Adobe CC professionals who purchased a 2016 MBP, chime in here...

[puckhead193]

It's very good, colour calibrated out of the box.

any issues with charging? Do you have that 13 or 15?

 

[kingjames1970]

Got the 15 and it does charge and quicker than I expected unless doing something substantial like Photoshop where it will still charge but slowly. Once I went to use the MBP and the battery had drained in an hour from 100% to zero even though I had it plugged into the monitor. Nothing funny since an SMC reset and I'm tempted to put it all down to the MBP especially after reading all the other threads. I've got an audio interface plugged into the back of the monitor too and that always kicks in when the MBP wakes from sleep no issue.

 

[jackoatmon]

I've spent most of my waking hours over the past 5 days in Adobe CC on a 2.6/460/1tb and can say it's been an absolute dream.

The touch bar doesn't work in CC (for me anyway – dunno if they just haven't released that update yet), but the computer is a screamer.

I've been running Lr, Ps, Id and Ai.

Haven't used Premiere (hate that program), but FCPX is amazing on this machine.

 

[runner77]

Running Photoshop, Lightroom and Acrobat since yesterday at work (CC). So far no issues, despite editing large files. Absolutely stunning device.

 

[fox10078]

Running premiere and after effects is fine. 15 inch 460

 

[caddison]

Awesome.... thanks for everyone's replies and keep them coming.

Along with the usuals (Ps, Ai, Id, Br), I'll be running a lot of Pr, Ae and Au as well... with even some Ch.

Seems like most people are pretty happy so far.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

I have hte same model as what you have on order: 2.9, 1TB, 460. I don’t use Adobe CC, but I am a very heavy user of Capture One Pro and Final Cut Pro.

I’ve never had a problem with any of my Apple devices before, but I did notice very short battery life. After 4-5 days of usage (waiting for indexing, etc to complete) my battery life was still short. I just performed two SMC resets (wasn’t sure if the first one took) and now my battery life looks to be excellent. I haven’t had a chance to run it completely down on battery power yet, but it’s looking like 11 hours with daily internet use. All seems to be good on that front.

I’ve edited a few hundred photos so far and I’ve done about 4 hours of editing in FCPX and have not noticed any glitches at all in regards to the graphics. However, what I have noticed is phenomenally improved speed versus my mid-2012 1st gen rMBP and the display is simply gorgeous. I am very impressed so far. Admittedly, I probably need a couple of months of heavy use to make sure there are no hidden glitches, but its been nothing short of great so far.

 

[jackoatmon]

I just performed two SMC resets (wasn’t sure if the first one took) and now my battery life looks to be excellent.

How do you SMC reset with no power button? I was trying to figure this out !

EDIT: omg the finger print reader is a power button. I literally hadn't touched it till now since I don't use biometrics hahahaha.

 

[echoout]

I've spent the last week finishing a motion design job mainly in After Effects, AME, Cinema 4D, with a few other CC apps thrown in. After Effects renders marginally faster than the mid-2012 MBP I've been using but Cinema 4D is a huge step backwards. Way slower renders. The only area where I see significant improvement over my 4.5 year old MBP is in the newer 3D extrusion functionality in AE 2017.

I'm struggling mightily with the new keyboard and basically turned off most of the Touch Bar's functionality because I keep bumping it. Battery life is 2 hours at best. Getting my fair share of kernel panics from weird things I haven't narrowed down yet.

I WANT to believe but...man! I've owned about every pro Apple laptop since 1998 and this is the first one I've ever had that didn't feel like a step forward.

 

[pudcraft]

I have a 2.7ghz/512gb/460 tbMBP 15".

I'm a UX/UI designer, but also head the design for our web, mobile application, tradeshow, branding etc... I've been using this laptop to attempt and replace an older machine. So far, it's been great. The Adobe CC suite hasn't posed any trouble for me. Here are the apps I use:

Photoshop CC
Illustrator CC
Indesign CC
Experience Design CC
Lightroom CC
Dreamweaver CC

I usually have XD open at all times and about 4 files running. Photoshop is open in the background and so is Illustrator. All of this while using Slack, Google Chrome, Email app, and Skype. I'm pushing out to TWO 4k screens + the Laptops integrated screen for a total of 3 screens. I'm using a Displayport to USB-C adapter off Amazon to push 4k @60hz to the external screens.

The fans never pick up unless rebooting or installing some software/updates. There is a very slight UI lag when toggling Expose, but after an SMC reset, that was cleared up.

I have been extremely impressed with the performance of this machine. I don't have any feedback on battery life as I'm always plugged in. The only time I have noticed battery life tank down was due to showing an app design through Adobe XD to a 4k 55" TV to the team. I went from 100% to 70% in about 1 hour doing all of that. May have been better if I closed other apps etc.

Good luck!

