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The Macbook pro 2016 model combines best qualities laptops you can only dream of. Let's review the model that made a splash in the Apple gadgets market - macbook pro 2016, and describe its characteristics, functions and features.

Tailored for everything

We remind the most advanced users specifications this gadget, but we will not dwell on their description in detail. Macbook Pro 2016 has the following features:

dual core or quad core Intel processor Core i5, i7;
SSD-drive with a capacity of 256 gigabytes;
8 or 16 gigabytes of internal memory;
13 or 15 inch screen;
built-in technologies Toch Bar and Toch ID;
Discrete Intel Iris or Radeon Pro$ GPU
up to 10 hours of operation without recharging the battery;
improved keyboard and larger touchpad;
up to 4 high-speed Thunderbold ports;
operating room Mac system OC;
Very dimensions: the body is light and thin;
motherboard Intel Skylake-U Premium PCH.

Pro 2016: any of your ideas

Thanks to such a "delicious stuffing", this model is able to help you in the realization of any of your ideas. Like any other MacBook, it will perform great when performing everyday tasks:

typing and editing documents of any complexity;
working with videos, music and pictures:
safe surfing on the Internet;
games in modern computer novelties;
connection various devices, working with each of them, even on the solution of one problem.;
video editing and 3D graphics.

Not standard, but no less useful features

Now, thanks to the Toch Bar, you will always have at your fingertips all the tools you use every day - control the volume and brightness of the screen, control functions for your videos and audio files, text entry functions and many others.

And yet, you can always answer calls coming to the iPhone without even moving the cursor. And that's not all: with this panel, you can always have quick access to all your accounts. These features of Macbook pro 2016 with touch bar will save you a lot of time.

Macbook pro 13 retina 2016 and its characteristics point to other important "goodies" for the user. This is its speed when processing graphics, which it achieves due to the built-in powerful GPU. This means that your video editing, 3D graphics, or just a passion for modern computer games for macbook - a doable and familiar task.

In addition, the Macbook of 2016, thanks to the Mac OS operating system and the availability of high-speed ports, can be used as a portable workstation: through the OS, it has the ability to synchronize with other Apple devices, and you can also connect several other devices to it that will work smoothly and without glitches.

We rate it like a normal laptop

This material consists of several parts:

General story about modern market laptops and space on it Macbook Pro 13 Retina (Late 2013);
Review of this laptop by standard method, including performance testing;
In the future, we will conduct a series of performance tests in both OS X 10.9 Mavericks and Windows 8.1, and compare the subjective sensations of the functionality and usability of the two operating systems, including the most important thing - is the Retina screen as good as the current software? works with ultra-high resolution screens.

So, in the first part of the article, we decided on a few things:

Modern Macbooks are built on the same principles and on the same platform as modern Windows laptops. They may differ (or be better) in details, but in essence they are the same. And Windows gets up and running on them. In addition, it can be unofficially said that it was the Macbook that served as the prototype for the ultrabooks that Intel is now promoting on the market.
Macbooks come with their own operating system OS X. Today, this system is quite functional and easy to learn, and its interface is not so different from Windows - it is relatively easy to relearn.
Macbook comes with big amount Software with which the user can solve all the basic tasks. This includes the iLife home photo and video suite, the media harvester, and the iTunes online store. Starting in September, Macbook customers can install the iWork Work Suite apps for free, which includes text editor Pages, software for working with spreadsheets Numbers and Keynote presentation software. These programs are not as rich as Microsoft Office, but very easy to use and learn, which for some users will even be an advantage.
The new generation Macbook Pro 13 Retina differs from the previous one only in a platform using new Intel (Haswell) processors instead of the previous generation (Ivy Bridge). The main components (case, screen, etc.) and appearance remained absolutely the same. Therefore, it is not worth changing the previous generation to a new one - you most likely simply will not notice the difference.

Well, if so, then the comparison of the latest generation Macbook Pro 13 Retina c regular laptops on Windows. But in order to do this, you need to look at it from the same point of view as other laptops. And in this material, we will try to evaluate it from the same positions as all the other laptops that we test.

Case: appearance and reliability

box and packaging

The Macbook box and packaging has already become the talk of the town in the market. What? Have you ever heard of her? In fact, the packaging of most expensive (I emphasize: expensive) modern ultrabooks and laptops is “licked” from the packaging of Apple products.

It is a small white cardboard box with dimensions slightly larger than a laptop, with a "portrait of the contents." The cover is removed upwards, under it in a plastic form lies a laptop, and under it - instructions and accessories. By the way, here they are.

We had an American version on the test, but the store that provided the laptop for testing completed the set with a separate long cable for the Russian (European) standard. The wire is thick and heavy.

Apple power supplies have an interesting solution: a special seat for a nozzle with a plug of any regional standard. This allows you to use the same PSU, changing only the nozzle. Well, on a trip, you can take not a large universal adapter, but only the appropriate nozzle (you can also buy it on the spot). By the way, the attachment from the iPad power supply is also suitable, they are the same. Moreover, in an emergency, a regular power cord from household appliances without grounding (two-wire) is suitable, these come with almost any tape recorders, music centers etc.

As you can see, in the American version, the power supply has a cool overlay with retractable socket pins. There is no such thing in the Russian version, the pins will always stick out.

In general, the design and organization of the space in the box has now become almost a standard on the market - for expensive fashion models. Previously, laptops, even expensive ones, were packaged in a completely different way. Also, this packaging may be familiar to many buyers from modern smartphones.

Housing dimensions and appearance

Let's start with dry numbers:

When evaluating the dimensions of the case, you should first of all take into account that the Macbook Pro 13 Retina has a 16:10 form factor screen, while competitors have 16:9. In theory, this should also affect the aspect ratio of the case. Notebooks on Windows in our case are almost the same in width, but longer by 2 cm. However, Yoga 13 has always been considered large for its class. For comparison, the recently tested Sony VAIO Pro 13 measures 322x216mm, which is almost a centimeter shorter in length, but it is almost the same in thickness (its thickness is between 12.8mm and 17.2mm).

The difference in aspect ratio is more noticeable on X1 Carbon: it is also 2 cm longer and 6 mm wider, but at the same time, its matrix already has a diagonal of 14 inches. However, the Macbook Pro has relatively narrow screen bezels: less than a centimeter on the sides and a little more than a centimeter at the top and bottom. So there are practically no reserves for reducing the size of the case with such a screen.

