[PConline stand-alone evaluation] Apple's new MacBook Pro can be described as brilliant since its introduction, as a representative of macOS, Apple's unique experience with the entire Windows camp Chamber resistance, stronger performance, more lightweight body, The comprehensive USB-C interface and the new Touch Bar function make this product a hot object of discussion. The user's attitude towards it is also obvious and mixed. However, Apple tries to add a brand new one to the notebook. The interactive mode is commendable, even if it is not enough to revolutionize it now, but it also opened up another entrance to human-computer interaction. Today, we come to talk about this most futuristic notebook - MacBook Pro.
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For Apple, it is difficult for someone to examine it with rational thinking. This is a legendary company that still likes tossing. It cut off the drive, got rid of the phone's keyboard, and blew out the 3.5mm headphone jack until it cut off. Every interface other than USB-C, every subtraction is critical, as it is puzzling to get rid of the user's "mom!" Constantly changing the user's use habits also makes it bear an embarrassment, not for anything else, just to seek that more intuition, the most simple experience. I believe that this Touch Bar is not the end, but a new beginning.
â– MacBook Pro: Groundbreaking New Usage Touch Bar
Apple has been sparing no effort to promote easier interactions. The first commercial mouse, the first company to achieve multi-touch, has not used touch screens on its own Mac notebooks. This is in the eyes of Windows users. How obstinate? Until the advent of the touch bar, we learned that "unreconcilable" Apple seems to find a better solution to replace the touch screen in the notebook. So for this Touch Bar, you should know this.
Name: Multi-Touch Bar
Chinese name: Glass touch multi-touch bar built into the keyboard
Function: Let you quickly access various tools when needed
Work Unit: New MacBook Pro 13, New MacBook Pro 15
Date of birth: Beijing time, October 28, 2016
Family Members: Father Screen, Mother Keyboard, Brother Touch ID
Xiao Bian tried to describe the use and function of the Multi-Touch Bar in various ways, but there was no official introduction to it. In addition, it has a lot of very powerful, very "absurd" features, after all the experience there will be such a feeling, wow oh ~ the original can also be like this! And, with the development of third-party software, its playing methods will be more and more, more and more rich features.
â— Custom Multi-Touch Bar
â—Touch Bar interception picture
â—Touch Bar has this problem
Multi-Touch Bar's forcing seconds to the old models on the cover of the white light do not know how many street, no light is no pity. In my opinion, the real regrettable place is exactly what Apple is best at “experienceâ€. The Multi-Touch Bar is excellent, but there is no obvious feedback. When using it, you must keep a firm eye on the Touch Bar. Approaches like the keyboard “blind operation†cannot form a closed loop on the experience. Apple will be so vibrating to “slipâ€. I think it would be much more comfortable to use vibration feedback in the Multi-Touch Bar. Obviously, this answer can only be Handed over to Touch Bar "2.0" solved.
â— Touch ID login Mac, but also ...
For this product, there is no doubt that the Multi-Touch Bar is its biggest highlight, but it is not its only selling point! We have had the privilege of seeing fingerprint recognition on the Apple MacBook Pro. For Apple with such a powerful technology reserve, installing a fingerprint recognition module is not a problem, of course. The question is where can we look better and forcefully? Obviously, the whole body is integrated, and it is impossible to open a hole for unlocking the fingerprint. Instead, you can only focus on the C side where the user operates the most, look at the C side, and there is no key position other than the power button. It is redundant, and as such, the power key and Touch ID are combined into one.
Name: Touch ID
Chinese name: fingerprint identification
Features: Instantly unlock your Mac, access system settings quickly, and encrypt memos
Work Units: New MacBook Pro 13, New MacBook Pro 15, iPhone
Date of birth: unknown
Family members: father screen, mother (to be confirmed), brother Multi-Touch Bar
The combo of power fingerprints is also a specific way that Apple weakens the power button or weakens the action of the switch. Jobs is said to like the design concept of a toaster. An extremely simple product, a key, click to work, after completion, bouncing no longer heating. Do not press the power button again before heating. Now that the MacBook Pro opens the screen, it will boot automatically, and the lid will automatically sleep. There is no need to press the power button again. Of course, because the physical power key is still there, it is still possible to force restart.
In the "Biography of Jobs," there is a certain relationship with the power button: He admits that when he is facing death, he may be more likely to believe that there is an afterlife. He said, "Oh! Then you'll be gone." He stopped again and smiled indifferently. "Maybe that's why I never like to switch Apple products."
â– MacBook Pro: all walks of life, are professional weapon?
"Minimalistness" is the design concept that spans all Apple products from beginning to end. Under this view of products, we have the opportunity to see the more minimalistic MacBook Pro, an all-metal body with undisguised expression of metallic texture. , Apple once again proved to the world how powerful it is in industrial design. I believe that many people like me, the first time to get the product is not to light up the screen, but to “find it†and use it to explore the truth. Attitudes to find millimeter-level tolerances on the product, may be Apple's products will be treated this way ...
