Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “2016 Macbook: Rose Gold Refresh!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here – and this is the 2016 macbook you can tell, because it’s pink, so this one should be pretty quick, there’s not a whole lot of difference between this guy and last year’s first generation. In fact, i’d hardly call this a second generation product at all. It’S essentially just a spec bump inside it’s like a version 1.2 of the 12-inch macbook, but almost everything else you’ll find about this guy is the same as last year. So you have the same exact paper: thin dimensions: the 13 millimeter thin super light, two pound body, the same low travel, butterfly key backlit keyboard. The same really large, really nice force touch track pad the same incredible sounding speaker with the full width. Grille still don’t know how they made it sound that good, but it’s still here and the same 12-inch retina display. The only difference on the outside is the new color available.
The rose gold, yeah 2016 you’re, the pink tech anyway. What’S different is on the inside this year, it’s basically just getting a spec bump to the new skylake intel core m chips. It’S actually a pretty significant upgrade in the performance department. If you take a look at it, you can now pick between a 1.1 gigahertz core m3 or go all the way up to a 1.3 gigahertz m7 that turbos all the way to 3.1 gigahertz.
So much faster, cpu and gpu performance is nice, plus faster storage as well. The internal ssd is now getting you around 400 plus megabytes per second writes and 800 plus megabytes per second reads, which is great, so it’s faster there and for the record, there’s also a very slightly larger battery inside it’s about a five percent more dense. So not a huge deal, but better performance and better battery life with the new chips without getting thicker or heavier, that’s a win-win, and that is exactly it. That’S everything. That’S changed honestly, like i said it’s a pretty quiet refresh, i would have loved to have seen at least a tiny little change on the outside, because here my two biggest pet peeves with this laptop, are still here.
Of course, there’s just one port and there’s still that 480p webcam, so you would think that they could at least throw in one more usb type-c port now that it’s later in the year and it’s becoming more mainstream, there’s more accessories starting to use usb-c. Now i saw a pair of usbc headphones the other day, so i think the chromebook pixel a whole year ago actually had it right with a usbc port on each side, just two ports, but it makes a big deal when you want to use an accessory while Charging or just plug in two things at once with the macbook you’ll, still need to carry adapters and that in a way, kind of defeats, the purpose of having such a thin and light and beautiful computer and then yes, the 480p webcam, is also still here. I think you could have upgraded this to apple, it’s 2016. So if the smartphone in my pocket can have this huge 4k sensor with optical image stabilization in this thin body, you could have fit a 720p sensor in the new macbook just saying anyway. So this little refresh it isn’t going to change your mind about the macbook.
If you weren’t already going to get one, it’s not that big of a change. Obviously it’s more like if you were on the fence about getting the last one. Well, this one’s better for sure, so i’d recommend it obviously, over last year, i think i would still recommend the 13-inch macbook pro to people still looking for a bit more performance, but for a thin and light it doesn’t get much better. It doesn’t get much thinner or much lighter, so the baseline 12-inch macbook is a neat little machine and a lot of fun.
So that’s basically it thanks for watching this one and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace .