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My 2016 MacBook Pro has been an absolute pleasure to use. It's small, light, great battery life, plenty of performance, I consider it the second incarnation of
by selectodude 6y ago
My 2016 MacBook Pro has been an absolute pleasure to use. It's small, light, great battery life, plenty of performance, I consider it the second incarnation of my favorite laptop ever, the Titanium PowerBook G4.
Except for the keyboard. Been replaced three times. It's defective by design. Such a letdown.
- josephg 6y agoI have the opposite experience with my 2016 MacBook Pro. It feels really sluggish to me now. 2 cores is nowhere near enough, and the integrated graphics chip doesn’t feel fast enough for everyday tasks if you have external monitors connected. I’m on a video call in discord the machine lags so much it’s unusable. Xcode with swift is basically useless - it lags so much sometimes doing who knows what that it drops keystrokes. I had the monitor stop working because of the design fault right before two back to back conferences. And the keyboard has been replaced once and is now having issues again. Compiling rust on the machine is about 8x slower than my new ryzen based development machine. We’re in a golden age of cpu improvements. A dual core 2016 mbp isn’t good enough for me any more.
- selectodude 6y agoAh, I have a quad core with a discrete GPU. Might make all the difference.
- inDigiNeous 6y agoInteresting. How much ram do you have ? Using a 4k external monitor ? Just wondering, don't those cores still have HyperThreading or such, resulting in actually more cores than just 2 physical ones ?