Pros
- Design, quantity, quality, and velocity
Cons
- Keyboard as well as a touch bar
🖥️ Renewed Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro, Retina, Touch Bar, 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, MPTT2LL/A - Space Gray Review
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| Series | MacBook Pro |
|---|---|
| Brand | Apple |
| Screen Size | 15 Inches |
| Operating System | MAC OS X |
| Human Interface Input | Touch Pad |
| CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
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Description of 🖥️ Renewed Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro, Retina, Touch Bar, 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, MPTT2LL/A - Space Gray
Renewed products look and work like new. These pre-owned products have been inspected and tested by Amazon-qualified suppliers, which typically perform a full diagnostic test, replacement of any defective parts, and a thorough cleaning process. Packaging and accessories may be generic. All products on Amazon Renewed come with a minimum 90-day supplier-backed warranty. 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz. 16GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory. 512GB SSD storage.
Pros
- The laptop itself is amazing. But when compared with the previous case (until 2022), there are certain features, so I put only 4 stars. I am writing about the 2022 model with the i9 chip. 1. Workmanship, embly, solidity - everything is at the highest level. Very nice to use. 2. The performance is really felt, even in comparison with the not-so-slowest 2022 MBP 15-inch model. 3. Reduced dimensions and weight with the same diagonal, which is good news. 4. 4 USB-C ports are more plus than minus. Once they spent money on adapters, put them on old wires and don’t know the troubles. I don’t understand why the cheese is boron. There used to be only 2 USB ports! Now you can connect a bunch of devices. 5. TrueTone screen - saves your eyes and sleep (unless you are a designer or a photographer who needs absolutely accurate color reproduction) 6. TouchID - useful and convenient. 7. TouchBar - having dealt with the settings, I realized that it is a very convenient thing. You can set it to always show "Esc, F1, F2. " (if you are a developer), or you can set the ons you need, such as volume control, screenshot / record, sleep mode, etc. You can also set the display of contextual actions, depending on the running program. The idea is not new, and Lebedev made a similar separate keyboard. But that was a separate bulky design for quite a lot of money, and here it is already built into a laptop and implemented at the system level, which is many times cooler. 8. MacOS - convenience, beauty, conciseness. No problem with viruses.
Cons
- Unfortunately, compactness has a downside. And it was not without jambs. 1. It's just godlessly noisy for a fresh laptop. There were severe problems with the i9 in 2022 and they seem to have been fixed. But the fact is, the 2022 i9 is much noisier than my 5 year old 2022 i7 under the same usage scenarios. It can overheat even when you have several tabs open in chrome and watch youtube videos at the same time. I didn’t hear my last MacBook at all in the first year of use, for which I loved it as a quiet and extremely comfortable machine for work. 2. The overall maintainability is lower. Replacing thermal paste is already more difficult due to the fact that you need to remove one of the boards. And it will have to be changed often, apparently, with such a noise level. 3. Don't expect too much to play with toys. This is despite the powerful graphics card and processor. It is clear that macbooks, in principle, are not for this. But still. Sometimes, in a fit of nostalgia, you want to launch a good old toy in 2d. Either you put up with the fact that even on the first Fallout the fans will run at maximum and you will actually your laptop, or disable the turbo mode of the processor through special programs. 4. TouchPad is too big. Sometimes there are false touches. 5. Lacks tactile feedback TouchBar. But this is a price to pay for the flexibility of use. 6. The keyboard takes some getting used to. Although it turns out to print faster, perhaps due to less key travel. For those who type a lot of texts, I advise you to take the American version. I have for the RF - the left shift is very small, and Enter is narrow and located far away - it's inconvenient to reach. 7. The sound of the speakers seemed worse to me compared to the 2022 model. 8. Battery life. For the first time, it was discharged from me to zero in just 3-3.5 hours. I watched a video on youtube (albeit in 4k), the rest of the time I just surfed, installed the necessary software.
