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On the plus side, you can charge the laptop using any port, and data transfer speeds through these ports is blisteringly fast. That means you’ll need adapters for most conventional peripherals and video tasks.

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Like most of Apple’s latest products, the 2018 MacBook Pro eschews HDMI, Ethernet and full-size USB-A ports in favor of four tiny, multi-functional USB-C ports. The only significant disadvantage of new MacBook ownership is the lack of native ports. And all this in a package weighing just 3.02 pounds. Built in Force Touch (another iPhone-derived feature) gives you secondary options when pressing harder on the touch pad, while tactile feedback informs how hard you need to press down to activate it. The touch pad is large and performs consistently with a wide array of multi-touch gestures. The little speakers are impressively loud and crystal clear. You can lift the screen open with one hand without it lifting up the base of the laptop, yet it’s strong enough to hold the display in place without any wobble or sag. The resistance on the display hinge is weighted just perfectly, as well. Our test unit came wrapped in a gorgeous Space Gray Aluminum casing that doesn’t show fingerprints at all. Overall, the build quality is second to none, as you might expect from an $1,799 laptop. Additionally, battery life is superb at up to 10 hours of wireless web browsing, and the supported Wi-Fi standards are cutting-edge.

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BlueTooth has been bumped up to version 5.0, in line with the latest devices. It performs well even in bright sunlight, despite the glossy, reflective screen. The screen is pin-sharp, delivering a vibrant, wide color gamut and peak brightness. Hardware wise, the 2018 MacBook Pro represents Apple computers at their finest. It works just as well as it does on the iPhone, and is a great convenience feature.Ĭertainly none of the Touch Bar features will revolutionize the way you use your computer, and we did experience a few minor glitches in performance, but ultimately, it’s a nice feature to have. This allows you to quickly unlock the laptop and easily verify Apple Pay purchases. The Touch Bar also features Touch ID - Apple’s fancy name for a fingerprint sensor. Even still, it’s easy to become quite fond of the convenience it offers, like easy tab selection and video scrubbing. Some critics argue that it’s a gimmick aimed more at bulking out a feature list and adding visual appeal than solving any real user issues. Apple has also reportedly made the keys more resilient to dust and other contaminants, which was a widely reported vulnerability of MacBooks for the past two years.Īdditionally, every single 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard will now be complemented by Apple’s Touch Bar - it’s no longer an optional extra like last year. The Touch Bar has been polarizing, to say the least. Apple’s ultra-low-profile keys are noticeably quieter than last year, achieving a more subtle clicking sound on each tap without sacrificing any of that reassuring visceral feedback. The keyboard represents another significant change this year.

Or better still, a higher-end Windows laptop with an NVIDIA GPU.

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That means things like gaming or rendering advanced 3D work would require an upgrade to the 15-inch model. The only disappointment here is that there’s no option for a discrete graphics card in the 13-inch unit. It really puts last year’s comparatively old-fashioned dual-core chip to shame, packing quite a punch for a unit so small. The improved performance of the new quad-core chip is especially evident when doing more intense operations, such as encoding a video or multitasking with several apps open. In fact, this is one of the biggest year-over-year gains we’ve seen in Apple laptops for quite some time. Apple made the jump to Intel’s cutting-edge 8th generation microchips, which means a significant performance boost over last year’s model. The most critical improvement to this year’s 13-inch MacBook Pro is with its processors.

802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n compatible.

Touch Bar with integrated Touch ID Sensor.

2.3GHz Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz.

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