2018 MacBook Pro
Review! Worth Up To $6699? #Helpful Post
expectations
it's now got ddr4 Ram up to
32
gigabytes new graphics cards from AMD
the
new Radeon 5 55 and 560 X so huge
upgrades
here let's go ahead and see you
know
just how it is
is
it worth updating to from a 2016 2017
era
MacBook Pro I'll be running some
tests
just really giving you a very
clear and concise a picture of
is
the 2018 MacBook Pro worth an upgrade
over
the 2017 let's go ahead and explore
that
in this video guys everything you
need
to know about this machine what's
up
guys I just got back from my trip
sorry
I'm a little late on this one but
the
2018 MacBook Pro is here and I just
got
it in the fully loaded spec this is
with
all butts max out storage so we've
got
the 2.9 gigahertz ie9 processor
eighth
generation and it is a new 6 core
processor
on the 15 inch it's kind of
crazy
I mean out of nowhere Apple went
and
updated this thing beyond my
changed
there's so much that's different
a
lot that you may not even expect I
mean
the speaker has been upgraded the
batteries
have been made beef here and I
just
want to talk about how that all
reflects
into the actual usability and
first
off I usually get a new MacBook
Pro
every year and then either sell my
old
one or just repurposes just like a
rendering
machine and I think that's
what
I'll be doing this year but I'm not
entirely
convinced that you know I want
to
stick with it it is a huge upgrade
but
just how much is it over the 2017
and
I know most people won't be
upgrading
from last year's model because
it's
so similar but if you have a much
older
machine it probably will be worth
it
ok
so here it is I got this one in the
Space
Gray finish this one came out to
just
under $4,000 with the one terabyte
of
memory 3700 to 3800 I believe and
believe
it or not there's actually a lot
that's
different it weighs almost the
same
as the 2017 model but there's a lot
that's
changed on the inside and I fixed
it
did an entire teardown and gave us an
idea
of what's different and they
actually
shaved some weight off in some
areas
of the casing and then added
bigger
batteries and that made up for it
and
as you can see a boot supper right
away
here so you know from just looking
at
it's not much has changed and
I
believe that goes for the back too so
there's
that looks just like it feels
just
like the old one but the biggest
change
you're gonna notice right away
are
the keys so the keys are somewhat
more
subtle there's a new gasket
silicone
gasket beneath the key itself
to
keep dust outs you know the whole
issue
with the keyboards Apple is having
that's
no longer gonna happen with this
third-generation
a butterfly keyboard
okay
so listen to this I actually hear
how
clickety clackety that one is this
one's
a lot more subtle yeah feels a
little
bit better a tactical response
just
feels a little bit softer would you
like
that while that's setting up just
wanted
to mention that the actual power
adapter
got an upgrade as well
internally
I fix it tore down and they
found
that there's a lot of extra
padding
inside it's been reworked a
little
bit so possibly more efficient
more
safe against Falls and drops in the
such
so that's even been updated I mean
there's
a lot of changes I'm actually
curious
to see if we'll get a different
reading
here so exactly in the middle
let's
see how loud this keyword gets
this
is the 2017 I'm getting fifty five
point
nine decibels and let's try again
on
this one
yeah
so 54.4 oh wow that one jumped 57.6
Wow
quite a difference so getting
between
four to five difference in
decibels
between the two okay let's go
ahead
and test the touch ID speeds this
has
the new t2 chip which is more secure
but
is it faster all right in three two
one
so
about the same but let's try that
once
more one two okay maybe a fraction
of
a second faster but I really wouldn't
say
it is considerably faster okay so
next
up just wanted to check out true
tone
this is the same feature as on the
iPhones
and on the iPads where it
adjusts
the color temperature of the
display
depending on your ambience
alright
so I'm gonna go ahead and
disable
it and we're gonna see on the
same
screen and what it looks like on
both
of these so I'm not getting really
much
of a difference maybe the screed is
getting
a little bit warmer but out here
there's
really not much so I'm gonna
have
to change up the environment
alright
and here's a better
representation
of true tones so it's
working
over here it's a little bit
icier
of an image slightly more gray
here
we can see the pink hues come out
so
this is a better representation of
the
room I'm in right now and it's such
a
subtle nice thing to have but really
not
important and I don't think it
should
really be a factor in upgrading
to
the 2018 macbook it's just one of
those
things that are nice to have but I
wouldn't
pay more money to get it the
next
step I want to test the speakers so
on
the 2018 model in the iFixit teardown
they
found that they were actually
narrower
but taller so it's a little
larger
of a speaker module itself let's
see
if that translates to the actual
decibel
output or how it sounds so I'm
gonna
start with twenty one pilots new
song
on this one here
all
right so that's what I'm getting
here
ninety three point four decibels on
the
2017 model so just point three point
four
higher than 2017 I'll tell you oh
it
does sound a little bit better like
it's
a little bit more booming not as
tinny
sounding and by no means does the
2017
sound bad it's actually then one of
the
best speakers I've ever heard on a
laptop
so this one just improves it
seems
to fine tune it just a little bit
but
as you can see decibel wise it
really
hasn't changed alright so let's
go
ahead and start some benchmarks now
this
