2012 macbook pro review windows 7#
That's longer than most Windows 7 ultrabooks, though not as long as the 13-inch MacBook Air, which lasted an hour more in the same test.Īll the while, you still get blazing fast performance thanks to the quad-core 2.3 GHz Core i7 processor, Nvidia's latest GeForce graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB flash drive inside the laptop. On a more grueling video playback test, which loops the same HD video clip, the laptop lasted 5 hours and 22 minutes. I was able to work on the laptop for an entire 5.5 hour flight from San Francisco to Newark, and still had 20 percent left when I touched down. With the screen at 65 percent brightness, the laptop's large battery still lasted six hours on a charge. You will just want to call friends over to look at what you're seeing.īut just as impressive might be what is inside the laptop. It's really the type of thing you have to see for yourself, but with this display, images can be downright stunning. Parts of the Firefox browser look a bit blurry and text isn't as crisp in third-party browsers as it is in Apple's own Safari, for example. That experience isn't uniform across all applications just yet. Perhaps the most amazing part about the display, though, is how crisp things look at every angle turn the laptop to the side and you will see the same quality and presentation.
2012 macbook pro review 1080p#
And I'm continuously tempted to toggle over to YouTube and watch more 1080p clips, which look better on this display than on most HDTVs. Even as I'm writing this review after 24 hours of use, I'm distracted by the crispness of the text and the icons on the bottom of the screen. And it's simply hard to describe the quality of the display in words. (The new Pros ship with OS X Lion, but will be available with the next version - Mountain Lion - next month.)īut, of course, you'll be looking at the screen as you work. That is something I cannot say of most track pads on Windows 7 laptops.
2012 macbook pro review mac os x#
Using it to navigate Apple's Mac OS X Lion operating system was beyond smooth, and gestures like two-finger scrolling and three-finger swipes consistently worked throughout the operating system and software. Similarly, the wide glass track pad has been untouched. It is also backlit, which came in very handy for writing this review on a dimly-lit plane.
What has been kept intact, however, is the extremely comfortable chiclet keyboard. (Apple does offer a MagSafe to MagSafe 2 converter for $9.99.) The new adapter is flatter and because of the new size and shape won't take older versions, which is a bummer if you've accumulated the older chargers or happen to leave yours at home.
Apple also changed the charging port, or MagSafe. Unfortunately, they did remove the tiny LEDs from the edge that told you the battery level when the laptop is closed. It also put one USB port on the left edge and another on the right edge so you don't block the ports when you plug in a mouse or external hard drive. The laptop has two Thunderbolt ports, two USB 3.0 ports, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, SD card slot, and an HDMI port. However, it still was able to add some new ports. To accommodate those thinner dimensions, Apple did remove the CD/DVD drive and Ethernet port from this model (they're still available on the 13- and 15-inch Pros). And yet, despite its thin stature, it still feels remarkably solid and sturdy. Obviously it doesn't feel as light as the Air, but it's much easier to hold in one hand than the 15-inch Pro and most other laptops. 04 pounds less than my 13-inch MacBook Pro but 1.5 pounds more than the 13-inch MacBook Air. (To the naked eye, the thickest part of the MacBook Air actually looks thicker than the new MacBook Pro.) That thinness also makes it much lighter than the other Pros. It is only slightly (very slightly!) thicker than the MacBook Air and a handful of other Windows 7 ultrabooks on the market. The new MacBook Pro has one major change, though - it's much thinner than previous Pros.
They haven't wanted to mess with such a well-balanced, clean design. Apple hasn't changed the general aesthetic of the MacBook Pro line since 2008, when it introduced the unibody aluminum design with a glowing Apple embedded in the lid. "This is the most beautiful MacBook Pro we've ever made," Apple's Phil Schiller said when he took a curtain off the new laptop this week.
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