 

[jjjoseph]

I've spent the last week finishing a motion design job mainly in After Effects, AME, Cinema 4D, with a few other CC apps thrown in. After Effects renders marginally faster than the mid-2012 MBP I've been using but Cinema 4D is a huge step backwards. Way slower renders. The only area where I see significant improvement over my 4.5 year old MBP is in the newer 3D extrusion functionality in AE 2017.

I'm struggling mightily with the new keyboard and basically turned off most of the Touch Bar's functionality because I keep bumping it. Battery life is 2 hours at best. Getting my fair share of kernel panics from weird things I haven't narrowed down yet.

I WANT to believe but...man! I've owned about every pro Apple laptop since 1998 and this is the first one I've ever had that didn't feel like a step forward.

Here at my company we got a 13" base MacBook pro and a 15" Fully Loaded as soon as they came out, we tested both and we where pretty bummed. I wrote my dislike of these new laptops on these forums and was immediately attacked by AMD and Apple Zealots.. Its funny because I was an Apple Zealot, but less and less each year. I was told stuff like Apple never made high end equipment and I shouldn't use Adobe Products.. Which is funny because my day to day is grading and coloring, and digital composting, I don't even use any Adobe Products, but my company does.

Once the arguing starts these forums become a WASH of misinformation from people who don't use high end equipment and spew random one sided youtube videos about a guy who says his Final Cut Pro X workflow is faster, so I don't know what I'm talking about. Its too bad their isn't a more democratic way for people who really rely in high end equipment for a living to talk through new products..

On a positive note, I might keep the 13" base model, the 15" is already returned, I do like the form factor, and I think its a great though EXPENSIVE ultrabook, and my wife thinks its cute.

The company I work for on the other hand is screwed, everyone here is watching the demise of Apple and OS X for high end video and film professionals, but thats just life now.. As soon as ProRes is removed from Film Workflows, and maybe everything goes MXF it will all work itself out, but right now.. its a transition..

ALSO a NOTE we didn't test any Graphics Programs, Photoshop and Illustrator etc.. They have run fine since the 2011/2012 MacBook Pros, so their was no need.

 

[echoout]

I feel you on ALL of what you just said. I'm a freelance motion designer and teach in a college motion graphics program. I feel like the Apple ecosystem is as strong as ever but the hardware is just getting to be kind of eccentric. It does some things so well and might abandon other things altogether. I'm so deep in the ecosystem it's just insane. If you saw me type this from my classroom you'd laugh because I'm surrounded by so much Apple gear it's ridiculous; Mac Pros, iPad Pros, MBPs, Watches, Pens, and exactly 1,000,000 dongles.

But after days of benchmarking, I'm just sad about the performance. I have 2 nice 2009 Mac Pros (in my signature) that along with an HP z820 allow me to get some serious work done at home, but at this point I might end up with the same 13" MBP you have and an HP Zbook in my bag for heavy lifting when out and about. Can't believe I just said that.

 

[jjjoseph]

I feel you on ALL of what you just said. I'm a freelance motion designer and teach in a college motion graphics program. I feel like the Apple ecosystem is as strong as ever but the hardware is just getting to be kind of eccentric. It does some things so well and might abandon other things altogether. I'm so deep in the ecosystem it's just insane. If you saw me type this from my classroom you'd laugh because I'm surrounded by so much Apple gear it's ridiculous; Mac Pros, iPad Pros, MBPs, Watches, Pens, and exactly 1,000,000 dongles.

But after days of benchmarking, I'm just sad about the performance. I have 2 nice 2009 Mac Pros (in my signature) that along with an HP z820 allow me to get some serious work done at home, but at this point I might end up with the same 13" MBP you have and an HP Zbook in my bag for heavy lifting when out and about. Can't believe I just said that.

I mean when I think about it, it makes me mad, then sad. OS X was and still is such a solid operating system. There have been times when I was working doing digital composting, coloring, editing(final cut pro-NOT X), working 14 hour days, and my MacPro tower, or my MacBook Pro with OS X would never crash!! It would always boot, everything would always work. It just "WORKED". It was incredible. Everything was so rock solid. Also I used to compile little Linux applications that no one else on the PC had.. Stuff some guy from ILM or PIXAR wrote in his spare time to make his life easier, and It was awesome.

Then when I would jump to Windows it was like yeah, not so much, the same hardware, but every vendor has different drivers, and plugins and what nots, it just made it so scrappy, but not in a good way. Microsoft never made it easy either Constant updates, constant bugs, constant malware warnings.

I do have a Windows10 tower, and its fine, some of the FONT rendering and stuff drive me nuts, and I think it needs more refinement like OS X. And if its just windows, adobe and nvidia its fine, but drivers and updates constantly happening are very annoying.

When my tower dies at work they want to get me a Z100 or whatever HP makes as a high end tower at the time, and switch our grading theatre to Windows from OS X.. It will be sad when that happens, but apple totally abandoned my market.. so what can I do.

 

[echoout]

Right, I feel like I'm being forced, especially with my heavier work. Crazy!