What's up guys Mike here the DetroitBORG taking a look at the all-new MacBook Pros for 2016.
These are the first complete redesign of the MacBook Pro since 2012 so it's been a long time.
Now the first thing to know that
complete redesigns of the macbook pro
since 2012 so it's been a long time
now the first thing to know is that there
are actually three models there's the
baseline 13 inches as I have here there's
also a 13-inch with a touch bar and
touch ID and the 15-inch with touch bar
and touch ID we're gonna take a look at
those when they come in later this month
but right now we're gonna take a look at
the entry level model which retails for
1499. So the baseline model is the only
one with a 12 key function row instead
of the touch bar which is an oled
display so with a complete redesign of
course it gets thinner lighter more
compact with a better display a new
keyboard design that's more shallow
we also get all-new i/o ports with
Thunderbolt three and they're much more
simplified this time of course we get
much better specs in addition to the
super-sized track pan which is almost
twice the size of the previous model
also new with this generation for the
first time is space grey and that's also
joining silver so the box itself does
reflect that new darker black color so
you'll see that dark black macbook and
apple logo on the size and of course the
specs on the back of the box so the
first thing we have to do is remove the
plastic so we can go ahead and lift the
lid so this is a pretty familiar
unboxing if you ever open up other
macbooks so once we remove the lid the
first thing we'll see here of course is
the macbook in that space gray color
it's a really nice color of course we've seen
this already on the 12-inch MacBook and
it's definitely my favorite color
so first up we have some paperwork so
this packet includes a quick start guide
that highlights the major features as
well as some OS 10 features we also get
some warranty information and a set of
white apple sticker so you won't find
space grey Apple stickers like you get
with the macbook now missing here is
that microfiber cleaning cloth that used
to come with other macbooks so beneath
that will find a plastic wrapped 61 watt
USB-C power adapter so this power adapter
of course is not magsafe so it does have
a detachable USB see cable which I think
makes it a little more durable which
means if you damage the cable you don't
have to replace the entire adapter now
the adapter is a little simpler this
time so we don't have those pop out
cable management prongs that used to be on
the side but you can still remove the
wall adapter so if you want to add an
extension cable or change it up for one
of your international adapters you can
do that
speaking of extension cable you won't
find one included
with your macbook anymore but we do
get a two-meter USB-C cable included in
the box so if you're a fan of magsafe
unfortunately that is completely gone
instead we charge via the USB-C connector
which also means that any of the USB-C
connectors can be used for charging now
when you connect the cable it does make
a tone so you can hear when it's
charging
although you no longer see an LED
indicator like he did with the MagSafe
connector so the design of the macbook
pro looks like a combination of the
previous macbook pro and the new 12-inch
MacBook so we have a much more
simplified design that smaller and more
compact and also loses the lighted apple
logo instead we have an inset apple
logo which matched to the color of
the macbook unfortunately this is a
requirement thanks to the new thinner
display technology so the backlight can
no longer be used to light an apple logo
now the big news here is that it's
thinner narrower and not as deep but the
biggest news i think is that it's much
lighter is half a pound lighter so it's
three pounds which makes it much more
portable now becomes the display of the
13-inch macbook pro we have the same
resolution as the previous generation
2560 x 1600 is good for 224
pixels-per-inch it's a really sharp
retina display but this new display is
sixty-seven percent brighter with a
sixty-seven percent higher contrast
ratio with twenty-five percent more
color so like the newest iMacs the ipad
pros in the iPhone 7 this is also
compliant with the p3 standard for that
wider color gamut
so these displays are definitely much
brighter with more vivid colors and that
contrast definitely gives the display much
more depth so things look a lot more
vibrant compared to the previous
generation which looks money compared to
this model we've also significantly
reduce glare on the newest panels you
can see this when you compare them
side-by-side so even though they're very
glossy it does a pretty good job
managing the glare unfortunately what
hasn't changed at all here is the
facetime HD camera which is still 720p
of course we do get an LED indicator and
an ambient light sensor right next to it
so take a look at the science compared
to the previous generation you can see
there's big changes here in terms of the
i/o for better or for worse now we have
Thunderbolt three ports along the side
of these look like USB-C connectors and they
function like that as well but they do
support Thunderbolt 3 which of course
supports a lot of things like display
output and other connections in fact
they're compatible with basically
anything as long as you have the right
adapter or as long as they work with USB-C
but these are Thunderbolt three
which means they support up to 40 gigs
per second in terms of throughput and
can be daisy-chained now unfortunately with
this model if you look at the other side
all we have is a headphone jack and i
know what you're saying at least we have
a headphone jack but if you want
additional ports are going to have to go
to the upgraded model of course this
means we lose a lot of other legacy
ports like HDMI, standard USB-A
connectors thunderbolts connectors and
a SD card slot on the front as always is a
