2017 MAC PRO 13 INCH HOW TO
2017 MAC PRO 13 INCH PORTABLE

While audio pros likely have high-end headphones and speakers to connect to, this notebook offers some of the best sound I've ever heard come from an ultraportable. Calvin Harris' 'Rollin' sounded great on the notebook, with strong, sturdy bass clear vocals and accurate synths. Its speakers filled our large conference room with sound, drowning out our loud air conditioning. Since the Touch Bar launched last year, other applications - such as Evernote, Dashlane and Spotify - have added support for it. Although the Touch Bar offers some neat features, I found it useful mostly as a helpful reminder to delete Safari's stock bookmarks (Yelp, Yahoo, Disney, TripAdvisor and more). I made some use of the video playback navigation bar for YouTube videos in the browser and the resizing objects slider in Pixelmator. When I moved among my favorite apps, I noticed the Touch Bar light up with options.

2017 MAC PRO 13 INCH HOW TO

MORE: How to Customize the MacBook Pro Touch Bar This took as much focused effort to learn as Luke Skywalker needed to move the rocks in Empire Strikes Back. Because it's a nonmoving input surface that sends haptic feedback, the pad doesn't offer much of a clicking feel by default, though I changed that in the Trackpad section of System Preferences, by dragging the Click slider to Firm.ĭragging and dropping objects, though, works differently than on any other notebook I've ever tested, requiring you to use a half press before dragging objects. The 5.3 x 3.3-inch Force Touch trackpad provided accurate tracking as I navigated the desktop. The MacBook Pro's 2560 x 1600-pixel display is a beauty, offering eye-popping color and sharp clarity. If you're already used to the keys on the 2016 MacBook (0.5 mm), though, the 13-inch MacBook Pro will offer a nice improvement.

In comparison, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro's keys have a bit more travel (0.8 mm), but they felt better to me. While the keys have only 0.7 millimeters of travel (far below the 1.5 to 2.0 mm we look for), they make up for it by requiring 74 grams of force (above our 60-gram standard) to actuate. When testing the butterfly-mechanism keyboard on the typing test, I clicked my way to 70 words per minute, dipping below my 80-wpm average. The MacBook Pro's backlit keyboard, trackpad and Touch Bar offer solid input experiences, but they may take some getting used to. Keyboard, Trackpad and Touch Bar: Good, with slight learning curves That mark tops the 288-nit ultraportable average, the 302-nit XPS 13, the 318-nit Spectre x360 and the 275-nit ThinkPad X1 Carbon. This MacBook Pro kicked the competition's butt when it came to performance.Įmitting up to 458 nits (a measure of brightness), the MacBook Pro's screen also outshines the competition. That's below the 2.6 category average, the 1.3 from the XPS 13, the 0.7 from the Spectre x360 and the 4.4 from the ThinkPad X1. The MacBook Pro's panel is also accurate, earning a 0.2 on the Delta-E test, where lower is better. That beats the 98-percent ultraportable average, as well as the measurements from the XPS 13 (94 percent), the Spectre x360 (102 percent) and the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (104 percent). I even saw fine details, such as the red dot on a minuscule knob of a robotic forearm.Īccording to our colorimeter, the MacBook Pro's screen produces 123 percent of the sRGB spectrum. When watching the 4K sci-fi film Tears of Steel on this panel, I loved the gloriously vibrant pink tones of a holographic brain, and noted crisp, pure-white spotlights and rich, inky-black corners of a bellhouse attic.

That means I'd need one of the company's $19 USB Type-C-to-USB adapters to connect a device such as my USB hub. XPS (13 inch / 15 inch) Galaxy (S10) Samsung Notebook 9 Surface Laptop 3 ĮNVY 13.With four Thunderbolt 3 ports (split between its left and right sides) and a headphone jack, the MacBook Pro shows that Apple's future-facing view still requires that we buy dongles to plug in our pre-existing devices. Below are some devices that support DP 1.4:

2017 MAC PRO 13 INCH PORTABLE

Anker USB C to Dual HDMI Adapter, Compact and Portable USB C Adapter, Supports and Dual for MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPad Pro, XPS, and More Īny laptop with a USB-C port that supports DisplayPort Alt Mode.įor dual resolution, please confirm your device supports DP 1.4.

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