![]() The size of the display is impressive for a laptop. The display of the 16-inch MacBook Pro is stunningly bright and clear Of course, there’s a small bezel at the top for the FaceTime camera and at the bottom to accommodate the hinge and connectors. The thin bezel of the screen means you have pretty much a side-to-side image with no wasted space. Sure, it’s not a 5K Retina display like the one I’m used to, but I can’t carry an iMac around with me on trips. ![]() With a native resolution of 3,072 x 1,920 pixels at 226 pixels per inch and support for millions of colors, everything is sharp and colors are intense. The 16-inch diagonal Retina display on this MacBook Pro is nothing short of fantastic. It’s approximately 6 inches wide and a bit less than 4 inches deep, providing a vast surface for controlling your cursor. The Force Touch trackpad also seems quite large compared to others I’ve used on previous MacBooks. A previous 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar that I owned seemed to take forever to identify my fingerprint – this Touch ID button fills in passwords and unlocks items in a heartbeat. Perhaps it’s the machine rather than the Touch ID button, but Touch ID seems lightning-fast on this computer. The backlighting on the keyboard is bright but not blinding – it adjusts to the amount of ambient light, so it’s not going to keep your seatmate awake on an airplane (the display will, however!). The Magic Keyboard and Trackpad on the 16-inch MacBook Pro (iPhone X on trackpad for scale) I’m not sure why that bothered some users, but it did. On some other MacBook models, that had been replaced by two smaller up/down arrow keys and two full-size left/right arrow keys. Yeah, I know – there’s a continent of our readership that loves those loud, clacking mechanical keyboards, but I personally find them totally annoying.Īpple also brought back the traditional “inverted T” layout for the keyboard arrow keys. It offers just enough tactile feedback to ensure that you know that typing is going to be fast and accurate, and it is also very quiet. The latter was a point of contention for a lot of those who used earlier Touch Bar keyboards and didn’t like the virtual esc key. The Magic Keyboard, which is the same size as the popular desktop version, includes the Touch Bar display, a Touch ID power button, and a physical Escape key. Apple switched out the problematic “butterfly switch” keyboards that kept failing on recent MacBook models for a new “scissor switch” design. Keyboard and Trackpadįirst up, the keyboard and trackpad. In this First Impressions post, I’ll provide my opinions on the newest MacBook Pro and also provide a few benchmarks showing just how powerful this portable workstation is. I had my order in to Apple for a “fairly loaded” MacBook Pro within minutes after hearing that it was available, and now I’ve been using the computer for about a week. Knowing about the keyboard issues with previous MacBook Pros, I also decided that I’d wait until the 16-inch MacBook Pro was released before making the switch from desktop to laptop. After years of trying to make an iPad or iPad Pro work as a viable MacBook substitute, I finally decided this year that my next work computer would be a MacBook Pro rather than an iMac.
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