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I used to be happy with a magnet that laptop was once the benchmark for balancing power portability price and epic battery but his design display haven't changed for six long years now and those years are started to show we used to be the best mobile computer in the world is now an outdated relic it's time for an heir to the air and this is if the $14.99 metal pro 13 inch without is the thinnest and lightest macbook pro that apple has ever made and a first blush it looks like everything that air users have been asking for much nicer display and much better specs without any sacrifice of portability but what Apple is created here isn't really a MacBook Air or macbook pro as we've known them for so long what this computer represents is the professionalization of the 12-inch MacBook from last year a pro MacBook if you will the design is a perfect match for the Mac right down to the metal bottom of the display the space gray color option and the Apple logo on the lid that no longer luminate also like the MacBook there are almost no ports on this new MacBook Pro get a headphone jack on the right to use BC connections on the left and that's it this is the most drastic change Apple's made to smack computers in a long time and leads to a ton of compromises want to upload pictures from your camera there's no SD card slot so you need a don't want to backup your data to an external hard drive you need either an adapter or whole new Drive he'll even plug in an iPhone requires a new cable adapter yes ok the new port support on the boat 3 which has a gajillion gigabits of bandwidth but that's the tech of the future not the present the MagSafe charger is another victim of the USBC revolution which is handling magnetic latching being replaced by a stiff connector it's much harder to attach and detach and doesn't have an LED status light if you can get over the shock of losing every useful port in your laptop and I'm still not sure that I can this new MacBook Pro is a classic work of aluminum art from Apple the hinge is strong and just glides open the bezels around display a tiny there are stereo speakers frame the new keyboard and the touchpad is downright enormous that limousine size touchpad may look excessive but I love it and because it's for such I can click the top of it in a way that can't do with a mechanical switch of a MacBook Air the keyboard has an upgraded version of the MacBooks butterfly mechanism and it really has a much better feel I didn't like it at first and many people might never like it's shallow key travel but once I stopped testing the keyboard and just started typing naturally it all came together nicely the biggest upgrade with this MacBook Pro is the display which is just stunning we're the same wider color gamut of the iPhone 7 and 5k iMac it looks great from literally any angle I want to say it's obviously better than the preceding MacBook Pro but it is in technical terms but 67% great contrast and 67% higher brightness photographers will love this display for editing once they figured out the suitable work around for the dongle situation magnet pros performance won't let you down either as a handles both Photoshop and Lightroom nicely this might look like the ultra portable MacBook but it performs like a real pro laptop battery life on this new MacBook Pro doesn't rival the s 12 hours but it does achieve Apple's claimed 10 hours I'm a writer so my typical use may be a bit more forgiving than other professionals however I keep seeing a perfect match between remaining percentage and hours of battery life 90% is nine hours 40% is four hours and so on Apple seems to have deliberately targeted 10 hours as the benchmark but I have little to no worries about the battery it lasts a consistently long time as new and future facing as this MacBook may be it embodies a lot of familiar Apple strengths great industrial design and touchpad economics reliable performance and solid battery life but it's also taken away user friendly features like the SD card slot USB ports and the MagSafe charger with Windows rivals catching up fast and this new laptop costing $14.99 as a starting price I'm inclined to give Dell Lenovo and razer a shot before deciding on my MacBook Air upgrade if you're determined to stick with Mac OS this new MacBook Pro is the obvious and easy choice for step up from the air it's also much better and more powerful than $12.99 MacBook but even if ordered existed with Apple laptops there's still the temptation of the more expensive MacBook Pro with the touch bar which actually is something unique about it so where does that leave this new touch list MacBook Pro it's a good computer price like a great one it's the future crammed into the present but it's also the most affordable new macbook pro and therefore the one if any that most of us will buy as such it's a beautifully designed very thin and light unibody slab of Apple branded compromise