While audio pros likely have high-end headphones and speakers to connect to, this notebook offers some of the best sounds ever heard come from an ultraportable. The MacBook Pro features speakers filled our large conference room with sound, drowning out our loud air conditioning. The gaming performance of the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 is between the two dedicated chips Nvidia GeForce 930MX and 940MX, depending on the game. The Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 in the MacBook Pro supports modest gaming, too. That's much faster than the 200.83-MBps average for ultraportables. The 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD in the MacBook Pro duplicated 4.97 GB of multimedia files in 7 seconds, for a speed of 727 MBps. Under the hood, this MacBook Pro's 7th-Gen Intel Core i5-7267U CPU, coupled with 8 GB of RAM, enables serious multitasking. This is an advantage for the GPU in particular because the higher consumption limit gives more headroom for the Turbos of the two components. The MacBook Pro 13 with the Touch Bar is once again the more powerful model out of the two 13-inch systems since Apple uses dual-core processors with a TDP of 28 W. Dragging and dropping objects, though, works differently than on any other notebook, requiring the user to use a half press before dragging objects.

Because it's a nonmoving input surface that sends haptic feedback, the pad doesn't offer much of a clicking feel by default. The 5.3 x 3.3-inch (13.46 x 8.38 cm) Force Touch trackpad provided accurate tracking. While the keys have only 0.7 millimeters of travel, they make up for it by requiring 74 grams of force (above 60-gram standard) to actuate. As for the keyboard, the MacBook Pro's backlit keyboard, trackpad, and Touch Bar offer solid input experiences, but they may take some getting used to. That mark tops the 288-nit ultraportable average.

Emitting up to 458 nits (a measure of brightness), the MacBook Pro's screen also outshines the competition. It results in a pixel density of 227 PPI. For display, the MacBook Pro's 2560 x 1600-pixel display is a beauty, offering eye-popping color and sharp clarity. Weighing 1.36 kg (3 pounds) and 1.52 cm (0.6 inch) thick, the MacBook Pro is heavier than the Dell XPS 13 (1.22 kg/2.7 pounds, 1.52 cm/0,6 inch) and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (1.13 kg/2.5 pounds, 1.52 cm/0.6 inch), and slightly thicker than the 13-inch HP Spectre x360 (1.32 kg/2.9 pounds, 1,27 cm/0.5 inch). The laptop comes in space gray or silver. Apple MacBook Touchbar i5The Apple MacBook looks identical to last year's version, with its thin, low-profile aluminum design.

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