15" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar Drama! #Helpful Post

the new 15-inch MacBook Pro is slower

they took away the port the touch bar is

useless in classic Apple fashion it

wouldn't be a release of theirs without

a little bit of drama yo guys Jonathan

here finally got my hands on the 2016 15

inch MacBook Pro with touch bar and

before we get into the good the bad and

potentially ugly let's enjoy the

unboxing so take a look at the box on

the outside we'll get a little sneak

peek of that touch bar action next I'm

going to crack it open so we can get a

taste of that super satisfying plastic

and once we're inside we get the MacBook

Pro itself in the super attractive Space

Gray finish a USBC cable and USB C power

brick and finally you guys a literature

and Apple stickers now this MacBook Pro

is the mid-tier model which rocks a 2.7

gigahertz i7 CPU 16 gigs of ram a 512

gigabyte SSD AMD Radeon pro 455 graphics

and with this MacBook Pro there's a

total of four Thunderbolt three ports

two on one side and two on the other

with a headphone jack so one of the

things I was most curious about with

this machine was the SSD the 13-inch

MacBook Pro was incredibly fast and that

left me wanting to know exactly how much

faster this was for starters in black

magic disk speed test just like the

13-inch MacBook Pro this tapped out of

2000 megabytes per second on the read

side of things diving a little deeper

and using the aja system test I actually

got speeds over 2,000 megabytes per

second on the right side and over 2,600

megabytes per second on the read side

for contrast last year's mid-tier

15-inch MacBook Pro that clocked in

around 1400 megabytes per second on the

right side and just over 1,800 on the

read so yeah that is a ton of

information and numbers being hurled at

your face but what does that actually

mean what I did was duplicate a 43

gigabyte file on both machines so

essentially we're doing is rewriting

that file on to your computer which

really shows off the right speeds on the

2016 MacBook Pro that took 46 seconds to

complete or as last year's MacBook Pro

took a minute and 16 seconds so you're

looking around a 30 second difference

between the two which may not seem like

that much but if you multiply that over

time or bigger files it's actually a

pretty substantial difference now next

it's time to get into a little bit of

that

on whether or not this year's MacBook

Pro is actually slower than last year's

if you didn't catch it there was a lot

of confusion and weirdness with

Geekbench for showing this year's

MacBook Pro coming up way short against

last year's model there were some out

there way in left field that

mathematically just didn't make sense

but it kind of led me to believe that it

was more on the Geekbench side of things

where the application really wasn't

updated for these new MacBook Pros for

reference the 2015 MacBook Pro that I

used for testing was the same tear that

rocked a 2.5 gigahertz i7 CPU 16 gigs of

ram a 512 gigabyte SSD and AMD r9 and

370 X graphics so if he quench for the

2016 MacBook Pro on the single course

I'd scored 4,000 275 and as far as

multi-core 13,000 331 now as far as the

2015 MacBook Pro on a single core side

we're looking at 41 45 and then

multi-core 13 563 now this is a perfect

example of why I'm not a huge fan of

synthetic benchmarks because on paper if

we look at this as far as single core

scores the new MacBook Pro is slightly

faster not by much but on the multi-core

side it is actually slightly slower

which may lead one to believe that

you're getting less performance without

a doubt you are getting much better

graphics performance in Tomb Raider I

was getting about 10 frames per second

more on the new MacBook Pro compared to

last year's but where it got really

interesting for me was seen overall how

much faster the new MacBook Pro was

compared to last year's in handbrake

taking a five minute 4k pro res file and

transcoding it to h.264 2016 MacBook Pro

took five minutes and 11 seconds whereas

the 2015 MacBook Pro took 6 minutes and

10 seconds definitely faster not by a

huge margin but where I was really

surprised was testing out Adobe Premiere

taking 2 minutes of red 5k raw footage

and then exporting that into a 4k h.264

file the 2016 MacBook Pro took 9 minutes

and 3 seconds where the 2015 MacBook Pro

took 16 minutes in 57 seconds so that is

a pretty massive difference between the

two almost to the point where I didn't

think it was that much faster around it

has multiple times

triple-check the sequence the export

settings made sure both were using

OpenCL and time and time again the new

MacBook Pro was much faster so next with

Final Cut Pro 10 I wanted to test it out

where it wasn't necessarily taking

advantage of the optimization or the

quick sink so what did you was take a

five minute 5k red raw file turned off

background rendering and then exported

it or essentially transcoded out to pro

res the 2016 MacBook Pro did the job in

19 minutes in two seconds whereas a 2015

MacBook Pro did that in 25 minutes and

51 seconds so between this and

especially they'll be from Mary you are

getting some pretty serious performance

gains snow with performance out of the

way it is now time to address the big

fat elephant in the room the touch bar

is it a gimmick is it useful I will

leave with saying that it is useful it's

not a gimmick but it's not a reason to

go out and sell your old MacBook Pro to

immediately buy this what it is is a no

less trip that takes place of the

traditional physical function keys so

you can see if you expand it you are

getting all the buttons that were

