Review on Renewed 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro (Mid 2015) 🖥️ - 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-4870HQ, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Silver by Janis Ziemelis ᠌
Feel free to buy, for such a price, the quality is simply amazing.
Back in the days of PowerBooks like the "G4 Titanium", Apple's "PRO" line of laptops was very different from what it was in the PC world. This is unattainable for competitors battery life, and unusual case material, the presence of a huge number of connectors. Amazing optimization (bundling hardware and OS), the ability to quickly disassemble the computer by simply unfastening the keyboard. Quickly replace internal components. Removable batteries with an autonomous charge indicator: what is not a detail is a revolution. The gap was huge. Apple computers were guests from the future, which were not bought by the majority only because of the inability to continue using the familiar software, and because of the inability to play normally. The fact that in our country there was no normal technical support for these computers also contributed. Now there is no such gap as before, just as there is no "PRO" that was before. Now it's just very reliable and very comfortable computers. For many, design does not have any particular meaning. People underestimate design. But design primarily determines how we perceive a thing. And how we perceive it is reflected in our interaction with it. The first week or two from this computer you get crazy, and then you just stop noticing it. It’s like it doesn’t exist, there is only your work, the Internet, video, audio and that’s it. The interlayer between you and all this is minimal, silent, requiring only one push of a button. The modern PRO line is still not for games, not for stable and long-term loads. This is a kind of typewriter, a very convenient device for Internet surfing, and, in combination, an indispensable tool for any person who is seriously involved in video editing, or working with sound. Surprisingly, editing and even rendering video doesn't heat up this computer much. But I do not advise anyone to work on it from under Windows. Advantages turn into disadvantages.
- 1) Reliability is the most important advantage of these computers. If it is important for you to be sure that tomorrow, when you turn on your computer, all your software will work exactly the same as it worked yesterday, even a year later, after installing it, even after ating the OS, that all settings will be exactly the same , and that system restore (which I personally have never come in handy for) will definitely work. That MAC is still the only right choice. Everything that is here, everything works, and works flawlessly. I have a model with discrete graphics and a 512Gb SSD, I bought it with Yosemite on board, and ated it to "Captain", then to "Sierra" without any difficulties, and the windows of the programs in which I worked remained open until the very reboot, and after rebooting in the new OS, they opened again, and I continued my work. For all the time the system never fell, there was not a single failure, there was not a single system error, there were no glitches. The system always starts up in exactly the number of seconds it took to start up before, and always shuts down as quickly as it did before. 2) Optimization, this advantage is still preserved, but it does not appear everywhere and not so brightly. The most striking example of the good old optimization from apple, a brilliant bundle of software and branded hardware, is Final Cut. The speed of this video editor is simply fantastic. Here, computers from the apple "pro" line are ahead of the rest. So if one of your main tasks is video editing, then this is the most reasonable choice. 3) Touchpad, there are no analogues to this touchpad, these gestures, and this convenience anywhere, and will not be in the near future. You get used to it very quickly. And the mouse is no longer needed. 4) Sound, there is no such sound on any other laptop of this size. This is the sound of good small speakers. There are both low and medium frequencies. And all this is harmonious. 5) Honest battery life, without any annoying dynamic changes in screen brightness, and so on. 6) Design and attention to detail.
- 1) The cooling system is generally good. Coolers with asymmetrical blades are absolutely silent at speeds of about 2022 rpm. Most of the time they work within these limits. However, as soon as the processor is loaded steadily by at least 30 percent, the rotational speed rises, and the silent machine turns into something similar (in sound) to a cheap electric kettle. This is either the downside of this design of the blades, or the problem of too narrow slots for air intake. At 3000-4000 rpm you can still tolerate noise. But at 6000 (which is the limit) there is a feeling that this thing is about to fly into the stratosphere. So keep in mind, this computer is silent exactly as long as you do not load it. 2) In most of the software, it is NOT faster than similar hardware computers with Windows on board. And - tadaaam, even slower when it comes to programs from Adobe, such as Photoshop, Lightroom, Premier Pro. My wife's old hp probook 4540s (with a 250 gig SSD, 8 gigabytes of RAM, a dual-core i5 and an AMD Radeon HD 7650M) renders pictures in Photoshop, applies filters, works with plastic, no slower than this macbook. The processing speed is sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower, sometimes almost identical. They compared head to head. And if you think that Acrobat Reader will not slow down when scrolling on your new top-end poppy, you are greatly mistaken. Not for nothing they have always had a tense relationship with Apple. 3) The color temperature of the display is not uniform. The upper right corner is slightly warmer than the lower left. I heard that this happens not only on poppies, but also on iPads and iPhones. 4) Extremely easily soiled display, and the lack of matte displays in the line. And yet, personally, my eyes are quite tired of this retina at the end of the day. But the display itself is very good. This also applies to color reproduction and brightness and resolution.
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