The weight of the Macbook Pro 13 Retina seems relatively large for its class, but it still has a full metal body. Yes, VAIO Pro 13 weighs significantly less (only 1.07 kg), but its body (as far as I understand, it is made of carbon fiber, but there is also plastic) “plays” very strongly with any strong impact (although the manufacturer claims that nothing there is nothing wrong with that). In general, the Macbook Pro 13 Retina can only be blamed for being overweight, and even then ...

Appearance and style

Let's be honest: MacBooks are very beautiful in appearance. They have their own style, and this is really top-level style: the laptop looks simple and concise, but at the same time everyone understands that this is an expensive and beautiful thing. It feels like a team of good designers worked on it, and worked for the long term. All in all, the look of the Macbook Pro 13 Retina is very good, if you like their style at all.

Recently, Apple laptops are increasingly taking pride of place in the trading floors of large electronics retailers, so that more and more buyers get the opportunity to evaluate their appearance live. Moreover, all Apple laptops are very similar to each other, except that the Air has a narrower case towards the front edge, while the Pro has a flat one. So if you've seen one Macbook, you've seen them all. This, by the way, is their weakness in comparison with a cohort of laptops and ultrabooks on Windows: if you don’t like the look of MacBooks, then you have no choice. Well, except to buy a cover, but it's really quite strange.

In general, we don’t have a particular problem to look at the Macbook live now (at least in cities where there are large retail chains) - unlike, by the way, expensive Windows laptops, which are often not presented live due to limited demand, and they have to choose and buy mostly on order.

All modern Apple laptops have silver aluminum cases with a matte finish. For my taste, it looks better than polished aluminum from other manufacturers. Something more solid. The cases are strictly rectangular, with rounded corners (this has both an aesthetic and practical meaning - they rub less) and panels gently beveled to the edges (here aesthetics coexist with common sense: a laptop with beveled edges is easier to put into a bag or case).

In addition to the fact that the design of Apple devices always stands out very strongly on the market and is done, let’s say, without regard to “trends”, it is also stable: devices of different lines and several generations, as a rule, have a similar visual style, which allows you to instantly understand that in front of you is an Apple laptop. Apple is also in the process of updating the internal stuffing without changing the design, which allows you to extend life cycle product: on the one hand, new users buy a Macbook on the latest version of the platform, on the other hand, the purchased Macbook will look like “the newest version” for two years instead of one.

This approach is very different from what is currently happening in the Windows laptop market. There is very tough competition, and innovation and appearance remained almost the only motive for changing laptops. Manufacturers are forced to change the design in each new generation, and the life of models on the market is also slowly declining. In addition, it is not always possible to maintain one's own style: market trends and fashion change too quickly, and in this situation it is more important to correspond to the market, rather than one's own style (another difference from Apple).

As a result, manufacturers of laptops for Windows have very beautiful solutions that are very often killed in the new generation by alien design elements or simply blur with jelly: in the “restyling” they add new elements, slightly change the shape of the case, this destroys a single plan - and that’s it.

In a crisis of ideas on the market, many manufacturers began to borrow certain stylistic solutions from Apple, but blind copying rarely leads to good. For example, the Macbook has a very clear combination of black and silver elements. It is worth changing this ratio, for example, by making the keys not black, but also silver - and the design will immediately lose its attractiveness and style.

Speaking of the combination of elements, let's take a look at the Macbook Pro 13 Retina in working position.

I am very used to laptops, and until recently I considered Lenovo Thinkpad T laptops to be the standard, but I like the Macbook Pro 13 Retina outwardly, both in closed and in working condition, in which it fully retains its attractiveness. Matte aluminum keyboard pad with large clickpad (too big for my taste, but I'm just used to normal laptop sized touchpads), black keyboard, semi-gloss screen with black bezel - it looks like glass, but it doesn't glare. It looks expensive and high quality.

In general, there are different visual styles, but the Macbook is practically the standard in its own way. At the same time, it is also very attractive in appearance - this is the thing that you immediately want to get yourself, and not which you buy according to the principle “but the platform is good inside.” And this is one of its main advantages: it is pleasant to look at it every day.

Some design choices from Apple

In design, there are a lot of things that Apple has introduced into mass use.

For example, the glowing logo on the lid. It's funny to note that attempts to introduce a luminous element into the lid (as a rule, an alphabetic logo) existed before, but rarely even in single expensive models - after which the luminous logo disappeared from the lid. Apparently, such elements were not perceived very positively: they say, "one should be more modest." Apple has managed to change the perception of this element, making it a sign of style.

Apple made a mass-produced hinged angle design with L-shaped hinges, in which the opening lid does not just rise up, but, as it were, moves back relative to the case. A laptop with this opening scheme looks more beautiful and elegant.

By the way, macbooks emit hot air into the gap between the matrix and the case. Thanks to this, they don’t have an exhaust grille at all, nothing gets clogged with dust and dirt ... True, with a high heat dissipation of the processor, the efficiency of such a solution is less effective, and under high load, old macbooks got very hot - up to overheating. On modern platforms, the problem of overheating is gone, but the advantages of the solution remain.

Apple introduced the backlighting of the keyboard "from below", when only the outlines of the letters are highlighted. Prior to it, models with backlit keyboards practically did not exist on the market. Only Lenovo's corporate T-series Thinkpad laptops had a diode above the matrix (roughly where the webcam is now) that shone down onto the keyboard. And it was considered one of the fantastic features that make the Thinkpad stand out from other laptops. You can think of several other laptops with similar functionality, but these were exceptions, not the rule.

Or a rubber piping around the screen frame. For example, it prevents dust and dirt from getting inside the laptop (closed), and also creates a soft springy layer between the case and the lid. And in this case, the only analogue that can be remembered is the Thinkpad T, but there the solution was different: the lid had sides that covered the keyboard panel. Other laptops always had a gap between the case and the lid, and the lid rested on a pair of rubber feet at the corners.

In general, the Macbook Pro today is practically the standard in terms of appearance and functionality of the case. Maybe not in the sense that it is unequivocally the best, but no matter what anyone does, they still look back at it one way or another (while missing out on a lot of other interesting solutions that often leave the market).

and convenience

Finally, the Macbook Pro 13 Retina is not only beautiful, but also functional. For example, you can easily lift the lid with one hand: a special depression is made in the case, which allows you to easily pick up the lid with your finger, and the hinge force is calculated so that the lid easily rises to the desired position, while the case will not rise behind it and crawl along table.