previously there now the most important

thing to consider with a touch bar is to

remember that it is really early in the

game there are very few apps that really

take advantage of this right now but as

time goes on it will expand being able

to slide the brightness up or down it's

kind of cool and same thing applies to

the volume having a dedicated Siri

button is also nice so here I am looking

for youtube.com / TLD and it works

instantly but what I found really cool

is touch bar was when I got into Safari

so if we go into YouTube the game

changer for me was scrubbing through

YouTube videos with a touch bar and I

know there's probably a ton of you out

there who are gonna hate on that saying

what's the big deal but really it's just

one of those things that is kind of cool

and fun to use jump it into a mini rant

I kind of feel like we're at this point

technology where everyone is jaded and

doesn't really appreciate things anymore

earlier today mkbhd put out this tweet

phone reviews in 2040 bezel it's a KO

lid 25,000 milliamp hour battery

literally an i7 Xeon processor full

frame F 1.2 camera not water-resistant 3

out of 10 and honestly that doesn't

sound far off instead of looking at

things for what they are you are not

worse off with a touch bar than you were

with the old function keys you are

getting more so why not roll with the

change instead of fighting everything

that comes out now I guarantee there's

gonna be the same reaction with emojis

on the touch bar someone out there's

gonna be like lame only losers use

emojis but the thing is

use them most of you out there used and

I'm not gonna lie and be fake and act

like I don't because I do jump it back

on topic where I also found a touch bar

to be useful was using tabs in Safari so

you can easily pop up a new tab and what

I really like is visually being able to

see all your tabs laid out and hopping

back and forth between either of the

options now beyond that Final Cut Pro 10

is a program that I use constantly it's

what I'm using it out of this video

right now it honestly going into this I

was a little bit apprehensive and

skeptical on whether or not this would

actually be useful for video editing

just like I feel with touch bar overall

with Final Cut 10 not everything makes

sense to use over a keyboard shortcut so

here instead of blading or cutting and

then deleting I am taking care of a to

move operation in one tap what I found

the absolute most useful is Final Cut

Pro 10 of the touch bar was when playing

back a project fullscreen with touch bar

you can literally see your entire

timeline which is super useful because

it's not just scrubbing between random

times you can see information and cuts

and layers and that is a really cool

thing so yeah again the touch bar it's

not revolutionary it's not gonna change

your life I'm not gonna tell you to go

run on eBay and sell your 2015 MacBook

Pro but maybe it's been a couple years

maybe you're due for an upgrade maybe

you've never bought a MacBook Pro it is

not gonna make your life any worse and

it's actually pretty cool the same thing

applies for touch ID it is not a

revolutionary feature but it is really

nice being able to log into your Mac

with your fingerprint this will trickle

over their purchases and the passwords

just in case you were wondering the

touch ID button also double function is

the power button just in case you need

to physically shut your machine down now

with that there is definitely some

not-so-good with these new MacBook Pros

the most obvious being dongle life

regardless of where the future is going

or where things will be at a couple

years right now you are gonna need some

adapters for me not having an SD card

slot on this MacBook Pro is something

that I feel because I use one all the

time so because of that things can get a

little messy and crazy pretty quick but

as time goes on and more and more USBC

devices come out it will get better but

as of now it's something that you cannot

avoid now better life for me hasn't been

amazing but on the flip side of that

I've really only done heavy and

intensive applications and testing so

look out for an update on how it fares

over time and more day-to-day situations

touching back upon some good the

speakers are way better on a 2016

MacBook Pro

kind of last year's

now I totally understand that is really

hard to portray through speakers or

through headphones but I assure you the

new MacBook Pro speakers are really good

the other huge improvement with this

MacBook Pro is the display which is much

brighter and the colors are awesome I've

talked about it a million times before

but when I would use a MacBook Pro the

screen would never get bright enough but

with this one I am super happy

so overall the new MacBook Pro is

thinner it's lighter it is faster it

comes in Space Gray if you do want one

except that you're losing supports and

you're gonna get ready to dongle the

touch bar is useful but on a game

changer the bigger trackpad is awesome

and the one thing I want to reiterate

and emphasize is that while this is a

great machine it's not something that

you need to go out and buy immediately

it's almost like it's look at this as

the version 1.0 of the new MacBook Pros

early adopters are always gonna run into

problems so if any of these things turn

you off don't buy one but if you did

pick one of you are definitely gonna

enjoy it aside from that thank you guys

very much for watching if you missed it

there's still a 13-inch MacBook Pro

giveaway going on but if you guys think

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this is Jonathan and I will catch you

guys later