Losing the function keys may occasionally be annoying – we must confess to still not having found a replacement shortcut for the handy old Cmd + F3 to temporarily clear the screen of all open windows – but its wide and customisable range of functionality should make for this. And we’ve found it admirably fast and responsive, switching near-instantly when changing apps or changing function within an app. The Touch Bar supports multitouch, and there are some applications (in areas such as DJing) where you’ll be swiping and tapping with two fingertips at once. (Mail also offers more general predictive suggestions, offering to move an email to a folder that it thinks is suitable, based seemingly on scanning the contents and/or sender of the message.) In Safari, for example, it shows tab thumbnails, forward and back buttons and the like in Mail it shows QuickType typing suggestions and an emoji button. Depending on the application you’re currently running – and any customisation options you may have selected – it can display and enable a wide range of functions and controls. The 2016 MacBook Pro comes with a new feature called the Touch Bar: a long slender touchscreen that sits along the top of the keyboard in place of the old function keys. This is a fast machine, of course, but maybe not quite fast enough for some tastes it’s worth reflecting on that maximum spec of 16GB of RAM, which may hold this machine back from a role in genuine pro settings.Īll in all, this is a fast and beautiful laptop but one with some flaws to consider. The tech is in this respect a little further back along the track that 3D Touch is following. Right now it’s fun, but we’re reasonably confident that it will become essential the key will be getting lots of users on machines with Touch Bars. It’s early days, both for us – we’re only beginning to grasp its capabilities – and for app developers, who will surely come up with reams of clever Touch Bar features. The Touch Bar is lovely to look at and fun to use. These factors together mean typing on the new Pro is a little harder – especially for touch typists, who will struggle to locate keys at first – than on on previous models. The trackpad is huge and wonderful to use but it’s so big that the keyboard has been pushed up to make room, as well as flattened down to make the laptop slimmer. We’re rather in love with the 2016 MacBook Pro, but as with many love affairs there are irritations.
Cramped and slightly rattly keyboard with almost unusable arrow keys.
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