Even now, at the beginning of 2014, such a simple and convenient behavior is a rarity for Windows laptops! Most of them cannot be opened normally, I specifically test each one for ease of opening. For them, this opportunity is a rare advantage inherent in some expensive models. And here - just one of the self-evident aspects of functionality. It is convenient to carry Macbook Pro in hands, holding it by any edge - it does not cut the palm (although it is better to take the Air by the back edge, the front one sometimes cut my palm).

I can’t say anything about the durability of the Macbook Pro personally: I managed not to drop it and not hit the wall during testing. According to my feelings and reviews, it is very good in terms of strength and can withstand heavy use. But for sure, it is subject to the same problem as other laptops with a metal case: even not very strong, but unsuccessful blows can lead to dents. Plastic cases, on the other hand, spring up to a certain point, and then crack (but a lot depends on the quality of the plastic). In general, as a result, the laptop is strong, but you should not throw it on the floor.

Set and location of ports

Apple goes its own way in many ways, and expansion ports are no exception. At one time she had FireWire, now a new toy is Thunderbolt. While other manufacturers hesitated whether to support this technology or not, Apple resolutely began to implement it, refusing everything else. A bold move, though not always successful.

This interface still cannot boast of a wide distribution or a special variety of compatible peripherals (there are some, but they are few and relatively expensive), but Thunderbolt can also work simply as a Mini-DisplayPort, i.e. it can be used as a digital video output .

The Macbook Pro 13 has two such ports, both located on the left side of the case. By the way, the new Macbook Pro 13 Retina on Haswell uses a new version, Thunderbolt 2, with increased bandwidth and support for 4K video streaming to an external monitor. On the left, there is one USB 3.0 port, as well as a headphone jack (the left side is the most convenient place for it, because the wires and the plug itself do not interfere with operation). Next to it are two small holes for microphones. On the same side, closer to the back wall, there is a connector for the power supply. The connector is also new, it is called MagSafe 2.

The main feature of Apple MagSafe is that the plug is held in the connector not by friction (that is, it goes deep into the connector), but by a magnet. If you accidentally pull the power cord or lift the laptop from the table without turning off the power, the plug will simply bounce: you will not drop the laptop from the table in the first case and will not break the connector in the second (I personally saw how contact was broken due to a jerk and I had to solder the connector).

Now the shape of the plug has changed: for Magsafe 1, the cable went back, and in new version goes perpendicular to the body. It has become more convenient to connect, but now the wire sticks out to the side. Many experienced Apple users complain that the magnet has become weaker in the new connector, and the connector falls off even with weak jerks. There is an adapter for sale from the old standard to the new one (but it costs a lot, around $ 30), which allows you to use the old peripherals with a new laptop.

In addition to the magnetic mount, Magsafe has another very nice feature: the charging indicator is placed in the plug. The small LED lights up orange when charging and green when the battery is charged. You can instantly see whether the laptop is charged or not, even if it is not turned on and the lid is closed. It also seems to be nothing special, but in the vast majority of laptops in their entire history, the charging indicators have been located so that they are not visible when the lid is closed or if you stand in front of the laptop (they only shine sideways). Plus, they often had a strange workflow that even I got confused about.

On the right side there is another USB port, an HDMI port and an SD card reader. The only thing that confuses me a little is the location of the HDMI port: if you insert a cable there (and they are thick and with large plugs), then using a Macbook with an external mouse becomes less convenient. But, on the other hand, macbooks are rarely used with a mouse ...

Anyway, it seems to me that this connector is not made for permanent connection of an external monitor. Rather, we are talking about situations when, for example, you came to visit and want to connect a laptop to a TV (there is always an HDMI cable in a modern living room) or connect to a projector for a presentation. To permanently connect your monitor, it is better to use one of the Thunderbolt connectors on the left, because they are fully compliant with the Mini-DP 1.2 specification.

We did not disassemble the laptop, so the only thing we can pay attention to is the absence of ventilation slots at the bottom. Macbook Pro 13 Retina can be safely placed on dusty surfaces, sofas with animal hair, etc. - the ventilation system will not clog.

In principle, it is possible to disassemble the Macbook Pro 13 Retina, but there is not much point in this, because there is nothing to change inside. All components are either soldered to motherboard, or have non-standard connectors, or something else. Even the battery - and that one is glued. Therefore, the possibility of disassembly and upgrade on the Internet is assessed as "completely absent." To be honest, given how few users are generally interested in upgrading a laptop (although there are just a lot of such users in our audience), such a position seems to be quite justified.

If we return to the connectors, then even without taking into account the two Thunderbolt ports, they are quite enough for home use scenarios. And for most workers, too, especially given the general increase in popularity. wireless connections. However, at the workplace, you can organize an external dock via USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt, through which you can connect any high-speed peripherals. In addition, the company offers a large selection of adapters (though not cheap) for almost all occasions.

By the way, other manufacturers are actively adopting this particular feature of Apple laptops, reducing the number of connectors on their flagship models(especially ultrabooks). At the same time, my experience shows that for Windows laptops it is desirable to have at least three USB port(there a mouse will come in handy much more often than for macbooks), and a LAN port, as a rule, is still desirable.

In general, I think that the specified set of ports will be more than enough for the vast majority of Macbook Pro users.

Input Devices

Input devices are very traditional: keyboard and clickpad (touchpad without buttons). Apple, one of the pioneers in popularizing touchscreens among the general public, does not use them in laptops, while Intel has made a touchscreen mandatory for ultrabooks.

The keyboard is practically indistinguishable from the keyboard of any modern Windows laptop. It is an island type, with isolated keys. The keys are black, strictly square, made of smooth, slightly slippery plastic. The working surface of the keys has a recess in the center - thanks to this, the finger lies more accurately on the key, this allows you to increase typing speed and reduce the number of typos. Fonts are very good, easy to read in any light. Russian fonts on the tested laptop were engraved (i.e. unofficially), but there were no problems with them. Official supplies should not have problems with fonts either.

