some of you may know that i'm a mac user
at least
my laptop is a mac i've got a 2011 uh
macbook pro 15 inch at home it's showing
its age now as i've said before
but uh i haven't really had much love
for the apple uh replacements over the
years i mean the 16 inch here
is actually pretty nice uh except for
the fact that it costs a lot of money
today
i'm looking at the 13-inch which is
apple's
brand new 10th gen equipped version of
the macbook pro
which promises to bring a lot of the
features
and functionality of the 16-inch down to
the 13-inch form factor
a lot of people seem to be saying right
now that the cpu isn't as powerful as
last gen or it's just as powerful so
there's no real improvement but that's
not entirely true
the cpu actually has avx 512 support and
intel's deep learning boost
those two things can and will improve
performance dramatically over the
traditional coffee-like refresh type of
cpus that we've been seeing over the
past however many years i mean they're
all skylake but this is icelake
and with it comes not only those new
features but also a new
gen 11 gpu the
iris plus g7 yeah g7
promises double the performance over
intel's uhd graphics or better
you know what this is a little bit too
complex let's just get into it shall we
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as i understand it we've already opened
this up unfortunately the shrink wrap is
off
but this should all be pretty virgin so
let's pop the lid here
ah there we go oh the apple's upside
down
well whoever put it in did a poor job
spoilers
it was me the fact that the outer
wrapping has been taken off
means that i cannot i can't i just can't
so i'm just going to have to do this
number
which is just the most
unsatisfying unboxing we've got this
little
designed by apple in california booklet
and i think there's some stickers in
here too yeah there they are
oh they're silver we also have a nice
chunky
usb type-c cable that's a little bit
messier than i anticipated it would be
yeah should handle the job of the uh
included 61 watt power adapter
the cpu in this new
generation of macbook is actually a fair
bit
more power hungry okay oh no there's
some scuffs on it already
guys oh we just bought this like this
wasn't sent to us or anything we bought
this
hopefully they'll buff out let's see
what's inside here
pretty standard stuff got this little
screen protector oh it's actually
already on
that's cool actually let's quickly um
compare
i might be imagining it but i feel like
there's a shorter throw
on the 13-inch could also be that it's
not as broken in yet
this is a little bit more used it's a
little bit annoying that apple requires
two-factor authentication but it's also
pretty nice that they have it and pretty
nice that it works
you have an apple device oh you're
setting up a new one well your apple
device is your
authenticator like you don't have any
special app or anything it's just oh
hey you've logged in somewhere do you
want to approve this yes
there it is while we're waiting for this
setup it's worth noting that there's
actually
two different models of the 13-inch
macbook pro in 2020 right now
there is this newer model with ice-like
cpu
which is a little bit more expensive and
there's also the refreshed model
from mid 2019 it's still on the inside
just the same
laptop as the previous gen macbook pro
don't want to set up touch id right now
maybe later or never if i didn't set up
touch id why do i want to set up apple
pay
true tone display always glad that it
doesn't allow you to change that
from there they just say hey check out
this whiz-bang feature we have
isn't it great a lot of things about
apple setup i really like
there's a lot of painless stuff and then
there's also a lot of really stupid
stuff like that some of the things that
uh
linus and i actually agree about with
the mac experience
i don't know let's let's start with the
speakers i'll just play some supernova
here
that's actually pretty good
all right let's let's try it on this
here
[Music]
okay first impressions this sounds
deeper and the stereo imaging is more
natural this feels like it's got more of
a fake surround effect
but it still sounds pretty good
it's still got a pretty deep sound too
but it feels it sounds more processed if
that makes any sense
yeah there's more mids and stuff on this
one as well whereas this is more skewed
towards
bass and treble let's check out the
webcam so i'm doing recording right now
obviously we're in brightly lit
environment everything is
basically as ideal as it can be
for a webcam but there is still a lot of
noise in this image
if i tilt it down a little bit so it's
not looking directly into the light
you can still see noise i think this is
the same webcam literally that is in my
2011. it's the facetime hd webcam 720p
it's nothing special we'll see how the
audio sounds though
from what i understand the audio uh
setup with the three microphones should
be
very good so uh i don't know if you want
to try and make some background
background noise yeah a little bit of
that's coming through
but uh let's see if it actually
see if that causes any kind of
distortion in my voice or anything like
that if you can still hear my voice or
not
as far as the screen goes you can't
really make it out very well here
yeah so the screen is what we expect
it's an apple retina display it's 2560
by 1600
which is that 16 by 10 aspect ratio that
apple has
thankfully continued to embrace the
builds
inflexible there are a couple of things
that i can say about
the exterior though there is a little
bit of flex in the screen as one might
expect of a screen this thin but it's
nothing to worry about i don't think
there's any deck flex in the keyboard oh
there's a little bit so compared to the
16 inch the trackpad size is a little
bit smaller but
you'd expect that of something with a
keyboard that is the same size as you
can see
the escape key is physical wonderful
love it just like the 16 inch and
we also have that separated touch id
sensor as well
which makes it a lot easier to fumble
for in the dark if you're i don't know
making purchases
late at night for reasons uh the touch
bar is the same hitter
miss i guess a lot of people are kind of
polarized on
i think it's okay one thing that is very
interesting
between these two machines is that
on previous gen 13-inch macbook pros
we had two thunderbolt ports on the side
here tldr the new one has
four the 2020 refresh of the old version
still only has two that's a thing that's
exclusive to the ice lake version of the
machine right now
hopefully in the next year we
won't have any of those legacy machines
anymore which will mean that
for everybody at every price point
you'll have those four
thunderbolt ports as an apple user it
is certainly something that feels a lot
better to me
than recent iterations just like the 16
inch over here it
doesn't offend me in the same way that
some of the other ones did with their
soft escape key and butterfly switches
it's got quite a bit more power under
the hood as far as that goes
it also comes standard with 16 gigs of
ram and a 512 gigabyte ssd
these are things that cost money
obviously and this is why this is the
more expensive model
with that being said the ram is actually
a lot faster
than previous gen previous gen used 2133
megahertz
ddr3 memory this is 37 33 megahertz ddr4
it is significantly faster than most
people actually have on their desktops
right now
while actually guzzling quite a bit less
power i'm really excited to take a look
at this in more detail
if you guys want to see that as well
maybe see a bit of a head-to-head
between this
and the 16-inch or perhaps i don't know
the xps 13.
let's let's give it a challenge and put
it up against the desktop as well make
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