A friend of mine who recently lost her laptop. To ensure she could get back to work soon, I gave this machine to her to resume everything quickly. Though, I am a 15years ThinkPad fan. She insists to get Apple. Then, NVM, this is the cheapest that I could find. And I would say I would give it 4/5 review.
Pro:
1. Very very good nit, I mean 500nit+ more in a practical situation means you can see everything crispy clear. I suppose it would even beyond X1C6's Dolby Vision. Superior.
2. Super fast USB3.1, I mean 500MB/s with my Super-Drive, this is incredible.
3. Not ugly. Since it gave to her, it cannot be an ugly one. Apple is not the prettiest one like Fujitsu or VAIO, but it is among the most beautiful machines in the world.
Con:
1. Poor battery life, within 6hours, it died. I mean, I use my ThinkPad X270 as a comparison, these 2 machines were launched in the same year. 270 lost less than 40% and MBP13 already died. What a ludicrous thing.
2. Annoying keyboard noise. Apple engineers should consider their users may use their machine in a library. I felt akward as I typed its keyboard.
3. Little bad performance. I mean 7360U should perform better than looks like. it feels even slower than 7300U based X270. Which is weird. (270 only has half speed NVMe versus MBP13, I am wondering maybe faulted by 128GB vs 256GB)
4. Heavy, a 13.3in machine weigh 1.37kg is a facepalm thing. Fujitsu or VAIO made their machine less than 1kg and maintain full set I/O, LG even have 72Wh battery. Anyway, girls love Apple. lol
Generally, I would still say, it is a good machine that you should consider, if you do not mind, please buy an external battery pack for it, you would need it .6hours is very little juice. That's all I want to say.
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