The keyboard has a LED backlight "from under the keys" of white, slightly bluish tint. The contours of the keys and the silhouettes of letters (both Russian and English) are highlighted. Diodes do not shine into the eyes in the gap between the keys and the substrate, Macbook Pro 13 Retina does not have this problem.

The backlight has a multi-stage brightness adjustment, and the adjustment can be carried out both in automatic (from the sensor) and in manual mode(using keys). In the settings, you can set whether the backlight is on or off, and you can also set it to turn off a few minutes after the last press. In general, the backlight is very flexibly adjustable.

All modern keyboards have two types of key layouts: conventionally they are called European and American (there are also Asian ones, but they are not found here for obvious reasons). They differ in the Enter key (it is vertical and horizontal, respectively) and in the fact that in the European layout, another key with a backslash "" is inserted between the left Shift and Z (why - I still do not understand). For me (and for a significant part of people who can type blindly - most likely, for the majority), the "American" keyboard is much more convenient to work with than the "European".

Unfortunately for Russian Apple, unlike most manufacturers, uses the "European" layout. Therefore, I would recommend that those who type a lot and actively and who may be annoyed by such a layout, look for American models - there is a long Enter and there are no extra keys. For it is pointless to hope that Apple will meet the needs of some users there.

The layout of laptop keyboards today is almost completely settled and is the same for all manufacturers. Discrepancies are found only in the location of the cursor keys and the so-called "over-cursor block" (i.e., the keys that are located above the cursor in the desktop keyboard). However, the Macbook keyboard has a few more features.

The Macbook does not have a Delete key, instead it has a Power key. At first, sometimes you send the computer to sleep, although to activate it, you must not just press it, but hold it a little. You quickly get used to using only Backspace. But for me, when editing texts, having Delete would be much more convenient.
The keyboard has an "extra" Command key (Control and Option are traditional Ctrl and Alt). The problem is that the combinations familiar to Windows users (such as Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, etc.) are executed with the Command button, and not with the Control. Fortunately, these three buttons can be changed among themselves in the keyboard settings. For those who use Windows in parallel, I advise you to swap Command and Control - it will immediately become much easier to live. By the way, when an external keyboard is connected, its Win button can be reassigned, i.e. the functionality of these three buttons will not be affected.
With the keys of the over-cursor block, they acted simply - they don’t exist at all. Fn + cursor keys work as Home / End / PgUp / PgDn, and Fn + Backspace as Delete, but it is often inconvenient to use combinations.
The cursor is inscribed in the bottom row of keys, for this the keys of the bottom row were made a little more vertically, and the up and down keys were half the size. But grooves are made in them (on the bottom edge of the “up” key and on the top edge of the “down” key, so you cannot press two keys together. It is convenient to use them.

When printing, you pay attention to two more features. Firstly, in the lower left corner is not the Ctrl button, but the Fn button. On a Macbook, using Fn, you can implement the functionality of the Home / End / PgUp / PgDn buttons (they are on the cursor) and F1-F12, although I don’t even know if these keys are needed somewhere in modern versions of OS X.

The location of the Fn key in the corner is a deprecated option. It used to be used in almost all laptops, but it created big problems for users migrating from desktop keyboards (where Ctrl is in the corner). In addition, if Ctrl is not in the corner, it is inconvenient to perform Ctrl + combinations (you can’t press this key with your thumb, you have to move your whole hand - which is bad for touch typing). Gradually, common sense prevailed, and all manufacturers began to put Ctrl in the corner, and push Fn inward. But Apple, as we can see, decided to stick to tradition and not force its users to relearn.

Besides the Macbook, the Fn button in the corner is now only on the Thinkpad, Lenovo's top professional series. And also mainly as a tribute to the memory and respect for the old professional users who are used to this layout. All other series have long had keyboards with Ctrl in the corner. However, apparently, and Lenovo Thinkpad will soon switch to the generally accepted standard.

The top row of keys is used to control the laptop. Control screen brightness, keyboard backlight, media player, volume... Windows users everything is familiar, except for the actions that are on the F3 and F4 keys. F3 brings up the branded Apple feature- thumbnails of open applications, looks like a table with cards scattered around it. Beautiful, visual, but inconvenient if several windows are open in one application (for example, in Word) - then they overlap, and it is impossible to understand where everything is. The classic (for Windows) Alt+Tab menu also exists (and works exactly like in Windows), only it's Command+Tab. Well, you get the idea... F4 brings up the " quick start» Launchpad applications. Launchpad can also be called up from the dock, and application thumbnails can also be called up with a special simple gesture on the touchpad panel.

Another feature worth remembering is that for some reason, by default, Apple computers are set to old version software Russian layout "typewriter", in which dots and commas are called by combinations Shift + 5 and Shift + 6, respectively. And where we are used to seeing a dot is the “e with two dots” key (it is not on my keyboard, so I can’t display it correctly). This is very inconvenient for modern users accustomed to Windows (and generally inconvenient, because punctuation marks with Shift take more time). Therefore, you need to choose “Russian - PC” as the layout, then everything will be like in Windows.

The typing feel of the Apple keyboard is one of the best on the market. Medium keystroke depth, high definition and pleasant key travel allow you to type a lot at a high pace, with a low level of typos and without finger fatigue. Of the minuses, I would note that the keys still beat against the substrate a little, especially if you hit the keys hard. The keyboard chirps softly when typing, but the sound is quiet, and you are unlikely to disturb others.

In general, as a keyboard - very good, one of the best.

Clickpad

It is Apple that is responsible for the proliferation of clickpads (i.e. large touchpads without buttons that you have to press on the surface) on Windows laptops, and the distribution was thoughtless and brought a lot of inconvenience. However, the fault of Apple itself is not here: this is an initiative of manufacturers and Microsoft: they tried to make their own version of multi-touch gestures. As a result, the buttons were removed from the touchpads, and the convenient multi-touch was not made.

So the Macbook Pro has a big glass clickpad. For the left click, you need to click on the lower part on the left or lightly tap your finger on the surface. For the right click - you need to hit the surface with two fingers, and not one, but in the settings you can add this to the traditional one for Windows solution(click in the lower right corner). After getting used to the first option became more convenient for me.

The touchpad has very good clarity and acceleration, there are practically no complaints about them. The cursor on the screen moves smoothly and quickly.

The main advantage of the Apple clickpad is a number of branded gestures that make it much easier to work with a laptop. Some of them are available in Windows, but they are not always convenient to use there. I advise you to take the time to learn these gestures (especially four-finger gestures), they significantly increase the convenience of work.

