New 13-inch MacBook Pro Review! (2015) #Helpful Post

Apple's new 2015 13 inch MacBook Pros

faster has beefed up graphics and a

completely redesigned trackpad

so let's check out if it's worth picking

up so what's up guys Jonathan here with

TLD and this is my review of Apple's

2015 13 inch MacBook Pro now I'll get

you look at comparisons versus last

year's model this year's i5 versus i7

and that includes video editing gaming

speed tests and more but let's start

with something that is completely new

for 2015 and that is the force touch

trackpad it's a trip but with this

trackpad you aren't actually clicking

anything below the trackpad is a taptic

engine which creates a have to click

back at you which makes it feel like

you're clicking to really understand

what I'm saying if you own one or can

check one out in store shut the MacBook

Pro down and then try clicking since

it's software controlled you can adjust

it from light to medium to firm

depending on your preference and that

was always a tap to click kind of guy

but now really enjoy clicking on this

new trackpad it's strange yet satisfying

it takes a little getting used to at

first but once you do you can really

tell the difference compared to last

year's model again since its hardware

and software control you get even

consistent clicks at any point on the

trackpad conversely on a non force touch

trackpad the money clicks happen right

in the middle and then closest towards

you you move all the way towards the top

of that trackpad and the click game

suddenly isn't so hot on top of that you

can then push down to engage a force

touch the sensors gauge how much

pressure is being applied and then from

there gain more control over your Mac if

you force click a file on your desktop

you can then quickly preview it in

QuickTime when you're playing a video

the deeper you press the faster at fast

forwards or the faster it rewinds and

lastly if you're reading text you can

force click that text to get more info

on it now design wise aside from the

trackpad this year's model looks exactly

like last year's and it isn't

sacrificing anything like the new 12

inch macbook it's equipped with a mac

save - connection twin Thunderbolt 2

ports USB 3 a headphone jack and dual

mics on one side and on the other an

SDXC card reader HDMI and the second USB

3.0 port the display is also the same

but it's beautiful it sizes in at

thirteen point three inches and rocks a

resolution of 2560 by 1600 before that

guy out there shouts through his

keyboard there's no point of anything

past 1080p on a notebook display worst

laptop ever

yourself Timmy this is how it works by

default with the 2560 by 1600 resolution

you're getting a screen real estate that

looks like 1280 by 800 but since there's

twice the pixels vertically and

horizontally

you're really getting four pixels for

each pixel of real estate which results

in a super sharp and oh so crispy image

but sweet though is that an apps that

support Retina scaling it won't scale

things like video so in Final Cut Pro 10

for example I can have a full 1080p

window plane at a one-to-one pixel ratio

and the text and UI elements come in at

4 to 1 you can also adjust its

system-wide if you need more screen real

estate so it looks like 1440 by 900 or

up to 1680 by 1050 which is usually what

I have mine set to so obviously it's

newer MacBook it's gonna be faster but

how much faster for testing I busted

through three versions last year's 2.6

gigahertz

I 5 this year's 2.7 gigahertz i-5 and

also this year's 3.1 gigahertz core i7

model in Geekbench 3 they were pretty

evenly stacked up and there really

wasn't a huge difference across the

three multi-core there was a little bit

bigger of a difference but again nothing

crazy especially even comparing this

year's i-5 all the way up to the i7 next

up is black magic disk speed test and

this is going to test how fast the flash

storage inside the macbook pro is the

2014 model was just about 500 megabytes

per second on the right side and just

around 675 megabytes per second on the

read speed and keep in mind this is the

128 gigabyte model the 2015 i5 model

which has 256 gigs of flash storage was

much faster nearly 1,200 megabytes per

second on the right side and almost

1,300 megabytes per second on the read

side do note though if you're testing

this out and you see slower speeds more

than likely because you have the smaller

128 gigabyte model that is perfectly

normal and nothing to freak out about

lastly this year's i7 model which is

packing 512 gigs of flash storage that

was fourteen hundred megabytes per

second on the right side and 1350 on the

read so really really fast so numbers

and benchmarks are cool but what does it

actually mean I thought it'd be cool to

give you guys a behind-the-scenes look

at shooting a video and then editing it

on the MacBook Pro and I got to hang out

with Kevin

aka fit man cook who was absolutely

killing it on Instagram so we shot an

entire video for his channel

and if you're drooling over that food

I'll have a link to his video down below

but what I did from there was take it to

my macbook pro lay the chopped down and

then from there copied this project to

the two other MacBook Pros so I can see

how fast each of them exported this

video and the final cut ended up being

around 3 minutes 1080p imported from my

fs7 the 2014 i-5 MacBook Pro dishes out

in 1 minute 10 seconds the 2015 i-5

MacBook Pro did the same thing in a

minute and five seconds and finally the

3.1 gigahertz i7 MacBook Pro did the

exact same thing in one minute flat now

I also created my own TLD Final Cut Pro

10 benchmark which you can download and

try it out for yourself this involves a

little more rendering and text elements

in the 2014 MacBook Pro the i-5 did this

in one minute 29 seconds the 2015 i-5

MacBook Pro is only a couple seconds

faster and where we saw the biggest

difference was only 3.1 gigahertz i7

2015 MacBook Pro real quickly the

Photoshop tests around the 2014 and the

2015 i-5 were pretty much identical and

again we saw a bigger difference with

the i7 2015 model now as far as a real

quick gaming test just to see how much

better the integrated graphics on this

year's model are compared to last year's

I went ahead and ran Tomb Raider last

year's MacBook Pro was just under 12

average frames per second while this

year's jumped up to just under 17 so

definitely a little bump there and as

far as this year's i-5 versus i7 in

terms of gaming for this tester really

wasn't a big difference not even a full

frame per second lastly in Cinebench r15

you can see these benchmarks line up

pretty much identically to every other

benchmark I've run so far the 2015

MacBook Pro whether it's the i5 or i7

has a pretty nice bump in the graphics

department and a decent but not great

bump in the CPU department aside from

that regarding battery life Apple is

going to claim you're going to get 10

hours out of this machine which may be

true you might push 10 but realistically

eight to nine if you're doing light

things like web browsing but if you're

really going heavy and using Final Cut

Pro 10 Adobe Premiere After Effects

Photoshop you can probably realistically

expect to get somewhere in the 5 to 6

hour range I didn't really notice too

much of a battery dip on the i7 versus

the i-5 but what I did notice is that

the fans on the i7 kicked up a lot more

and a lot

easier than the i-5 which kind of was

annoying to me overall bang for buck I

really don't see a whole ton of value

going for the i7 if you're looking for

shear power I would actually put that

extra money towards a 15-inch model

which is actually going to get you a

quad core model versus dual core and

possibly even dedicated graphics as

opposed to integrated depending on the

model you pick up overall I think the

force touch trackpad is solid and I

really enjoy it but I don't think it's

necessarily something that you're going

to have to go run out and sell your 2014

MacBook Pro and it's going to make you

have to buy this if you're rocking

something from 2013 or prior than yet

it's going to be a really nice jump and

I would totally recommend it but again

unless you go in that Apple Store and

you really really really love that force

touch trackpad then I would probably

hold off until 2016 aside from that

hopefully you guys enjoyed the video if

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have any questions or need buying advice

on these new MacBook Pros drop your line

or actually the best way to get ahold of

me is on twitter at TLT today pricing

and availability everything you could

possibly need to know is linked down

below

this is Jonathan with TLD and I'll see

you guys later