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3 and a half day review of my 2017 MacBook Pro
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<blockquote data-quote="chevyboy60013" data-source="post: 1942382" data-attributes="member: 408943"><p>Well now that tomorrow, Monday will be 2 weeks with my new 2017 MacBook Pro... figured I will give it more praise, especially since I have used it daily for at least 4 hours a day. So far it performs far better than I expected it to, especially since my mid 2010 MacBook Pro performed very well on the unsupported install of macOS Sonoma. I have to say that it seems to run circles around the mid 2010 as far as speed, plus the fact that even though the battery has 788 cycles on it, I regularly get between 8 to 10 hours out of its battery and still have around 25 to 30% remaining charge when I plug it in for the night. Have only shut it down twice since I have owned it, once when it did the update to macOS Ventura from macOS Catalina that it came with, and once after like 2-3 days to clean the screen and memory pressure remains in the green, and still have almost 100gb free on the 128gb ssd. I may still consider upgrading the ssd to a 256gb one just because and to kinda like future proof it, since I believe that is the only upgrade to the hardware that can be done, do not think the ram is upgradable on it. As far as sticking with macOS Ventura, I am glad that members here advised me to stick with macOS Ventura, instead of using olcp to take it to macOS Sonoma, as Ventura has everything I want and runs very nicely. Wish it had the beautiful wall papers that Sonoma does... but the blue, yellow and orange is growing on me, also pretty much used to the new style keyboard since it has much less key travel and seems to need the keys to be pressed basically on center which is a good thing for the way I type... much less typos that need to be fixed later. It also seems to run much cooler than my mid 2010 did, since I do not think I have ever heard the fans come on except when it was updating to Ventura and copying my iCloud stuff, photos, emails, messages etc. I miss the backlit Apple logo on the lid, but it is what it is, and people think it is much newer than it actually is since it does not have the lit up apple logo.... So far I am extremely happy with it, and hope to be using it for several more years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chevyboy60013, post: 1942382, member: 408943"] Well now that tomorrow, Monday will be 2 weeks with my new 2017 MacBook Pro... figured I will give it more praise, especially since I have used it daily for at least 4 hours a day. So far it performs far better than I expected it to, especially since my mid 2010 MacBook Pro performed very well on the unsupported install of macOS Sonoma. I have to say that it seems to run circles around the mid 2010 as far as speed, plus the fact that even though the battery has 788 cycles on it, I regularly get between 8 to 10 hours out of its battery and still have around 25 to 30% remaining charge when I plug it in for the night. Have only shut it down twice since I have owned it, once when it did the update to macOS Ventura from macOS Catalina that it came with, and once after like 2-3 days to clean the screen and memory pressure remains in the green, and still have almost 100gb free on the 128gb ssd. I may still consider upgrading the ssd to a 256gb one just because and to kinda like future proof it, since I believe that is the only upgrade to the hardware that can be done, do not think the ram is upgradable on it. As far as sticking with macOS Ventura, I am glad that members here advised me to stick with macOS Ventura, instead of using olcp to take it to macOS Sonoma, as Ventura has everything I want and runs very nicely. Wish it had the beautiful wall papers that Sonoma does... but the blue, yellow and orange is growing on me, also pretty much used to the new style keyboard since it has much less key travel and seems to need the keys to be pressed basically on center which is a good thing for the way I type... much less typos that need to be fixed later. It also seems to run much cooler than my mid 2010 did, since I do not think I have ever heard the fans come on except when it was updating to Ventura and copying my iCloud stuff, photos, emails, messages etc. I miss the backlit Apple logo on the lid, but it is what it is, and people think it is much newer than it actually is since it does not have the lit up apple logo.... So far I am extremely happy with it, and hope to be using it for several more years. [/QUOTE]
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