It is worth noting that the usability of touchpad gestures is largely tied to the organization of the OS X operating system. For example, there you can move between desktops with a special gesture. But OS X treats each full-screen application as a separate desktop, so the same functionality cannot be implemented on Windows: there is only one desktop, and switching between applications is Alt + Tab.

Of the minuses, it is worth noting, for example, that drag-n-drop or selection cannot be done with two taps, you have to press the hardware button under the surface. Why so - I did not understand. Is it just not implemented in the driver?

Unfortunately (and to my surprise), the Apple touchpad also has the traditional flaw of all modern touchpads: sometimes you cling to it when typing with your left palm, which leads to selection and erasing of text on the screen. This does not happen so often and very much depends on the position of the laptop (if it is low, then you don’t cling to the touchpad), but nevertheless, there is a problem. You can solve it by disabling the triggering of the left click on touch, but then each time you have to press the touchpad hardware key to click - this is also inconvenient.

In general, the touchpad is excellent, and the gesture control capabilities implemented in the operating system make it very convenient in everyday work - much more convenient than in Windows. It is very frustrating that there is a problem with a false touch of the touchpad, let's hope that the manufacturer will solve it.

Reflections on the touchscreen

The more I got acquainted with OS X, the more I was surprised: why, in fact, there is no touchscreen here? The fact is that this system uses very large on-screen buttons, drop-down menus with large labels, etc., i.e. adapting it to control finger presses is many times easier than Windows with its small hierarchical menus, where you had to write from scratch new interface. Even the situation with the top context menu, I'm sure the solution here is very simple. The control panel with large icons and few settings also lends itself perfectly to optimization for finger control. At the same time, the touchscreen as a control tool is much more convenient and more intuitive for users.

It's just a shame that with such chic starting Apple features missed the opportunity to become a leader in this area.

Screen

The screen is one of the main advantages of the Macbook Pro Retina, which takes these laptops to a level unattainable by competitors. And here I am not kidding at all.

First, let's look at the main technical specifications matrices:

The Macbook Pro 13 Retina screen has several important features, which we will discuss below. First, the 16:10 aspect ratio, which Windows laptops have moved away from a few years ago in favor of 16:9. Compared to modern laptops, MacBook screens look obscenely square. Secondly, a very high screen resolution and high pixel density, despite the fact that the amount of information on the screen has not grown. Thirdly, a high-quality matrix with an extremely effective anti-glare filter.

However, let's go in order, and first let's evaluate overall quality screen, and then we'll talk about resolution and working with the screen. So, the word to Alexei Kudryavtsev:

General characteristics of the Macbook Pro 13 Retina monitor

The front surface of the screen is covered, apparently, with a scratch-resistant glass plate with a mirror-smooth surface. There is an anti-glare filter, moreover, so effective that even a direct reflection of bright light sources practically does not interfere with work. This filter is one of the most significant factors that determines the reason that the screens of modern Apple laptops in real-life scenarios are significantly superior in image quality to screens of laptops from other manufacturers. Doubling of the reflected objects is not noticeable, this indicates that there is no air gap between the layers of the screen. There is a special oleophobic (grease-repellent) coating on the outer surface of the screen (less effective than Google Nexus 7 (2013)), so fingerprints are removed much more easily, and appear at a slower rate than in the case of ordinary glass. Note that all hardware tests were carried out on the native operating system and with color management disabled.

With manual brightness control, its maximum value was about 405 cd / m², at the first stage from the minimum brightness adjustment value - 6.5 cd / m², at the minimum - the backlight turns off completely. As a result, at maximum brightness in bright daylight (considering what was said above about the anti-glare filter), you can work with a laptop, and in complete darkness, the screen brightness can be lowered to a comfortable level. There is an automatic brightness control according to the light sensor (it is located near the front camera eye). If you initially set the brightness adjustment slider to zero, then in complete darkness the auto-brightness function reduces the brightness to 6.5 cd / m² (this is very dark), in an office lit by artificial light (approximately 400 lux), the brightness is set to 14-55 cd / m² (depending on the angle at which the light falls on the sensor, but in any case a little low), in a very bright environment (corresponding to illumination on a clear day outdoors, but without direct sunlight - 20,000 lux or a little more) - rises to a maximum of 405 cd / m² (which is to be expected). If you first set the brightness to maximum and turn on automatic adjustment, then under the conditions described above, the values are as follows: 6.5, 100-405, 405 cd / m², respectively. In principle, automatic brightness control more or less adequately responds to external conditions, but since the laptop screen can be located at various angles relative to the incident light, the light sensor should have been made less directional to more correctly adjust the brightness. At low brightness, there is practically no backlight modulation (its amplitude is low, and the maximum frequency is at 39 kHz), so no flicker is visible.

The MacBook Pro uses an IPS-type matrix, so the screen has very good viewing angles without hue inversion and without significant color shift, even when looking at large deviations from the perpendicular to the screen. True, which is typical for any IPS-matrix, the black field highlights when deflected diagonally and, depending on the direction of the deflection, acquires a red-violet hue or remains close to neutral gray. However, the increase in the brightness of the black field when the gaze is deflected diagonally is very weakly expressed. When viewed perpendicularly, the uniformity of the black field is excellent. The response time for the black-white-black transition is 22 ms (12 ms on + 9 ms off). The transition between 25% and 75% grayscale (according to the numerical value of the color) takes a total of 33 ms. The contrast is high - about 970:1. The 32-point gamma curve showed no cut-off in either the highlights or the shadows, and the approximate power function exponent is 2.35, which is slightly higher than the standard value of 2.2, which means images on this screen will look a little darker. In this case, the real gamma curve coincides with the exponential dependence:

The color gamut is sRGB:

The spectra show that the matrix filters moderately mix the components to each other:

As a result, the images on the screen of this laptop have a natural saturation (recall that most digital images - illustrations, photos, videos and movies - are optimized for display on screens with sRGB coverage or very close to it). Note that such a spectrum with a relatively narrow peak of blue and with wide humps of green and red colors is typical for monitors that use LED backlighting with a blue emitter and a yellow phosphor. Color temperature balance is excellent - shades of gray have a color temperature close to 6500 K, which changes little over the entire significant part of the gray scale. The deviation from the black body spectrum (ΔE) is about 5 units, which can be considered a very good indicator for a consumer device. Similarly, ΔE varies very little, which is of fundamental importance for the subjective perception of color balance. (The dark areas of the gray scale can be ignored, since the color balance does not matter much there, and the measurement error of color characteristics at low brightness is large.)

