MagSafe that literally saves often our MacBook during accident past years.
Second the cover I am use to protect my daily work tool is by design limited, not covering the corners as before and making me feeling a little of “resistance” while opening the screen due the plastic stuffs in the backs hurt somewhere.
Out of that I am fully satisfied with my new MacBookPro 13” late 2017 and I am sure it will last the AppleCare season giving me a lot of satisfactions.
This is the 4th MacBook I have, every time I used them all about their AppleCare season, I already found if possible to order them fully pack with enough ram and disk to extend their efficient working life at least tree years. I ordered this model : MBP 13” 16 Gb ram & 512 Gb ssd.
I came from about 4 years time MBA 11” supercharged that I used mainly for word processing, powerpointing , excelling and simulating in virtual machines system test environment. In 2013 when I bought it I was preferring as much having a low weight machine for traveling being most sue that intensive task were done at my desk place in office.
The limit was the screen size that were not matching with virtualization needs.
The new MBP has a great screen sometimes even not fully used, perception is that some case limit are my old eyes and not the great pixelling on the screen. Now I can run on screen most Vbox scenarios and use a second screen only for most sophisticated environment.
Office applications are running smoothly and only excel in mac version has still some limits where data are poorly formatted and in big quantity.
Multitasking with up to 2 Vbox each about 4 Gb ram still very nice.
Browsing, emails and internet stuff not even discussable, all that is just running fast and perfectly.
The new OS (I move from Capitan to High Sierra) was the biggest things to adapt. Annoying issues like attach documents in email again showing automatically their content and not iconized. (Not workaround yet)h
Some line command things that disapperead and disk usage to fully understand.
The OS is using, I would like to say abusing, your ssd storage in a very hidden way. It means you rarely has the full control of what is on it. How many times and how many copies of documents it exist and where is difficult to be say. A lot of backupping stuff. Often unwanted. Features 99% thinked for non power users that need being protected from themselves.
Still the system is very fast and carefully working on it, learning in a day by day on the job approach will made it very performing.
We cant speak about the new MBP and OSX without considering that the software ecosystem is thinked to be best used in an environment where users has also an IPhone and maybe an IPad or an Iwatch. Most of the synchro function we found, mostly iCloud based, has an impact in term of overall performance of about 5% but they are giving, most of us, data availability in all our devices, including email and password.
MBP new 2nd generation keyboard took me about 2 weeks getting used and is now fine, the previous one I had on my 11” MacAir I think was probably the best ever, but we have to see the overal picture and now I have a 13” high res screen packed with a powerful cpu, a lot of ram, in the same weight of the previous 13” MacAir.
What gave and is still give me some headache is the new trackpad that is a huge difference from 2 generation ago. Some time it take me a while move file from location to desktop or else and is nothing to do except getting used to a different way to “touch” it. I spoke with an apple representative in a store and effectively it seems this is the most questioned issue from people coming from previous generation macs. After a month spent on my new 13” I am getting used and I am quite sure in a quarter it will be the normal way to me.
Back to computation big instruction documents more than 500 Gb open easily and even poorly formatted excel files exported from Oracle JDE are now computable, (better is to setup export function correctly but some times this is out of our range
and we need a good machine to work with them) . Unix Vbox and W10 Vbox run smoothly often making MS people considering swap to Mac so fast they act.
I do not work with big or huge graphic stuff, the most I do is manipulating some big PDF and here too performance are fine.
Interfacing my new work instruments with external world is some times an issue but after having bought a couple of usb to usbc adapters now is all fine. Performance are absolutely superior than previous MBP in terms of I/O. I think it is related not only to port performance, usbc is really amazing about, but also to a different controller the MB must have. No time yet to investigate deeply but moving data from ext disk 1 to ext disk 2 both usb30 and using adapter were about 230Mbits/sec real throughput. Me sound enough. Using usbc projected disk probably will double this score but we’ll manage the transition.
The point in real life I find to complain are two. First. Where the hell is my MagSafe ? This is a critical point that I overwhelmed buying various “alternative” cables from third part resellers, still I really think should be time Apple to make it own and stop us this workarounds. Maybe is complex because the electrical and data stuff don’t nicely go together, again if we have to choice between having limited data capability but having MagSafe, again will choose for MagSafe that literally saves often our MacBook during accident past years.
Second the cover I am use to protect my daily work tool is by design limited, not covering the corners as before and making me feeling a little of “resistance” while opening the screen due the plastic stuffs in the backs hurt somewhere.
Out of that I am fully satisfied with my new MacBookPro 13” late 2017 and I am sure it will last the AppleCare season giving me a lot of satisfactions.
