![]() ![]() The cursor key layout is particularly problematic with oddly-large left right keys flanking much smaller up and down keys. That part works, but there's undeniably a learning curve with the MacBook's keyboard, because it lacks much in the way of deep travel found in more-traditional laptop keyboards. That's because of a new underlying mechanism that enables keystrokes to be entered even from the side of each individual key. The MacBook's keyboard doesn't feel like any other MacBook keyboard of the past. Secondly, it allows for variable force quantities in a click, which for now Apple is dubbing "Force Click." Force Click is currently limited to just a few Apple-specific applications, but it's an open API, so there's scope for developers to do some interesting things with a tertiary touch-sensitive click motion. Firstly, you really can click anywhere on the trackpad you like. This is an interesting little innovation that uses force feedback to simulate a click anywhere on its trackpad, rather than using a seesaw style mechanism as most trackpads do. While the updated MacBook Pro beat the MacBook to market, it was on the MacBook that Apple announced the Force Touch trackpad. There's no clear line for what makes something "Retina" or not, but in the MacBook's case it's a 2304-by-1440 226ppi 12-inch panel with exceptionally-good colour quality. The MacBook's display earns Apple's somewhat nebulous "Retina" branding. That's worth bearing in mind, because it means that you'll have to work with Apple if anything goes wrong, and you're stuck with whichever specification you bought for the life of the laptop. ![]() ![]() As iFixit discovered by rather painstakingly pulling the MacBook apart, there's no real way to upgrade or repair anything on a MacBook at all. No matter which MacBook model you opt for, 8GB of RAM is the standard onboard. Like other Core M products such as the Lenovo Yoga Pro 3, the MacBook employs a fanless design that makes it extremely quiet, but intermittently prone to heating up if you're pushing it hard. The Core M line sits in the mid-point between Intel's power-efficient Atom line and its Core i line of more heavy duty processors. Underneath whatever finish you choose lies either a 1.1GHz or 1.2GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor along with either 256GB or 512GB of memory. Like the original MacBook, you're not awash with choices in terms of specifications, although you can opt to have your MacBook decked out in traditional MacBook style silver, space grey or gold. That's exactly what the 2015 MacBook is as well. Apple event crowds are weird that way, but at the time, the MacBook Air was a convergence of new thinking and compromises wrapped up in a promise of serious mobility. While it shares a name with a line of mostly-plastic laptops from around half a decade ago, the 2015 MacBook has a lot more in common with the MacBook Air, and especially the launch model, circa 2008.īack in 2008, I sat in the audience at Macworld Expo when Steve Jobs rather famously slipped a MacBook Air out of a manilla envelope to the rapturous whoops of the assembled crowd. Not its namesake MacBook (pre-2015), however. The 2015 MacBook displays both of those traits, because it's both an innovative and interesting laptop to use, while at the same time owing a serious debt to previous Apple laptops. Macbook (2015) Review Alex Kidman Apple is often seen as an innovative company, and to a certain extent that's undeniable, but at the same time it's also a company that likes to iterate on a core design over and over again as long as people keep buying. ![]()
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