Pros
- Performance, picture quality, weight and size characteristics, autonomy
Cons
- heats up even under moderate load. Obviously, Apple prioritized quiet operation, so the coolers are silent until the last moment, until they start to burn up))
Pros
- 1. Screen; 2. Convenient gestures on the touchpad; 3. Touchbar - looks great, easy to use; 4. Battery life so far makes me happy. Next come the shortcomings, tk. they do not fit into the "flaws" field: 1. On the very first day after unpacking from the box, he suggested that I ate, downloaded something there for 3 hours and in the end could not ate, wrote that it was a mistake. I googled some solution, downloaded again for 3 hours, but it did not help me, in the end I had to call support. 2. The cursor regularly "forgets" to change to the context view. That is, for example, the usual situation - if you bring the cursor to the text, it turns into a vertical line, if to a link, then into a brush with an outstretched index finger, and there are also arrows and, for example, crosses in Excel. Yes, and a host of others. In Windows, I somehow got used to the fact that when you crossed the border of the context zone with the cursor and literally climbed one pixel where the index finger should be, the cursor changes instantly, without delay at all. In makosi, it can not only change with delays, it regularly, several times an hour does not change at all. It seems that this is a trifle, but this trifle, firstly, wildly infuriates when you work on a brand new laptop for 140krub, and secondly, when working intensively in Excel, for example, it is simply inconvenient, because. there much depends on a current type of the cursor. 3. That's just - right now in iTunes (now it's "music") the ability to listen to albums has disappeared. You select an album, go into it, press the "play" button, which is above the entire list of songs and starts all the songs in turn - the first song is played and playback stops. I tried it on several artists and albums - it's the same everywhere. But jokes like this, and especially in iTunes, a few things happen a day for sure. I am writing about this because it happened right now. 4. The notorious problem with the keyboard appeared after 3 weeks - there were problems with pressing "8". Sometimes everything is ok, sometimes it doesn't work.
Cons
- 5. Always, 100% of the time I use it, I don't feel at all that this is a new and powerful laptop - everything in it happens with some kind of micro-pause. Periodically, about once every few hours, it starts to directly specifically slow down, i. E. he responds to each action in 1-2 seconds. In the same way, my laptop worked badly, to replace which I bought this poppy, on which the same Windows 7 has been running for 4.5 years. 6. Especially powerful delays when working with Excel. There, in general, you need to get used to the fact that he always responds to any action at least somewhere in 0.5 seconds, even more. And sometimes much longer. For example, you enter a number in a cell, look in another where the amount should be recalculated, and nothing happened there. You look in the first cell - did you really enter a number at all, yes, you did, you start to climb into the formula of the second cell, bring the cursor up - bam! counted! 7. I will single out as a separate problem, although this is probably the same as item 5 and item 6 - I did not find any smoothness of makosi, about which everyone talks so much. Yes, there are numerous handy touchpad gestures (which I really like), I have mastered and use them all. But nothing here happens smoothly, everything is either with very small jerks, or with such specific jerks that sometimes you think - well, everything, now it’s definitely frozen. 8. Wi-Fi problems - this is just a giant problem. He constantly loses the network and does not want to connect, or he connected, but there is no Internet, or he writes at all - the password does not fit, but then he will connect with the same password. You might think that the problem is in the router that Beeline delivered to me for free, but all other devices work fine. And most importantly, my wife has Mac Air 2022 and for two years now she has been constantly complaining that her home Internet practically does not work for her. I ignored these complaints all these two years, I thought that she had something (everything is ok with me), but now I have a poppy and exactly the same problems. At the same time, when I distribute mobile Internet from my phone, everything works.
Pros
- 1) Optimization and performance in professional software 2) Gorgeous screen without PWM at all brightness levels (+ TrueTon) 3) Compact and high build quality 4) Mega convenient touchpad 5) Quiet cooling system (coolers do not bother even when exporting video) 6) Quiet and comfortable keyboard 7) Type C - comfortable and modern 8) System and security 9) World Warranty 10) Color - space gray looks great.
Cons
- 1) The touchbar is a cool thing, but there is no particular convenience in it (except for rewinding ads on YouTube or switching between tabs) 2) Internal memory is not enough for editing - you need at least 1TB (But there is a way out - use a fast external SSD) 3) It's heating up! When rendering or exporting 3D graphics, it heats up to 99 degrees even in turbo mode. On average, during operation, the temperature of the processor keeps - 55-65 degrees. 4) The aluminum case is very "GENTLE", a chip or scratch can be easily put (But there is a way out - a protective case)
Pros
- Free for educational purposes
Cons
- Slightly wrinkled
