2018 MacBook Pro Review! Worth Up To $6699? #Helpful Post

expectations it's now got ddr4 Ram up to

32 gigabytes new graphics cards from AMD

the new Radeon 5 55 and 560 X so huge

upgrades here let's go ahead and see you

know just how it is

is it worth updating to from a 2016 2017

era MacBook Pro I'll be running some

tests just really giving you a very

clear and concise a picture of

is the 2018 MacBook Pro worth an upgrade

over the 2017 let's go ahead and explore

that in this video guys everything you

need to know about this machine what's

up guys I just got back from my trip

sorry I'm a little late on this one but

the 2018 MacBook Pro is here and I just

got it in the fully loaded spec this is

with all butts max out storage so we've

got the 2.9 gigahertz ie9 processor

eighth generation and it is a new 6 core

processor on the 15 inch it's kind of

crazy I mean out of nowhere Apple went

and updated this thing beyond my

changed there's so much that's different

a lot that you may not even expect I

mean the speaker has been upgraded the

batteries have been made beef here and I

just want to talk about how that all

reflects into the actual usability and

first off I usually get a new MacBook

Pro every year and then either sell my

old one or just repurposes just like a

rendering machine and I think that's

what I'll be doing this year but I'm not

entirely convinced that you know I want

to stick with it it is a huge upgrade

but just how much is it over the 2017

and I know most people won't be

upgrading from last year's model because

it's so similar but if you have a much

older machine it probably will be worth

it

ok so here it is I got this one in the

Space Gray finish this one came out to

just under $4,000 with the one terabyte

of memory 3700 to 3800 I believe and

believe it or not there's actually a lot

that's different it weighs almost the

same as the 2017 model but there's a lot

that's changed on the inside and I fixed

it did an entire teardown and gave us an

idea of what's different and they

actually shaved some weight off in some

areas of the casing and then added

bigger batteries and that made up for it

and as you can see a boot supper right

away here so you know from just looking

at it's not much has changed and

I believe that goes for the back too so

there's that looks just like it feels

just like the old one but the biggest

change you're gonna notice right away

are the keys so the keys are somewhat

more subtle there's a new gasket

silicone gasket beneath the key itself

to keep dust outs you know the whole

issue with the keyboards Apple is having

that's no longer gonna happen with this

third-generation a butterfly keyboard

okay so listen to this I actually hear

how clickety clackety that one is this

one's a lot more subtle yeah feels a

little bit better a tactical response

just feels a little bit softer would you

like that while that's setting up just

wanted to mention that the actual power

adapter got an upgrade as well

internally I fix it tore down and they

found that there's a lot of extra

padding inside it's been reworked a

little bit so possibly more efficient

more safe against Falls and drops in the

such so that's even been updated I mean

there's a lot of changes I'm actually

curious to see if we'll get a different

reading here so exactly in the middle

let's see how loud this keyword gets

this is the 2017 I'm getting fifty five

point nine decibels and let's try again

on this one

yeah so 54.4 oh wow that one jumped 57.6

Wow quite a difference so getting

between four to five difference in

decibels between the two okay let's go

ahead and test the touch ID speeds this

has the new t2 chip which is more secure

but is it faster all right in three two

one

so about the same but let's try that

once more one two okay maybe a fraction

of a second faster but I really wouldn't

say it is considerably faster okay so

next up just wanted to check out true

tone this is the same feature as on the

iPhones and on the iPads where it

adjusts the color temperature of the

display depending on your ambience

alright so I'm gonna go ahead and

disable it and we're gonna see on the

same screen and what it looks like on

both of these so I'm not getting really

much of a difference maybe the screed is

getting a little bit warmer but out here

there's really not much so I'm gonna

have to change up the environment

alright and here's a better

representation of true tones so it's

working over here it's a little bit

icier of an image slightly more gray

here we can see the pink hues come out

so this is a better representation of

the room I'm in right now and it's such

a subtle nice thing to have but really

not important and I don't think it

should really be a factor in upgrading

to the 2018 macbook it's just one of

those things that are nice to have but I

wouldn't pay more money to get it the

next step I want to test the speakers so

on the 2018 model in the iFixit teardown

they found that they were actually

narrower but taller so it's a little

larger of a speaker module itself let's

see if that translates to the actual

decibel output or how it sounds so I'm

gonna start with twenty one pilots new

song on this one here

all right so that's what I'm getting

here ninety three point four decibels on

the 2017 model so just point three point

four higher than 2017 I'll tell you oh

it does sound a little bit better like

it's a little bit more booming not as

tinny sounding and by no means does the

2017 sound bad it's actually then one of

the best speakers I've ever heard on a

laptop so this one just improves it

seems to fine tune it just a little bit

but as you can see decibel wise it

really hasn't changed alright so let's

go ahead and start some benchmarks now

