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After years of trying to make an iPad or iPad Pro work as a viable MacBook substitute, I finally decided this year that my next work computer would be a MacBook Pro rather than an iMac. Knowing about the keyboard issues with previous MacBook Pros, I also decided that I'd wait until the 16-inch MacBook Pro was released before making the switch from desktop to laptop. I had my order in to Apple for a "fairly loaded" MacBook Pro within minutes after hearing that it was available, and now I've been using the computer for about a week. In this First Impressions post, I'll provide my opinions on the newest MacBook Pro and also provide a few benchmarks showing just how powerful this portable workstation is.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hnYWIWpb8] The announcement of upgraded MacBooks at WWDC 2017 was a bit of surprise, considering that Apple had only introduced the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar about 7 months before. The announcement was welcomed by many, as it brought...

(All tests were run on a Retina 5K 27-inch iMac.) If you’re an old hacker like me (from back when the word "hacker" had good connotations), you may remember the battle of the browsers in the early days of the...

The compact, colorful and speedy 10.5-inch iPad Pro When the iPad Pro was first introduced in 2015, I decided to give up on the MacBook as a portable computing device and bought myself a 12.9-inch model. My goal was to...

Recently, the Rocket Yard tested the Late 2015 27” iMac with Retina 5K display with different memory configurations to show the huge performance gains that can be achieved with more memory. We ran a memory-intensive Diglloyd Photoshop Huge test with...

Just a year ago when the iPhone 6 Plus appeared, I thought there was no possible way that Apple could improve on it. Sure enough, as the year went by I found that Touch ID was slow sometimes, trying to...