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MacBook Pro, Late 2016 EU Owners

Gonzaless said:
silent click is there, i dont know why people were saying it is not. Defintely some stuff is wrong with speaker drivers. making silly sounds when i run bash script or downloading stuff.
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Can you take a picture of your "Silent clicking" option in the settings?

Apple themselves are suggesting:
Silent clicking is not available for the built-in trackpad on MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports), and MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports).​
 
Splendid idea to keep the EU love-in going :)

First impressions :

* ADORE the keyboard. Can type so much faster on this, and I'm already a quick typist
* Screen is lovely. At first I didn't notice it so much, but having to occasionally jump back to my 2008 MB I can see the old one looking so less sharp and vibrant. Have to have the brightness turned down so it doesn't burn my eyes out too!
* Love the space grey colour, although Silver always looked great too
* Find the touchbar more useful out-of-the-box than I thought. I think the regular controls are well placed, and it seems to complement whatever you are doing very well. It's generally in the field of vision without ever being overly distracting. When more apps make really good use of this, I think it will become an invaluable tool.
* Trackpad is fine but took a while to get used to the force-touch side of things, and had to adjust the sensitivity to allow a lighter click in preferences, so it is more like my usual setup (as well as enabling the right-side click for context menu).

All I've done is set it up (accepted everything except file vault), surfed the net, imported my photos and downloaded a poker application. So minimal use really, but really impressed so far.
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augenleet said:
Can you take a picture of your "Silent clicking" option in the settings?

Apple themselves are suggesting:
Silent clicking is not available for the built-in trackpad on MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports), and MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports).​
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Don't you just adjust the click pressure in preferences. I've made mine lighter as thats how I've always preferred it, and a gentle tap on the trackpad registers as a click, without a clicky sound.
 
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Brookzy said:
Impressions:

Speakers - don't believe all that stuff about cosmetic speakers grilles:
  1. It sounds better than the rMB speakers (and that had the best speakers of any MacBook)
  2. If you cover the bottom of the grilles the sound is clearly muffled so sound is coming out of them
  3. The bass comes from the air vent region
Also:

The first thing everyone should do (in my humble opinion) is replace the useless Siri with Spotlight on the Touch Bar! ;)

Mine came with System Integrity Protection disabled so Apple still hasn't fixed that.

Touch Bar is looking better from a normal typing distance. Just don't do what I did and start inspecting it up close!

Does anyone know how to display the rainbow colour picker on the Touch Bar as shown on the box?
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Yeah, there is definitely a speaker hole in the bottom of the speaker on the iFixit teardown, they are probably cosmetic only on the 13" with Touch Bar...
 
Barnfather said:
Don't you just adjust the click pressure in preferences. I've made mine lighter as thats how I've always preferred it, and a gentle tap on the trackpad registers as a click, without a clicky sound.
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On previous Force Touch trackpads you could opt to remove the artificial clicking sound that was made. Contrary to the name of the toggle, it didn't make it 'silent', as you could still hear the haptic. But there is some artificial sound too.

On the new MacBook Pro, the option to silent click has (or at least should have) been removed.
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matteomanfredi said:
Yeah, there is definitely a speaker hole in the bottom of the speaker on the iFixit teardown, they are probably cosmetic only on the 13" with Touch Bar...
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I have a 13" with Touch Bar. :p

There are very few holes that permeate all the way through but it's enough for a lot of sound to come through.
[doublepost=1479831874][/doublepost]FINALLY - I've always wanted a poo button on my keyboard. :p

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Ta da! - The speakers on this thing are ridiculous! Not had the chance to do a whole lot of intensive tasks yet because I've been busy transferring data over but looking forward to getting stuck in the following weeks.

Cheers!
 
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Posted this on the shipping thread:
Not long back home and I am actually typing this on my new MacBook Pro!
For me I think 13" was the right size though I guess 15" wouldn't have hurt.
The keyboard takes some getting used too as sometimes I'm not fully convinced I am holding down the shift key.
I am impressed with the touchbar and Touch ID!
Hopefully I can install all my applications before I head out in a few hours or so.

Just fired up my old 2011 MBP and was fully charged last night when I powered it off, when OS loaded it was reporting 30% battery life so I think this purchase was necessary, but overall I am really impressed with the quality, especially the screen when you sit it side by side with a Macbook as old as mine.

I am in love with it!
 
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92elliot said:
The one thing that bugged me, i looked immediately for a fix and come across this.
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ur-macbook-snap-feature-is-back?ref=user_menu
Have to wait a few months but i see it as a invaluable accessory to have, especially with dogs in the house.
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There's actually a couple of these around at the moment, like the griffin breaksafe, I'm considering one but if they could incorporate an amber/green charging light like before, that would be even better!
 
Yet to open mine, i want to start from scratch but have programmes like photoshop, illustrator etc. that need moving across, i'm so terrible when it comes to migration and the technical sides of the machine not sure if i can move across just those programmes to the new machine.
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technoholic said:
There's actually a couple of these around at the moment, like the griffin breaksafe, I'm considering one but if they could incorporate an amber/green charging light like before, that would be even better!
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I did see the griffin but then your stuck having to use their lead where with that you can plug in any usb-c and also can get the colour to match the machine. I agree though the charging light would have made it perfect the on thing i will miss for sure.
 
So my fully charged battery is reporting 3.5 hours remaining. Also my outlook is running at 117% CPU!

Battery life is lower due to my one drive syncing and some other initial tasks I'm sure, but this seems still to be very low. What are yours reporting?
 
92elliot said:
Yet to open mine, i want to start from scratch but have programmes like photoshop, illustrator etc. that need moving across, i'm so terrible when it comes to migration and the technical sides of the machine not sure if i can move across just those programmes to the new machine.
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What all do you need to migrate? About to move a load of development/design software over to my new Mac myself.
 
92elliot said:
Yet to open mine, i want to start from scratch but have programmes like photoshop, illustrator etc. that need moving across, i'm so terrible when it comes to migration and the technical sides of the machine not sure if i can move across just those programmes to the new machine.
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You would probably just be better reinstalling the apps you need wouldn't you?
 
davidturner said:
What all do you need to migrate? About to move a load of development/design software over to my new Mac myself.
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If i can i am quite literally just going to migrate the adobe programmes which i'm not shelling out for new versions of their Cloud subscriptions so Ps, Id, Ai, Acrobat.

Everything else will get a fresh install, but not sure how to pick and choose specific's, i have got a 1 to 1 live video set-up session though to take advantage of so they can talk me through it no doubt.
 
kingjames1970 said:
Oh so lovely - new MBP 15" with iPad Pro 12.9" attached. Running Photoshop across both screens using DuetView attachment 674133 . Bye bye iMac!
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Can see you have the Adobe Suite what do you run the CC or CS6 ? I'm fighting with myself on what to do i have CS6 is their much of a point in going to the CC if i did could do a fully fresh install on the new machine as well but then if not i need to transfer CS6 did you migrate the full machine or what path did you choose to take ?
 
92elliot said:
Is their much of an improvement from CS6 ? As thats what i have as the suite when they used to sell it to install before they moved into the cloud.
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I went straight from something like CS3 or 4 to CC, for me it was a fairly good upgrade, I actually purchased it mainly for Lightroom as I use that much more than Photoshop these days. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a cloud subscription to CC but I know not everyone is keen on not owning the software
 
Anyone has an idea how to copy Mail from my other Mac to my new Mac?

I mean without using migration assistant. Just copying Mail, Mail Downloads and Mail.plist from users/myuser/Library does not do the trick unfortunately...
 
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