2019 Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch, 16GB RAM, 1TB Storage, 2.3GHz Intel Core i9) - Space Gray

Bought back in October of 2020 and still fast and works great. The only problem I have with it is the front camera quality is bad and the battery life. The battery life even new was poor but other than that I’ve had no problems. I’ve never upgraded because they got rid of the Touch Bar at the top of the keyboard with the newer models while I still have mine. Nothing but great things about it besides the camera and battery life

I really went back on forth on this Mac. I did not want to spend the money and would have gone with a 13 inch option, were it not for the butterfly keyboard issue. I even considered a Windows box, but since i use one in my job was very resistent to the idea. In the end the 16 inch with its magic keyboard was my only real choice. These things are so expensive, but I did realize that it was replacing a 10 year old MacBook Pro that still worked, so I guess you get what you pay for. After shopping around I got a pretty good deal from an Apple authorized seller through Amazon (saved $300). I took the 16Gb i-9 quad core with the standard video memory, slightly higher end card, and a 1TB drive all for $2499. I wanted more RAM, but read that the solid state hard drive would make up the difference quite nicely; which appears to be true. Okay, so how do I like it? I absolutely love this thing!!! It works so smoothly, so fast, and so well. No hang ups or lags, no glitches or little “we’ll fix that later” items. It’s powerful and easy to use. The keyboard feels a little different, but is not a bad tradeoff for computer slimness. The track pad took me a while to get used to, but when you do it’s actually pretty handy. I even love the touch bar, which I fully planned to hate after reading the reviews. It’s easy to customize and it does so many things just when you need them. Example, in finder, the trash can and new folder are right there (in my setup). In Quicktime it has a scrubber bar that lets you smoothly scroll to the frame you want. Oh well, some will hate it - i like it. Performance: I realize that I am coming from a 10 year old MacBook, but I also use a pretty new Dell laptop in my work, which if you throw out the docking station is a pretty good workhorse. My only real performance needs are for home video editing, and ripping and rendering movies (which i buy) for my home server. Video editing is fun again! It adds clips and photos so fast, edits like a dream, and renders like lightning. Video conversion is something else altogether... Video conversion test case: Frozen 2 on blue-ray. Ripping with Make MKV was about the same, owing to my external drive limitations, but rendering using Handbrake was phenominal (to me anyway). It rendered the movie in high quality, H264, 1080p in about 45 minutes. I am no professional, so you will have to rate that against your own experience, but for me it was fantastic! Finally, less demanding software like microsoft Office 365, Apple Pages and friends, and VLC handle quite nicely - loading documents in a flash and never hanging up hiccuping. Oh yeah, i bought two USB 3.1 adapters and one SD adapter for about $8 each, all three with the tiny plug and short cord. That allows you to use all four ports at onc, plus they are all compact and blend quite nicely. Summary: i love this computer and don’t begrudge a penny spent on it.

I can't believe I waited this long to make the switch from a windows machine to a MacBook. I've been a photographer for weddings/senior portraits for over 10 years, and I should have bought one of these 10 years ago! The screen is AMAZING. 6 out of 5 stars!! The colors of the display, the crispness.... it's just flat out spectacular. If you're considering this as a change/upgrade from any other type of display, do it!!! This is a great laptop for photographers and the main reason I bought it. Again, I've been a windows user forever, and I didn't want to stray from that because I've always been mostly happy. My other laptop (Acer Nitro 17") has been great and was used flawlessly for 6 years for my photo editing, but when I got this in my hands, I couldn't believe how much better it looked for photo editing. Not to mention some of the other things I was missing out on.... like the bluetooth connection to my iPhone. So now when I'm editing photos, I can get messages and reply on a full keyboard with the messages app on the computer. I will be honest, I am not a super-user, 90% of my time on the MacBook is in Photoshop. I still use the windows machine for other activities, and I'm slowly making the transition to the MacBook. I would have to say that there are adjustments, like not having an optical drive, and having to order USB-C connections for external monitors, and no card reader on the laptop, but those are minor and I knew this would be an issue in making the switch so I won't be negative about that in this review. Battery life is great. I get about 6 solid hours with Pandora on and heavy edits in Photoshop. I haven't really gone longer than that, but it seems to hold up well. I love the design, the keyboard is sweet, the power block is not the best being as large as it is, but I just keep it plugged in under my desk and really don't use it around the house since the battery life is quite good. I really cant say a lot about technical specs versus cost, I'm sure that's been covered in other reviews. I can only sing praises to this because of the display and battery life so far. If you're a photographer (or do any other sort of graphic design or image editing) this is a must have. I really can't believe I lived this long without one.

