What reviewers said about theMacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)
4 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.
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 4 reviews of this exact model.
1 of the 4 exact-model reviews we quote mentions heat and fan noise
2 of the 4 reviews we quote mention keyboard and trackpad
2 of the 4 reviews we quote mention build and design
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.
Tested: 13-inch MacBook Pro, 3.1GHz dual-core Intel Core i5; also the 15-inch MacBook Pro, 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Keyboard and trackpad
Our one criticism would be that we find that we catch the touch bar with our palms when typing, which sometimes causes the cursor to move to a different position.
Build and design
As you’d expect from an Apple laptop, the 13-inch MacBook Pro has a premium design.