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and the 2019 MacBook Pro deserves all

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the hate it gets it skimps on cooling the keyboard is fundamentally flawed the

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bezels are chunky by today's standards and the touch bar means there's simply

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no escape from it Apple needs to start

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listening to the feedback their customers have been giving them since

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2016 and this

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different keyboard slimmer bezels it's

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even got an escape key all this thing needs is decent cooling and that this

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could change everything SSDs are great but RGB SSDs are even

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I've never actually daily driven a butterfly keyswitch MacBook Pro so I

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never really developed that intense hatred for it that some people seem to

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have I mean mine have gone so lightly used that none of them have failed and

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as far as laptop keyboards go I mean I'm not a huge fan of it but I've definitely

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had worse but I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't excited when I saw the

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news about the move back to more traditional scissor switches as found on

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Apple's magic keyboards I mean they never were they're still not the best

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switches on the market I can see why Apple wanted to re-engineer them but

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they've got decent tactile feedback a much longer travel that makes it easier

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to get up to speed and they even sound better to I mean like just listen

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or no this can't be right either Apple

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reversed course based on user feedback or off crap I must be dreaming again

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okay someone just someone pinch me I

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said pinch not slip

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well I'm awake I am still finding this whole situation a little hard to believe

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though I mean a 16 inch is even bigger than the 15 inch so that they could Jam

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a bigger battery in it next I'm expecting someone to tell you they went

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and they put an SD card reader in it and stop soldering down all the motherboard

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components no no such luck with that in

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fact Apple got a score of 1:4 repairability for my fix it as a result

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of the glue and rivets that they use to hold the keyboard battery speakers and

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touch bar assemblies together but like come on guys baby steps right baby steps

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I mean they are making some changes to facilitate the repair process maybe such

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as this new hinge magnet that iFixit found during their teardown which could

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be used to determine during service if the display ribbon should be checked

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based on data that it provides though the frequency and speed at which it's

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been opened and closed I mean that's not terribly useful for end-users who want

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to repair their own devices but guys if you want macOS you'll basically take

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what Apple gives you unless you build your own Mac like we're doing make sure

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you're subscribed for the epic conclusion of our hack Pro build by the

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way the good news is that Apple giveth a lot this timer the arrow keys are now

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arranged in a more traditional inverted T shape just like the old MacBooks this

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is my personal favorite layout improvement the touch ID equipped power

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button is now separated and has been given a matte finish to match the rest

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of the keys and a physical Escape key is

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now beside the touch bar and the good

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news keeps on coming on top of being thicker the chassis is now slightly

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wider to accommodate a more comprehensive speaker arrangement and it

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sounds astonishingly good next to its 15-inch predecessor base is fuller mids

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are clearer and highs are no longer a tinny shrill mess at max volume I mean

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the audio quality I think it's safe to say is among the best that we have seen

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in a finish style device like this to the point where it almost feels like

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carrying around a portable speaker with you now it does get a bit confused at

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max volume with busy tracks like this one by the green that Alex uses for

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testing but overall it's in the league of its own and apples done good here and

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then there's the bezels these are starting to look a lot more competitive

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with Dells infinity edge equipped lineup Albia a smidge taller to accommodate the

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larger FaceTime HD camera that Apple uses the webcam itself and therefore the

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image quality by the way is unchanged from previous generations which is to

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say that it's decent but not great so that was a little disappointing but as

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for audio recording the new 3 microphone array is able to capture voice with much

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greater clarity and less reverb than the old set up high I - this is Dennis do

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you like my boys it sounds more like it was recorded on a decent headset mic

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than a good dedicated mic but that's still an impressive feat for an onboard

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microphone array I mean it really just feels like Apple's Mac team has started

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taking the pro name seriously again I mean some might say it still short some

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professional io like an SD card reader but come on guys we've we've moved on I

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mean given the plethora of portable media formats that exist now you can't

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support them all and Thunderbolt 3 has matured to the point where you can use

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the 4 included ports to connect basically anything you'd want the most

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Pro thing about it though for me it's just how much more comfortable the 16

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inches to use for anything remotely productive I mean aside from macOS

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Catalina's Vista esque chattiness every time you want to do something virtually

