Its damn expensive, too, as I got the fully loaded version, which, despite the stratospheric price, still doesn’t give me any significant user upgrade options and - my biggest gripe - still no 4K screen. This matters because often you don't have the luxury of choosing working environments, and the glossy screen on the MacBooks drives drives me up the wall. The negatives are that I would still like 17” screen with a matt option. The 16” MacBook is certainly what the 15 should have been: it has screen real-estate and the sort of grunt that I need, day to day. If Apple had not brought out the 16” MacBook Pro, it’s quite possible that I would have moved across to Windows. To get the performance I needed, I had to buy an eGPU. I have had three of those: one died in a gin and tonic accident while I was editing in a hotel bar, and the last one - with its troubled keyboard and airport security questions on the battery - never felt like it had enough grunt. Essentially there were no significant user upgrade options and there were ongoing issues. The 15” MacBooks have always felt like a step down from the 17”, with limited RAM options and not much choice of graphics cards. I hung on to my final 17” MacBook Pro as long as I could after it was withdrawn, upgrading the RAM, then the HDD to an SSD - and then finally removing the DVD for another SSD.

The 17” MacBook Pro had the screen real estate and what I loved the most was user upgradability. I was often working in different countries and time zones, and no matter how much I double checked, there always seemed to be something in the wrong place or which I’d forgotten. Trying to work between a desktop and laptop used to drive me up the wall. It was the first machine I could work on the road, editing and grading, not having to dip back to the desktop. When the 17” MacBook Pro came along I had three of them in a row. For many years I used a desktop for real work and the laptop for emails, browsing, etc. I have been a MacBook user since I had one of the first black versions with a dial up modem. On a recent worldwide trip, combining several shoots, Brett tried the Gigabyte AERO 17” 4K alongside the new Apple MacBook Pro 16' Working alongside companies like Emirates, Jeep, Canon, Interface and Land Rover, Brett has travelled the world working as a Director, DOP and Photographer. Brett Danton has been capturing visual stories about some of the world’s most iconic brands for more than 20 years.

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