Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “i9 Macbook Pro 2018: Hottest Laptop on the Planet!”.
Hey, what’s up guys, i’m pbht here and yes, this laptop does cost and did cost me six thousand seven hundred dollars over off the bet. You probably should not upgrade to this 2018 MacBook Pro. If you already have a 2017 or even a 2016 MacBook Pro – and it’s not even really because of the price but yeah, so this laptop did cost obviously a ton more than most other laptops or even most other desktops. But the real story is that this is the most powerful new laptop Apple’s ever made. It’S the new 2018 8th gen Intel Core. I 9 15-inch MacBook Pro – and this is everything you need to know about. So first of all here are all the new specs. This is the new 8th, gen Intel Core. I 92.9 gigahertz 6 core CPU, there’s also a less powerful version, but every single new 15-inch MacBook Pro now has a 6 core chip, which is dope.
It has an AMD Radeon pro 560 X, with 4 gigs of video RAM. That’S the highest end. Gpu option has 32 gigs of DDR 4 RAM up from the baseline 16 gigs and a 4 terabyte internal SSD up from the baseline 256 gigs, so yeah this thing’s. Clearly a beast on paper, but there are also a couple other things that are technically new, also about this laptop that are more minor, but that are also worth noting number one is the new true tone display.
So is everything we knew and loved about the old MacBook Pro displays, but this time in ads the ambient light color temperature sensor, so it can dynamically adjust the white balance of the display based on the room. You’Re in this is cool on a smart phone and even on tablets, but I turn this off immediately and I suspect a lot of other video editors or photographers will do the same thing. But, interestingly enough, the touch bar is now also a true tone display and it will match so whenever the main display changes, color temperature to match the room you’re in the touch bar will match and change temperature too. So that’s pretty cool.
The keyboard is also slightly updated. It will look nearly identical from the outside, except for a slightly different option. Key, not sure why that’s different, but it is but they’re calling this a new Butterfly mechanism, that’s a bit quieter than previous generations. Basically, for those who don’t know Apple has had some reliability problems with the MacBook Pro keyboard in the past couple years, I actually haven’t personally had any problems with mine, but I’ve read about a lot of this, which is people having you know, dust and dirt, and Things like that, getting under the keys and breaking it so tear downs have revealed that with this generation, Apple has added a bit of a membrane under each key cap to prevent debris from entering, and it happens to have the effect of slightly dampening the noise and Feel from the keyboard, so I can feel the difference when I type on them back-to-back. But honestly, it still feels like a normal load. Travel MacBook keyboard. It’S not game-changing. I would take more travel if I could get it and then what’s also new is the t2 chip.
So last years machines had the t1 chip. As you probably remember, you got touch ID things like that. The new custom t2 chip has a bunch of other improvements and benefits. Things like improve an encryption and secure boot, but one of the most interesting user facing features that you get from.
It is hey Siri. So now there’s a new always on always listening, hey Siri feature, which I don’t even know what you would do with the Siri very often on the desktop, maybe turning a screen saver on or open some folders, or something like that. I guess here’s. What I found on the web for what you would do – hey Siri, open my downloads, folder, here’s that folder good stuff in there please make Siri better anyway.
Those, like, I said, are pretty minor things, but I’m really concerned about with this new laptop and what I’d be paying for is the new specs, the new performance and that’s what’s going to decide if this laptop is worth the extra money and upgrading. So the new six core i9 is new at the highest end and I’ll talk more about that as far as render times and processing power and what that’s useful for, but that’s a welcome upgrade. The RAM, as you heard me mentioned, is now faster ddr4 versus last year’s ddr3 and while I almost never use the 15-inch MacBook Pro on battery power, Apple did acknowledge that they wanted to maintain battery life, so they bumped up the size of the internal battery.
Just a little bit to keep the same claimed 10 hour battery life rating with the less efficient ddr4 memory. So now it’s faster and this four terabyte SSD or any size really is literally the fastest internal drive. I’Ve ever seen in a laptop I mean I’m seeing nearly 3 gigabyte per second reads and writes, which is incredible.
You’Ve probably already heard it’s slightly a controversial because it’s so expensive, but pro tip. If you don’t upgrade to spend the $ 3,000 on a 4 terabyte internal drive, you can get the exact same MacBook Pro as far as performance in a $ 3,000 machine. So clearly, it’s just kind of click bait, but the thing about a drive, this big number one it’s hard to think of like to name another high-end laptop right now, with a 4 terabyte internal SSD, that’s a big drive and number 2. You really just get a lot as far as convenience, where I call it peace of mind of having a big drive having a 4 terabyte drive on your mobile workstation.
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