Apple MacBook Pro 15 2018 (2.6 GHz, 560X)

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Reviews for the Apple MacBook Pro 15 2018 (2.6 GHz, 560X)

MacBook Pro (2018) review: a true pro-level device, with a few flaws
Source: Sydney Morning Herald Archive.org version
The question “what Mac laptop should I buy?” was once easily answered with “if you need the power, get the Pro, if you don't, the Air”. Today it is easy to recommend the latest MacBook Pro if you need the most powerful, portable Apple laptop available and you have a lot of money to spend, but I’d struggle to recommend an entry-level Mac portable right now.
Comparison, online available, Short, Date: 07/30/2018

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80% Apple MacBook Pro 2018 15,4" i7 2,2 GHz, 256GB (Qwerty) Spacegrijs Review
Source: Tweakers NL→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/08/2019
Rating: Total score: 80%

60% Apple MacBook Pro 2018 15,4" i7 2,6 GHz, 512GB (Qwerty) Spacegrijs Review
Source: Tweakers NL→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/17/2018
Rating: Total score: 60%

75% Apple MacBook Pro 15,4" Review
Source: Tweakers NL→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/08/2018
Rating: Total score: 75%

80% MacBook Pro 15 pouces avec Touch Bar (2018) : de la puissance à revendre pour les pros
Source: CNet France FR→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/10/2018
Rating: Total score: 80%

88% Test : Apple MacBook Pro 15 pouces 2018, six cœurs pour une avalanche de puissance
Source: 01Net FR→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/22/2018
Rating: Total score: 88% performance: 70% mobility: 90%

Обзор ноутбука Apple MacBook Pro 15” (Mid 2018)
Source: Ixbt RU→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Powerful hardware; high performance; nice display. Negative: Relatively high price.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/31/2018

Đánh giá Macbook Pro 2018: Có phải là bản nâng cấp đáng giá?
Source: The Gioididong VN→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Slim size; light weight; powerful hardware; stylish design. Negative: Relatively high price.
Comparison, online available, Short, Date: 07/16/2018

80% x 27-08-2018
Source: Tek.no NO→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/27/2018
Rating: Total score: 80%

83% Test: MacBook Pro 15″ 2018
Source: Lyd og Billede DA→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/11/2018
Rating: Total score: 83%

82% Test: Macbook Pro 15 tum – en laptop för 75 000 kronor
Source: Nordic Hardware SV→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 12/06/2018
Rating: Total score: 82% performance: 90% mobility: 75% workmanship: 80%

83% Test: MacBook Pro 15’’ 2018
Source: Ljud och Bild SV→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/13/2018
Rating: Total score: 83%

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The Apple MacBook Pro 15 2018 is a powerful professional notebook with the brilliant design of its predecessor, aimed for business and professional power users. On the outside, the largest MacBook remains utterly unchanged. However, it is still 17 percent lighter and 14 percent thinner than its 2015 predecessor and feels as premium as ever. The laptop is also thinner than most “pro” Windows laptops with powerful processors. Thinness has become a point of contention, because it makes the laptop more complicated to cool. The unibody aluminum design mates beautifully with the glass display, touchpad, and Touch Bar with Touch-ID sensor. All 15-inch models of the MacBook Pro 2018 also feature the Touch Bar. This is a thin glass touchscreen that runs along the top of the keyboard and displays context-sensitive buttons on its 2,170 x 60 resolution screen. These buttons change depending on the application or task that users are performing, and they are designed to give quick shortcuts to help speed up the workflow. Finishing off with the screen, while it keeps the 2,880 x 1,800 resolution and 220 ppi (pixels per inch) pixel density of previous 15-inch MacBook Pros, it now also features Apple’s True Tone display technology, which debuted on the iPad Pro and also features on the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. This technology senses the ambient light of the environment users are working in and adjusts the display so that you get a bright and vibrant image, no matter where you are working.

Just as on the 2018 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, the speakers have been updated. This is an impressive feat, since the MacBook Pro already has the best sounding speakers. As for connectivity, Thunderbolt 3 is a game-changer. Every port has sufficient bandwidth to drive a dock that supports every possible port users could want as well as a high-resolution monitor in addition to power. USB-C is here to stay on the MacBook Pro. More and more laptops are adopting the Thunderbolt/USB-C setup, because it can be used for all kinds of peripherals, from external GPUs to keyboards and mice. Apple chose to include a six-core processor in every model of the 15-inch MacBook, starting with the i7 in the base model, which already has great potential for performance, up to the latest and most powerful i9 model. Moving onto other components, the RAM has been updated from 16 GB of 2133MHz LPDDR3 to 64 GB of 2400MHz DDR4 soldered onto the motherboard. On the graphics side, both the base-model Radeon Pro 555X and top-spec Radeon Pro 560X include 4 GB of video memory. The solid state drive can be configured to a massive 4 TB, thus bringing up the price to around USD10K. The 2018 MacBook Pro reached close to 10 hours before it shut down, which is not a bad figure compared to its rivals. Nevertheless, when working on something more intensive, such as video rendering, one should expect less battery life.

Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

AMD Radeon Pro 560X: Mobile graphics card based on the Polaris 21 chip and basically a higher clocked Radeon Pro 560 from the previous model year.

Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

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i7-8850H: On Coffee Lake architecture based processor for big and heavy laptops. Integrates six processor cores clocked at 2.6 - 4.3 GHz (4.1 GHz with 4 cores, 4 GHz with 6 cores) that support HyperThreading. Manufactured in an improved 14nm process (14nm++).» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

15.40":

15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.

1.83 kg:

This weight is typical for very old and big tablets, subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 11-13 inch display-diagonal; nowadays, rather typical for 15 inch laptops.

Apple: Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system but nowadays Macbooks are also able to run Windows. Apple has at least sporadically been considered the most valuable company in the world since 2011 and has consistently ranked among the Top 10 companies in the world.

In the laptop sector, Apple's market share was 9.3% in 2014 and 10.3% in 2016. The latter corresponds to the 5th place. In the smartphone segment, Apple achieved 15.3% in the first quarter of 2016, which means a market share loss when compared to the 18.3% in same quarter of the previous year.
Nevertheless, Apple ranked second place behind Samsung in both years.

There are tons of reviews on Apple laptops, smartphones and tablets. The ratings are significantly above-average (as of 2016).

79.89%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

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