Is the MacBook Pro the Future of Laptops? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and this is a

new 2016 15 inch MacBook Pro so I've

been using the previous model to edit

almost all of my videos for the last

year and I've been pretty happy with it

however this new MacBook is smaller and

basically always while these MacBook

look pretty similar at first glance

apples actually made some pretty big

updates to the pro some of the most

noticeable things right off the bat is

the keyboard so if you guys caught my

video on the third change version of

this laptop you'll know that I actually

like the keyboard a fair bit sure it's

fairly low travel however with that

butterfly mechanism it actually feels

pretty nice it's not even as good as

something like a mechanical keyboard but

it's actually really not bad for a

laptop one big thing on the new MacBook

is the trackpad it's seriously enormous

like it's basically the size of my whole

hand now my folks have had some of the

best try pads on any laptop and this is

no exception however one of my big

issues is the fact that because that

trackpad is so big it kind of gets in

the way sometimes so to be fair there is

pretty decent palm rejection so if you

kind of leave your hand a little bit

near it it will usually ignore it

however a lot of times I find myself

accidentally touching stuff on the

trackpad just because it's pretty much

the entire bottom of the laptop the

speakers are a welcome improvement so

while they're a little bit lacking in

bass the highs are surprisingly clear

and the volume is more than good enough

the screen is also nice so we're getting

that same size and resolution at 2880 by

1800

however it's now sporting the new Apple

p3 color gamut it gets much brighter and

honestly this is one of the better

laptop screens out there it could be a

little bit high resolution but there's

not a lot to complain about if you

hadn't guessed Apple kinda has the

fundamentals of the whole building a

laptop thing down by now however that's

not all it takes to build a good lap top

and that's where Apple is kind of taken

a step away from what they've been doing

in the past so the first and one of the

most noticeable things right off the bat

is the brand new touch bar so instead of

having a standard row of function keys

instead you have what's essentially a

very small OLED screen built into the

keyboard now this can be used for a lot

of things so for example if you hold the

function key you can bring up all your

standard function keys so you're not

really losing anything it's a cool

addition but it doesn't really

fundamentally change the way I use a

macbook however what does are the lack

of ports the new MacBook Pros have four

Thunderbolt three ports and a headphone

jack and that's it no USB a no HDMI no

card reader you pretty much get what you

get here this

this is a bit of a nightmare however if

you want to get a ton of pork so you

don't really replicate all the stuff

that you might be able to get without a

laptops this is not that crazy to set up

so of course with four Thunderbolt three

ports that are all based on USBC well

it's a great port you can do a lot of

adapters off of it you kind of have to

do a lot of adapters off of it to do

much of anything so say that you want to

connect your new MacBook to Ethernet

well if you want to do it the Apple way

you're going to pick up a Thunderbolt

three defendable to adapter and then a

thunderbolt to two gigabit ethernet

adapter that's running about $60 for the

pair want to say connect an optical

drive no big deal just get the USB c2a

adapter and of course a good old Apple

super drive another 90 bucks but oh no

that's not enough ports how dare you

only need an Ethernet and an optical

drive so we have a wide variety of

different dongles to choose from on the

other side of the macbook you want to

connect something like maybe an HDMI

monitor no big deal just get the multi

port adapter which is going to run you a

cool $50 now on sale not only can we

actually charge our macbook through the

adapter which is helpful since we're

using all the other ports for dongles

but this also gives us another USB port

which of course we're using for card

reader because you know the MacBook

doesn't have a card reader anymore but

one USB port who do you think we are non

USB port but of course one USB port is

nowhere near enough that's where this

adapter comes in so not only are we

going to get four USB 3.0 ports off the

adapter but all you need to do is just

plug it into the wall to give enough

power to supply to all of our devices as

well as pick up a USB see two USB

micro-b cable to actually connect via

data because this is complicated - oh no

this is clearly the most functional

package that you could possibly hope for

