2016 MACBOOK PRO 13 INCH TOUCHBAR UPDATE
2016 MACBOOK PRO 13 INCH TOUCHBAR UPGRADE

The return of the MagSafe charging port, HDMI and SD memory reader.

I'm picking the latter when I buy mine, though I'll only see that color on the bottom half of the machine, as I'm covering the lid in stickers I've collected while waiting for the last five years. It's the kind of feature that we'd love to see Apple play with, though they'd need to accept touchscreen laptops into their hearts first.Īpple sells the MacBook Pro 2021 in the same two colors they've sold MacBook Pros in for years: silver and Space Gray. We'll excuse the Surface Laptop Studio's larger design, however, as it's got an easel-like touchscreen display that you can pull towards you. You may also be considering the larger and heavier 14.4-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio (12.7 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches, 3.8 - 4.0 pounds) and the Dell XPS 15 OLED 2021 (13.6 x 9.1 x 0.7 inches, 4.2 pounds), which have a little more power. Unsurprisingly, the new MacBook Pro 2021 (16-inch) (14 x 9.8 x 0.7 inches, 4.7 pounds) is larger and heavier. The 13.4-inch Dell XPS 13 with OLED (11.6 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches, 2.8 pounds) is smaller and lighter, while the 14-inch Razer Blade 14 (12.6 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches, 3.9 pounds) is larger and heavier. But whose eyes are going to perceive that? Interestingly, though, the 14-inch MacBook Pro is thinner, if you drill down to centimeters, where it's 1.55cm thick vs the 1.56cm 13-inch MacBook Pro. Measuring 12.3 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches and weighing 3.5 pounds, the 14.2-inch MacBook Pro is slightly larger and heavier than the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 (12 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches, 3 pounds). (L-R): MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch), MacBook Pro 2020 (13-inch) (Image credit: Henry T. Sure, no notch would be better, but it's a decent compromise.

Look at the 14-inch MacBook Pro side by side with the 13-inch 2020 MacBook Pro, and tell me you'd take the latter, with its smaller screen and thicker bezels. The only other 'new' change is that the left and right vents, for heat and audio, are larger than before.

2016 MACBOOK PRO 13 INCH TOUCHBAR UPDATE

Thankfully, the MacBook Pro 2021 notch fail could finally be getting fixed via an OS update that will be available to all customers soon. Tech enthusiast Quinn Nelson explained that he had issues with the iStat Menus utility when the Menu Bar options on the left and the icons on the right hit a breaking point. Unfortunately, the MacBook Pro notch had become a problem for some. The thinner bezels allow Apple to move the Menu Bar to the freed up space, and the notch only drops down far enough to be in that menu bar. I've already gotten used to it, and I'm more than accepting of it. It's 0.4 inches tall, and it's impossible to miss, at first sight that is. Yes, the little black rectangular space for cameras in the iPhone made it to the top-center of the MacBook Pro display. There is one exception, though: Apple gave the MacBook Pro a notch. The Dell XPS 13 with OLED has similarly small bezels, and for longer, as its computers have had InfinityEdge display panels for years. Now, they measure a little more than 0.1 inches, down from the 0.5-inch (top) and 0.3-inch (side) bezels of the last three years. More importantly, though, Apple's shrunk (most) of the MacBook Pro's bezels. This year? Nearly everything's different, as Apple's thrown out the tapered lid for a flat top, and even engraved 'MacBook Pro' on the bottom. For years, the MacBook Pro got very small, and pretty boring updates. The 14-inch MacBook Pro 2021 isn't just a new size for Apple's high-end laptops, it's also a part of a new era.

Lighter than Razer Blade 14 and heavier than XPS 13 OLED.

Thinner bezels arrive with a notch in tow.

MacBook Pro 2021 (14-inch) review: Design Of course, it gets more expensive if you do.

2016 MACBOOK PRO 13 INCH TOUCHBAR UPGRADE

Plus, you can upgrade to a super-high 64GB of RAM and up to 8TB of internal storage.

The big story here is that the 14-inch MacBook Pro can still be customized with the M1 Max chip also seen in the MacBook Pro 2021 (16-inch). Thunderbolt 4 (x3), HDMI, MagSafe 3, headphone jack, SD memory card slot M1 Pro (8-core CPU, 14-core GPU or 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU), with optional M1 Max with up to 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR display (3024x1964 pixels, 254ppi)

2016 macbook pro 13 inch touchbar