From the show of the new 16″ MacBook Pro a few hours have already passed and people have had time to absorb the news sufficiently. A relatively large number of various first impressions and mini-reviews appeared on the website, from which a provisional assessment can be summed up. This is entirely positive, and many people say that Apple has finally listened to years of complaints and fixed a lot of more or less serious flaws that appeared together with the new generation of MacBook Pro in 2016.
First of all, it is a keyboard cursed by many. The so-called butterfly mechanism was never fully debugged, even though Apple tried it across three different iterations. The new keyboard should be a hybrid between the one used until 2016 and the one used until now. Other positive points are attributed to the new hardware, especially the display, speakers, larger battery and stronger graphics accelerators. Despite all the positives, however, there are also things that don't deserve too much praise and thus bring down the overall very successful product.
It is mainly about the infamous camera, which Apple has been using for several years, and frankly speaking - in 2019, a machine for 70 thousand and more should contain significantly better hardware. Especially when we know what small sensors with small lenses are capable of. The integrated Face Time camera with a resolution of 720p is definitely not ideal and it is probably the worst thing that can be found on the new MacBook Pro.
The lack of support for the latest WiFi 6 standard, which the new iPhones already have, for example, will also freeze. However, the fault here is not (exclusively) Apple as such, but Intel. It does support WiFi 6 on some of its new processors, but unfortunately not on those found in the 16″ MacBook Pro. Support could also be provided by installing an adequate network card, but Apple did not do this. So WiFi 6 only in a year. How do you perceive the new MacBook Pro?
For example, to the HDMI port, network, F1 to F12. Also for the fact that +16GB RAM is definitely not worth 12 today. :)
I think it's great. Except for those configuration extension prices, of course. And the non-trivial interchangeability of anything.
I'm not a target. And if I were the target, then the first sentence applies.
I keep criticizing Apple for very vague HW replacement in their products, so this [. Face Time camera with a resolution of 720p .] is not a surprise to me, rather it is something to think about.