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Review on Renewed Apple MPDL2LL/A MacBook Pro 13in - Retina, Touch Bar, 3.3GHz Intel i7 Dual Core, 16GB RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD, Intel Iris 550, Silver by Wiktor Jak ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Satisfactory product quality, good price.

Why I do not recommend it for purchase in general: 1. Display. Yes, it's really great in terms ofcomlor reproduction (ΔEColor 1.7, ΔE Greyscale 1.9), resolution (2560 x 1600) and brightness (512 cd/m²). However, in fact, your eyes will leak out during daily work for such new fonts and innovative anti-aliasing, and even for gloss: this is not just a non-compliance with SanPiN standards, but just some kind of fierce game - everything is cloudy even when enlarged. At the same time, I installed Windows 10 through BootCamp - the screen becomes a fairy tale, everything is clear, it's nice to work even behind such a small diagonal. 2. External monitor. At the same time, the manufacturer cares about users, and since their Pro Display XDR monitors also have to be sold, you will accidentally find that when youcomnnect a regular external monitor, all fonts will be soapy and you can’t do anything about it at all ( .comm/thread/251041224). That is, it will not be possible to use it as a subnotebook and an inexpensive workplace at the same time. 3. Known limitations: no adult full-fledged USB ports, no physical keys F1. F12, you can notrun 32-bit applications, software emulation of the touchpad in Windows, but when opening a ZIP archive, there are still cracks in the case of Cyrillic in file names and Youtube maximum FullHD in the native Safari browser. 4. Touch bar. The idea is not bad, but in fact, apart fromcomnvenient rewinding of the video, there is no sense from it at all (also PWM is terrible there) - it would be better if they left the physical row of F1-F12 keys. I'm talking about productive work, and not about hipsters and other creative lazy people. Partially treated by permanent display of the functional block of keys. 5. Price. On the current hardware, only top-endcomnfigurationscomsting from 174,000 are presented (I just had this: in the younger versions, not just the hardware is old, but there are fewer ports and evencomoling is cut). Are you willing to pay that much to get, given the above limitations, just a subnotebook on which you can only occasionally do something?

Pros
  • One of the best subnotebooks at first glance: excellent and thoughtful ergonomics (even cooling - you can put it on your knees), decent battery life and very quiet operation in most scenarios, the keyboard is good, color reproduction, sound.
Cons
  • For some reason, it is positioned as a universal portable working tool, but this is fundamentally wrong: you won’t be able to work actively and a lot on it, although I personally bought into it from the very beginning (see comments). Often they say in reviews about marriage (uneven legs, clicking sound), which is generally unacceptable for a laptop of this category. But here I was personally lucky in general - there were no problems.

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