Apple Mac Book Pro 13
So today we've got the new MacBook Pro
13-inch for 2020 while new it's kind of
new it's a bit of a refresh they have addressed the most important thing on this particular model which is the keyboard I don't know if you guys have been following the saga here on the channel I presume so but Apple has had some difficulty with their low profile keyboards on laptops for a while now something called the butterfly key switch which was innovative at the time it gave you this sort of impossibly low profile clicky keyboard it came alongside some pretty significant issues and a number of failures you can find it in forums you can find it on reddit you can find it actually here in the studio with all the various MacBook Pros that we've had and we've had plenty because we do choose to edit on Final Cut Pro which is a Mac specific video editing app so Jack had a MacBook Pro Kirk had a MacBook Pro well myself it was time for Apple to move on they did move on with the 16 inch MacBook Pro then they moved on with the MacBook Air and then this was the last one to join the party going back to a more traditional scissor style key switch so I'm interested to check it out see how it feels comparatively and I've even got an old butterfly key switch MacBook Air over there to compare to this one now the reason I'm saying the new old is because pretty much everything else a lot of other things on here are kind of the same in fact in some situations with this model this is the base model it's basically exactly the same as the previous version with
the exception of the keyboard this one even has the same generation of CPU in it it does have a little bit more storage they've kind of separated the 13-inch into two separate models the two thunderbolt port and the four thunderbolt port so you can spec this thing more aggressively from a performance standpoint but you're gonna
pay a lot more and then it gets weird because you're thinking well if you're into video editing and you're really gonna take advantage of the performance I don't need this knife then why don't you just go for the 16 inch where you're gonna get dedicated graphics that don't exist in here that was actually quieter than I expected the 13.3 inch 2560 by 1600 this is the 1.4 gigahertz quad-core intel core i5 so because this is the baseline model it actually matches up kind of really closely to the baseline model MacBook Air and it costs a little bit more money it does have some other things has a touch bar on it it has a little bit more performance considering it is a quad core but it there's a lot of overlap there and it's hard to figure out which one to suggest if somebody is in the Mac camp and has to be on an Apple laptop that said if you're willing to step over to the PC side you can get something in this exact price range with a newer CPU and a better screen to body ratio so you obviously the options expand substantially if you're willing to do that 256 gigs of storage so that doubled up eight gigs of 2133 megahertz ddr3 memory that's another area where if you step up that can change and to Thunderbolt three parts instead of four FaceTime HD camera kind of unfortunate that Apple is still using these super low res low quality webcams and it's especially apparent right now because everyone's doing so much conferencing on their laptop zoom and all the rest of it okay so the benefit with the 13-inch here is obviously portability over the 16 inch macbook pro and if you want to get the performance closer to the 16 inch you can spec this thing up to well a lot of money - definitely 16 inch territory you can get a lot more CPUperformance out of it in a configuration like that you get the extra Thunderbolt ports but just still stuck with integrated graphics which I don't know if that's gonna make a lot of sense for creative professionals people who work in video editing and and so on but you can spec it like that if you absolutely need the portability over the 16 inch now I do want to do a quick comparison so I have the lineup here this is the new 13 here is the air I mean you can see those are it's not much difference it's not much difference in weight obviously the remaining dimensions are almost identical because they're both 13-inch tops there's a lot of overlap here what can I say I don't know this one gives you a little bit more performance if you want it but like I said if you want to go crazy performance if you want to get up closer to 2 grand then probably the 16 inch is gonna make more sense when you go to the 16 inch though you definitely have a bigger footprint if you travel that's gonna take up a lotmore space it's substantially heavier itweighs more when it's sitting on yourlap the dream would be a 13 inch where they could slam some dedicated graphics in there that would be really nice because then it would I think be valid alternative to the 16 even at a similar price point also inside the package we have our type-c cable paperwork stickers
and whatnot from Apple and you have their charge brick which for this model is a 61 watt USB type-c charge brick so we open this up of course you have the display protected we peel that baby and it's the nice thing the macbook boots up right away as you lift the lid you got to appreciate that so there's a new keyboard straight away essentially this new keyboard the old scissor mechanismit's it's it's like Apple going back to their old laptop keyboards and what that means is more key travel I was speaking to Willie do he apparently loves the butterfly key switch even though any type of crumb is gonna render the laptop completely useless as we've seen in the past but when it's working he likes it I was never a huge fan of it I like a little bit of key travel I've told you that before so any amount of key travel to me is an improvement and honestly it was getting pretty bad because with all the issues with the old keyboard it was it was hard for me to continue to recommend Apple laptops given the fact that so many people had hit me up in my email inbox with issues themselves I was telling people you better wait for them to revise this situation they now have the entire lineup is now sitting on these scissor key switches in my case I never really got a ton of use out of this touch bar on the top but I do actually like and use the touch ID fingerprint scanner to unlock these devices and that's up the top right corner another thing that changed on this device the escape key I can live but I don't know what it is you have a huge bezel you have a giant forehead at the top - is that the camera we're working with I guess so me it's not a priority to Apple I've seen many people rent and rave about this but this is what we're working with so yeah even with giant lights facing me and won't it will not save me if you're a regular human in a regular environment it's going to be even worse for you because it's gonna be dimly lit and then the game goes up and the noise goes up on the camera so it's unfortunate let's do a little speaker test make sure that those are the same it's an area that I really commend Apple the speaker Department on their laptops the 16 inch MacBook Pro tremendous speakers some of the best speakers I've ever heard on the laptop and even the air for something so thin and light they pay attention to the speakers where other manufacturers don't volume low-end is there hammerhead true wireless earbuds but then this one is the one that caught my attention because it's got a poker ball on it and has the same hammerhead wireless earbuds but in yellow so I did a little bit of research yeah I don't know I bottom I have to say honestly I'm I have to say Apple is doing the best job in the game on laptop speakers and no one else people aren't paying attention enough I obviously haven't tried every laptop on planet Earth but for a 13-inch laptop to sound like that you can hear the bass so when it's all said and done who is the 13-inch MacBook Pro for who was the 
buyer for this thing after all you got this guy is an option the air is an option even though that's the old model don't buy the old model you want the new keyboard and of course the big boy 16-inch now I think for creative professionals this one is going to be the catch-all just because it has thededicated graphics and by the time you spec this one properly to a new chip with some RAM in it and some decent storage you're in this territory anyways then on the flipside if you're just a student you need the base level stuff you can hop into this MacBook Air for like a thousand bucks and call it a day and it's gonna do most of what you need maybe it's a person who wants to dabble a little bit in the creative goods but is mostly a student slash web browser and needs to move the thing around a lot this is these are your choices live with it or move somewhere else where you feel like you have greater options I think the unfortunate part is that it would be really nice to see what Apple can do in the more aggressive screen to body ratio laptop competition that's out there and a PC side the portability thing increases around the board the butterfly keyboard is dead it took Apple a while but at least we're living in that reality now my experience with the 16 inches that this new one is a lot more reliable this one hasn't failed no one sent me an email of this one failing so far and now the 13-inch joins the old-school scissor key switch party scissor key switches little bit of travel we need to figure out those webcams though come on Apple let's figure it out 1080p 4k 4k webcams I might want to actually zoom somebody if that maybe it's better they don't see me full resolution either you.
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