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What reviewers said about the MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)

2 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.

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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 2 reviews of this exact model.

Where reviewers and Apple differ

A reviewer’s own figure beside Apple’s claim, each as its author printed it. Where the tests are of the same kind (web browsing, or the movie playback or streaming test Apple names, and only where the reviewer says so) that is said; where they are not, the two are shown and not compared. A video loop that the reviewer does not describe as Apple’s test, or ran from a stored or downloaded file, is shown, not compared. Figures are never ranked, subtracted or pooled across methods.

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.

Laptop Mag

Tested: 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and four Thunderbolt 3 ports, 2.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 (8th-gen), 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD

Battery life

Apple's laptop lasted for 8 hours and 41 minutes on the Laptop Mag battery test, which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of screen brightness.

The reviewer’s own figure: 8 hours and 41 minutes, from “continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of screen brightness” (a web-browsing battery test).

Keyboard and trackpad

The good news is that I typed quickly and comfortably on this laptop, as the actuation force of 60 grams provided enough feedback that typing didn't feel mushy.

Figures in this quote are the reviewer’s own measurements.

Ports

you get four Thunderbolt 3 ports (two on the left and two on the right)

AppleInsider

Tested: 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and four Thunderbolt 3 ports, base model, 2.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 (8th generation), 8GB RAM

Performance

With BlackMagic's Disk Speed Test, the base model 13-inch MacBook Pro tops out at around 1300MB/s for its write and around 2600MB/s for its read speeds.

Figures in this quote are the reviewer’s own measurements.