#MACBOOK PRO 2016 SPECS REVIEW WINDOWS#

And like the 12-incher, the keys are extra big, allowing me to type with a high degree of accuracy. It feels like the MBP keys have a bit more travelВ than the 12-inch MacBook. I like it on the 12-inch MacBook and like it even more on the MBP 15. I'm probably in a smallish minority when I say I like Apple's Butterfly keyboard. This is a stroke of Apple genius, in my opinion. I like the easy access at the top of the keyboard. But I found that I never used the touch screen.

#MACBOOK PRO 2016 SPECS REVIEW WINDOWS#

Let me put it this way: initially I was a proponent of touch-screen Windows laptops. Suffice to say, it has utility (I like the Touch ID) and oodles of potential. Touch Bar:В a lot of digital ink has been spilled over this feature so I won't devote much space to this. I'm not an audiophile but the bass and clarity made it a joy to listen to and obviate the need for external speakers. I tested the speakers on the 13-inch MBP Touch Bar against the 15: the 15 beats the 13 by a long shot. I've been toting the new MBP 15 around for a while now and it makes the cut as a tote-friendly laptop (I set a pretty high bar considering my benchmark is the 12-inch MacBook).ДЄudio:В This makes the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar a keeper (for me). It slips easily into my backpack and while the extra 2 pounds (compared to my 12-inch MacBook) is certainly noticeable, it doesn't feel like a dead weight. Right now, I don't see any high-quality 15.4-inch laptops out there that are easier to grab and go than the MacBook Pro 15 Touch Bar.

Portability:В This is really important to me (thus my partiality for the 12-inch MacBook). Those power-efficient GPUs were chosen by Apple because they can be squeezed into the MBP 15's 15.5 mm-thin chassis. That applies to the adoption of AMD's Polaris GPUs too (the Radeon 450, 455 and 460). That said, if you're a super speed junkie, the MBP 15 is not the fastest quad-core laptop on the planet because of Apple's bias toward thinness, as this review at MobileTechReview points out. So, all that performance in the MBP 15 makes a difference and improves my workflow. That's not the case for mainstream laptops with a dual-core i5, 8GB RAM, and a so-so SSD. If I have 20 open Chrome tabs, a photo editor, Microsoft Office 365, and a CMS app running (among other things), nothing slows down. In short, there's little that can slow down a quad-core i7, 16GB of memory, and a fast SSD. Performance:В I wish smaller laptops came with quad-core processors (thermals and price usually make this prohibitive).

Macbook pro 2016 specs review