-I never had the displeasure of typing on the butterfly keyboard, but this one is nice, very nice. Felt very natural from the moment I unboxed and turned this beast on. -Touch ID. Loving it! Makes accessing 1Password a joy, as well as using Apple Pay. I am sure there are others that I will find as I continue to explore. -Touch Bar. I really didn’t think I would be at all interested in using this feature, but I have found it quite handy. There are some customizable features you can add, but for now, I am continuing to learn what comes “stock”. For those unaware, the Touch Bar is a LED screen that changes, depending on the app you are in, giving what amounts to be shortcuts for various features. It replaces the physical F1-12 keys which can still be brought up. . -It goes without saying that I love the extra large screen, and to me, it is gorgeous! -Battery life has been quite good. The 100W battery (largest allowed by the FFA) is meeting my needs. -The 3 array microphones on the left side. Have not had time to play with it, but it has gotten some good reviews. -The speakers. Six of them. As I said, WOW! Force cancelling woofers keep the annoying vibration at louder playback at bay. How they make the sound appear up to a foot of either side of the laptop is beyond me, but I love it. My last laptop was a 2008 MBP, and it is still functional. Hoping that this will have a similar track record.

If you’re debating a pro machine for a long term investment, this is the laptop to look at. Seriously, the minor improvements over previous models are game changing. TLDR, simply the best computer for the price, especially with all the free apps MacOS gives you that would cost about $400 in total in Windows. (Obviously if you already own office/Adobe software not a factor for you). My favorite thing switching to macOS next to the smoothest gesture interface ever is never having to worry if I need to download some bloated freeware to extract or view a file. Boot camp, faster Solidworks performance than my custom desktop with dedicated GPU. Buy the +$300 option. Excellent deal, you will notice 8 cores if you do professional work (cad, editing, vfx, etc) and the 1Tb SSD leaves plenty of space for a comfortable Windows partition. Faster graphics is a plus too. Get yourself some fan control software, there are plenty of free/cheap options out there, and it can easily cool itself at 100% fans unlike some other MacBooks. You don’t even notice they are on if like me you do a lot of work in public areas. (Apple’s stock drivers prioritize noise reduction, which is nice 90% of the time, but toggle max fans is a must have for any thin/light laptop these days, not just MacBooks. Thermal improvements aside, the speakers will blow you away. Even if you have expensive dedicated drivers, you will still find yourself just using these often. They are just that good. I was hyped from reviews and still a few weeks later I’m just in love every time I play music with high dynamic range (I’m a huge piano lover, and literally no ordinary speakers can render piano well) Keyboard, excellent. You may need a few days to adjust, but I find I can fly through memorized lines of code after a bit of practice. They feel enjoyable to type on, and are honestly a bit addictive, which is a weird thing to say about a keyboard, but there. The backlight is soft but very visible, without the horrendous bleeding like on my Lenovo laptop. Battery. Ok, best you’re going to get in a 6+ core machine this capable, and still take it on a plane. The screen is very bright, but with the reflector you can really save on battery if you reduce brightness to ~80%. The 95 watt charger is very fast though, so if you do run out, you don’t have to wait long. Lastly the screen. I say this to everyone who I consult about screens, but stats are deceptive. This is the best looking screen I’ve seen bar none, certainly on a laptop. Apple really knows how to make a display, and I’d take this screen over a ‘4K’ Dell any day. Honestly don’t pay attention to Apple hate. I get it, people have opinions, but seriously, your machine, you have to use it. To conclude, while you can find other laptops that do one or two things as good or better than this one, the 2019 MacBook Pro 16” is the most well rounded computer I’ve come across. Everything just works, and boy does it work well. It will last you 6+ years, and you’ll enjoy the whole life of this machine.