with your macbook pro or not okay

I'll be the first to admit this is more

than a little bit ridiculous however all

of these kind of taken by themselves are

actually not that crazy sure if you

didn't want to have to go the Apple

approach you can get a USB see two

Ethernet adapter for example some of the

t1 and t3 s you can swap the cable out

to be native USB C but the bottom line

is for a lot of the pro things that you

want to do and even some more the

standard things you're going to need a

lot of adapters with this new MacBook

however with the help of the new LG 5k

ultra fine monitor you can see our cable

situation is just a little bit cleaner

so an LG hit me up and wanted a

sponsored video with their new five

display a bigot this would be the

perfect opportunity to show it off now

there's actually a lot that is cool

about Thunderbolt 3 most notably this

entire setup is running off of a single

Thunderbolt 3 cable so with the single

cable the MacBook is able to drive the

5k display and the monitor is able to

send power back to the MacBook so I

don't need to plug it in and on top of

that we have three additional USB sea

ports on the back of the display mean we

can plug in all of our peripherals in a

much cleaner way there is a smaller 4k

ultra fine option out there however if

you have the 15-inch MacBook Pro you can

actually power two of these 5k displays

with the single laptop when you pair the

ultra fine with the new MacBooks you

actually get a lot of cool extra

features so not only can you control

things like brightness from inside the

settings here but you're also getting

that same p3 color gamut which is

exactly what you're going to get on a

15-inch MacBook and with that crispy

crispy 5k resolution you're getting some

seriously beautiful pixels believe me I

try I looked at every single one of the

pixels and they're all how 2 percent

beautiful you're also getting some

surprisingly decent built-in speakers

especially when you consider that

they're from a monitor and on top you're

getting a webcam it's a really solid

package I gotta say if you're getting

one of the new MacBook Pros you should

definitely look into the ultra fine

displays it should be no surprise that

the new MacBook Pros are expensive so

while it starts at 2400 dollars for the

15-inch model you can spec it up to over

$4,000 so the model I had here has the

2.9 Hertz core i7 16 gigabytes of memory

the Radeon pro 460 graphics and a one

terabyte SSD these are pretty suspects

for a laptop however there are a couple

of key things missing one of the biggest

is that there is only one option for RAM

on the MacBook and that is 16 gigabytes

so while that's not a huge deal for me a

lot of pro workloads can absolutely

benefit from 32 gigabytes of RAM the new

MacBooks are also rocking skylake

processors instead of the latest 7th

generation Intel KB Lake chips now this

isn't a huge deal for performance while

KB Lake is a small improvement it isn't

a massive difference over skylake

however what is a little bit of an odd

choice is that this actually has lower

end integrated graphics unlike the last

generation model which had Irish

graphics standard by default and an

option to go to dedicated graphics the

new iPad pros have the less powerful HD

graphics 5:30 on the integrated side

however it makes up for that with

dedicated graphics across the board

compared to both the base model as well

as the upgraded dedicated model of last

year

you'll see

the Radeon Pro 460 graphics in the new

MacBook are a big step forward however

if you look at the geek pinch for scores

you'll see that while on the single

thread side the new MacBooks are

slightly faster I'm a multi threaded

they're actually a little bit slower in

the real world you really shouldn't

notice any difference on the processor

side where those improved dedicated

graphics should make a pretty big

difference battery life on the 58 book

has never really been the strong suit

it's about the same on the 2016 model so

with fairly light use you're getting

anywhere between 5 and 6 hours however

if you're doing something heavier like

video editing then you should expect

more like 2 or 3 so is this the future

of laptops kind of ah I don't know on

one hand the hardware is nice there's a

lot of core things that make the MacBook

a very nice laptop to use however the

biggest hang-up for me are the ports

sure 2 3 4 years from now I think will

be pretty much entirely switched over to

us BC and Thunderbolt 3 however in the

meantime hashtag dongle like 2016 so

what do you guys think about the new

MacBook Pros let me know in the comments

below and if you missed it you can check

out my isn't worth that episode on the

13 inch version of the new MacBook

anyway guys thank you so much for

watching and I will catch you in the

next one