Once you get used to Force-clicking documents, pictures and hyperlinks in Safari to bring up quick previews in OS X, it becomes something you instinctively miss on a Boot Camp installation of Windows 8. It is wider, if a little less tall, than that of the 13in MacBook Pro. The Force Touch trackpad is far less likely to divide opinion. In short, if you are considering the MacBook then I strongly advise you spend some time in your nearest Apple store trying the keyboard out – I suspect it’s a love/hate thing. Developer Marco Arment, in his review of the MacBook, described the keys as feeling clicky, “ almost like the iPhone’s Home button”, and there is something in what he’s saying. However, anyone used to using a mechanical keyboard, or indeed any other keyboard at all, may find that the MacBook keyboard takes a lot of getting used to.

A feather-light yet crisp dig of feedback leaves no doubt as to whether you’ve hit a key or not, and I was soon typing as comfortably and quickly as on my long-suffering office ThinkPad. Each of the backlit keys is 40% bigger, and although they have very little travel, that’s something I very quickly got used to.

Review macbook pro 2015