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every aspect of the experience is more refined and marks a return for Apple to

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the feel of a laptop that was made for

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actually busy people who need to get real work done which is why we now need

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to discuss how well it gets real work done our 16 inch macbook pro is equipped

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with the core I $9.99 a thk option just

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like our 15-inch from earlier this year which should make for a very interesting

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apples to apples comparison in the PC

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corner we've grabbed the new Dell XPS 15 equipped with that same processor and

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then we also grabbed a test bench with a core I nine ninety-nine hundred K to see

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just how close our mobile cooling solutions can get to desktop class

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performance and the answer is well not

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that close but check this out guys in

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our Mozilla Firefox compile test we saved over two minutes compared to the

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last gen 15-inch and that's a pattern

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that we actually see repeated across most of our test feed I mean let that

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sink in for a moment guys we are seeing faster performance than the 15-inch with

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the same OS and same CPU which suggests

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that we are looking at not just the slightly faster memory on the new model

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but even a higher sustained boost clock as well and we haven't even touched on

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the new navi based Radeon RX 5500 in

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productivity that relies on GPU guys this thing completely smokes the earlier

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polaris part like it's not even close it regularly beats its predecessor by well

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in excess of 50% it should be noted that

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AMD's best does still trail both our desktop and mobile gtx 1650 is going to

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remain PC exclusive until Apple an NVIDIA can bury the hatchet which

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doesn't look like it's gonna happen ever but improvement is still improvement now

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games aren't something that most people buy Macs for but a couple of games that

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we did try ended up performing quite well while the 15-inch delivered

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cinematic frame rates and shot the Tomb Raider the 16-inch is at least playable

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quick shout-out by the way to feral interactive for the Tomb Raider port

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performance of macOS is nearly as good as it is on Windows performance

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elsewhere though notably in boot camp is decidedly poor once again Apple is

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applying its custom CPU and fan adjustments only within macOS and not

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within the device's firmware so anyone who needs to use Windows on their

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MacBook Pro is going to end up with a machine that is stuck with poor

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performance even compared to our Dell XPS which got creamed in many of these

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same tests while the Mac was still on macOS this is a result of Intel's

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default TDP voltage curve and boost profiles adding insult to injury thermal

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performance sucks in Windows to back to macOS thermals get interesting not only

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does the 16 inch remain above base clock during blender renders like the most

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recent 15-inch did but it does so at a 10 percent higher frequency thanks to

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the more aggressive power budgets afforded by the new 100 watt power

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adapter so you can see that previously Apple limited their CPU to drawing

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roughly 50 watts of sustained power in order to satisfy their thermal and power

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constraints while the 16 inch is allowed to draw upwards of 80 watts and

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impressively despite this increase in

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power consumption the new pro cooler I don't think Apple is calling it that but

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I'm gonna manage us to be more effective at maintaining a consistent thermal

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profile than the 15-inch model was all I

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want to see now is the option to configure this behavior so that I could

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choose to drop a few megahertz in favor of keeping my sustain temperatures under

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90 degrees I mean come on Apple you're

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already doing it all the software anyway just cuz it's me suggesting it doesn't

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mean it's a bad idea because taking user

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feedback is a good thing and by taking it Apple has got an impressive machine

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on their hands here beside her down components unnecessary potential for

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data loss from the t2 security chip and the you two rivets and glue to keep

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nosey end-users out is less than ideal but the reality is that this is a laptop

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that is both more powerful and more usable than any macbook pro that has

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come before and even our chunkier XPS 15

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couldn't keep up in CPU-bound benchmarks there is an Apple tax associated with

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this though an aspect our MacBook Pro costs roughly eight hundred dollars more

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than our otherwise very similar dell but

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here's the thing while our dell has a DCI p3 OLED display that is amazing for

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content consumption it's actually not as bright as apples similarly DCI p3 IPS

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display and of course that taller aspect

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ratios that cannot come back fast enough

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for me so I've seen a lot of people call this the best MacBook that Apple has

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produced since the last retina model in 2015 and this is one time where I am

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perfectly content to go with the flow good job Apple you used your massive R&D

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budget to work on things that make both your industrial design artists happy and

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your customers please keep going in this

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