is an entirely fair because I did
update
this one to Mac OS Mohave it's on
beta
4 and I've been using it so I've
got
a lot of personal data on it but
still
I mean it'll show us the disparity
between
a well used 2017 and a brand-new
2018
I still want to do this now I do
want
to start with a start-up shutdown
test
but before that I just want to
summarize
what we got going on here this
is
a six core 2.9 gigahertz processor
and
this is the 8th generation processor
with
32 gigabytes of ddr4 ram the
biggest
upgrade in like 70 years and
over
here we've got three point one
gigahertz
four core 16 gigabytes of ddr3
ram
so considerably slower alright and
here
we go in three two one and they
should
be off so I'll start them at the
same
time Apple logo appears here faster
and
wow I was already up there so this
has
considerably faster SSD the fastest
in
any laptop nowadays which is quite
impressive
this one does have a lot more
data
on it though but oh wow very very
close
this one actually started up first
I'm
actually surprised by that but it
may
be because of Mac OS Mohave that
optimized
this start up or something
like
that
so
maybe this would be even faster once
I
updated it alright next up is a geek
bench
this one should be quite
interesting
this should blow it away in
a
multi-core score single core score I'm
curious
to to see is it less because the
clock
speed is actually lower let's go
ahead
and run that so
Wow
look at that difference the
multi-core
score jumps to twenty three
thousand
nine hundred thirteen single
five
thousand five hundred seventy four
so
a very considerable jump in between
the
processors of course you have two
additional
cores and even though the
clock
speed is slightly lower you know
it
still out does the 2017 with v4 core
I
am beyond impressed so let's go ahead
and
see how that reflects to in actual
video
exports and final cut are it's a
very
simple test from my last video I'm
taking
all of the raw footage and I'm
basically
just dropping it into a new
timeline
so that's 23 minutes of 4k
footage
I'm gonna do the same here
they're
both running the latest final
cut
10 for da 3 so let's go ahead and
wait
for to render all right file size
is
exactly the same this is an h.264
format
so okay save and start on both of
these
alright so this one just finished
at
13 minutes and 4 seconds while this
one
is still going with 17 more % to go
so
I don't know yet for sure but already
I'm
seeing a huge difference I think
it'll
probably be between 3 to 5 minutes
actually
so that is very considerable
okay
and there's that one so not as big
of
a difference as I thought 2 minutes
but
still that is quite considerable
people
pay a lot of money just to see a
2 minute
faster rendering difference on
their
professional machine so if you
guys
are buying this thing for work yes
it
is considerably faster if you're just
buying
this for day-to-day maybe some
like
video editing I really wouldn't
spend
extra money just upgrade from a
2017
to save 2 minutes on what a 23
minute
project doesn't really translate
to
a very very big difference you know
if
you're not using it all the time ok
and
my computer is seriously glitching I
have
no idea what's going on right here
it's
like a really really slow motion
animation
after the rendering what the
heck
I've never had this before
anyways
so next up I want to go ahead
and
test that new SSD what is going on
are
you serious
so
all in all I'd say definitely a 20%
improvement
in the write speed slightly
less
on the read but very very fast
okay
and of course can't forget the GPUs
so
go ahead and test those with
Cinebench
and we've got the AMD Radeon
560
over here the X version so not a
huge
difference but 15 frames per second
higher
in the OpenGL test on the 2018
version
alright so after spending a few
hours
with this machine my preliminary
results
are pretty dang good it's very
optimized
it's
what the 2017 should have been with
the
ddr4 Ram 32 gigabytes kind of sucks
that
Apple shafted us with that but
otherwise
it's a fantastic machine and
should
you upgrade from a 2017 no in my
opinion
absolutely not I mean yeah you
do
get that additional bit of
performance
but you can put that money
into
a custom-built machine or save your
money
for the next one and later on you
know
if you're coming from a 2017 2016
MacBook
Pro I would say it is not worth
the
upgrade me personally you know for
other
people the value that that extra
20%
in speed boost provides you know it
may
be more than for me but honestly I
don't
think I'll be keeping this machine
maybe
I will still use it for a couple
days
and see but it's great you know the
speakers
sound a little bit crisper
apparently
the battery is bigger as well
inside
I fixed it in there tear down saw
that
it is larger but it does not
provide
more battery life and actually
through
the duration of this test it
seems
to be draining just as fast as the
2017
running all these tests and whatnot
yes
the storage is faster but it's
nothing
really that I can like
capitalise
on without like 20%
improvement
in speed otherwise it's a
fantastic
machine if it's your first one
or
upgrading from a really old MacBook
I'd
say go for a hundred percent if
you're
coming from a more recent one
like
a 2017 not worth it in my opinion
all
right guys so thanks for watching
there's
my review of the 2018 macbook
pro
a fantastic machine refined in every
single
way seemingly by Apple and not
enough
of an upgrade from the 2017 for
myself
personally hope you guys enjoyed
it
hope it was informative I tried to
test
everything that was important to me
so
hopefully you guys learned a thing or
two
you may have not known about this
machine
thanks for watching guys peace
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