apple we need to talk
like actually talk you know for real you don't return my calls you don't
acknowledge me in public i mean i had so many good things to say about
the 16-inch macbook pro i i just don't understand what you want
from me do you want me to pick up your new 13-inch macbook pro and talk about that
too is that what you want cause
i'll do it but you uh
might not want to hear what i have to say you know what you will want to hear
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all kidding aside apple's 16-inch macbook pro was a breath of fresh air it
brought smaller bezels rocking sound beefed up cooling and a vastly superior
well not strictly speaking new keyboard that blew the butterfly switches of
older macbook pros out of the water that's why the 13-inch is such a weird
device for me to look at a lot of what i thought was new
well isn't the chassis hasn't been significantly redesigned since 2016 with
the refreshed touch bar equipped 2019 coffee lake model sporting the same
design for this year's low end models kind of flew under our radar because we
frankly had enough apple on our hands at the time so we're looking at a pretty similar user
experience overall to those refreshed models
shockingly good speakers that don't quite measure up to the 16-inch but
definitely hold their own against most other laptops out there an awesome p3
enabled 2560 by 1600 16x10 screen an
improved triple microphone array essential for modern teleconferencing
and four Thunderbolt 3 ports like previous gen high-end 13-inch and all
15-inch models although it would be nice to see apple give more love to usb
type-c enthusiasts on the lower end too ltdstore.com on the surface then that
places the new 13-inch macbook pro in a difficult position where the refreshed
macbook air is significantly less expensive while providing a very similar
set of features the air does have a slightly less
impressive srgb screen of the same size and resolution though it has two fewer
Thunderbolt 3 ports the same number as the refreshed low end pro models with
coffee lake cpus and both of them are rocking the new magic keyboard
just without the polarizing touch bar on the macbook air
speaking of the touch bar apple has completely killed off the touch bar free
macbook pro so the only apple laptop that you can buy brand new today without
the touch bar is the macbook air to the pros credit its dimensions and even
weight aren't significantly different from the macbook air whose wedge-shaped
design actually peaks at a greater thickness than the pro does
what sets the new 13-inch macbook pro apart then is primarily its CPU both the
pro and the air use Intel's 10 nanometer ice lake cpus but the pro gains access
to the core i7 1068 ng7 the fastest of
the bunch coupled with 16 gigs of RAM and a 512 gig SSD as standard though we
equipped ours with a terabyte to make room for our Windows and macOS test
suites speaking of which we'll grab our 16-inch
macbook pro the 2020 macbook air and the
new dell xps 13 to help us understand
who this rather expensive machine is actually for and make sure you're
subscribed because we're also midway through testing out whether the ipad pro
really can be used as a real laptop now gaming is obviously not the macbook pros
forte as demonstrated by the relatively poor aaa gaming experience that you're
looking at right now but it does hold its own in esports titles like cs go and
actually manage to outpace the dell xps
13 despite that computer supposedly identical GPU configuration and faster
core clocks not too shabby
moving on to the actual reason people buy max though to get work done things
get a little interesting quad-core versus quad-core with the same
memory and architecture the macbook air falls well short of the macbook pro
particularly in multi-threaded tasks the xps 13 meanwhile hangs close trading
blows here and there thanks to its higher core clocks but apple's more
aggressively tweaked power profile in macOS helps it in certain workloads
like our firefox compile where it beat the xps by about five minutes
and beat the air by nearly an hour
we had to re-run some of our tests like the adobe suite test to confirm these
numbers but the macbook pro 13 dominates
even the 16-inch macbook pro in photoshop presumably as a result of its
faster memory and larger cache while the
air ends up languishing at half the score
it's worth noting that both the macbook air and pro crashed during our after
effects test something that we didn't see on the 16-inch nor on the xps which
might point to a bug in macOS when you're using an ice lake CPU
speaking of macOS let's see how apple's aggressive boost settings affect things
shall we over the course of a long blender render
we're seeing core clocks spike to 4.1 gigahertz and remain steady in the 3.2
gigahertz range throughout the run that is well ahead of the macbook air and
even the supposedly faster xps 13. power
consumption is naturally quite a bit higher as a result clocking in around 44
watts peak and settling in the 32 watts range so around a watt per megahertz
nice finally though temperature
it's just one word just describe it ouch
like it's not as much straight up fire as the macbook air is but the pro 13
2020 is firmly past 95 degrees sustained
with 100 degree peaks while the xps 13
sits and i really hate to use this word
this way but at a relatively cool 90
degrees we've said this before but it bears repeating
in my opinion 100 degree load temperatures basically invalidate a pro
machine for these kinds of professional workloads
optimization at any cost is the name of the game here folks and it's clear that
apple has pulled out all the stops to push this CPU to its limit
that means though that along with new isolate goodies like deep learning boost
avx 512 and an expanded cache layout
yeah this thing is fast especially per
thread but it leaves us with the same concerns that we had when they first
launched the touch bar macbook pro is the slightly slimmer profile really
worth the trade-off in lifespan because remember guys
these numbers are on a brand new machine a professional machine not one that's
been running for a year or two sucking in dust
it's not all bad to be clear thanks in part to its ridiculously speedy 37 33
megahertz lp ddr4x memory this thing
dominates burst year memory heavy tasks
and not only do you get a significant performance improvement it also runs at
significantly lower voltages something that has allowed apple to slightly
reduce the total battery capacity using
more power hungry CPU and still advertise the same battery life as
before which actually turns out in the real world to
be roughly on point with an overnight 1080p youtube video lasting for about
nine hours at half brightness placing it just slightly behind the macbook air
with the dell xps 13 far outpacing it at over 14 hours that's actually now that
we think about it half again as long as the pro lasted and with a smaller
battery to boot i guess that's what aggressive CPU power tuning gets you
another point in the xps 13's favor is the price for our similarly spec machine
you're looking at around 150 of apple tax over the dell which includes Windows
hello and in its non-touch configuration also manages to be lighter than the
macbook air making it a more mobile friendly machine
apple does get some points however for having double the Thunderbolt 3 ports
along with better performance even if it comes at a thermal cost and awesome
speakers the feeling i can't shake here though is that apple's kind of carving
out a niche within a niche with this one it seems like it would be a great
photoshop machine or maybe audio mixer for djs but for any
pro work that demands full loads of more than a minute or so at a time
the truth of the matter is i'm sorry apple but i just can't recommend it
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