Well, almost two weeks anyway. Here’s a list of likes/dislikes I have with my new 2018 MBP 13" TB after 12 days of work and personal usage:
Likes:
Excellent battery life, compared with what I was used to previously at least. Arrived at work an hour ago and it was on 41%, it’s now on 97% having been plugged into a Dell docking station with a USB-C connector, which also provides plenty of USB 3 connections and DVI out to a 24" monitor - means I can leave the MBP charger at home. I could probably unplug it now and still have plenty of charge left in 8 hours when I leave for the day
Lightweight
Great screen
Great performance (16GB RAM helps)
Touch Bar, which I am really liking, Touch ID and Apple Watch unlock
Dislikes:
Still trying to get used to the keyboard - more specifically, the reduced key travel. Typing quickly is not a problem, it’s more the feel of the keyboard and if you’re not concentrating it’s very easy to find you’re typing on the wrong keys and having to go back and edit
Having to carry it around with a kung-fu grip for fear of dropping it
To be honest, I can’t really think of anything else
The true problems of the new MBP are following: keyboard prone to failure with a fairly expensive repair (my colleague had to repair it twice in a year because of jamming keys) and lack of magsafe. I can’t count times where I would pull the cable of my MacBook with my foot. Gone are days where I would say afterwards: “haha, glad I have a MB, could end badly otherwise”. As a result: MBPs moved a big portion to being a shiny hipster toy instead of pretty reliable workhorses. I have a company MBP and will order a new one end of next year - most likely an MBP with 32 gb ram and i7. I have to admit, I do not anticipate it at all.
My wife and I have 2016 MBP’s never one problem with the keyboard. Touchbar is awesome if the app developer implements it right. I do miss Magsafe connection is about my only gripe about the laptop.
Re Magsafe - curious if anyone uses/can recommend some of the 3rd party magsafe ‘thingymabobs’ that supposedly offer the same functionality? As in, fixture into port < magnet > power/cable?
Given that it will charge from 20% to 100% in less than a couple of hours and then run for 8-10 hours on battery, it’s been over a week since I’ve plugged it in at home. At work, I have it connected to a USB-C - for using an external monitor - except when I am carrying it about or in meetings.
Losing the Magsafe, IMO, is not really an issue I don’t think.
Take no offense, but I often think that such remarks are from users, who do not need the “Pro” part of the macbook. There is no magic there, and while I can perfectly stare at the text editor for 8 hours of battery life, every trip to JIdea IDE or chrome debugger will shorten available battery life to mere hour(s). So either I play the charge cable-DJ, or I will simply plug it in and forget about it. Losing Magsafe is an issue for all users with CPU-heavy tasks. And on a macbook pro I expect apple to think about such users.
None taken. While a large part of my day consists of staring at Office documents I also spend quite a bit of time running several virtual machines concurrently for a lab environment, Windows 10 via Bootcamp or in a VM for scripting/coding and also for Lightroom/Photoshop.