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Review on Renewed Apple 13in MacBook Pro with Retina Display and Touch Bar – 3.1GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Space Gray by Adam Woniak ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Well done, but I won't buy any more.

Prior to that, he worked on an old asus and modern finkpads. I took a Mac as a replacement - I wanted to try it for a long time. I wrote the advantages and disadvantages, I will write the nuances: 1. Migration from Windows is not as difficult as you might expect. Still, over the past 5 years, cross-platform prog has increased. The cloud, the office profile and the docks in it - all this is transferred. There are many programs on macos that are on Windows, or their analogues. Although, of course, there are exceptions - for example, I did not find a convenient archiver (I tried a lot). And yet - for about 2 weeks I got used to other keyboard shortcuts. 2. At the same time, the Mac needs to be configured for yourself for longer. To have auto scroll, to hide the icons at the top of the screen, so that you can put two applications on the screen at the same time, there are special programs for all this and much more. At the same time, 70% of users will not need these functions, but the reviews here, I think, are read by the remaining 30)) My verdict for Windows fans is to take it if you are not afraid of switching to macos. There is nothing terrible, but not everyone wants to change for the sake of working in approximately the same programs. In many other things - I have already written: assembly, sound, touchpad - this beech is better than others.

Pros
  • In order of importance to me: 1. Build quality and design. So far, no one has come close to this. 2. Touchpad and keyboard. So far, there are no analogues either - on the touchpad without a doubt at all. 3. Sound. Among ultrabooks, I have not seen better - but, I confess, in terms of sound I compared it only with Huawei and Finkpad in a similar price range. So I can be biased. 4. Stability. Nothing hangs, for 2 months the computer rebooted 3 times. On Windows, this is worse. 5. Screen. Just good by today's standards. Huawei and Dell offer no worse. 6. Apple ecosystem A more stable connection with AirPords, you can quickly transfer something from an iPhone.
Cons
  • 1. Ports. Carrying a hub with you to pick up a mouse (yes, I'm a wire lover) and the usual non-typesistic charging is nonsense. 2. Touchbar. It looks like a useless thing (like the touch screen on other laptops). I mainly use the standard office suite - I have never used it. Except in Zoom. The sound could be switched with the usual keys. 3. The operating time does not reach the one given in the reviews. 4-5 hours of active use (browser + office + messengers including mail + programs for editing pictures). This, of course, is on macOS. 4. Office (Word, etc.) is not very stable. Not terrible, but sometimes there are glitches with fonts, some functions in the ixel.