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Review on Apple MacBook 13 Inch 2 3GHz 256GB by Mateusz Marek ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

As such, there are no disadvantages, it is convenient to use.

Now in simple words: The laptop left a pleasant impression, it is light - it is convenient to go to work with it every day, 13" is enough to work comfortably, and if necessary, you can always expand the screen with an additional monitor. The keyboard was also a pleasant surprise, but still it should be treated more carefully, but this is already written everywhere. In my opinion, the laptop is great for developers (including Android, iOS), I am writing a review specifically for those who hesitate (like I once did) when the question is to overpay or take more powerful, but on Windows and with many more "buts" , but it's up to you to decide what to take. In my opinion, the laptop gets a solid 4-ku.

Pros
  • I have a version without a touch bar (further TV), 16 Gb RAM, 256 SSD, i5. There is no review or review for developers anywhere, I will write. This is my second MBP, the first was in 2022 (not Retina, 13'') And so the advantages: 1) Stunning, juicy, bright high resolution screen, coding all day is just a pleasure. 2) Good and loud speaker sound (compared to the 2022 model, heaven and earth) 3) Light weight (very convenient, thrown into a backpack and you don’t even notice) 4) Very compact (for 13") 5) In my opinion, the best trackpad on the market (I forgot about the mouse a long time ago) 6) Good performance and more about it right away: There is a working machine (laptop on Windows) i7 8th generation 16 gb RAM, GeeForce 1060, and so, mac builds (gradle) java project faster than ~30 seconds. Reason 2: optimizing apple + *nix system. If you put the same Ubuntu instead of Windows, the results for ubuntu are, of course, already an order of magnitude better than for Windows, but not much better than for mac (~5-10 seconds difference in favor of Ubuntu). 7) The keyboard is generally good, with all my initial pessimism about the butterfly, I really began to type faster. 8) The backlighting of the keyboard is pleasant and I don’t want to gouge my eyes out (I compare this with gaming laptops, which are most often taken because of high performance with their RED backlight)
Cons
  • 1) The keyboard is noisy, but you get used to it. 2) The keyboard is not reliable, but it seems that a can of purge gas will make you happy again, personally with me, for 3 months of active clattering on the keyboard, until there was no sticking. 3) The version without TB still has few ports, all two, after 3 months I already began to understand this, but the physical F-keyboard was more important for me at the time of purchase. 4) All the same, 2 physical cores are already not enough in 2k18-2k19, if you need a machine for research, large calculations, you need multithreading, and you need it on a local machine, then all the same I would recommend the version of 2022 or newer. 5) Adapters will now be lying around in every corner (at work, at home, with you)%), and when you watch a Mac, right away, no, IMMEDIATELY budget the cost of USB adapters and other peripherals in order to could work fine on it. 6) Now they don’t put an extension cord for the charger and a rag for the display in the box, which really upset me, I almost let a tear go, it’s good that I left both the extension cord and the rag from the old poppy. 7) The Type-C cable (which is charging) in the kit is not intended for data transfer (rather a fact than a drawback) 8) Price. Here the moment is of course debatable, but one way or another the MBR has become more expensive (we look at everything in $), but you can’t say that you will have a top-end stuffing. Yes, there is optimization, yes * nix, yes the hardware is good. But where is the attention to detail? This is me talking about 2 ports in the version without TV, so Apple wants to poke into the fact that you are a rogue? And if I need a normal keyboard and TV is not needed? Why can't you put an adapter, at least one just for USB, immediately in the kit? The laptop becomes more expensive, the equipment becomes poorer.