Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MacBook Pro: Apple’s Worst Product That I Just Can’t Quit”.
This video was sponsored by Other World Computing. (, easy listening, music ). It was nine years ago that my long struggling HP laptop crashed for the final time. And it would turn out to be the last PC I ever owned. See after a lifetime spent on Windows.
I made the jump to the MacBook Air. And I couldn’t have loved it more.. It wasn’t just that it was 10 pounds lighter than my previous machine. It was also more powerful to boot..
I built a YouTube channel entirely on the back of a MacBook Air and iMovie. And later used a new MacBook Air to help grow. Another YouTube channel. This time in Final Cut, Pro.
Apple machines. Let me do more of the work I loved. And when I graduated to a MacBook Pro in 2015, all the added utility made up for the loss of portability..
Sadly, when Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro in 2016 to trim some of the pounds it had picked up, it also ended up building a worse computer. Over the past year and a half I’ve owned, two versions of this expensive misfire. And if I didn’t still depend on Final Cut Pro everyday I’d have moved on a long time: ago.
(, danceable, music, ) Folks. I am not here to beat a dead horse, so I will save you further lamentations on the loss of the MagSafe cable and the neutering of the SD card slot and USB A ports. Look if you’re a professional that requires these connections for your equipment.
You will just need to make peace with the fact that, after dropping between $ 1300 and $ 6700 on a new Notebook, you need to shell out more for accessories to give it the ports it should’ve had in the first place.. I’M also not here, to put the MacBook back in the freezer to lambast it for the thermal throttling problems revealed by Dave, Toudi and others. Apple fixed that bug with a patch in something like a week., A commendable turn around time for such a major flaw..
Indeed, my 2018 model, with the Core i9 processor, is a beast., These Mr. Mobile videos, coming to you at 4k and 60 fps they’re all built on this machine. And it chews through them no problem.. But let’s talk about why I had to buy the 2018 model.
You’ve probably heard of the dreaded keyboard defect plaguing MacBook since 2016. Yep, it happened to my’17 model. And two keys started dying at about the same time. My speakers stopped working., So I needed a replacement right. Away. Trouble is at the time Apple was still sending custom MacBooks like mine, offsite for repair or replacement, which would have left me without a computer for an extended period of travel.
I was about to go on., So I had no choice. Rather than lose that time I bought the 2018 version of the laptop while Apple sent the old one off to be fixed. And that lead directly to problem number two. Apple used to be the absolute best At backing up., You copied your old system image into Time Machine you plugged your new one in and in a few hours you new computer would wake up with the sole of your old one., Just as easy as reincarnating a Vulcan with his Chatra..
Well, that didn’t happen this time.. Instead, my MacBook sat there with three minutes left on the restore for 24 hours. And if you take a look at the replies to this tweet you’ll see that several other folks, including friend of the channel Quinn Nelson, have run into similar issues.. I eventual again couldn’t waste anymore time on this. I had to take both computers into an Apple store to let a genius deal with it. More on that at the end of the video., But the saga isn’t over.. My 2018 model with the newly redesigned keyboard meant to cure that defect. Right out of the box. It started giving me double type errors on the T key quickly, followed by the H., And this is now fluke. Folks., Look no further than the Wall Street Journal. The outline Laptop Mag to find similar stories. After oh hey., ( vinyl, scratching ). Look it just happened.. You see ( Mr. Mobile groaning ) Anyway after everyone from iFixit to John Gruber, agreed that this was just a objectively bad keyboard. Apple.
Finally, apologized for the defect and gave customers more repair options., But after all of the time I lost after the last one., I’m just gon na deal with it. Same goes for my final complaint.. Look. There are times I enjoy the touch bar.
Adjusting brightness and volume with the slider scrubbing through a video time line, and you know emoji’s., But is any of that worth. The constant miss presses on the Siri key to the point where I’ve had to disable it. Not to me., And even if you can train yourself out of those mistypes, expect about once a month to see the touch bar to freeze. For no reason. Two years after The touch bar debuted – it’s amazing, to me that this was still happening as of a month.
Ago., Now a reminder about me and Apple.. My primary tablet is an iPad which I use everyday and really enjoy.. I consider the Apple Watch to be the best smartwatch. You can buy. And while I don’t carry and iPhone personally, I really do admire how polished and consistent its software is.. More importantly, Apples customer service is unmatched.. The Genius Bar experiences I’ve had at the Apple store have been uniformly outstanding. And again, I’m still willing to put up with all the foibles of this computer in exchange for the privilege of using Final Cut Pro to build my videos.. I just love that program.. So when I come down hard on this machine, it’s not because I have an ax to grind with Apple. It’s, because I need my MacBook Pro to be the excellent dependable tool for professionals that it once was.
As a customer. I want to depend on this. Like I used to. As a reviewer, I want to recommend it like I used to. And after 18 months of using this new design., I just can’t. Not like before..
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Best of all. It’S a lot cheaper than buying a whole new machine. Check out the like in the description below and thanks to Other World Computing for sponsoring. This video. [ Rene ], Hey I’m Rene Ritchie, and this is a real honor.. When I first reviewed the new MacBook Pro back at the end of 2016, I called it the love-hate future of laptops.
Love because they finally had a new design. Terrific wide-gamut displays touch ID and super fast super forward. Thinking USB thunderbolt three ports. Hate, because, unlike the previous version with its function row and its scissor-switch keyboard, the new touch bar and butterfly and dome keyboard proved to be incredibly divisive..
It was a new MacBook. Pro, though, meant for a new generation of Pros one where developers, designers, artists and yes, even founders, had come to vastly out number those who traditionally identified as pros. And who valued more than just speeds and feeds, including a much better blend of portability and power.. Since then, we’ve had more good but also more bad..
There have been issues with the batteries and display. And, of course, the keyboards., Those keyboards., But we’ve also gotten those high end options now, including up to 30 gigabytes of RAM four terabytes of storage, a custom T2 security and controller chip, Itel Core i9 main processor and Vega, Pro graphics., I’m not using that maxed out model myself, but I’m using one pretty close to it. And it’s absolutely the best MacBook Pro I’ve ever used., Even if it’s still the most flawed.. That’S why I switched back to the Pro from the Air in 2016 and why, since then, I haven’t looked back., But it’s also why I’m very much looking forward to the rumored next Next Generation Pro.
All 16 inches of it., Especially if it’s once again, it’s a Macbook Pro that really appeals to just about every pro, including, and especially you and everyone on your channel Mr. Mobile.. Thank you so much for having me on. [ Mr. Mobile ] Rene. The thanks are mine to give., Appreciate you time. Folks, be sure to checkout Rene Richie at his channel Vector. And subscribe both there and @ themrmobile..
And let me know your thoughts on the MacBooks Pro through the ages from the glory days of yester year to the promise of the rumored 16 inc, her coming somewhere down the pike. And drop a comment below. Until next time, thanks for watching. And stay mobile, my Friends: .