The screen has a high maximum brightness and a very effective anti-glare filter, so you can use the laptop without much difficulty even on a sunny summer day. In complete darkness, the brightness can be lowered to a comfortable level. It is acceptable to use the mode with automatic brightness adjustment, which works more or less adequately, taking into account the excessive directivity of the light sensor, and with the exception of conditions with complete darkness, in which the brightness is set to an uncomfortably low level. The advantages of the screen include the presence of oleophobic properties on the outer surface of the screen (although it is non-touch, users like to poke their fingers into the screen), the absence of an air gap in the layers of the screen and flicker, high black stability to deviation of the gaze from the perpendicular to the screen plane, sRGB coverage and excellent color balance. In general, this is a very high-quality screen that does not have significant flaws.

Retina screen of the new Macbook Pro 13 - user experience

And now let's talk about the subjective impressions of using this screen and its features.

First, our objective measurements confirm that the screen on the Macbook Pro 13 Retina is the best on the market. But this is also clearly visible in a subjective comparison, if you put a Macbook Pro 13 Retina and a Windows laptop next to it (in our case, it was Yoga 2 Pro, which also seems to be one of the leaders, with an innovative screen). Natural colors, excellent angles, even backlighting, good blacks.

Separately, I note that the Macbook Pro 13 Retina does not have a “light leakage” defect. Its essence is that the light from the matrix backlight diodes breaks through the frame, and the black screen looks like a curtain in a theater, illuminated from below by spotlights. The problem with light leakage occurs in a huge number of laptops, even with good matrices IPS.

I also want to emphasize that the “new Macbook screen problems” that many have heard about only apply to 15-inch versions. But since we ourselves have not encountered them and cannot assess their scale, we will not talk about it here. In any case, the 13-inch model does not have them.

Secondly, although the screen of the Macbook Pro 13 Retina is glossy, there is a very effective anti-glare filter available. Therefore, in comparison with modern laptops on Windows (especially with touchscreens), its matrix glare is much less.

On the one hand, the matrix mirrors a little: on a turned off or black screen during the day, you can see your reflection. The same applies to direct reflections of light sources. However, in the case of the Macbook Pro 13 Retina, the reflection is very dark, as if looking through, for example, sunglasses. There are no glare on the screen, and you should be afraid only of direct reflections, and even then, only in specific conditions. Given the good brightness of the backlight, in the vast majority of situations, neither reflections nor glare will bother you.

In everyday work, the unusual aspect ratio of the 16:10 screen does not manifest itself in any way. In theory, this aspect ratio gives you extra vertical space. For example, Macbook Pro 13 Retina has a screen resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels, while Windows laptops will have a similar resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels. How useful the extra 160 pixels is is up to the users to decide. Moreover, it is important, by and large, only the physical size of the screen, and the scale of the interface elements can be selected from several options. In some minus, you can record small black bars at the top and bottom when watching movies with an aspect ratio of 16:9.

Finally, ultra-high resolution, Retina. Why is it needed? The eye is no longer able to distinguish the individual pixels that form the image, so it seems to us smooth and smooth. They say that the perception of fonts on Retina screens is similar to the perception "from paper", and I tend to agree with this comparison. The most noticeable changes are in the rendering of fonts: small ones are much more legible, easier to read ... however, large fonts look much better. And after working for some time on the Retina screen, returning to regular screens is rather uncomfortable: the flaws in the display of fonts are simply striking.

The Retina screen resolution on the 13-inch Macbook Pro 13 Retina display is 2560x1600, which is exactly double the resolution of 1280x800. The screen area has remained the same, so if you want to understand how much information will fit on the screen, then it is best to take a resolution of 1280 × 800 on a regular screen as a starting point. Scaling in OS X is and works, you can easily reduce the size of the interface and fonts - and more will fit on the screen. But at the same time, everything will be small, and, for example, it became uncomfortable for me to work.

If you do not get distracted by the theory (we have already been distracted by it in the material in five parts about scaling), then the most important thing to remember is that you also need to optimize applications for Retina screens. Applications that can work with Retina produce a very beautiful, sharp picture with smooth curved lines, great fonts and a clear interface (especially icons).

Applications that do not have such support look bad, fonts look especially unpleasant. To understand exactly how, take a picture with text and enlarge it by 200% - you can roughly understand what it will look like.

Enough time has passed since the advent of Retina screens for “everyone who wanted to introduce optimization.” I don't need too many apps for my tasks, and almost all of them have been updated to support the Retina display over the past year. The only exception was FTP client FileZilla, which has no support (and looks unimportant), which is strange, because latest version released in summer 2013.

Thus, if you use applications that have a large audience and are frequently updated, then there will be no problems with optimization. If you need something specific, then there is a rather big chance that there will be no optimization for the Retina screen, and you just don’t want to spend a lot of time in this application.

In principle, the situation is very similar to what is happening in the Windows ecosystem. There, too, applications must comply with certain rules in order to display well on screens with high pixel density. True, for applications without such optimization, Microsoft offers two scaling options (one preserves the markup, but blurs the fonts, the second tries to preserve the fonts, but the markup moves around), but in general it seemed to me that the Windows scaling algorithms themselves sometimes work worse (for example, font scaling).

Finally, websites. The vast majority of them are not optimized for screens with high pixel density. But we do not notice this: the browser is responsible for displaying the site, which itself draws both fonts and markup, i.e. can fit them to the desired scale. Safari has no issues with markup and font scaling. On Windows, the situation is a little worse, where browsers often get confused, and the site may open in a narrow column on a quarter of the screen, or some of the fonts will be too small. Then you have to resort to manual scaling.

The real problem, noticeable on both platforms, is the display graphic elements(including flash). They have tough given size in pixels, therefore, when the density increases, the pixels either become half as large, or the browser stretches them by half to maintain their original size, but scaling artifacts come out - the pictures become “blurry”, and the letters and numbers on them are fuzzy. To be honest, I didn’t pay much attention to this, but my colleagues (who, among other things, develop these same banners) constantly noted the fuzziness of the pictures and admitted that they were annoyed.

