New 13-inch MacBook Pro Review: The Return of Out-of-focus Simplicity

Tencent Digital (Dude) Well, first of all, the prototype we got this time is the 13-inch MacBook Pro just released. If you look seriously at the conference this morning, you know it's not equipped with Touch Bar. And Touch ID, want to see these two kinds of I can promise you next month will definitely see the evaluation for the first time (anyway, a few days this month), so today this review, you quietly look at the 13-inch MacBook Pro Other upgrades it.

In fact, today's press conference attracted everyone's attention with the Touch Bar. No one is concerned about the release of a "simple" entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro. You can also say that it is the most cost-effective upgrade, although it does not have Touch Bar and Touch ID, but with a thin body, greater performance, a more sturdy screen, and a brand new interface... If you are not interested in this fancy thing like the Touch Bar, you really can look at this The productivity tool hidden behind the halo.

Thinness is also costly

In recent years, Apple has practiced slimming and Dafa, not only has the MacBook Pro lost weight again, but has also introduced a “better than thin” MacBook. This time, the MacBook Pro, which is 17% thicker, has become the thinnest MacBook Pro in history. With the comparison of the two slimmer MacBooks and MacBook Airs, the MacBook Pro is considered to be a portable product with the same level of performance as the main product.

The previous generation of 13-inch MacBook Pro thickness 18mm, this generation 14.9mm, this 3mm thickness gap allows you to easily put the new 13-inch MacBook Pro into the vast majority of single shoulder bag. Although its weight still gives you a feeling of difficulty with one hand, the lost 210g is already the weight of a large screen mobile phone. For a 13-inch model, this effort is obvious to all.

Of course, what are the costs of thinning? The first is the A side LOGO does not shine, and the same reason as the MacBook, in order to make the screen thinner, you can only sacrifice this X white light installed, so far the full range of Apple notebook LOGO are bid farewell to the luminous era, please allow sadness.

The second is that all USB-C interfaces are used locally, and even the SD card slot is not. What traditional USB, HDMI, Thunderbolt 2 ah, these guys are not conducive to weight loss, even the previous generation of MegSafe 2 also canceled, Once again allow for sadness.

The third is the keyboard for the second generation of butterfly keys, and this child also contributed a lot of space, we will say more about it.

With these three measures down, it is difficult for the new 13-inch MacBook Pro to be slim. After the conference, everyone was embarrassed to think that Apple's three measures were too radical, especially to kill so many old qualified interfaces. But honestly, when you put the new 13-inch MacBook Pro in your hand, You will feel that this sacrifice is worthwhile, and the reduction in size and weight in return can actually relieve some of the burden. This is the most important thing.

Just like people after losing weight, everything becomes slimmer. Even though the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is based on the previous monolithic body, it is particularly lean and capable after the axe is cut, and the body thickness It is very even and the distribution of weight is very balanced. Even people who are not familiar with Apple laptops can see that this is a new design.

Of course, in addition to the LOGO does not shine, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro still has a slight difference in the appearance of the design, that is, behind the shaft part also uses a full metal design, compared to the previous plastic parts, the overall effect is stronger.

Speaking of a digression here, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro's spindle technology has changed, from the previous two left and right hinge links, into a multi-point hinge, greatly enhanced stability, increased damping, the screen is During the opening and closing process, it is difficult to shake.

In addition, the new style has also added new colors, not gold or rose gold, but a more stable deep space gray, and the iPhone's deep space gray color, personal feeling is particularly calm commercial range, compared to the traditional silver models , I prefer this new color, no way, people will always like new things.

Keyboard feel worthy of the second generation title

First of all, let's identify with everyone. In the early hours of the morning, I wrote a press conference. I feel that the keyboard of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro has the same feel as the MacBook. After I carefully compared the tests, I found that there was a difference. The feel of the second generation butterfly key is obviously better than the previous generation product.

We all know that in order to reduce the size of the body had to choose the key to a more flat butterfly button, although compared to the old 13-inch MacBook Pro, feel is certainly not comparable, and even less than the MacBook Air's key feel, but two Generation is the second generation, and people are at least stronger than the generation on the MacBook.

Specifically, its keystrokes are slightly longer than those of the first generation, so it is no longer so flat. The heavy feeling and comfort of tapping have been improved. At the same time, it is also altogether straightforward. The voice of the generation is “噗噗噗”. The second generation is "啪啪啪" and you can feel it yourself.

Overall, this second-generation butterfly key is more than enough, although less than the old 13-inch MacBook Pro so thick, but still much better than the MacBook, like me, especially concerned about the feel of heavy writing workers, use it to knock Tens of thousands of words are not tired (without the bragging X component).

There is also a detail that is the Chinese version of the new MacBook Pro will be followed by the use of the Chinese keyboard, there will be Chinese and English switch keys, and some Chinese punctuation key tips, although many old drivers know the location of these keys by default, but When you see them printed on the keys, they still feel very kind.

