*** The official 2019 MacBook Pro thread (it has eight cores and everything!) ***
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I've just caught up on the butterfly keyboard thing, seems a happy coincidence to have missed that 
So after quite a long upload of my old Mac to new and a swift read through about the new OS, and why quite a bit of my steam library is blocked off, I am up and running.
I'm completely blown away! Everything is just that noticeable amount better, screen, keyboard, power, all so much more than a 2012 retina 15 inch. The Touch Bar gives me predictive typing, the speakers are genuinely good (not a patch on the hi fi but still impressive). It's going to be a long weekend of playing games out in the garden
/ramble over
This thing is genuinely impressive
So after quite a long upload of my old Mac to new and a swift read through about the new OS, and why quite a bit of my steam library is blocked off, I am up and running.
I'm completely blown away! Everything is just that noticeable amount better, screen, keyboard, power, all so much more than a 2012 retina 15 inch. The Touch Bar gives me predictive typing, the speakers are genuinely good (not a patch on the hi fi but still impressive). It's going to be a long weekend of playing games out in the garden
/ramble over
This thing is genuinely impressive
Seems like just a number bump on that CTO GPU option but looks like it's a big upgrade : https://www.anandtech.com/show/15853/amd-announces-radeon-pro-5600m-mobile-gpu-with-hbm2-memory
Still, it's a £700 upgrade option...
Still, it's a £700 upgrade option...
My company are replacing my end of life (IT support wise) 13 inch 2015 Macbook Pro with one of these which is nice of them. My only worry is the lack of ports, I use HDMI, SD cards on the odd occasion for things like my Raspberry Pis and also want a USB A port for pen drives and other peripherals. Can anyone recommend a decent USB C adapter?
Base 16" is now £1,999 with 2 year warranty from JL - https://www.johnlewis.com/2019-apple-macbook-pro-16-inch-touch-bar-intel-core-i7-processor-16gb-ram-512-ssd-radeon-pro-5300m/p4819116
I was tempted but think I will wait for the Apple Silicon Macs, these apparently have problems staying cool and quiet. Good price and warranty from a decent retailer.
I was tempted but think I will wait for the Apple Silicon Macs, these apparently have problems staying cool and quiet. Good price and warranty from a decent retailer.
Honestly, no fan noise in office tasks, only when Civ6 kicks off... Ghosting has also been zero, I remember my original retina 15" mbp doing that after a few years but it's not a thing on this one at the moment.
3 months in, it's still amazing (little gutted by the John news discount but that's the way the cookie crumbles)
For my daughters MBP 13 I got her a UGreen 6 in 1 USBC adapter. Works fine. Several USBA ports, HDMI and sdcard slot. Her charger plugs in one end and the other end plugs I to a USBC port. Very cheap too.
Looks like the HDMI is only 30 hz which would be awful.
Interesting. I hadn't seen that and haven't yet used a monitor on it. Good spot. I might have to get her a new one.
It's normally the case with the cheaper ones. I have a Dell DA300 which I get through work, granted it's a little bit more expensive but it also does 4k @ 60 hz.
It's the best laptop Apple has ever made, and probably one of the best laptops ever made.
The price of that with the 5600m, over £3k?
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Nope, not even close. £4.5k with AppleCare
you must be doing some serious professional work on the road.
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Nah just like to play Football Manager in bedThe price of that with the 5600m, over £3k?
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Nope, not even close. £4.5k with AppleCare
In all honesty, is overkill for what I use it for. I had a base 2013 Macbook Air prior to this and it still did the job. The 5600m was what I really want it for as it can actually be used fro gaming now. I have not tried bootcamp yet but loading up Steam and a couple of decent 3D games such as Tomb Raider etc. it is mighty impressive.