Apple MacBook Pro (16in)

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With the 16in MacBook Pro, the company set out to create a laptop that would satisfy user demand – and that’s a little different way of doing things for Apple. Most users are used to Apple setting the tone and direction, and expecting users to just go with the flow. But it finally got to breaking point, and users started to loudly complain about the things they didn’t like about the MacBook Pro. So, Apple corrected course.

With the prior 15in model, there was always a “Yeah, but…” With the 16in MacBook Pro that replaces it, there are fewer chances for users to say, “Yeah, but….” The new laptop is a great combination of usability and performance, and it fixes the biggest issues with its predecessor.

Bye-bye butterfly, hello Magic Keyboard

Of all the features offered and promoted on the 16in MacBook Pro, the one that steals the spotlight is the new Magic Keyboard. The butterfly-mechanism keyboard, introduced in the MacBook Pro in 2016, is gone – and with it, Apple hopes, are the scores of user complaints and problems. It’s not hard to find users who hated the butterfly keyboard; I did, and the Internet is filled with articles and forum posts deriding it.

Apple used its iMac Magic Keyboard as the basis for the keyboard in the 16in MacBook Pro. It uses a scissor mechanism and it feels a lot