Apple MacBook Pro (2018, 15-inch) Review: Fast but Flawed

By throwing powerful new processors, The new 2018 MacBook Pros attempt to atone for some of the performance missteps, tweaked graphics cards, keyboard, more RAM, and SSDs into product meant for the professionals.   But over the week that I've been using the new, 15-inch MacBook Pro running on Intel processor, I've found that what Apple's offering has number of caveats, you'll have to consider..   While some pieces of offer up some unique interactive experiences, I find Touch Bar's presence distracting — the lower strip flashes between controls as you click around, and it draws my eyes away from the big, Retina display that I'm supposed to be looking at.   The best part of Touch Bar setup, however, is the inclusion of fast, accurate fingerprint sensor for logins and for authorizing Apple Pay transactions.   I would have loved for Apple to bring iPhone X's Face ID to Mac, and given how long it took the company to grant Mac any built-in security, it's going to be while before we get facial recognition on Apple laptop..   the change was surprising.   Especially to pros with mountains of accessories and workflow to maintain, it was disruptive coming off MacBook Pros — y'know, the old ones with USB ports and HDMI and SD reader.   I can imagine what it's like for working professionals to have to juggle adapters for hard drives, external displays, SD card readers, and other requisite peripherals..   For me, what you do not get is almost the power cord no longer comes with extension cord, everything is soldered down, making MacBook Pro impervious to upgrades or component swaps.   And, even with the performance updates in place, the thin chassis of MacBook Pro will likely never let Core i9 chip run at its maximum advertised Turbo Boost speeds, at least not for more than moment.   Read more