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A Review Of 16-inch MacBook Pro 2.4GHz 8-core Core i9 (2019)

The 16-inch MacBook Pro is now out in the market, and it seems to be fulfilling user demands. It has been a tradition of Apple to work on innovations and set the tone and directions. However, the users lately have been complaining about the number of things in the older MacBook Pro computers. The new MacBook Pro 16-inch seems to be what users have been asking for.

While 15-inch MacBook Pro has been a good computer for the Apple fans, 16-inch version tends to bring the excitement with the help of performance and usability.

No more butterfly keyboard

Among all of the features that are being offered in 16-inch MacBook Pro, Magic Keyboard is the one that seems to steal the show. The butterfly mechanism keyboard is now gone and Apple hopes for the most of user complains about the previous MacBook Pro to be resolved with this change.

The new keyboard is the same that comes with the iMac. It is a keyboard based on scissor mechanism and it tends to feel quite differently as compared to the previous keyboard. This new keyboard feels better with the softer keys.

The Magic Keyboard is a lot quieter than the butterfly keyboard. The tapping of the keys sounds really well.

Apple has continued with the touch bar in all of the MacBook Pro 2019 versions. The little change that has been made is that the escape key is no longer merged in the touch bar. Touch ID is also a separate button on the other side of the touch bar. The arrow keys on the keyboard are reverted back to inverted-T layout. These changes have been really appreciated by the Apple fans.

One thing worth mentioning about the keyboard is that its development is done after a great amount of research by people working on the Apple. They studied human behavior in response to the use of certain keyboards. And so, they selected the keyboard that has been preferred by most of the people.

CPU, GPU, and performance

Another signature feature of the MacBook Pro 16-inch is its processing and video performance. Apple has used the latest ninth-generation (codenamed Coffee Lake) Intel processors in the 16-inch MacBook Pro. These are the same processors that had been used in the 15-inch MacBook Pro. The high end mode of 16-inch MacBook Pro is equipped with 2.4GHz 8-core Intel Core i9 processor. The model with standard configurations, 2.6GHz 6-core Core i7 processor, is available at price of $2,399. While the high end model is available at a price of $2,799.

The graphics subsystem has been upgraded with an AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of GDDR6 video memory. The 4GB version is included in the $2,799 standard configuration. And $2,399 model is equipped with 4GB AMD Radeon Pro 5300M.

The 16-inch MacBook Pro models include 16GB of memory in their standard configurations. You can upgrade this memory up to 64GB at the time of purchase. Since this 2666MHz DDR4 RAM is the part of the motherboard, it cannot be upgraded later.

Bigger display

The 15-inch display in 2018 MacBook Pro was neither admired nor completely disliked by the users. But the 16-inch version has brought great excitement. The native resolution of 16-inch screen is 3072x1920 pixels. The bezels of this computer are much smaller as compared to 15-inch computer. The brightness supported by this computer’s screen is 500 nits. It also supports P3 color gamut. These configurations are great for the people interested in video editing.