The truth about the 2016 MacBook Pro 13" #Helpful Post

your guys johnathan here and this is why

the 2016 MacBook Pro should remove Pro

from its name now specifically I'm

talking about the 13-inch baseline

MacBook Pro him before I jump in

regardless of what I think it should be

called there are some pro things about

this laptop for starters performance is

better than you might think which might

be confusing because one of the biggest

complaints i've seen about these MacBook

Pros is that they're overpriced and

underpowered the perception of value and

the idea of more for less only really

means something if that more yields

something tangible

take this 13-inch MacBook Pro for

example which runs $14.99 inside you're

getting a 2 gigahertz i5 CPU a gigs of

RAM Intel iris graphics 540 and a 256

gigabyte SSD now for comparison's sake

the HP spectre x360 runs $12.99 and

inside that you're getting a 2.7

gigahertz i7 CPU 16 gigabytes of RAM

Intel HD graphics 620 and a 512 gigabyte

SSD so on paper that I 7 which is cabbie

Lake mind you compared to skylake on the

MacBook Pro is clocked much higher and

should destroy the i5 in every possible

way but ultimately it comes down to how

that hardware works with the software

I've talked about it a million times

before but the reason I use Final Cut

Pro 10 is because of how optimized it is

so what I did was take some 1080p

footage from the canon adb dropped it

into premiere on the spectre the

timeline ended up being 5 minutes and 51

seconds and from there I did a high

bitrate single pass h.264 export now

next if this doesn't show you what I'm

talking about I'm not sure what else

would I did the exact same thing with in

Final Cut Pro 10 but the plot twist was

I booted up the MacBook Pro launched

Final Cut Pro 10 imported the footage

into Final Cut drop the footage into the

timeline in that same h.264 single pass

high bitrate export took a minute 23

seconds on the MacBook Pro which is

crazy so think about that and process

that for a minute

a mere six minute video is exported in

about a fourth of real time now for

those of you saying well it's just 1080p

footage it's not a big deal well that

same exact footage took nearly nine

minutes on the specter and Adobe

Premiere at this point in the video this

is where you come in and say well why

don't you compare apples to apples why

don't you compare premier versus premier

and that is not the point with the

MacBook Pro you're not necessarily just

paying for hardware you're paying for

the software experience that comes with

it so for all of you out there who edit

create video it would be a disservice if

I didn't show you an option that worked

really well if you could get the end

result but do it in a fraction of the

time why would I not show you that on

the flip side this doesn't mean I don't

like the HP spectra I think it is a

fantastic laptop it's just an example of

why specs don't always mean everything

another thing that you would never

notice just by looking at this MacBook

Pro it's how fast the SSD is in terms of

fancy Tech Talk the MacBook Pro writes

around 1,300 megabytes per second it

broke black magic the speed test at

2,000 megabytes per second and actually

it should be closer to 3,000 using the

HP Spectre again as an example that

writes around 600 megabytes per second

and reads around 1600 now what the heck

do all those numbers mean for a

real-world example what I did was take a

26 gigabyte file duplicate that on the

HP Spectre and that finished in about a

minute in 24 seconds now duplicating

that exact same 26 goodbye folder on the

MacBook Pro that took 34 seconds now as

far as what else is good on the MacBook

Pro the speakers sound fantastic and for

reference here's a comparison against

last year's baseline 13-inch MacBook Pro

and also the HP Spectre

 

so these were all max volume and levels

wise they were all pretty equal but the

clarity and the overall definition on

the new MacBook Pro was night and day

better on top of that the display on

this MacBook Pro is really freakin good

if you've ever used a MacBook Pro where

the 13 or 15 inch the extra brightness

is super noticeable and beyond just the

brightness the color on this display is

equally as impressive so with that there

are definitely some really good things

with this laptop but there's also some

negative the biggest drawback for me

right now is the lack of an SD card slot

simply because it's something that I use

so often I understand that Apple is

showing us where things probably will be

down the road but right now I still use

an SD card quite a bit the lack of Mac

safe definitely breaks my heart as well

but the Thunderbolt 3 ports which come

in a USBC form factor are actually kind

of cool with these you can do a ton of

different things including charge on

either port what's kind of red with that

is you're not just limited to Apple's

charger you can actually charge these

MacBook Pros with an external battery

bank from there you're able to output

both video and data simultaneously which

is really cool in a dock type setup and

lastly with Thunderbolt 3 you're also

unlocking USB 3.1 so for example I edit

quite a bit off an external SanDisk SSD

with the older MacBook Pros that camped

out at USB 3.0 so the read speeds were

around 4 or 500 megabytes per second and

on the new MacBook Pro with a single USB

CD USBC cable that unlock the full

potential in the read speeds were around

800 megabytes per second now through all

the good and the bad the absolute

biggest problem I have this MacBook Pro

is the name it is confusing as hell

right now if you walked into an Apple

store looking for a 13-inch MacBook Pro

this is the question you're gonna get

are you looking for a 13-inch MacBook

Pro two thunderbolt ports and no touch

bar or a 13-inch MacBook Pro with four

Thunderbolt ports and a touch bar are

you kidding me

for most of you out there who are

familiar with technology I'm sure it's

not a big deal but the second mom walks

in there she's not gonna know what to do

so with that it would have been

way simpler if this 13-inch MacBook Pro

was simply the 13-inch MacBook with that

it would be the perfect lineup the

12-inch MacBook is one port in 13-inch

MacBook is 2 ports and if you want four

ports go to the 13 or 15 inch MacBook

Pro at the end of the day a pro label on

something shouldn't dictate how you use

a laptop or what you do with it

do more than anything I think it's a

slap in the face towards the 12-inch

MacBook that is a surprisingly capable

machine and I don't think if this was

called the 13-inch MacBook it would make

it any less valuable take the pro name

off of it drop the price slightly have

it live alongside a 12-inch MacBook and

call it a day now for anyone out there

who agrees with me and potentially wants

a new MacBook Pro I teamed up with Danny

link and over at what's inside not only

are we giving away a brand new 13-inch

MacBook Pro but also to Apple watches as

well that answer all you had to do is

make sure you're subscribed here on this

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check his video all right here where you

actually dropped a MacBook Pro out of a

helicopter which is kind of nuts don't

worry that is not the MacBook Pro you're

winning you're getting a brand new one

so if you're down to win one make sure

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Jonathan and I will catch you guys later