Pros: Decent amount of power for gaming in bootcamp. Overall great laptop, love the new/old keyboard. Touch ID is great (now if I could only have that on my iPhone...). The Touch Bar looks great but I rarely use it, it would be better if it had more powerful customization. I love the huge trackpad, hands down the best trackpad on any laptop. Screen looks gorgeous, excellent color, very bright and good contrast. Cons: The screen is a fingerprint magnet and super delicate, and because of the tight tolerances the keyboard and trackpad always touch the screen and any oil from my fingers gets transferred to the screen making it impossible to keep it clean. The fans run constantly on any serious load like gaming or video editing. And of course the standard Apple cons of: fixed battery/RAM/SSD which suck but at the end of the day I'm still Apple's B*****h.

Let's be honest, it's an Apple Macbook, so the build quality is AWESOME!!! But.... For almost $3000 this thing is way under specs. Talk about an Apple Tax!!! If you are doing basic tasks and don't mind paying the high Apple Tax, get it. The screen is terrific. The size of the screen is perfect. The touchpad is the best out there and can't even compare to any other laptop. Speakers sound terrific for small laptop speakers. Keyboard though is meh.... Could be better. Feels to cheap. Webcam? Forget about it. Sucks. Low resolution and low quality. 16gb of ram? For a almost 3000 dollar laptop? Really??? Doing basic stuff it ran warm. Plugged in my samsung 4k monitor and it now runs hot. Really? Can't handle 4K without cooking? Next I realized the 4K was not outputting in HDR. In order to get 4K HDR you need the $70 Apple USB-C dongle. Ok. Fine. Ordered it. Came in same day. Plugged it in. Nice, 4K in HDR. Now it runs a little hotter. Oh. And wait. The display went out on me a couple times. Known issue with the Apple USB-C adapter. Really??? Now comes the best part. Edited a video and began to encode it to MP4 H265. Kicked it off. 2 hour video was going to take a few hours to complete. Really? I9 processor in this mac and my older I5 PC did video editing faster? Now about 2 mins I to video encoding this thing fired up all fans, and got hot enough to cook eggs on it (up by the touchpad). It was so loud I thought it was gonna blow. Needless to say I packed it all back up and returned it to Amazon. Plugged in my I5 8th gen windows PC with 32GB ddr4 ram, samsung evo plus ssd, and 1060 video card and was much happier again. Honestly, it doesn't compare. Last but not least, simple things in the OS like maximizing the window. Did you know you can't maximize easily in macos? Full screen yes but I just want to maximize not full screen the app. Full screen takes over the entire screen. Also, what's the point in having an "almost" 4K screen when Apple won't let you watch videos over 1080P in safari, netflix, or Amazon.

I'm not a “Mac guy” by any means. I've been a Windows(and DOS!) user since the mid 80’s, although I did of course learn to program on an Apple IIe in high school in the early 90s. I have loathed the idea of paying double for underpowered components and a locked down and crippled OS. I resisted as my fellow creatives pressured me for the last two decades, insisting that nobody would take me seriously in pitch meetings if I pulled out anything other than a Mac/iPhone. So what changed? The biggest draw is the extensive and exceptional integration with iPhones. I can literally copy something on my phone and paste it on my laptop with a single button. That's in addition to the iMessage integration and airdrop functionality. That seems like a couple of minor things but it saves me about 30 minutes a day over the course of 12hrs, saving me 3 hrs or more each week. Nothing in my life is more valuable than extra time I can spend with my family, friends, nature/animals, or even more work. I've so far ignored gaming because it isn't something Mac is known for. However, I'm a game developer and I finally caved in to requests for OSX/iPhone versions of my game(s). I bought the 2019 MB PRO without the optional but rare GPU. So far development is straightforward and perhaps even a little more comfortable than my Windows and Linux dev tools. As I continue to setup tools and macros I believe I may come to prefer coding on the Mac, regardless of the project. Is it overpriced? Sure. I would say that the Mac is about 20-25% more expensive than a Windows laptop with comparable hardware. You are paying for the design form, the brand, and the development of the OS. Unlike Windows who charge users/pc builders for every copy loaded on a machine, Apple has to incorporate the development and support costs into the laptop. I think this goes unnoticed often. Regarding the fact that the hardware is overpriced, this isn't just to gouge suckers. By using components that aren't the latest and only offering one or two choices they are able to build in a lot of stability into their machines. I've owned high end PC equipment since 1995 and while it is remarkable, it's never very stable. I'm at a place where I value not having to argue with my machine when I just want to work, game, surf, etc. This is a great purchase if you love Mac or just want a more simple existence & some peace in your life.

The new magic keyboard is awesome.

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