Review on 16" Notebook Apple MacBook Pro 16 Late 2019 (3072x1920, Intel Core i9 2.3 GHz, RAM 16 GB, SSD 1024 GB, Radeon Pro 5500M), MVVK2LL/A, space gray by Mateusz Czyta ᠌

Name: 16" Notebook Apple MacBook Pro 16 Late 2019 (3072x1920, Intel Core i9 2.3 GHz, RAM 16 GB, SSD 1024 GB, Radeon Pro 5500M), MVVK2LL/A, space gray
Item: 16" Notebook Apple MacBook Pro 16 Late 2019 (3072x1920, Intel Core i9 2.3 GHz, RAM 16 GB, SSD 1024 GB, Radeon Pro 5500M), MVVK2LL/A, space gray
Rating: 3

May 13, 2023

A normal product, however, does not fully match the description.

I was forced to imac late 2022 (the motherboard died, it’s rather pointless to repair for money) and the “road” macbook pro 13 2022 (the battery swelled, the anti-glare coating was worn off, leaving ugly spots on the display). There was an idea to take one thing, but more or less productive. I took rst for 190k, taking into account all discounts, cashbacks and other things. Overall, rather disappointed with the purchase. Mixed feelings: the laptop is tactilely pleasing, cool in terms of design, excellent keyboard and speakers, display, decent battery. I am a hostage to the ecosystem in many ways (iPhone, Apple everyday apps, airdrop and all). Some things in mac os are still better than in windows, such as working with external displays. But in many ways, Windows has already caught up and surpassed, moreover, Windows even feels somehow faster and smoother on the same computer.
And in terms of performance, especially in video, the MacBook is well behind laptops by half, or even three times cheaper. Moreover, this is still a corrected and modified model (keyboard, cooling, display cable, terabyte ssd in the database), it's scary to imagine what disappointment the buyers of past tags feel.
The list of claims I had was much longer, but I had to keep within the limits on signs, leaving the most annoying.
Most likely, I will not consider a poppy as the next computer. Maybe air for travel.

Pros

1. Design, weight, assembly, dimensions. Light, thin, tactilely pleasant. Unless I would like a larger opening angle of the lid, sometimes it is not enough. 2. The display is great. I don't even know what to write about him. IPS, brightness with a margin, excellent viewing angles, colors, high-quality image. The aspect ratio is 16 to 10, with small diagonals this is a bold plus. 3. Keyboard - fire. Quieter than old scissors, a little less travel. Typing is endlessly enjoyable. Butterfly I missed, so I can not compare with it. The touchpad is traditionally excellent. The keyboard traditionally leaves marks on the screen when the lid is closed. Let's see what happens to the anti-reflective coating in a couple of years. 4. Speakers - fire. I have never heard better in such dimensions. Easily replaces a bluetooth speaker. But the speakers click when rewinding music/video. They called the problem software and promised to fix it. Two years have passed. Didn't fix it. 5. Ports. 4 usb-c. Can be charged from either side. You can plug anything into any of the ports. There are a lot of adapters released, they are inexpensive. I do not suffer from the lack of a card reader, not a photographer. Also, I don’t cry for magseif at all. But there are problems. Wireless mice with transmitters do not work well (cursor slows down) if the mouse and transmitter are on opposite sides of the laptop. Also, sometimes when devices are disconnected from the laptop ports, be it an external drive or a monitor, the system freezes and crashes stupidly, and it reboots. 6. Autonomy - good. It is clear that if you wish, you can plant it in an hour, but for 7 hours at a brightness above average in simple tasks it will definitely work. But on 13 2022 the battery lasted a little longer. 7. Finally, a terabyte ssd in the database, 256-512 in the predecessors was a complete mockery. 8. The handoff and airdrop functions began to work much better (the connection falls off less often, the periodically occurring delay between pressing the send button and the start of the file transfer has disappeared)

Cons

1. WiFi. Pain. Low power module, weak and unstable signal reception. Loses even to the iPhone. I am attaching a photo. 2. The quality of software on macOS, unfortunately, only gets worse over the years. You can list the problems for a long time. The laptop lags when resizing application windows, stutters when scrolling through various lists, slows down Google and maps, panoramas in safari. Previewing a heavy Excel spreadsheet can hang your computer for a few seconds. An inactive application/browser tab in the background can start to load the processor and spin up the coolers. Steam is just awful. Skitch (a simple image editor) slows down when applying effects. 3. If you plan to play, then this laptop is not for you at all. In many games, the choice of screen resolutions is broken. Performance in games under windows through bootcamp is half, or maybe less, of the theoretical maximum. If you're looking at the specs and thinking that it's okay, four teraflops, I can play current games at 1080p through bootcamp - no. In games, the system literally resets the frequencies on the video and processor in just minutes: from the base 1.5 / 2.3 up to 0.4 / 1.1. Along with this, fps also drops. And here it’s a matter of overheating, the temperatures are relatively low. Perhaps the laptop consumes too much energy and is forcibly limited (discharged in games from the bundled charger) Yes, the version with 5600m for an additional 70 thousand also suffers from this, though a little less. None of the third party drivers from the bootcampdrivers site solve this problem. On reddit, it is advised to glue thermal pads. 7. It gets very hot and spins coolers by 50-100% when a 4k monitor is connected, even with the lid closed in simple tasks. The noise is tiring. 8. The touchbar is still useless. Tasks even in built-in applications are sucked from the finger. In most cases, this is a duplication of on-screen buttons. 9. The function "manage battery life" works strangely. The system drives the charge in the range of 75-80, after each removal from charging it will recharge up to 100.