It also beat the Spectre and its Core i7-1065G7 CPU, which scored 4,074. When we ran the Geekbench 5.0 test, an overall performance benchmark, the MacBook achieved 4,399, sailing past the 4,171 premium laptop average. The laptop fared pretty well on our synthetic benchmarks. The laptop chewed through 30 open tabs of Google Chrome while I watched Black Butler on Netflix. The MacBook Pro is armed with a 2-GHz Intel Core i5-1030NG7 processor with 16GB of RAM. The edges of the trackpad have firm feedback when you’re right or left-clicking. And although my palms inadvertently came in contact with the trackpad, the cursor maintained its position thanks to the excellent palm rejection. At 4.4 x 2.6 inches, I never had to worry about running out of space to navigate. I cruised past my typical 70 words-per-minute typing average on the 10fastfingers test, reaching 76 wpm.Īs expected, the MacBook is outfitted with a massive Force trackpad. It’s clicky with firm feedback, making for a very comfortable typing experience. After vocal consumer complaints, Apple has finally parted ways with the uncomfortable Butterfly keyboard in favor of the Magic Keyboard. My small living/dining room was filled with warm, balanced audio when I listened to Tony! Toni! Tone! play “Whatever You Want.” The bass was rich, the synths were measured, the drums were nice and crisp, and the vocals floated gently through it all. It’s not the six booming speakers on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, but this 13-inch notebook can get plenty loud.

Especially since a lot of people were counting on a 14-inch MacBook. If Apple could shrink those bezels, they could fit a much larger screen into that small chassis, which would win the company much acclaim. In this day and age, when the Dell XPS 13 has eliminated all the bezels, Apple is still holding on to these incredibly thick borders. I have to say, I’m more than disappointed that Apple didn’t do anything to shrink those chunky bezels.

The laptop’s panel averaged 485 nits, surpassing the 370-nit category average as well as the XPS 13 (417 nits) and the Spectre x360 (369 nits). The MacBook Pro makes up for its lack of vividness with impressive brightness. It was more vivid than the Spectre’s 109%, but just behind the XPS 13’s 115%. I was surprised to discover that, at 114%, the MacBook Pro was below the 124% sRGB color gamut average for premium laptops.

Macbook pro 2013 i5 8gb 256gb