The same goes for the Thunderbolt 3 port selection and the massive Force Touch trackpad. The unibody aluminum chassis is still a strength, and Apple hasn’t dared to touch that this time around. It’s a patch.Īt its core, the MacBook Pro’s design remains intact. It’s not a leap forward in design, and it certainly isn’t innovative. It wasn’t launched at a glitzy press event. The new 16-inch MacBook Pro isn’t revolutionary.

Is this the laptop I’ve been waiting for? The MacBook Pro 16 provides the first glimpse of hope in years. Mac fans, myself include, want Apple to return the MacBook Pro to its former glory. Placed on my desk next to the mounting stacks of excellent Windows laptops, I found its keyboard frustrating. Yet my experience with the 2016 MacBook Pro was very different. My 2015 MacBook Pro had never let me down. The MacBook Pro was my default choice at home, handling music production and gaming in spite of its slim size and great battery life. The PR nightmare had just begun when I requested a Mac as my work laptop. That’s the past three years of the MacBook Pro, in a nutshell. A never-ending barrage of online criticism.

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