â—The brightest and most colorful Mac notebook display so far
It can be said that the new MacBook Pro is completely new from the inside out, as the main carrier of information, the new screen is directly related to the quality of the product is good or bad, the new MacBook Pro has P3 color gamut, the number of colors can be displayed than the standard RGB increased by 25 %, a wider range of green and red colors render the details of the picture clear, this is crucial for graphic design, color correction, and image editing, and its color performance is accurate, and some people even use the apple screen directly as a Swatches, so not everyone has chosen to "choose" to select Apple, it does have a great advantage in some areas.
There was a problem in Zhihu that caught the attention of Xiao Bian. "What kind of person is suitable for buying MacBook Pro?" A netizen's answer is very interesting. He said that it is suitable for those who only look at the screen and fall in love with this product. Although it is a shrewd answer, but also to change the direction of the MacBook Pro's screen really amazing, Apple's critically acclaimed "Retina retina" screen is not blown out. Its ultra-high pixel density has exceeded the range that can be distinguished by the human eye, so that the fidelity of the image is improved. The pixel-level accuracy of the image is complete, the text display is even more angular, and the apple macOS system has a high score screen. The support really did a better job.
â— Butterfly keyboard + Force Touch trackpad
The C-side is where the new MacBook Pro has changed, and the "out of the box" touchpad has left a deep impression. It allows users to have more space for touch gestures and tapping operations. This shows how confident Apple is with its own touchpad experience, and it even has to kill the mouse! When the Multi-Touch Bar is becoming more and more versatile, with the super touchpad, who knows what happened?
Different from the operating logic of the Windows system, the Force Touch has no left and right buttons, and the experience is similar to the 3D Touch on the iPhone. It is divided into two levels of clicks. The first camera is like the focus of the shutter, and the deeper click is like taking pictures. Pressing the pressure will trigger an electromagnet to bring tactile feedback. The advantage of this is that not only can you see what's happening on the screen, but you can also feel directly that the cost of learning is not high and it is very convenient to use.
The keyboard is still a familiar full-size design. We saw the butterfly keyboard on the 12-inch MacBook for the first time. The world's shortest keyboard does not seem to be as defamatory as the MacBook 12, but is a few millimeters above the horizontal plane. It also reminds you all the time, "Don't suspect that my short journey has given you enough time to believe that I can still indent two millimeters."
This single butterfly architecture combined with a stainless steel dome switch, while ensuring the balance and stability of the keyboard, makes the body lighter but loses some of its feel. Xiao Bian can only say that the keystrokes on the MacBook are precious. Everyone should cherish it. Although the keystrokes are shorter, the accuracy and feedback of daily typing are still obvious, and even the playing rhythm is barely saved. In addition, each key is individually matched with the LED backlight, and it is almost impossible to see the keyboard light leakage at night. This is nothing to say, praise.
â– MacBook Pro: How is performance? My evaluation is like this
â— The speaker is also brand new
This time we also saw a new speaker design, Apple said that its dynamic range is twice as wide, the volume up to 58%, the bass increased to 2.5 times, through the actual experience, the release of the new MacBook Pro really makes Satisfaction, the actual location of the audio is located below the keyboard as shown in the figure, of course, these improvements make the MacBook Pro meet the needs of professionals who want to mix arranger, live clips video use.
â—Product configuration table
For the new MacBook Pro's hardware performance, personally feel that there is nothing to worry about, this is the reason why the Xiaobian evaluation content weakened this part. There is no problem in dealing with everyday use, and you can use it with confidence.
â—GeekBench test
GeekBench is a test software for the Mac operating system that provides a fast benchmark design for a comprehensive and accurate measurement of processor and memory performance. Designed to make benchmarks easy to run and easy to understand, Geekbench needed to guess strong production and reliable benchmark results.
Of course, just to list a sub-run data, not only do you do not know its performance, Xiaobian looked after it is too aggressive, as a comparison, we also tested the 15-inch MacBook Pro, the data is the most honest, like To save money for higher performance
◠Disk Speed ​​Test test
Apple is the first full-line notebook company to use SSDs. Apple is the highest quality laptop in all notebook SSDs. It is not only a single product, but also a high-end product. Xiaobian used Disk Speed ​​Test to test it. In a moment, the write can reach 1328.8MB/s, and the read can reach 2000.0MB/s (sorry, the software was ran away, and the actual speed is how much I don't know (╮_╰)╰).
â— Practical heat test
Although the whole new generation of MacBook Pro is like a 12-inch MacBook and an old MacBook Pro, it is actually quite different in some details. The slimmer body and the available cooling space The smaller. The thermal design of this machine has been improved. The two slender openings on the back side are the air inlet. The air outlet is hidden under the shaft. It is difficult to find if it is not deliberately observed.
