s the 2018 MacBook Pro 13" Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys doston this is the brand-new

2018 13-inch MacBook Pro and inside

there are going to be some decent

improvements including an update to the

8th gen Intel Core processors the only

downside is that this laptop is $1,800

and that's for the base model so of

course the question is is it worth it

for context this is the Dell XPS 13 it's

going to be the late 2017 model which

means that even though the hardware is

slightly different compared to the 2018

Edition is going to have very similar

specs but surprise surprise this guy is

going to cost a whole lot less look I

get it

Macs have always been priced on the

premium side of things and this is

absolutely no exception when you

consider that this is the base model

that costs eighteen hundred dollars even

someone who's interested in a Mac is

going to think that's a lot of money

unless you're I don't know Tim Cook or

something and you have these line in

your bathroom I guess I don't know I

don't think Tim Cook does that but no

it's not all bad

this generation of MacBook Pro is

hands-down the nicest piece of laptop

hardware that you can buy today in my

opinion the build quality of this guy is

absolutely on point it's made entirely

out of aluminum and especially when you

look at the little tiny details it is

clear that Johnny I've and the boys

spent a lot of time paying a lot of

attention to detail and that's something

I appreciate no part of this is going to

be rattling or squeaky or feel sort of

unbalanced it is all a very very nice

piece of hardware the already great

display has been upgraded with true tone

Tech which just like on the iPhone and

on the iPad is going to allow the screen

to adjust its white balance to better

suit the room that you're in now

personally for me I don't find this very

useful because when I paid this much for

a laptop

I want a very colored accurate display

for things like photo and video editing

but I mean it's a nice feature it is

something new the speakers are also

terrific so as far as that 13-inch

laptop goes these are about as good as

it gets

now are they facing you which is very

important when you know you have

speakers that are not facing downward

like a lot of them but they're also very

rich they're very deep and they've got a

lot of volume I also think the Apple t2

chip inside is a fairly big deal so this

is going to be a dedicated processor

which is going to handle a lot of the

lower level things such as things like

the touch bar the webcam things like

your audio and even your SSD

which is going to speed things up and

importantly also give you some better

security in the future that teacher chip

also enables the webcam to be updated to

a full 1080p it's not exactly going to

be the best thing in the world

unlike the XPS 13 which unfortunately

has the webcam not only below the screen

but also all the way to the left side

for some bizarre reason all the

downsides of the previous generation

MacBooks are also here as well so you're

still going to be getting a very similar

keyboard now is going to be slightly

tweaked here to be a little bit quieter

and supposedly more reliable but there's

still not a lot of actual keyboard

travel and the touch bar is well still

the touch bar so it's here it's going to

give you access to things like being

able to easily adjust your volume your

brightness which is mostly what I use it

for or you could also do stuff like get

shortcuts or whatever but I mean it's

fine it's there it doesn't really do a

lot the most noticeable downside of the

last gendell are going to be the ports

there are still just for us PC ports you

know like the last two Mac books however

it's going to be a little more

complicated than just that so if you get

the standard non touch bar version of

the MacBook Pro not only is it not going

to be updated with the 8th gen

processors so the 2017 model is just

rolling over but you're also only going

to be getting 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports I

mean sure that's fine if you want to

plug in you know a power adapter and a

single dongle but that's not a lot for a

laptop that's still going to cost you

about $1,300 if you move up to the touch

bar model you're going to be getting a

pretty decent performance bump so this

is going to be a very respectable

quad-core processor in this case with

the base model we're getting the Core i5

8 259 yuan the 13-inch unless the u

series processors and basically all the

competition which we're running at 15

watts

the MacBook Pro is going to be running

at 28 watts and that might not sound

like a big deal but having double the

power budget is going to allow them to

not only get higher clock speeds out of

that core i5 but also include better

graphics what that means is that even

the base core i5 MacBook is going to be

able to outperform the core i7 version

of the XPS 13 and of course it's going

to be a big jump over the non-touch bar

MacBook the inclusion of iris graphics

on the sky in this case the 6:55 is also

going to mean that you're getting a

pretty sizable bump to the graphics

performance again it's not going to be

anywhere near as much as say something

like a dedicated GPU but considering

that you're still getting all the power

savings with just better graphics is

definitely

going to be a bad thing this is Dean the

new MacBook is also really fast now

again I have the late 2017 version of

the XPS 13 but they are both going to be

using a 256 gigabyte nvme SSD as you can

see all the XPS is fast by pretty much

any standards the 2018 MacBook is just

going to be straight up faster but again

when we come back to price that's where

the MacBook starts to look a little bit

more shaky at $800 for the base model

this is one of the most expensive

13-inch MacBook you can get and again

with the base model you're only going to

be getting eight gigs of RAM and a 256

gig SSD when you think about it from a

value perspective it gets even worse the

more you spec it out so you can easily

upgrade this guy over $3,000 and that's

not even the Mac spec for a two terabyte

SSD on this guy and yeah to put that in

context you can build a pretty solid XPS

13 with the core i7 and that same eight

gigs of ram and 256 gig SSD for over

$500 less sure they're definitely going

to be some advantages of going with the

MacBook but that's a lot of money now

the extra performance of the MacBook is

nice stuff like having a better display

and another USB C port is helpful by the

end of the day these are going to be

pretty comparable laptops this one just

happens to cost a lot more honestly what

might be a better option is going to be

this guy's bigger brother the 15-inch

MacBook Pro for only a few hundred more

dollars you're going to be getting an

upgrade to the eight series processors

which means that you're getting a

standard six core Core i7 as well as

standard 16 gigs of ram a 200 all option

on this guy and on top of all of that

you're going to be getting dedicated

graphics something that's not going to

be an option on nsq of the 13-inch

MacBook Pro the new MacBook Pro is a

good laptop you're getting solid

performance a great build but it's just

really expensive you've got to be a very

specific kind of person to want to spend

this much money on a 13-inch laptop if

that's you by all means go for it it is

a saw an option but for most people I

think it would be much better served

with something like a MacBook Air it

wasn't super old hmm if Apple could

please update some of their other Mac

books that would be great