On top of that, the previous generation MacBook pro still had USB-A ports, Magsafe power, Firewire, Ethernet, and Thunderbolt – basically, somewhere to plug in just about anything you might possibly want or have accumulated during the last few years – think card readers, hard drives, calibrators, tablets… That, and a price that keeps going through the stratosphere and a general lack of innovation in form factor or features especially compared to some of the new Windows based competition. Much ado has been made about several things: firstly, the lack of removable/upgradeable/replaceable anything in this machine, together with the disappearance of any ports other than USB-C, and battery life that’s far short of the claimed numbers. – Battery life: (supposedly) 10 hours, 49.2WHr – Four USB-C ports, 3.5mm headphone in jack (not composite mic) – 3.3GHz dual-core i7 with Intel Iris 550 graphics, ~1.5GB RAM allocation by default – Late-2016 Apple MacBook Pro 13″ with touch bar I’ve been using one of these new machines since the start of December, which is long enough for performance and battery life to settle down, and to figure out how it fits into the workflow overall.

There are a couple of major gotchas, though – which may or may not be a deal breaker for you.

If you don’t want to read the rest, in short and in my own opinion, this is perhaps the best laptop out there at the moment for the serious photography.

For computers, there are other places that do the extensive quantitative testing far better than I could even if I had the time and inclination – which I don’t – but I think where I can add perhaps a little clarity is to review this machine from the point of view of a working and travelling photographer.

Like every piece of hardware, there are plenty of reviews out there that assess the product from just about every possible point of view.

Late 2016 macbook pro 13