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Review on (Renewed) Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch Core 🖥️ i5 Retina 2.7GHz (MF840LL/A), 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD by Wiktor Franko ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Just super, the product is made wonderfully, very satisfied.

All in all, a cool car. Reading and writing to SSD is mega-fast. When the printing house opened my 750MB psd file, the computer started to freeze. Mac opens and works with it and with the second one at the same time without any problems. In terms of heat dissipation, the computer suits me. Of course, it gets warm, but not critical, I did not hear the fans. I didn’t have the opportunity to test the video card - I don’t play games, but according to the HD5100 tests, it seems to be much better than the previous 4000 and 4400. The screen size suits me perfectly. Apparently, in many respects, due to the resolution, a lot of information is placed on it without compromising readability. Photoshop, of course, is better to use on something larger (I use 21.5 '), but, in general, usable. Pleased with synchronization with iPhone - notes, contacts, calendar - just one iCloud account is set up and everything is synchronized without problems. Especially, I often use notes, moreover, on both devices. It is convenient that the pictures taken on the iPhone themselves through the photo stream are on the computer. In general, the level of my loyalty to Apple with each next purchased product soars up. It all started when I bought an iPhone after 6 Android phones. I bought it, and with a grating heart. And it creaked because of the image of the company as a manufacturer of expensive show-off fentiflyushki. Only after the iPhone, and now after the Mac, I understand that show-off is just a 5-inch screen on the phone (for evolution to help us, palms would grow up), eye control, which, of course, is very necessary, especially when it doesn’t work, touch screen in laptops, flexing keyboards in the thinnest cases, beautiful multi-colored tiles, to distinguish them from each other. Apple makes products for real, full-fledged use, for work. And they work 100% everything that they have. And there it is for work, not for show-offs. I decided to buy a Mac after using Win8 on a new working monoblock. It's a figment of someone's sick imagination - from fonts to METRO. Microsoft is going the wrong way. I'm not on my way with them.

Pros
  • I don't even know where to start listing the pros. To begin with, this is the THING! A real thing that was made with soul and professionalism and which you just want to use. -Very thin and light body. Moreover, after my Mac, I used the MSI laptop, which is 170 grams lighter, but it seems heavier, because the Mac's weight distribution is almost perfect, that is, it does not have lighter and heavier parts of the case, probably, including for this, it feels monolithic. -The screen is very good. Although, according to the sensations, Retina looks nicer in the iPad and, in general, I’m not sure that such a violent resolution is needed for a laptop. Normal Full HD on Windows, for example, the latest Sony Vaio Pro and Duo, also looks good. -A lot has been said about the battery - it keeps 6-8 hours of surfing in the internet, office programs. Moreover, judging by the tests, in many ways, this is the merit of Mac OS compared to Windows. -Mac OS (and this is my first computer with it) - did not cause any particular difficulties. Everything is very clear, as it should be, without experimenting with tiles popping out of windows and other things. Absolutely working, intuitive system. You find the settings where you expect, and there are not a great many of them, unlike Windows, in which the control panel in terms of the abundance of settings can be compared, probably, with the control devices of some modern aircraft. Do many people really need at least half of them, hidden, and in each new version, everything is in new and new hiding places. And in general, if we compare Mac OS with Win8 in terms of convenience and clarity, then Microsoft has come off great from Apple. Sorry, but not in that direction. -Touchpad. How many songs he sang! And right! It feels like a MAC with a touch is practically a tablet. So CLEARLY you can control what is happening on the screen with your fingers. Do not need a touchscreen in a beech. It is inconvenient to reach for it through the keyboard. But such a touch is not a compromise - this is what the laptop needs. No one could make such a touch on Windows, so now there are toys with touchscreens.
Cons
  • -Perhaps working with folders on Windows is implemented and more understandable. Or maybe it's just habitual. - The lack of support for Flash, which has set the teeth on edge. Although, Google Chrome has everything, so I don’t feel a problem. -Maybe I misunderstood something, but why is the keyboard backlight on both at night and during the day? If there is an automatic level control, then why not turn it off completely in daylight also automatically in order to save more batteries? -The screen is splattered, I don’t even understand when (but a rag with an apple is included). Disadvantages, of course, as you can see - this is so, rather nit-picking.