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What reviewers said about the MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)

3 reviews of this exact model. Quotes are short, word for word, and each links to the article it came from. Every one was checked against that article on . MacIQ gives no score and no stars, and averages nothing.

What reviewers raise

A count of the reviews we quote on this page that have a quote on each topic, from the findings shown below. A review may say more on a topic than we quote, so it counts what is quoted here, not everything each review covers, and it says how often a topic is quoted, not what was said about it. Battery, performance and heat are counted over the 3 reviews of this exact model.

Where reviewers and Apple differ

No reviewer’s own figure on this page can be set beside an Apple claim for the same kind of test, so nothing is compared here.

The reviews

Newest first, in the order of the date each article prints (which may be an update date, not a first-publication date). Each quote links to its article; the date is the one the article prints, labelled as the article labels it. “Published” and “Updated” appear only where the article prints that word beside the date; “Dated” means the article prints that date with no label, so the date itself does not say whether it is the first publication or an update. A later update that an article mentions only in an editor’s note is not used as its date.

Trusted Reviews

Tested: 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Core i5-6267U), 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, four Thunderbolt 3 ports

Keyboard and trackpad

The touch pad is gigantic, and handles every swipe, gesture and tap in the same butter-smooth way you’d expect from a MacOS device.

Build and design

The aluminium chassis is machined from a single piece of metal and it shows.

Stuff

Tested: 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD

Keyboard and trackpad

Beneath that fabulous keyboard is a trackpad so big it can probably be seen from the International Space Station.

Laptop Mag

Tested: 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB flash storage

Display

The 13-inch Retina Display on the MacBook Pro is practically perfect.

Ports

You get four Thunderbolt 3 ports, two on each side, along with a headphone jack.