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 Ognian Karagaev ᠌

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 06, 2023

Good product, I recommend that you try it.

If for some reason you need OCX, then this is probably a good buy, but personally I did not experience any emotions after switching from a 12 year old HP EliteBook G1 other than the delight of the screen and the disappointment of such a vaunted OS.

Pros

- nice materials, build quality and body, for a month and a half of hanging out at the bottom of a hiking bag, no chips, no scratches; - the screen, especially the brightness settings, are pleasantly pleasing; - 4 type-C/thunderbolt3 ports with PD support, you can charge 3 Google Pixels at the same time using fast charging, convenient, but with a nuance, there is no room left in the shortcomings, so I write here: the specification does not say this, but when connected charging to the upper left port, the antediluvian kernel_task starts to go crazy, if you load the device with something serious and charge it at the same time, check the task manager, you may need to re-plug the charge on the right; - normal file addressing, a familiar terminal and almost all your favorite software is in place.

Cons

- getting used to Linux, you don’t expect anything new from a Unix-like system, but OCX feels like a dead end branch of development, it’s amazing, I thought I’ll remember where the commands are, and where the controls are, and that’s it . but the main disadvantage for me was - OS. Any non-standard situation becomes a real test: - on the road, I discovered that the PPTP VPN server deployed at home is not safe and you can't connect to it so easily (re-deployed to OpenVPN); - bluetooth can not contact the phone (scored); - on usb tethering works through a hell of a crutch, since there are instructions on how to stick it; - without discovering your favorite remmina, I installed rdp from microsoft, and there hotkeys are somehow strangely mapped, the same trouble when connecting to windows machines through radmin, teamweaver and other things, they say it saves the carabiner, but too lazy to mess with it. If someone suddenly read my nonsense, tell me how you can use Home / End connected to Windows? - I thought that the lack of x86 support would not be a problem for me, but no. I have an application on dotnet that I run through wine, but it is impossible to install dotnet ates on wine64, since the installer is 32bit and stupidly does not start; - after closing / opening the lid, sometimes the touch and keyboard hang for a couple of seconds; - it is not possible to completely disable Siri and ate notifications. - the second noticeable minus is the Apple company that does not respect its users. This is my first apple product that I bought for the sole purpose of compiling an iOS application that a colleague asked me to do, and so, in order to break into the Apple DevProgram program, I had to create 3 support cases and write 6 letters, after which I was confirmed by the US, Before that, I received only a dumb reject. At the same time, they send spam without the possibility of unsubscribing, you have to filter it. - well, to the heap, this is a discrete video card, with it the laptop is discharged at a rate of 1% per minute and heats up to 80 degrees, after which the fan turns on and tries to cool the device to a comfortable 60 degrees.