Tmakedon

Have a kaby lake m3 12 inch MacBook, and picked it up at Bestbuy for 1045.00 plus tax. For that price I had to try it, I had a 14 no questions asked return period. Guess what ? Im in love with this machine. The machine is an absolute screamer handles everything I throw it. My wife has the touch bar 13 inch pro which I got a great deal on through BH photo and I can tell you they perform equally close. You might ask how or why and its quite simple. Mac OS X is a lean operating system and there is nothing that can truly max out the CPU or GPU other than video editing or games. This brings me to my next point, your fooling yourself if you think your going to edit some big video project on the 13 inch pro also. Thats the trick here if your truly into video, (Macs are not gaming machines and never will be so I won't even bother to discuss that) you will have to go for the 15 inch pro. So playing with both machines I don't see any difference from day to day use. Its a great little media device without a fan that plays full HD movies flawlessly, streaming is superb on it, screen is great, runs cool etc. The tech articles are knocking it based on specs that are black and white but the truth is no laptop in the last three years is truly hindered by the cpu. Paying 1045.00 was a no brainer considering people spend that much on an iPad Pro 12.9 that runs IOS that can't nearly do what this machine can handle. Plus its 2 lbs to boot. Bottom line is most laptops are simply over powered for most uses as software hasn't caught up to full potential of the CPU. Apple and intel know this the rest is all marketing. So for a daily portable laptop this is one of the best. The one port doesn't bother me either, because I did buy a dongle to charge the iPhone when at a coffee shop and use it once in awhile but thats about it. Most stores including apple has a return period, try and you'll see for yourself that chances are you won't exchange it.