this is an entirely fair because I did

update this one to Mac OS Mohave it's on

beta 4 and I've been using it so I've

got a lot of personal data on it but

still I mean it'll show us the disparity

between a well used 2017 and a brand-new

2018 I still want to do this now I do

want to start with a start-up shutdown

test but before that I just want to

summarize what we got going on here this

is a six core 2.9 gigahertz processor

and this is the 8th generation processor

with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 ram the

biggest upgrade in like 70 years and

over here we've got three point one

gigahertz four core 16 gigabytes of ddr3

ram so considerably slower alright and

here we go in three two one and they

should be off so I'll start them at the

same time Apple logo appears here faster

and wow I was already up there so this

has considerably faster SSD the fastest

in any laptop nowadays which is quite

impressive this one does have a lot more

data on it though but oh wow very very

close this one actually started up first

I'm actually surprised by that but it

may be because of Mac OS Mohave that

optimized this start up or something

like that

so maybe this would be even faster once

I updated it alright next up is a geek

bench this one should be quite

interesting this should blow it away in

a multi-core score single core score I'm

curious to to see is it less because the

clock speed is actually lower let's go

ahead and run that so

Wow look at that difference the

multi-core score jumps to twenty three

thousand nine hundred thirteen single

five thousand five hundred seventy four

so a very considerable jump in between

the processors of course you have two

additional cores and even though the

clock speed is slightly lower you know

it still out does the 2017 with v4 core

I am beyond impressed so let's go ahead

and see how that reflects to in actual

video exports and final cut are it's a

very simple test from my last video I'm

taking all of the raw footage and I'm

basically just dropping it into a new

timeline so that's 23 minutes of 4k

footage I'm gonna do the same here

they're both running the latest final

cut 10 for da 3 so let's go ahead and

wait for to render all right file size

is exactly the same this is an h.264

format so okay save and start on both of

these alright so this one just finished

at 13 minutes and 4 seconds while this

one is still going with 17 more % to go

so I don't know yet for sure but already

I'm seeing a huge difference I think

it'll probably be between 3 to 5 minutes

actually so that is very considerable

okay and there's that one so not as big

of a difference as I thought 2 minutes

but still that is quite considerable

people pay a lot of money just to see a

2 minute faster rendering difference on

their professional machine so if you

guys are buying this thing for work yes

it is considerably faster if you're just

buying this for day-to-day maybe some

like video editing I really wouldn't

spend extra money just upgrade from a

2017 to save 2 minutes on what a 23

minute project doesn't really translate

to a very very big difference you know

if you're not using it all the time ok

and my computer is seriously glitching I

have no idea what's going on right here

it's like a really really slow motion

animation after the rendering what the

heck I've never had this before

anyways so next up I want to go ahead

and test that new SSD what is going on

are you serious

so all in all I'd say definitely a 20%

improvement in the write speed slightly

less on the read but very very fast

okay and of course can't forget the GPUs

so go ahead and test those with

Cinebench and we've got the AMD Radeon

560 over here the X version so not a

huge difference but 15 frames per second

higher in the OpenGL test on the 2018

version alright so after spending a few

hours with this machine my preliminary

results are pretty dang good it's very

optimized

it's what the 2017 should have been with

the ddr4 Ram 32 gigabytes kind of sucks

that Apple shafted us with that but

otherwise it's a fantastic machine and

should you upgrade from a 2017 no in my

opinion absolutely not I mean yeah you

do get that additional bit of

performance but you can put that money

into a custom-built machine or save your

money for the next one and later on you

know if you're coming from a 2017 2016

MacBook Pro I would say it is not worth

the upgrade me personally you know for

other people the value that that extra

20% in speed boost provides you know it

may be more than for me but honestly I

don't think I'll be keeping this machine

maybe I will still use it for a couple

days and see but it's great you know the

speakers sound a little bit crisper

apparently the battery is bigger as well

inside I fixed it in there tear down saw

that it is larger but it does not

provide more battery life and actually

through the duration of this test it

seems to be draining just as fast as the

2017 running all these tests and whatnot

yes the storage is faster but it's

nothing really that I can like

capitalise on without like 20%

improvement in speed otherwise it's a

fantastic machine if it's your first one

or upgrading from a really old MacBook

I'd say go for a hundred percent if

you're coming from a more recent one

like a 2017 not worth it in my opinion

all right guys so thanks for watching

there's my review of the 2018 macbook

pro a fantastic machine refined in every

single way seemingly by Apple and not

enough of an upgrade from the 2017 for

myself personally hope you guys enjoyed

it hope it was informative I tried to

test everything that was important to me

so hopefully you guys learned a thing or

two you may have not known about this

machine thanks for watching guys peace