neilm

I've had my 14" MBP (10-C/16-C 32GB/1TB) for about a week now.

It's noticeably heavier and bulkier than my outgoing 2016 13" MBP, but while it looks thicker, it isn't. It's the lack of taper in the new MBP's top and bottom surfaces that no longer fools the eye. However eliminating the taper also opens up a lot of space inside, and makes the HDMI port and card slot possible. So there's logic behind the new MBP's slightly chunky appearance. Nonetheless, the old one is better looking.

The new MagSafe is terrific, although I don't use it on a daily basis because I have a single TB cable link to a 27" 5K LG monitor, which also provides charging power, wired network, etc. Wish Apple would get with the times and supply a compact GaN power supply.

The 14" screen is gorgeous. Notch, who cares? You're getting an extra 74 pixels of screen height over a regular 16:10 anyway. Keyboard is great, although it'd be better with a case-colored grid between the keys rather than black. The new speakers won't make you throw your studio monitors to the curb, but they're pretty good for a laptop — another benefit of the extra space around the case edges.

Migrating 400+GB of content from the old MBP over TB never caused the fans on the new one to kick in, at least not that I could tell. Running Cinebench R23, which repeatedly renders a photo image over about 10 minutes did cause the fans to wake up, but even so they're not loud, just present.

Performance is obviously very good. In Cinebench R23 the multi-core core score exceeds that of a 14-C iMac Pro. I haven't run on the battery for long enough to test that, but clearly it'll be fine.

verne arase said:

Good God. On a Monday no less.

Apple used to do Monday events, but attendees complained about having to travel in over the weekend, so they switched to Tuesdays. Now that events are virtual, any day should work.

I'm sure slotting this one in the day before Google's is just a coincidence. Yeah, coincidence, that's it!  ;-)

Interesting. The obvious question is this: how inefficient is it?

Not “marque,” but “marquee.”