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 Petar Velichkov ᠌

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: 4

July 17, 2023

The right product for me, the price suited me.

The business offered to upgrade the laptop I was using at the time, so I received it as a working machine. It was a Dell XPS 13 9360 while I worked alone before that, and a Macbook Pro 13 from "late 2022" before Dell. These two I used for over five years. I have to admit that the distinctions between mb pro 13 2022 and myself are little. The mb pro 16 is bigger, stronger, heavier, and more of everything. Therefore, the XPS 13 is what is listed under the benefits and drawbacks. Since they fall into various weight categories, it is obviously difficult to compare them directly, therefore I focused on the obvious.

I like anything in general, to speak for a piece of iron. In overall, everything is fine—good battery, well-assembled. More often than not, it's money (although, of course, the cost is astronomical, particularly for the additional SSD storage). Software makes a lot of decisions. In my instance, the docker got provided somehow, and ssh functions; that's cool, it works for work. Projects on the pluses gather vivaciously. It is convenient and enables you to work without any issues, as opposed to having to configure software frequently, as is the case with linux, for example. Almost every corporate software that is present in the market is available, from java-based kvm to palo alto vpn. The same is true of the user interface; everything is slick, polished, and consistent. The fact that there are many options but a small number of them means that some things that are conceivable in Linux cannot be done here. This is only an observation; it is neither a bonus nor a minus. There is some feature parity for me when compared to Win 10 because Windows has a far larger selection of apps, which allows for more customisation. There is a legacy that protrudes from every hole as payback for this (which appears to be about to be sawed off, but how it will turn out is still uncertain).

Overall, a respectable laptop. I advise purchasing it if there is no objection to macos or if there are already other Apple products in use. It is preferable to look at Dell or Thinkpad if you don't want a vendor lock or if only something is missing in macos (read: you need some sort of red-eye or Windows).

Pros

Build quality. The MB Pro 16 comes fully built and without any options. Before that, there was a Dell XPS 13 that was quite large, had no issues with anything, but was simply poorly put together. There are gaps of various widths where the hinges are attached, the touchpad is slightly crookedly bonded, etc. Nothing significant, just a poppy is preferable in this case. - Sound. Compared to the same XPS 13, the sound is orders of magnitude better in a poppy. Yes, ten times only. I'm not sure how it's done, but I imagine the engineers had to work hard to achieve that sound. - Display. similar to that on the XPS 13 around. On the XPS, it was possibly even clearer because the pixels were denser in terms of pure ratio at 13", where I had UHD. In a nutshell, with time, these settings become overgrown with heritage and even worsen a little since a simple person does not know what scaled resolution is and what it actually means, for example. Mac solves problems with software - nice fonts, etc. the Touchbar. Nice work; I like it. It's convenient, and I use it frequently. - Any port for charging. It's relaxing. You may also charge the phone whenever you want; I almost skipped using my own charger.

Cons

- Heavy. When you carry it in a backpack, you can feel it behind your back. It would be wonderful to have USB-A ports. I feel it's too soon to have exclusively usb-c in 2022 since I don't want to carry around a set of usb-c adapters. – A keyboard. After the ubiquity of glass butterflies, scissor keyboards on new Macs are unquestionably a breath of fresh air. The fact that the keyboard is made of oak and that the key travel is short is not negated by this. If the keyboard model is European, the Enter key's design is undesirable to me — sometimes, even after a year of usage, I couldn't get to 13 ". As a result, everything is perfect on the MB Pro 16 from American ANSI, and I like the layout. Prior to the poppy, I owned a Dell XPS 13 with a softer keyboard that was more comfortable to type on and didn't cause my hands to tire easily.