All of you happy 13″ MacBook Pro and MacBook Air owners may look longingly at my giant, beautiful screen but at 4.3 lbs, I bet you’re not jealous of having to lug that weight around! To be specific on the size, the 16″ is 10% bigger in volume and 7% heavier. Again, it’s not a huge deal but I may have to go back to taking my watch off when I’m typing on it away from my desk. The 2013 was like that but the 2016 was that little bit shorter from the front of the device to the front of the keys. Most people wouldn’t notice it, but that little smidge deeper means that my left arm is now suspended on the case by my watch. I was expecting thicker since the keys have more throw, but they decided to pack in more battery too so it’s heavier. Sure, it’s got a 16″ screen, but the 15″ was really 15.4″ so it’s hardly noticeable. I’m also a little bit bummed that it’s actually bigger than the 15″ MacBook Pro. I’m sure they’ll find something else to be annoyed about though. I’m sure I’ll get used to the new keyboard, and I hope the people who have been harping on the keyboard incessantly for the last three years will finally be happy. But hey, it’s a lot quieter than the old keyboard so it doesn’t sound like you’re typing a manifesto when writing a love note to your sweetie. The keyboard on the 16″ might look a lot like the Magic Keyboard in size of keys, key separation, and the throw of the keys, but it does not feel like the Magic Keyboard. I love the Magic Keyboard and use it every day at my desk. Many people (including Apple during their briefing to a select few) said it was the Magic Keyboard with a few improvements. The new one is mushier and less clicky which disappoints me. I can prove that statement by saying that I prefer the butterfly keyboard on my older MacBook Pro to the “new and improved” scissor key version on the 16″. Of course, the fact that they broke pretty often on people might make the moniker of “bad” appropriate, but the way it feels is neither bad nor good. I wrote a piece on the butterfly keyboard in which I said it wasn’t accurate to say it was a bad keyboard because the goodness of a keyboard is a matter of opinion. That put 28 apps on my Mac with no intervention by me at all. I attribute the mind map to why it took so little time.Īnother time-saver was I used Knightwise’s tip from last year on how to install Mac App Store apps from the command line. I have to tell you, having that mind map of what’s mission-critical, important, and less important was awesome. Since I did it so recently, it only took me about a day and a half to get everything working exactly as I like it. I dragged over my data from my backup drive and installed every single app by scratch and did every fiddly bit of tailoring all by hand. I find it very pleasing when talking to AppleCare to say, “this was a CLEAN INSTALL!” The desire to have a super clean system won the argument. I probably could have used Migration Assistant and not have too much cruft. I decided to do a clean install of all my applications and data, even though I just did a clean install on my 2016 MacBook Pro a month and a half ago. I got the new hotness on Tuesday, two days ahead of the earliest date Apple said it would arrive. I think I have a way to connect the dots between the new MacBook Pro and the tour we had of SpaceX. I’d like to tell you about the new 16″ MacBook Pro in a way that doesn’t repeat what everyone else has had to say already.
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