MacBook Pro 13-Inch With Touch Bar Review: Apple’s Closest Vision Of A Touchscreen Mac; Specs And Features HERE!

By Tony Park - 14 Nov '16 23:17PM
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The mid-level 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro offers a new experience for Mac aficionados - a Touch Bar with Touch ID- which gives users another way to interact with the laptop's programs and data. Some find the new function's usefulness obvious and immediate while others see it as overly complicated and unnecessary. Overall, the Touch Bar is a useful and versatile function.

Priced at $1,799, the Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is probably among the best ultraportable laptops available in the market right now, says PC Magazine, which describes the 13-inch MacBook Pro as thinner, lighter, and more powerful MacBook Pro. The magazine highlights the MacBook Pro's compact and sturdy chassis.

The Touch Bar is an additional innovation to the well-designed and powerful 13-inch MacBook Pro. It replaces the useful function keys which include brightness up and down, volume up and down, and mute. A set of always-present buttons allows users to use those controls on the right hand side of the Touch Bar.

According to The Verge, the MacBook Pro' Touch Bar can be customized by developers with their apps. There will future support for Photoshop, Office, Pixelmator, and DaVinci Resolve. The website finds the Touch Bar's simplest uses as often its best such as having a button in Photos that allows users to flip back and forth between edited and original picture.

As for the MacBook Pro 13-inch's hardware, the laptop comes with an Intel i5-6267U processor with Intel Iris 550 graphics, four USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB solid-state drive. An option of up to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of SSD space at purchase is also available at purchase.

The MacBook Pro 13-inch with Touch Bar is designed for interoperability with iOS, Apple TV, and watchOS. Battery life will last all day. The Touch Bar adds some genuine innovation, but adapters and all-new peripherals are required as with all new Apple laptops.

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