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apple we need to talk

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like actually talk you know for real you don't return my calls you don't

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acknowledge me in public i mean i had so many good things to say about

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the 16-inch macbook pro i i just don't understand what you want

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from me do you want me to pick up your new 13-inch macbook pro and talk about that

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too is that what you want cause

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i'll do it but you uh

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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

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brought smaller bezels rocking sound beefed up cooling and a vastly superior

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well not strictly speaking new keyboard that blew the butterfly switches of

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older macbook pros out of the water that's why the 13-inch is such a weird

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device for me to look at a lot of what i thought was new

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well isn't the chassis hasn't been significantly redesigned since 2016 with

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the refreshed touch bar equipped 2019 coffee lake model sporting the same

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design for this year's low end models kind of flew under our radar because we

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frankly had enough apple on our hands at the time so we're looking at a pretty similar user

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experience overall to those refreshed models

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shockingly good speakers that don't quite measure up to the 16-inch but

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definitely hold their own against most other laptops out there an awesome p3

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enabled 2560 by 1600 16x10 screen an

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improved triple microphone array essential for modern teleconferencing

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and four Thunderbolt 3 ports like previous gen high-end 13-inch and all

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15-inch models although it would be nice to see apple give more love to usb

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type-c enthusiasts on the lower end too ltdstore.com on the surface then that

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places the new 13-inch macbook pro in a difficult position where the refreshed

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macbook air is significantly less expensive while providing a very similar

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set of features the air does have a slightly less

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impressive srgb screen of the same size and resolution though it has two fewer

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Thunderbolt 3 ports the same number as the refreshed low end pro models with

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coffee lake cpus and both of them are rocking the new magic keyboard

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just without the polarizing touch bar on the macbook air

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speaking of the touch bar apple has completely killed off the touch bar free

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macbook pro so the only apple laptop that you can buy brand new today without

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the touch bar is the macbook air to the pros credit its dimensions and even

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weight aren't significantly different from the macbook air whose wedge-shaped

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design actually peaks at a greater thickness than the pro does

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what sets the new 13-inch macbook pro apart then is primarily its CPU both the

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pro and the air use Intel's 10 nanometer ice lake cpus but the pro gains access

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to the core i7 1068 ng7 the fastest of

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the bunch coupled with 16 gigs of RAM and a 512 gig SSD as standard though we

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equipped ours with a terabyte to make room for our Windows and macOS test

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suites speaking of which we'll grab our 16-inch

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macbook pro the 2020 macbook air and the

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new dell xps 13 to help us understand

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who this rather expensive machine is actually for and make sure you're

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subscribed because we're also midway through testing out whether the ipad pro

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really can be used as a real laptop now gaming is obviously not the macbook pros

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forte as demonstrated by the relatively poor aaa gaming experience that you're

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looking at right now but it does hold its own in esports titles like cs go and

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actually manage to outpace the dell xps

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13 despite that computer supposedly identical GPU configuration and faster

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core clocks not too shabby

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moving on to the actual reason people buy max though to get work done things

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get a little interesting quad-core versus quad-core with the same

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memory and architecture the macbook air falls well short of the macbook pro

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particularly in multi-threaded tasks the xps 13 meanwhile hangs close trading

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blows here and there thanks to its higher core clocks but apple's more

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aggressively tweaked power profile in macOS helps it in certain workloads

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like our firefox compile where it beat the xps by about five minutes

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and beat the air by nearly an hour

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we had to re-run some of our tests like the adobe suite test to confirm these

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numbers but the macbook pro 13 dominates

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even the 16-inch macbook pro in photoshop presumably as a result of its

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faster memory and larger cache while the

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air ends up languishing at half the score

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it's worth noting that both the macbook air and pro crashed during our after

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effects test something that we didn't see on the 16-inch nor on the xps which

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might point to a bug in macOS when you're using an ice lake CPU

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speaking of macOS let's see how apple's aggressive boost settings affect things

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shall we over the course of a long blender render

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we're seeing core clocks spike to 4.1 gigahertz and remain steady in the 3.2

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gigahertz range throughout the run that is well ahead of the macbook air and

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even the supposedly faster xps 13. power

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consumption is naturally quite a bit higher as a result clocking in around 44

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watts peak and settling in the 32 watts range so around a watt per megahertz

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nice finally though temperature

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it's just one word just describe it ouch

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like it's not as much straight up fire as the macbook air is but the pro 13

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2020 is firmly past 95 degrees sustained

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with 100 degree peaks while the xps 13

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sits and i really hate to use this word

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this way but at a relatively cool 90

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degrees we've said this before but it bears repeating

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in my opinion 100 degree load temperatures basically invalidate a pro

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machine for these kinds of professional workloads

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optimization at any cost is the name of the game here folks and it's clear that

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apple has pulled out all the stops to push this CPU to its limit

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that means though that along with new isolate goodies like deep learning boost

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avx 512 and an expanded cache layout

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yeah this thing is fast especially per

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thread but it leaves us with the same concerns that we had when they first

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launched the touch bar macbook pro is the slightly slimmer profile really

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worth the trade-off in lifespan because remember guys

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these numbers are on a brand new machine a professional machine not one that's

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been running for a year or two sucking in dust

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it's not all bad to be clear thanks in part to its ridiculously speedy 37 33

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megahertz lp ddr4x memory this thing

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dominates burst year memory heavy tasks

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and not only do you get a significant performance improvement it also runs at

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significantly lower voltages something that has allowed apple to slightly

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reduce the total battery capacity using

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more power hungry CPU and still advertise the same battery life as

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before which actually turns out in the real world to

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be roughly on point with an overnight 1080p youtube video lasting for about

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nine hours at half brightness placing it just slightly behind the macbook air

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with the dell xps 13 far outpacing it at over 14 hours that's actually now that

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we think about it half again as long as the pro lasted and with a smaller

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battery to boot i guess that's what aggressive CPU power tuning gets you

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another point in the xps 13's favor is the price for our similarly spec machine

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you're looking at around 150 of apple tax over the dell which includes Windows

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hello and in its non-touch configuration also manages to be lighter than the

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macbook air making it a more mobile friendly machine

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apple does get some points however for having double the Thunderbolt 3 ports

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along with better performance even if it comes at a thermal cost and awesome

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speakers the feeling i can't shake here though is that apple's kind of carving

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out a niche within a niche with this one it seems like it would be a great

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photoshop machine or maybe audio mixer for djs but for any

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pro work that demands full loads of more than a minute or so at a time

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