During the past few days of the evaluation, Xiao Bian had performed some routine operations. The body temperature did not change significantly during my use. So, what exactly is its heat dissipation? To this end, Xiao Bian simulated the daily use of most people. He opened a variety of software in the background, used it for 30 minutes, and then recorded its heat dissipation.
It can be seen from the pictures taken by the thermal sensor that the normal use of the MacBook Pro body is not serious and is considered a moderate one. The high-temperature area of ​​the fuselage appears near the “G†and “H†keys. The maximum temperature is 35°C, close to the body temperature; the back temperature is even lower than the front temperature, and the temperature distribution is evenly distributed at 30-33°C. between.
â— Endurance test
Using the MacBook Pro to test battery life is a very tormenting thing. In all products, battery life can be as persistent as the MacBook Pro. It is really rare. The daily use of the Mini-series simulates continuous use of HD video for two hours. The power is 75%, and the system prompts you can continue to play 4 hours and 46 minutes. This is a realistic 7 hours battery life without the use of a large power consumption application, although it does not reach the officially announced 10 Hours, but this result is already very good.
â– MacBook Pro: Is a full USB-C interface dead? I don't think so
â— The most critical Thunderbolt 3 interface
Apple has been advocating the application of wireless technology, so even remove the 3.5mm headphone jack (promotion Bluetooth headset) on the new iPhone, this logic will of course also be reflected in the new MacBook Pro, remove the traditional interface body will be thinner, but As a "tool" that emphasizes productivity, it is obviously not practical to remove all the interfaces. Of course, the technical conditions are not allowed. I believe that in the future, Apple will spare no effort to kill all the interfaces that can be destroyed.
Is it better to set a small target first, for example, how are all interfaces on a unified laptop? The full Thunderbolt 3 interface has also become the object of most consumers criticized, and even their own iPhone can not be compatible (Apple's ability to sell accessories that greatly improved ah ~) So, four Thunderbolt 3 in the end is not enough? Not enough depends on whether Thunderbolt 3's features are rich or not. Thunderbolt 3 integrates with USB-C. Now it's a truly universal port. It is a veritable "data transfer, video output, and charging to a compact interface." The Future Interface" and Thunderbolt 3 data transfer rates up to 40 Gbps is twice that of Thunderbolt 2, eight times that of USB 3, and the MacBook Pro 13 can drive up to two 4K displays or one 5K display.
In general, the four Thunderbolt 3 interfaces of the body basically meet the needs of most people. The problem lies in the need to purchase a variety of adapters! This is really a rough solution. To calculate the common interface, do you need several adapters? How much does it cost? The good news is that Apple’s official accessories are now sold at half price, and you need to jump in and start using interfaces.
â— See the table below to find out which converters or cables you need
â— As a member of the Pro family, this thickness is really "lose"
In order to realize the thin and light body MacBook Pro has never had before, Apple can be described as a big move. Butterfly keyboard, a new interface contributed, as a "Pro" level notebook can have such a body size is rare, and even let their own main light Air series are self-defeating, we may wish to horizontally compare the machine and these The gap between the thinnest notebooks on Earth can be seen as a war that is exactly millimeters in thickness.
â—My eyes are MacBook Pro
Looking at the Touch Bar experience today can only be described in terms of generality, and even for some people there is even a little bit of taste, but it is significant. Its appearance provides developers with a new dynamic space, allowing developers to open up new dimensions for their existing and future apps. In the future, the Multi-Touch Bar will seamlessly connect with your various types of apps until it is in-depth. marrow.
The birth of the Multi-Touch Bar reminds me of the first time I saw a touch screen. This is the charm of technology. The "touchable" feel is so amazing. The Multi-Touch Bar looks like a touch. The bar, but the logic behind it can be called subversive, and unlike a simple input tool keyboard, it is more like a "book" that will communicate with you, when you want to see a page, or query When it comes to content, it will automatically "unfold" the answer before you. This may be what the designer ultimately yearns for.
In terms of the product itself, this may be the most excellent and most comprehensive laptop in the current notebook market. Perhaps there are many imperfections in it. For example, the interface configuration is too single to even connect to the iPhone itself, but What about? Who calls it an apple that drives the mission of the times? Every evolution is accompanied by labor pains. This is inevitable. Keeping the stereotypes is still left to mediocrity. After all, not everyone has the ability to change the world.
Let's imagine what the notebook will look like in the coming decades, or when it can no longer be called a laptop. Technology is full of charm, it can make an ironclad operation, communication, and even independent thinking, wrote here I think of "Robot Story" in Eve, this through Jonathan's guiding role is almost like Apple's product.
