Mac Book Pro 13 inch

 So earlier this week Apple announced this thing right here, this is the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. It's not 14 inches likewe were maybe hoping but it does have the new Magic Keyboard, which is very good news 'causeyou can actually type on it. There are two models ofthis thing, basically, there is the lower-end modelwith two Thunderbolt ports and then there is the higher-end model that has four Thunderbolt ports and it also has the 10th Gen processors, which are the newer processors. And the main difference there that you probably want to pay attention to is graphics performance, but there's a bunch ofother stuff to look at with this thing and so we'reobviously gonna do that. I haven't done an unboxingin a while, it's kind of fun.


 It's all the standard stuff,a cable, some materials, some stickers in there,a charger, this lovely, not bad. So here it is, (pulsing music) and the main things to notice are that it looks exactly like the last MacBook. The differences here, of course, are there is a real Escape key, a real inverted-T arrow key set and the Magic Keyboard. Physically, we're lookingat the same stuff, there's the same three-microphone array, there's the same gigantic Magic Trackpad. It is the exact same13-point inch, 13-point inch? It's the exact same--- Choose the main language. - Hey.- Press the Return key. - How's it going? (funky music) Okay, so the computer's finally set up, let's actually talk about this machine. Actually, machines, like I was saying, there's two models of the2020 MacBook Pro 13-inch. The base model has twoThunderbolt ports instead of four and it also has Intel's8th generation processor, not the newest one.

This model is the step up, it costs 1,799, it has Intel's 10th Gen Core i5 processor, it also has faster RAM,it's 3,733 megahertz, and it has 16 gigs of thatRAM plus 512 of storage. You can upgrade this up to 32 gigs of RAM and a full four terabytesof storage if you want to, which is a lot for a 13-inch machine. Now, looking at this machine, it looks precisely likea 13-inch MacBook Pro, like what it's looked like for years, and I was mentioning that Iwas hoping from the rumors for a 14-inch screen butthat's not what we got here. Now, on the 16-inchversion of the MacBook Pro they did manage to reduce the bezels and make the screen look bigger. They also managed togive it better speakers and studio microphones.


These speakers and thethree-micro array here are exactly the same but they're very good so I'm really not complaining about it. (upbeat music) But you know, the bezels are the same, they're small but fine. This screen gets up to 500 nits, it has a wide P3 color gamut, and it has the same 720p webcam, there it is. So I know I've been saying that this is the exact same MacBookPro that we've seen for the past two, three,four years or whatever but it actually is just atiny, tiny bit different. So I'm gonna grab my 201713-inch MacBook Pro here and looking at it from the camera, they seem completely identical, right? But there is a little bit of a difference, so I can see, right here, Ican run my fingernail along and notice that the 2020 version is just a little bit thicker, I think it's 0.61 inches versus 0.59. It's also just a little bit heavier, it's 3.1 pounds instead of like 3.02. And the reason for thatextra thickness is, what you've been waitingfor, the new Magic Keyboard instead of the old butterfly keyboard and, I gotta tell you, it's great.


 Not only do we have that Escape key and the inverted Ts that I mentioned, it also just feels better,of course it's more reliable, and it also sounds better. So this is the 2017 version. It sounds terrible, it feels terrible, my End key doesn't work, ha. And here is the 2020 version. It sounds good, it feels good, I trust that it's not going to break because it's a classic scissor switch, just a huge upgrade all around. Now, Apple says that theydid more than just take their old, old keyboards andslap it into this computer, they say that they've done work to make the entire key cap more stable so that when you push on a corner it pushes down flatly and evenly instead of having a little wobble to it.

 I guess I can feel that, and the key travel isn't quite as large as you might be used to fromthe very old classic MacBooks but it's still good and it's way better than the butterfly keyboard. I'm very, very happythat after five years, Apple finally gave upon butterfly keyboards and gave us the scissorswitches that we know and love. Now if all Apple had done was gotten rid of the butterfly keyboard and given us the Magic Keyboard I probably wouldn't complain, but they also gave us thisnew processor to test out. It is, again, the 10th generationof Intel's Core series, this is the Core i5, and that's important 'cause it's a little bit faster and it also might have better longevity 'cause it'll just last longer. And also it doesn't haveWiFi 6 for some reason, I don't know what the deal is there, WiFi performance here is fine.


 But the bottom line isthe biggest deal is that it has better graphics associated with it, it has Intel's Iris Plus graphics and that could be areally big deal for you, depending on your workflow. See, one thing we know about Macs is that some software takeshuge advantage of the GPU, stuff like Apple's Final Cut, and other software, not so much, which is, you know, AdobePremiere Pro which is what we use. So we have a video thatwe've actually published, it's the Duo hands-on, it's five and a halfminutes, it's 4K, H.264, and normally we do thisexport off an external SSD but I can't access it becauseI'm in home isolation, so this is off the internal SSD, so it's not a perfectlyscientific apples to apples test but I do think it's useful. And this 2020 MacBook Pro, the 13-inch, got it done in 11:26 soactually pretty fast, pretty impressive, andpretty good thermals on it. Apple says they didn'tsignificantly change the thermals on it andwe know that, in general, MacBook thermals can't quite cool quite as well as Windows machines, but I am more impressedthan I expected here.

Now a question I've gotten a lot is should you get the MacBookAir or the MacBook Pro? It's actually more complicated than that, should you get the MacBookAir, or the base MacBook Pro or this 10th generationIntel processor MacBook Pro and here's kind of where I land on it. If you just want thin andlight, you just want a Mac, you're not worried about power, you would be very happy with the Air, it is a very good default MacBook. If you want a little bit more power but you're not worried aboutgraphics processing power, you could probably be okaywith the base MacBook Pro. If you think you need that GPU though or you just want the best thing, get the 13-inch MacBook Pro, so far I'm really impressed with it.

 You're gonna want to see other benchmarks beyond just our one little Premiere export to see if it can actuallyhandle the software that you use but my hunch is that it'sgonna be pretty good. Look, the bottom line here is that the era of the butterfly keyboard in Apple's laptop lineup is finally dead. In the space of sixmonths they have refreshed all of their laptops tothis new Magic Keyboard. I wish it hadn't taken five years to do it but I am so glad that they finally have. Oh, the closet's open. Alix, it wasn't recording that whole time. Life is pain. 

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