

This selection means you’re pretty much given everything you need, complete with a half-height SD card, which should be handy for photographers and video editors.Īnd that brings us to the performance, and with the latest generation of Intel chips, it’s hard to see this machine as performing anything other than solid, which is exactly what it does. The port selection is also solid, offering two USB 3.0 ports, one HDMI, and two Thunderbolt 2.0 ports sorry, no 3.0 here, because that would mean a Type-C USB port. It is early days for this technology, we know that, and given that there are opportunities to turn the touchpad into a surface for drawing and writing, we’re eager to see the sort of apps that developers make for this device. In fact, because there is no button and just a vibration, it can offer a further deeper click - what Apple calls a “force click” - to activate extra functionality, such as looking up map locations, previewing web pages, or searching up a definition for a highlighted word.įorce touch technology can take some time to get used to, but since this is the third computer we’ve used with it on-board, we’re finding that we like it more and more. Rather, this technology relies on sensors picking up your pressing and vibrates the trackpad ever so slightly from left to right to give the feeling of a button.
