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The No Touch Bar 13 Macbook Version
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I guess some one like me who has never owned a macbook before might not have the same views as i have nothing to compare against
About half. 6-7 from highest.
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That's just the built in activity monitor.
It's there but turned off by default. Open the sound preference panel: "play feedback when volume is changed"
Have you guys seen this?
Also, I'm manually backing up my MBA rather than doing a Time Machine backup because I don't need to save every app and file on my computer. I copied all the folders from the home folder (pictures, music, etc.) but just wanted to make sure I'm not forgetting anything important. Safari bookmarks sync with iCloud, right?
Also, I'm manually backing up my MBA rather than doing a Time Machine backup because I don't need to save every app and file on my computer. I copied all the folders from the home folder (pictures, music, etc.) but just wanted to make sure I'm not forgetting anything important. Safari bookmarks sync with iCloud, right?
you must have suffered a bit of a loss with selling a top spec 15" from just last year? normally add ons don't add a ton, compared to return from getting say a base model
hope you made out alright
Well I caved and got this version. Apple priced me out of the touchbar version. I am going to give that a few years to mature/go away.
After about 5 hours with my new MacBook Pro 2016 I think I'm gonna get the refurbished MacBook Pro 2015. I'm sorry but I just hate this keyboard. It is loud and feels cheap same with the trackpad. I think I'm gonna get the MacBook Pro 2015 instead :/ I really wanted to like it, but I just can't. (btw this is all my own opinion)
Thing is, this is obviously the future of the keyboard on Macs. You have to get accustomed to it at some point. Unless external keyboards are your flavor. Forever.
I guess thats true. I just noticed they took down the MacBook 13" 2015 that I was gonna buy. So I guess I'll keep this one a couple more days and see if anything changes.
For my needs the new MBP is ideal. The 2015 model I had was massively overpowered for my current needs.
For general browsing, mailing, small jpg photo edits there's hardly any difference
I've been eyeing one of these two. So the 2015 15" is much more powerful than the new 13"? I guess the same goes for games, right? Ones that are playable on the mac that is.
I'm actually disappointed by those results (11 hours battery life), and thats with 6-7 low bars on brightness.
One of the big reasons for me buying the 13" non touch bar, was the fact that it had a bigger battery with a ultra low watt CPU. So I was hoping for battery life of around 14 hours.
The one thing I really didn't like about the new macbook pro (I tested my uncle's for an hour), was the 13" screen was too small for me. But I figured I could compromise 2" for longer battery life. However I'm now thinking of returning my 13" once I receive it, and order the 15" when it comes out.
14 hours with the tiny battery which Ive decided to use in order to make it slightly thinner? i don't think so..
You're disappointed with a MBP only getting 11 hours battery life when Apple quotes 10 hours?
Yes for me it definitely is. Assuming I get only 1 hour extra, and all the other's I get the quoted 10 hours. Then I would have definitely made a different choice.
On specs, it's logical to assume the base model would have got much more battery life. It has a 15W CPU, 54.5 Wh battery, and no touch bar to power.
While the 13" touchbar model has a 28W CPU, 49.2 Wh battery, and a touch bar to power.
Also looking at the latest geekbench specs. The i7 cpu wasn't worth getting with a median average of 7700, and the i5 with a median average of 7180.
I think I will return it, and get the 15" model, as a bigger screen size is worth more to me than an extra hour. Shame they don't have a 15" without the touch bar.
Why don't you actually test it out before returning it. You're making a decision based on anecdotal evidence. Find out for real before you spend the extra cash.
True. Tbh, I'm still definitely going to return it because of the cpu benchmark score is only a mere 500 difference, which is definitely not worth the extra £270 for me.
However I may still get this model instead of the 15", because the 15" is too much for what it is I think. What I will do instead, is keep the base CPU (saving the £270), and then upgrade the SSD from 512GB to 1TB, which will only cost an extra £70 to what I paid for this laptop, and be worth more value second hand in the future.
Whatever the case I won't be ordering until it's been returned and refunded.
I still like the base model, don't get me wrong. I tested my uncles base model out, the i5, 250gb, 8gb model, and it was speedy as hell. And the touchbar still has no appeal to me at all. I really wish they had a 15" with no touchbar, but they don't.
So we'll see, but one thing I know for sure. I will be returning. And I will decide between this model but with base cpu and 1tb drive, or a 15" model.
However I may still get this model instead of the 15", because the 15" is too much for what it is I think. What I will do instead, is keep the base CPU (saving the £270), and then upgrade the SSD from 512GB to 1TB, which will only cost an extra £70 to what I paid for this laptop, and be worth more value second hand in the future.
Whatever the case I won't be ordering until it's been returned and refunded.
I still like the base model, don't get me wrong. I tested my uncles base model out, the i5, 250gb, 8gb model, and it was speedy as hell. And the touchbar still has no appeal to me at all. I really wish they had a 15" with no touchbar, but they don't.
So we'll see, but one thing I know for sure. I will be returning. And I will decide between this model but with base cpu and 1tb drive, or a 15" model.
I got silver. It was actually hard to find for me. Every store has the space gray in stock in my area and I wanted silver.