Thus, the Macbook Pro 13 Retina screen today can be considered one of the best laptop screens on the market today. It provides excellent picture quality with excellent brightness and correct colors, has a powerful anti-reflective filter, and also has a high pixel density, so that the perception of fonts and graphics is the same as on paper, and is very comfortable for the eyes. And most importantly - its benefits are very clearly visible in real use.

Sound

Evaluate the sound mobile systems difficult primarily due to the fact that its quality is always a compromise. Any external speaker will sound better than the laptop's built-in speaker (with very few exceptions). However, carrying a laptop is much easier than carrying a laptop and speakers to it - so very often we put up with worse quality. Well, do not forget that large multimedia models have more opportunities for placing high-quality acoustics than thin small laptops with a 13-inch screen. Another thing is that not all manufacturers use these opportunities.

All things considered, the Macbook Pro 13 Retina has good audio for its class. Acoustics sounds loud, while legible - speech is easily distinguished. Quite often, laptop speakers boom (or are badly placed), and speech (especially English in films without dubbing, where they speak not directly into the microphone) becomes unintelligible. Everything is good here - clear and articulate. Movies can be watched without problems. For music, the Macbook Pro 13 Retina should only be used as a compromise travel option, but the fact that it is possible is already a plus.

Comparison with competitors is only a rough approximation, but in my opinion, most 13-14 inch laptops sound worse than the Macbook Pro 13 Retina.

conclusions

Thus, even if we take only the construction, design and ergonomics of the case, the Macbook Pro 13 Retina is one of the best laptops on the market today. And in general, and in many areas separately. The case is both beautiful and high quality. The keyboard is one of the best on the market. The screen is definitely the best without question. The rest of the parameters are also high level. We will talk about the platform next time, but it is either at the level of the best examples or higher.

As a result, it turns out that even if you buy a Macbook Pro 13 Retina with the expectation that the main work will be done in Windows, then even in this case it looks like one of the favorites for those buyers who appreciate the convenience of work.

The main disadvantage: almost no opportunities for customization, upgrades, a single and unique style. If the Macbook Pro 13 Retina does not suit you in any way, then you have no choice. Either you are adapting to the possibilities that the Macbook Pro 13 Retina gives you, or you need to go look for another solution. But for my taste, for most users, the features it offers are more than adequate.

Introduced the iPad 4 along with iPad mini, updated iMac all-in-ones and the Mac mini desktop compact computer, as well as the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, which combines the advantages of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air: professional features and compactness.

The laptop is 20% thinner and nearly half a kilogram lighter than the current 13" MacBook Pro at just 1.9 cm thin and weighing 1.62 kg. With a smaller screen and a redesigned internal layout, this laptop mobile computer became the lightest in the MacBook Pro line.

13.3" IPS screen with LED backlight has a resolution of 2560 x 1600 at a pixel density of 227 ppi, which is 4 times higher than the current 13" version of the MacBook Pro and twice the resolution of Full HD 1080p. The company also took care of such important display characteristics as the level of reflections and contrast: the first value was reduced by 75%, and the second is raised by 29% in relation to the current 13" model.

The technical characteristics of the computer are inferior to the previously released 15 "model with a Retina screen in the area of \u200b\u200bthe processor and graphics subsystem. Only dual-core Intel Core i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge models are available for customers to choose from, and discrete graphics card and completely absent - users will have to rely only on the integrated graphics core Intel HD Graphics 4000, which has good performance for its class, unable to compete NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M installed in the 15" version of this laptop. However, the video core allows output in addition to the main screen to two external ones with a resolution of 2560 x 1600, which is important for professional users.

For other specifications, the laptop does not differ from the older model. 8 GB DDR3L @1600 MHz memory is installed on board (expandable to 16 GB is not possible), disk space is placed on a fast solid-state drive from 128 to 768 GB.

A FaceTime HD 720p webcam with a stereo microphone is installed, among the ports there are two Thunderbolt, two USB 3, HDMI, MagSafe 2 and a 3.5 mm jack with an optical digital audio output for connection regular headphones or iPhone headset. Thunderbolt allows you to connect monitors via the Mini DisplayPort interface, as well as via adapters - via DVI, Dual-link DVI and VGA. Network capabilities are represented by Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0 modules.

The speaker system with advanced speakers is carried over from the 15" Retina model. The laptop is equipped with a full-size 79-key backlit keyboard with ambient brightness sensor, as well as a multi-touch touchpad.

By using a smaller screen, a simpler processor, and no discrete graphics, Apple was able to save time battery life 13" MacBook Pro at 7 hours when working on a wireless network - the same can offer a 15" Retina version.

US pricing is $1,700 for the Intel Core i5 @2.5/3.1 GHz model with 128GB flash storage, and $2,000 for the model with SSD volume 256 GB. For an extra charge, users can upgrade to a faster Intel Core i7 @2.9/3.6GHz processor with Hyper Threading support and up to 768GB SSDs. The laptop comes with the latest OS X Mountain Lion operating system.

It so happened historically that Apple rarely changes the design of its computers. For example, 15-inch PowerBook computers (and after them the MacBook Pro) were produced in the same case from 2003 to 2008 - that is, by computer standards, for an eternity. The current generation of 13-inch MacBook Pros are hard to tell apart from previous generations, which in turn were virtually identical to the original aluminum MacBook that debuted in the fall of 2008. But inside the 2011 MacBook Pro has little to do with its predecessors.

Specifications for 13-inch MacBook Pro (2011)

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.7.0 Lion.
CPU: Intel Core i5-2514UM, 2.3/2.9 GHz, 2 cores, 4 threads.
Chipset: Intel HM67 Express.
RAM: standard 4 GB, DDR3 1333 MHz, in our copy 8 GB.
Disk: 320 GB, 5400 RPM.
Optical drive: SuperDrive (DVD+/-RW DL).
Display: 16:10, glossy, 13.3 inches, 1280x800, LED backlight.
Video card: integrated, Intel HD 3000.
Dimensions and weight: 32.5x22.7x2.4 cm, 2.04 kg.
Battery: lithium polymer, 63 Wh.
Communications: Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Gigabit Ethernet.
Connectors: 2xUSB 2.0, 1xFireWire 800, 1xThunderBolt, Gigabit LAN, audio, SD/SDHC/SDXC card reader.
Webcam: FaceTime HD (1.3 MP).

