Pros
- I have been using the device for more than a year and a half, a model with 4 usb-c ports and an i5-8279u processor, with 8 GB of RAM. Among the advantages I would like to note: The build quality is just on top, when you use the device you begin to understand why you gave such a sum. The next is the screen, I won’t go into those details, I can say that it’s impossible to look at other monitors, when I take someone’s laptop my eyes start to bleed (and here, as for me, there is a very serious minus, I will describe it in shortcomings). The touch pad deserves special respect, now I was the owner of a laptop from another company on Windows, I used only a mouse and never understood the people who use it, I heard a lot that it is very convenient on MacBooks, but I didn’t believe it until I used it myself. I can say that the touch pad is made for people, and Apple engineers only respect for this, at first it may be a little unusual, especially if you used the mouse exclusively before, but I assure you when you get used to it you will not want to use anything else. I’ll tell you about the keyboard, it has a very small key travel and pleasant responsiveness, it’s a pleasure to type on it, I haven’t tried anything better, but it has a big minus and I’ll describe it in shortcomings. And what pleased me so much was the ecosystem, in addition to the laptop, I use an Apple phone. Since there is one account, all synchronization takes place on 2 devices, the music that I listen to on my phone can be opened in Apple Music, browser bookmarks, reminders, notes, a bunch of passwords, documents that are stored on the desktop automatically go to the cloud and I can access them from the phone and a whole lot more. The sound is just fine, I never thought that such a good sound could be on a laptop. I also want to note its mobility, this is due to its small size, the device is very compact, so you can take it with you. I won’t say that performance is superb, but for everyday tasks such as working in documents and surfing the Internet, it’s enough.
Cons
- By disadvantages: This is his screen, I do not understand how he is so easily soiled. I wipe it every 3-4 days, I never eat at a laptop, and yet it manages to get very dirty right away. I recently noticed a scratch in the lower right corner of the screen, I don’t even remember where I could hook it, it’s not very pleasant, although it is visible only if the device is turned off. The keyboard, despite all its advantages, the big drawback is that it gets clogged with small debris. The keys do not stick, but there is a tight move, which in turn is alarming. After some time of use, as I understand it, due to periodic pressing, the problem goes away. Performance. From time to time, the device starts to get very hot, the processor temperature rises to 90 degrees, and this is in normal tasks when watching YouTube or working in the office. The other day there was such a problem, I went into the system monitoring and saw the following picture that the standard mail application loads the processor by 78%. Very rarely, when surfing the Internet, there is a slowdown, one gets the feeling that there is not enough RAM, although there are 2-3 tabs open and at least 3 GB of RAM is free, I don’t understand what the problem is (I sin on heating the processor). Maybe it’s time to clean the cooler and ate thermal paste. Another reason may be in the operating system, since I'm sitting on Mojave. I see a lot that people attribute the lack of common connection ports to the problem, the solution to this problem is to purchase a hub (in mine there are 3 usb 3.0, 1 usb -c, hdmi, the issue price is 2.5 thousand) you can say: - yes I am I give money blah blah everything should be there, and what will change from this? from this ports will not appear! Laptops used to have DVD drives, where are they now? who uses disks? In my opinion, Apple did the right thing, in order for progress to move, it is necessary to accustom consumers to use a standardized connection interface, this will make life easier for everyone in the future.
