some of you may know that i'm a mac user at least my laptop is a mac i've got a 2011 uh
macbook pro 15 inch at home it's showing its age now as i've said before
but uh i haven't really had much love
for the apple uh replacements over the years i mean the 16 inch here
is actually pretty nice uh except for the fact that it costs a lot of money
today i'm looking at the 13-inch which is
apple's brand new 10th gen equipped version of
the macbook pro which promises to bring a lot of the
features and functionality of the 16-inch down to
the 13-inch form factor a lot of people seem to be saying right
now that the CPU isn't as powerful as
last gen or it's just as powerful so there's no real improvement but that's
not entirely true the CPU actually has avx 512 support and
Intel's deep learning boost those two things can and will improve
performance dramatically over the traditional coffee-like refresh type of
cpus that we've been seeing over the past however many years i mean they're
all skylake but this is icelake and with it comes not only those new
features but also a new gen 11 GPU the
iris plus g7 yeah g7
promises double the performance over Intel's uhd graphics or better
you know what this is a little bit too complex let's just get into it shall we
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this up unfortunately the shrink wrap is off but this should all be pretty virgin so
let's pop the lid here ah there we go oh the apple's upside
down well whoever put it in did a poor job
spoilers it was me the fact that the outer wrapping has been taken off
means that i cannot i can't i just can't
so i'm just going to have to do this number
which is just the most
unsatisfying unboxing we've got this little
designed by apple in california booklet
and i think there's some stickers in here too yeah there they are
oh they're silver we also have a nice chunky
usb type-c cable that's a little bit
messier than i anticipated it would be
yeah should handle the job of the uh
included 61 watt power adapter
the CPU in this new
generation of macbook is actually a fair
bit more power hungry okay oh no there's
some scuffs on it already guys oh we just bought this like this
wasn't sent to us or anything we bought this hopefully they'll buff out let's see
what's inside here pretty standard stuff got this little
screen protector oh it's actually already on that's cool actually let's quickly um
compare i might be imagining it but i feel like
there's a shorter throw on the 13-inch could also be that it's
not as broken in yet this is a little bit more used it's a
little bit annoying that apple requires two-factor authentication but it's also
pretty nice that they have it and pretty nice that it works you have an apple device oh you're
setting up a new one well your apple device is your authenticator like you don't have any
special app or anything it's just oh hey you've logged in somewhere do you
want to approve this yes there it is while we're waiting for this
setup it's worth noting that there's actually two different models of the 13-inch
macbook pro in 2020 right now there is this newer model with ice-like
CPU which is a little bit more expensive and
there's also the refreshed model from mid 2019 it's still on the inside
just the same laptop as the previous gen macbook pro
don't want to set up touch id right now maybe later or never if i didn't set up
touch id why do i want to set up apple pay true tone display always glad that it
doesn't allow you to change that from there they just say hey check out
this whiz-bang feature we have isn't it great a lot of things about
apple setup i really like there's a lot of painless stuff and then
there's also a lot of really stupid stuff like that some of the things that
uh Linus and i actually agree about with the mac experience
i don't know let's let's start with the speakers i'll just play some supernova
here
that's actually pretty good
all right let's let's try it on this here
okay first impressions this sounds deeper and the stereo imaging is more
natural this feels like it's got more of a fake surround effect
but it still sounds pretty good
it's still got a pretty deep sound too
but it feels it sounds more processed if that makes any sense
yeah there's more mids and stuff on this one as well whereas this is more skewed
towards bass and treble let's check out the webcam so i'm doing recording right now
obviously we're in brightly lit environment everything is
basically as ideal as it can be
for a webcam but there is still a lot of
noise in this image if i tilt it down a little bit so it's
not looking directly into the light you can still see noise i think this is
the same webcam literally that is in my 2011. it's the facetime hd webcam 720p
it's nothing special we'll see how the audio sounds though
from what i understand the audio uh setup with the three microphones should
be very good so uh i don't know if you want
to try and make some background background noise yeah a little bit of
that's coming through but uh let's see if it actually
see if that causes any kind of
distortion in my voice or anything like that if you can still hear my voice or
not as far as the screen goes you can't
really make it out very well here yeah so the screen is what we expect
it's an apple retina display it's 2560 by 1600
which is that 16 by 10 aspect ratio that apple has
thankfully continued to embrace the builds
inflexible there are a couple of things that i can say about
the exterior though there is a little bit of flex in the screen as one might
expect of a screen this thin but it's nothing to worry about i don't think
there's any deck flex in the keyboard oh there's a little bit so compared to the 16 inch the trackpad size is a little
bit smaller but you'd expect that of something with a keyboard that is the same size as you
can see the escape key is physical wonderful
love it just like the 16 inch and
we also have that separated touch id sensor as well
which makes it a lot easier to fumble for in the dark if you're i don't know making purchases
late at night for reasons uh the touch bar is the same hitter
miss i guess a lot of people are kind of polarized on
i think it's okay one thing that is very interesting
between these two machines is that
on previous gen 13-inch macbook pros
we had two Thunderbolt ports on the side here tldr the new one has
four the 2020 refresh of the old version
still only has two that's a thing that's exclusive to the ice lake version of the
machine right now hopefully in the next year we
won't have any of those legacy machines anymore which will mean that
for everybody at every price point you'll have those four
Thunderbolt ports as an apple user it
is certainly something that feels a lot better to me
than recent iterations just like the 16
inch over here it doesn't offend me in the same way that
some of the other ones did with their soft escape key and butterfly switches
it's got quite a bit more power under the hood as far as that goes
it also comes standard with 16 gigs of RAM and a 512 Gigabyte SSD
these are things that cost money obviously and this is why this is the
more expensive model with that being said the RAM is actually
a lot faster than previous gen previous gen used 2133
megahertz ddr3 memory this is 37 33 megahertz ddr4
it is significantly faster than most people actually have on their desktops
right now while actually guzzling quite a bit less
power i'm really excited to take a look at this in more detail
if you guys want to see that as well
maybe see a bit of a head-to-head between this
and the 16-inch or perhaps i don't know
the xps 13. let's let's give it a challenge and put
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