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I finally cracked about a year ago and replaced my 2015 MBP 15 with a 2020 MBP 16. Now I'm gonna swap it once this thing comes out. Experiences thus far with
by lordnacho 6y ago
I finally cracked about a year ago and replaced my 2015 MBP 15 with a 2020 MBP 16.
Now I'm gonna swap it once this thing comes out.
Experiences thus far with the MBP16:
- MBP16 has 64GM RAM and can run several IDEs at once, I can compile a project and do other stuff without feeling any lag. It does make the fans come on, which is expected.
- Still stutters on certain games, but it wasn't purchased for that. Kinda surprising though, I maxed out all the options minus the disk size when I bought it.
- The key travel is just right, I think slightly less than the 2015 version but more than my wife's 2018. Goldilocks.
- The Touch Bar is ok, not something I'll miss. I've set it up with BetterTouchTool to have a combination of the open apps and a thing to pull up iTerm2. A minor nuisance is I'll be typing something and I slightly touch the bar, and it pulls up another app.
- It eats battery. With my old set of MacBooks, you could never tell which power adapter it was connected to, because it didn't matter whether it was a slightly lower power. With the 16 it's noticeable. If there wasn't a virus lockdown I'd probably struggle to take it out to a café for a day's work.
- Screen is beautiful as always. They seem to have found a way to reduce the bezel size, because the 2015 and 2020 models look to be pretty much the same size externally. They actually fit nicely one on top of the other when closed.
- Larger trackpad is ok, not killer. Maybe it helps some people's wrists to not have to move all the way to the middle.
Reasons for upgrade:
- Less energy use could make the thing properly mobile
- Should be a noticeable speed increase
- MagSafe makes it feel safer. I have kids, the USB ports seem like they could easily get broken if someone steps on a cable. For now I've got adapters anyway, in order to make use of all my old MagSafe chargers, but it would be nice to have it all the way up to the port.
- dont__panic 6y agoIf you're having issues with battery when you're not plugged in, I can highly recommend Turbo Boost Switcher (http://tbswitcher.rugarciap.com/ http://tbswitcher.rugarciap.com/) to disable Intel turbo boost. I've noticed no slowdown or performance decrease, but my fans spin up MUCH less often and my battery lasts a couple hours more. I suppose it goes to show just how badly Intel has screwed up in recent years -- so much development went into this "Turbo Boost" feature that heats up processors hugely under any sustained workload in a way that no laptop can properly keep up with. In certain cases it could make sense ("my project takes 20 seconds to compile, and then the processor basically shuts off") but I routinely end up pegging the CPU at max for 10s of minutes at a time for huge compilations, and the minute the fans spin up I know that Turbo Boost is about to thermal throttle my CPU into oblivion.
- lucbocahut 6y agoI use macfan control to force a lower fan rate which throttles the cpu. Battery is significantly better (feels like 2x at least) for mundane tasks. I can still watch videos, browse and do light work without feeling any slowdown.