Appearance and design features

As I mentioned above, the appearance of the MacBook Pro has remained unchanged for three years. It still features the best case on the market, with the top part carved from a single piece of aluminium. The rigidity of the case is such that the laptop can be safely lifted around any corner and not worry about the consequences at all. By the way, Apple processes the metal of the case in some special way, so that it practically does not scratch: my previous computer was just an aluminum MacBook, which I drove in the tail and mane for 2 years, carried with me on all trips and once dropped it hard . All these ups and downs had absolutely no effect on the appearance of the laptop.

Of course, like all modern devices Apple's 13-inch MBP is damn good looking. Almost all PC laptops next to it look, frankly, clumsy. In general, it is useless to describe the appearance of Apple devices, they must be silently admired.

True, from the point of view of practicality, the MBP is not all right. The sharp edge of the laptop quite noticeably cuts the wrists, and the maximum opening angle of the lid is clearly insufficient for comfortable use of the laptop in the prone position.

All ports crowded on the left side. The set of ports, by the way, is small: two USBs, a gigabit LAN socket, FireWire 800 and a slot for SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards - that's all. Although I'm lying, there is also a proprietary Thunderbolt connector that can be used to connect monitors and various high-speed peripherals, such as external RAID arrays. True, in the sale of such peripherals so far one, two, and miscalculated.

Screen

In short, the 13-inch MBP's screen can be summed up in one phrase: it's one of the best laptop screens on the market in terms of picture quality. Contrast, viewing angles, black level - all at a very high level. Unfortunately, IPS is out of the question, the MBP uses a TN + Film matrix - but very, very worthy.

The only thing that let us down a little is the screen resolution, which is 1280x800 pixels. However, this is better than the newfangled 1366x768 - after all, 32 pixels vertically are not superfluous.

Sound

As usual, the built-in speakers in the MacBook Pro are very good. In addition to two tweeters, the laptop also has a “subwoofer” (I specifically put this word in quotation marks, since in this case it reproduces not low, but medium frequencies). The volume and quality will be enough for a convivial movie watching, and even for listening to some simple music, especially if you are undemanding to the sound quality. It is also difficult to find fault with the quality of the headphone output - it is quite decent. However, as always with Apple.

Keyboard and touchpad

The keyboard on the MacBook Pro is very good, it's one of the best keyboards island type in the market. The layout is traditional for Apple laptops (note that I use the American model with an engraved keyboard, the localized versions have a worse layout, with a vertical Enter and a short right Shift).

The keyboard is equipped with LED backlight white color, which automatically turns on in the dark. You can adjust the brightness of the backlight using the F5/F6 keys.

There is hardly anything new to say about the touchpad, it is still beautiful. I can't understand why in the 3 years that have passed since the first glass touchpads appeared in the Apple line, PC laptop manufacturers have not been able to offer anything similar in terms of convenience.

Performance

Until the beginning of 2011, Apple stubbornly continued to release laptops with Core 2 Duo processors, although all other manufacturers had long since switched to Core i5 / Core i7. But in 2011, the new "peels" finally made it to the 13-inch MacBook Pro.

Our experimental specimen is equipped with Core processor i5-2415M ( Sandy Bridge). This is a dual-core processor with Hyper-Threading technology and a nominal clock speed of 2.3 GHz, which can temporarily increase to 2.7 GHz with dual-threaded load and 2.9 GHz with single-threaded load. Needless to say, this processor is much faster than the Core 2 Duo. Unfortunately, my favorite Xbench benchmark doesn't work on Mac OS X Lion, so I used the iMovie'11 video editor as my main measure of performance. A MacBook with a Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz processor took 10 minutes 46 seconds to export the same video, and a MacBook Pro with a Core i5-2415M processor completed the same task in 5 minutes 29 seconds and thus demonstrated almost a twofold speedup. But the graphics in the new MBPs have not only worsened, but rather not improved: instead of the NVIDIA GeForce 320M, users will now have to be content with the Intel HD 3000 graphics core built into the processor. In terms of performance, it roughly corresponds to the GeForce 320M, so the loss is not big.

Nutrition and autonomy

The 13-inch MacBook Pro comes with a 63 Wh non-removable lithium polymer battery. According to the manufacturer, it should be enough for 7 hours of work on the Internet via Wi-Fi. A month of using the laptop showed that it really works 6-7 hours when surfing the web, and if you use it exclusively as a typewriter (combined with an MP3 player), you can safely count on 8 hours away from the outlet.

Like all laptops in the MacBook Pro line, the new “trinashka” is equipped with a special button, pressing which brings to life an LED battery charge indicator.

The laptop comes with a very convenient and compact Charger, to which, if desired, you can connect the plug (and plug it directly into the outlet) or extension cord. Also, the charger has folding "horns" on which you can wind the cable that goes to the laptop.

Noise and heat

Like previous Apple aluminum laptops, the new firmware is silent in office mode. A slight rustling can be heard only by putting your ear to the laptop case. But under heavy load, alas, the MBP starts to make quite a lot of noise, and if my previous MacBook just hummed on a low note, then this one howls rather disgustingly. Luckily, I haven't had to deal with this howl very often so far.

In the dry matter

To be honest, it's hard to be honest about a device you use for hours every day, but the 2011 MacBook Pro is a truly unique laptop. Of course, someone might say that there are a lot of devices on the market that are faster, more portable, cheaper, and so on. This is true. And I myself, relatively recently, painfully thought about whether I should jump off the Apple platform, but in the end I decided to stay for one simple reason: in the price range up to 15 thousand hryvnias, there was not a single laptop that could compete with the 13-inch MacBook Pro in terms of a combination of factors (performance, battery life, screen quality, case strength, keyboard and touchpad comfort). So if you need a convenient, productive, reliable and relatively compact workhorse and at the same time you do not work with some very special software (like programs for managing oil rigs), then the MacBook Pro will be an excellent choice. Recommended. 6 reasons to buy a 13-inch MacBook Pro:

it's a Mac;
unsurpassed aluminum case;
excellent display;
good performance;
comfortable keyboard and excellent touchpad;
gigantic battery life.

3 reasons not to buy a 13-inch MacBook Pro:

it's a Mac;
weak graphics core Intel HD 3000;
non-removable battery.