The panel itself also beamed in our lab tests, as it registered an average brightness of 408 nits. Scrolling on this laptop is silky smooth, and it's a cinch to execute gestures like swiping up with three fingers for Mission Control or spreading three fingers to show the desktop. Touchpad, Touch Bar and Touch IDĪt 5.3 x 3.2 inches, the trackpad on the 13-inch MacBook Pro is as massive as ever, and it's just as responsive and accurate.
We plan on using this MacBook Pro for several weeks to see how the improved butterfly keyboard holds up. According to iFixit, which performed a tear down on the 15-inch MacBook Pro with the same design change, the switch cover now seems to be made of polyamide (aka, nylon) instead of polyacetylene, but the benefit to users of that change is not clear. So, what about this new material on the keyboard, and what will it do? Apple isn't providing any details, other than to say that the changes should prevent issues like the double typing of letters or keys that fail to register. MORE: Apple's Pro Display Stand Costs a Grand, And Even Mac Fans Are. On my everyday 2016 MacBook Pro without Touch Bar, I hit 75 wpm with 93.8% accuracy.
That's slightly faster than the 72 wpm I got on the 2018 MacBook Pro, but I achieved even better accuracy on that system, with 97.6%. On the typing test, I surpassed 77 words per minute with 95% accuracy.
