Apple Macbook Pro with Touch Bar

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Pros & Cons

The new MacBook Pro is a marked improvement, but clinging onto previously divisive design decisions only continue to hurt it in straight comparisons. While this update certainly doesn’t disappoint, apply due diligence before clicking the ‘buy’ button.

Pros Cons
  • Stronger processor
  • Faster RAM
  • Same excellent design
  • Subpar battery life
  • Keyboard learning curve
  • Awfully pricey for the parts

Review

Replete with all the bells and whistles you may expect from a high-end Apple laptop, the MacBook Pro has arrived, and it may look a little different than you might remember. Nearly two years ago, Apple launched a redesign of its flagship laptop that would forever change Apple’s image.

Measuring just over half an inch thick, and the MacBook Pro wields the power of Thunderbolt 3, a single port that supports basically everything under the sun. However, the MacBook Pro is not without controversy, as some of the advancements bring compromise. Rather than being able to use your old HDMI, USB and SD accessories out of the box, you’ll have to shell out more cash on an adapter. And, depending on the version of MacBook Pro you choose, you might find a narrow OLED display where the function keys used to be. This ‘Touch Bar,’ the main attraction of the MacBook Pro 2016, remains both a selling point and one of contention.

And, this Touch Bar may soon extend to the entire lower segment of the next MacBook Pro, as Apple is toying around with the idea of an OLED touch screen keyboard.

Luxurious, but by no means ostentatious, the MacBook Pro comes at a premium. Like most of Apple’s products, it’s built to impress in the looks department. It doesn’t do anything too groundbreaking this time, at least not in the way that Apple’s recent patents suggest of its future spill-proof and crumb-resistant MacBooks will. It’s also not as affordable as Apple is positioning the purported 13-inch MacBook with Retina display to be.

However, the MacBook Pro of today is a laptop largely successfully geared toward professionals, which is far more than can be said for the other members of Apple’s MacBook family.

Specification
  • CPU: 3.1GHz Intel Core i5-7267U (dual-core, 4MB cache, up to 3.5GHz)
  • Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
  • RAM: 8GB (2,133MHz LPDDR3)
  • Screen: 13.3-inch, 2,560 x 1,600 Retina LED display (IPS, 500 nits brightness, wide color P3 gamut)
  • Storage: 256GB SSD (PCIe 3.0)
  • Ports: 4 x Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), headphone/mic jack
  • Connectivity: 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2
  • Camera: 720p FaceTime HD webcam
  • Weight: 3.02 pounds (1.37kg)
  • Size: 11.97 x 8.36 x 0.59 inches (30.41 x 21.24 x 1.49cm; W x D x H)