I have the Macbook Pro 16 and have been using it for a few months now. Overall, I think its pretty bad laptop for how expensive it is. Yes Apple fixed many things people were complaining about but it is a perfect example of how Apple has stopped innovating and stopped caring about the MacBook line. In fact, I dislike it so much I have started using my 10 year old MacBook Air instead of my brand new Macbook Pro.
Things I dislike about the MBP 16:
- Still has the touch bar
- Screen size is awful. I like to work with windows size by size and the 16 inch screen size is awkward because most website won't re-size properly.
- Its heavy as hell, slightly thinker than the old ones.
- Its slow. Yes, all the RAM and CPU and the thing is
laggy. I don't know why but it just has a bad "feel" to it.
- Touchpad is too big. Its gigantic and I often end up touching it by accident.
- Its crazy expensive
In the end, I will end up selling it and using my 10 year old Macbook Air until it dies. After that I'm not sure.. maybe I will try the newer Macbook Air and see if its tolerable. At least it doesnt have a touchbar.
My experience has been quite different from yours, so I figured I'd share mine as well.
- Yep touchbar just sucks, I've spent too much time messing around with with the default version, bettertouchtool, and pock, and I cannot find anything its good at. Worse yet, the volume slider often will freeze the touch bar completely.
- The screen size and format is wonderful. I hate how Dell and Thinkpad laptops I've used in the past, have these widescreen formats, where very few lines of code can be visible at a time due to the limited vertical space.
- I didn't realize this until you pointed it out, but it's definitely very heavy compared to my 15-inch 2018 model and thinkpad x230. This haven't bothered me at all, however.
- It feels significantly faster than my 2018 model, and the CPU temperature stays much lower under the same workloads.
- I know a lot of people have trouble with this, so if you've previously had this problem the 16 inch doesn't change that. Both my hands rest on the touch pad while typing, and I have not had this problem once. Your mileage may vary.
- I got mine discounted down to roughly 2k. Pretty ridiculous yeah!
- The battery life is insane. On a simple workload it will last me an entire day. On my full workload (Flutter development with android and ios simulators open) it lasts about half a day.
In the end I'm very happy with my purchase. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm still using this laptop 8 years from now.
Things I dislike about the MBP 16:
- Still has the touch bar
- Screen size is awful. I like to work with windows size by size and the 16 inch screen size is awkward because most website won't re-size properly.
- Its heavy as hell, slightly thinker than the old ones.
- Its slow. Yes, all the RAM and CPU and the thing is laggy. I don't know why but it just has a bad "feel" to it.
- Touchpad is too big. Its gigantic and I often end up touching it by accident.
- Its crazy expensive
In the end, I will end up selling it and using my 10 year old Macbook Air until it dies. After that I'm not sure.. maybe I will try the newer Macbook Air and see if its tolerable. At least it doesnt have a touchbar.