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make no mistake the 2019 macbook pro has

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the same design as the 2016. we've got the same slim aluminum beauty by chassis

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the same 2880 by 1800 retin display the

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same massive force touch track pad the same love it or hate it touch bar and

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those same four thunderbolt 3 ports that gave us the nickname dongle book pro

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this on the other hand is my macbook pro

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i bought it back in 2011 and it's been my daily driver ever since

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it's obsolete now but i haven't really had a reason to upgrade because most of

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the improvements to date have come at some cost expandability thermal performance speed

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even the keyboard's reliability this generation looks no different

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but let me tell you looks can be deceiving

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what's different about the 2019 macbook pro then

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well we'll get into the one engineering change that actually surprised even me

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and actually matters but first the change nobody is surprised about and

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didn't matter the keyboard this is apple's third

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design iteration on their low profile butterfly switches in an attempt to keep

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dust and debris from breaking the stupid thing but even apple admits it's not

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trustworthy because the 2019 macbook pro was actually listed in the keyboard

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service program the day it dropped that's when you know it's bad to me the

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keys themselves feel a little bit more spongy and this isn't a bad thing

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because it makes the travel feel a bit more pleasant and deeper than it

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otherwise might it's a very subtle effect though and it might just be my

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mind playing tricks on me all i know is i've never been a fan of the feel of the

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butterfly switches and i found typing on this one a touch more pleasant overall

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but now it's time to dig a little deeper because while our macbook pro 2019 may

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not be equipped with the best factory gpu option as it's better for a number

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of reasons to use an egpu it is equipped with the highest end cpu

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apple offers the eight core 16 thread

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core i9 9980 hk which has a claimed

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boost of up to 5 gigahertz and a base clock barely lower than its 6 core

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predecessor actually before i move on i just want to talk for a second about

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these boost clocks because they're not boost clocks as we know them they're

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actually what intel calls thermal velocity boost

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tldr what these numbers represent are boost clocks on top of boost clocks

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only achievable under extremely strict thermal and power criteria only while

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normal boost is active and only on a single core

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so when you're doing actual work you'll probably never see the advertised

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numbers to be clear apple isn't to blame for intel's marketing spin and they aren't

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the only ones who are advertising their computers this way but i'd really rather laptops be rated

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based on the frequencies they can actually hit rather than what's on

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intel's arc website but i digress coming back to the macbook i was skeptical

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about its performance because it has more faster cores than the 2018 model

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but it has the same tdp and that model was famous for thermal throttling to the

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point where we even expressed concern over its longevity and long-term data

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integrity due to its reliance on the t2 security chip which is still present

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here so i wanted to test it against the 2018 but i also wanted to see how it

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would compare to a similarly spec pc as many have claimed the same chip in a

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different form factor would perform better and in fact we've shown that a

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macbook can attain higher performance by placing it in our chiller box

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unfortunately there are no pcs with this exact chip right now but i did find the

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rog strix scar 3 rocking the quote 4.8

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gigahertz core i9 9980h

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while that's supposedly a touch slower the scar has a much better cooler so it

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should boost for longer and throttle later if at all compared to the macbook

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but here's what surprised me thermals actually looked better than 2018

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that's a good 6 degrees cooler than last year's model

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and supposedly we're looking at cpus with the same tdp here

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clearly they're just throttling right nope check this out under a full prime95

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small fft workload the 2019 model is sitting pretty at 2.6 gigahertz nowhere

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near its all-core boost of 4.2 but still higher than its base clock and faster

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than both the 2018 macbook pro and the scar 3 can maintain

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even with its limiters off

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what okay did they change the cooler or

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something no

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so i reached out to apple to find out how they did it but as usual they took

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one look at the email and sent it straight to the trash but i have my own

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theory one i think they've upgraded the thermal

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interface material between the cooler and the chips and two i think they pulled off some

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pretty heavy undervolting in mac os and sure enough when i fire up the same

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workload under windows in boot camp we get much higher temperatures overall and

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we end up thermal throttling well below base clock after only about a minute

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so at least one part of my theory is confirmed but you don't buy a lambo for

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commuting and you don't buy a mac to run windows on it

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so i guess i can give them a pass here just bear in mind as we move on that

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bootcamp performance will be a lot lower than mac os due to the underbolting

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alone speaking of things you don't buy a mac for gaming at 1440x900 our macbook

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pros radeon pro 560x doesn't fare too

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well but we get decent results in cs go compared to the same gpu on our 2018

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model so that's something more importantly though when we move on

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to productivity holy crap is that cinebench score a 900

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point gain over 2018 from four extra threads that's nearly a thirty percent

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uplift and right on with the better cool scar geekbench has a straight up

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murdering the scar in mac os with the obvious exception of the gpu but it's

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also worth noting the extra oomph the 2019 model's gpu gains over last year

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even though it's the same gpu hinting at that better tim blender meanwhile sees a

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35 to 40 improvement in performance with the 2019 even beating the scar and

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shaving a whole six minutes off the classroom test over the 2018 macbook pro

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v-ray gives us a slightly more modest but still respectable improvement

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overall right in line with the scar 3 and finally luxmark gives us more of

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that delicious gpu performance uplift we've been seeing so much of content

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creators will be happy to know that adobe premiere also gets an improvement

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over the 2018 and final cut pro 10 gets

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a bump too saving nearly a minute in render time over 2018. finally for you

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devs out there our mozilla firefox compile test

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the 2019 is dominating here too saving nearly nine minutes over the 2018 model

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and whether it's because of the tool chain or the more aggressive clocks in mac os nearly as much over the scar 3.

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now to be clear there would be a significant performance uplift with a

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better cooler but a macbook is a complete package that doesn't change

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very often and i really can't overstate how impressive these results are given

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the thermal performance of the previous generation i'd personally prefer a lower

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thermal target with some headroom built in to let it turbo up a little bit more

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but we're far from sustaining 100 degrees like last gen did we've said

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before that apple has some good engineers over there and i think they've

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earned their pay this time around as for whether or not it's going to replace my

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2011 well let's just say

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