Touchpad is very easy to use

å’± is definitely a person who has met the world, Magic Trackpad is also used, but this 2 times the previous touchpad area new stuff, I spent a few minutes like it was incredible.

As the saying goes, an inch is bigger than an inch. This is twice as big as the macOS system. Although the Apple notebook series will increase the size of the touchpad each time it is updated, I rarely use the two-finger function, because I always feel that the activity is not open, but the emergence of the largest touchpad in history is definitely enough.

For example, in a photo or map app, two fingers can be rotated, zoomed, or moved. These complex two-finger functions require ample space. In the past, I often went “out of bounds”, but now I’ve doubled the area. As far as you want, these gestures that you didn't like in the past are now used. This upgrade really solves the pain points.

The interface is also useless Tucao

This conference was the most talked about, that is, Apple radically canceled all the traditional interfaces except the 3.5mm headphone jack, pushing the USB-C standard, originally this is nothing to say, to Apple's determination and the MacBook made For example, this is not too surprising, but when I saw the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro actually had only two USB-C ports on the left, it almost crashed...

Saying that 13-inch high models have four USB-C ports. The same body size, no reason can not accommodate the other two USB-C mouth ah.

What are the concepts of the two USB-C ports? Do you have to use one power cable and the other is a card reader or video output? Still charging the iPhone? Can not be a USB-C can HUB hub? The new 13-inch MacBook Pro also serves as a productivity tool and also requires the connection of many peripheral devices. The reduction in this aspect is a bit stingy.

The other is the old-fashioned switch cable problem, which will definitely increase the user's cost of use, at least have to buy a USB-C to USB cable, and any one adapter cable is not cheap, the new MacBook Pro users have this Thought preparation.

Another detail is that the new 13-inch MacBook Pro power outlet is 61W, compared to the power of the MacBook 29W is much larger, so although both power outlets can be plugged in the USB-C charging cable, but it is best not to mix, otherwise Affects the charging efficiency.

When it comes to electrical outlets, MagSafe, who had previously forced a full charge, bids on the history stage. From then on, you can no longer view the state of charge through the charging port, and there is no magnetic absorption function. This is a sad fact.

Well, say something positive energy, USB-C biggest advantage is that a special multi-energy, charge / data transmission / video output in one package, and insert anyway, the interface is also very small, Apple push this interface It's not unreasonable. After all, a lot of mobile phone manufacturers have joined the USB-C camp, so this is useless, and I'm sure it won't be your resistance to buying the new 13-inch MacBook Pro.

The screen is better than not knowing

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro is known as the first wide color gamut Apple notebook, which is very useful for making pictures, videos, watching movies and so on. Because of the improvement of color gamut and the vivid display of red and green colors, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is bound to attract some professional users. What about actual results?

I compared the MacBook with the new 13-inch MacBook Pro and chose the same system with its own wallpaper. It is clear that the red part of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is brighter and more intense. With a layer of things, the two contrasted and made judgments. It really was no harm without comparison.

Hardware performance depends on the demand

In fact, this 13-inch MacBook Pro's core configuration is not high, i5 dual-core 2.0GHz processor, compared to the previous generation of 2.7GHz, only from the book number point of view there is no advantage, with Geekbench running points show that the new 13-inch MacBook Pro single-core score of 3589, multi-core score of 7229, and previous generations of these two scores were 3321,7061, apparently not obvious increase.

But you do not lose heart, strengths are still there, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro SSD official claims that the maximum speed of 3.1GB / s, write the maximum speed of 2.1GB / s, run results with Disk Speed ​​Test, read the average speed of 2GB / s, and very stable, writes an average speed of 1.3GB/s, nothing feels right? Do you know how the previous MacBook Pro performed in this area? With a reading speed of 1.3GB/s and 0.6GB/s, the new performance almost doubled.

I think that in many cases, SSD read and write speeds are more important than processor core speeds, especially for some heavily repetitive tasks such as Final Cut Pro video clips, which require frequent retrieval of material, so users for this part of the demand , not to pursue such a high processor performance, which is the value of this 13-inch MacBook Pro.

summary

Put aside the 15-inch high models do not say, two 13-inch MacBook Pro spread 2400 yuan, in exchange for the tide to the Touch Bar, faster clock speed and more interfaces, but if you care about is the actual Using the experience, and trusting enough to use good principles, then this entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro is the most cost-effective choice.

Compared to the older products of the same class, you have to spend $2,200 more to get started with the new models. At first glance, it looks like the performance is almost the same, but you actually get a lighter body, a wider color gamut screen, and faster SSD read and write speeds. Among these, I think the weight reduction is the most tempting.

Since Apple has brought out such a simple entry-level model while pushing the Touch Bar, it naturally has its own reasoning. Those who are not interested in the Touch Bar may be able to just watch this machine.

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