thumb port for lifting up the display of
course the hinges perfectly weighted so
when you lift it up it doesn't pick up
the entire computer and speaking of that
hinge unlike the previous generation it
is integrated into the chassis design
just like on the 12-inch MacBook so we have this
nice continuous look instead of the black
plastic trim piece on the back of the
macbook the hinge design is also much
more compact it looks very different
compared to the previous generation as
does the ventilation there's much less
obvious ventilation on this macbook in
fact if you look at the inside of the
hand you'll find much smaller grills
compared to the previous generation so
this doesn't much better job ventilating
without large grill intakes this also
loses the ventilation on the bottom of
the chassis from the previous generation
now on the bottom of the macbook as
always you can remove this back panel
but it's not meant to be user-accessible
so this is secured with pentagonal
crews and we do have those plastic feet
at all four corners returning once again
is a force touch glass trackpad but this
time it's twice as large as the previous
generation it's almost comically large
at first i thought this might be
difficult to work with because your
palms naturally rest on it when you're
typing but there seems to be really good
palm rejection so I can rest my palms
directly on it and still operate the
trackpad without issue and type like I
normally would
now for such basically means that this
is a static state track pad so it
doesn't physically move but it does
replicate a physical click so we have
four sensors in here that detect the
pressure you're applying and the
response accordingly and tactic motors
underneath replicate a physical click
now i have noticed that the tap to click
on the trackpad is a little softer than
it was on previous generations not sure
if thats related to the size of the
trackpad or if they reprogrammed it just
to be a bit softer and I think what
concerns most people is the new keyboard
which is a very different design from
the previous generation this uses that
same butterfly technology that's also in
the 12-inch MacBook which some people
absolutely hate now Apple is referring
to this as a new revise
second generation of that same
technology there's definitely a big
difference in terms of how it works the
keys are very shallow and they're much
wider but they're much more solid with a
very distinct click so they definitely
have a much more pronounced buckling
feel than the previous generation now
for me this means the keyboard is
extremely fast and accurate i really
like this keyboard it's better than the
12-inch MacBook and a huge improvement
over the old macbook pro which to me
feels like typing on a sponge there much
softer they wobble and they're
definitely not as solid or as fast as
this new keyboard we also have a
much-improved backlight so each key gets
its own LED light and there's much less
light leaking but it's also much more
vivid than the previous model we've also
completely redesigned the speaker so you
now see speaker grilles on the front on
either side of the keyboard they are
much louder with a much deeper range
much wider feel and they're much clearer
they sound fantastic and are huge
improvement over the macbook pro and the
macbook air so let's go and take a
listen
what's up guys mike here the Detroit Borg taking a look
at the new pixel and pixel XL these are
Google designed smartphones built by HTC
so really this is Google's vision of
what they want their android smartphone
to look like now both of these phones
are running Android 7.1 but they also
have a launcher unique to this phone
called the pixel launcher which also
comes with a feature that's an exclusive
to the pixel at the time of this video
which is the google assistant which has
a lot of capabilities which we'll explore
later in this video in terms of specs
the very baseline model so that comes
with a 2 gigahertz core i5 dual-core
skylake processor that's a sixth gen
processor we also get eight gigs of
eighteen sixty six megahertz ram has
also come standard with a 256 gig
pcie-based SSD so a very fast storage
built in so next up i just want to run
through some benchmarks to get an idea of the
performance of this computer versus the
macbook air which apple says this is
replacing so terms of our geekbench for
single core score we're seeing a pretty
high score of 3783 and the pretty
impressive multi-core score of around 70
300 that's a pretty small bump on the
single core score from the macbook air
at around 3200 the significant bump for
the multi-core score which is under
6,000 the biggest improvement really
comes in terms of graphics so if you
look at our graphics benchmark we're
seeing a score of around 20,000 on the
new mac book pro
vs a little under eighteen thousand
for the macbook air so that's a
significant increase and now the big
difference here is SSD speed the macbook pro
has really fast ssds it's around 1300
on the right speed and around 2,000 on
the read speed that's almost double the
performance of the macbook air so if we
compare the macbook pro to the macbook
air there's obviously a huge differences
here the new macbook pro is actually
more compact and also has a much better
display the macbook air is still has a
TN non retina display as a much lower
resolution display and definitely
suffers in terms of quality there's a
lot of off-axis distortion and although
the macbook air display is very bright
it's also very washed out it doesn't
have the vibrant colors or that deep
contrast but ultimately I think that
five-hundred-dollar price difference is
really significant the macbook air still
a great computer with even better better
life 12 hours versus 10 hours and still
a powerful computer that gets most
things done pretty well and of course
the macbook air still has some of those
older connectors like magsafe usb-a and
an SD card slot so in the end this is
really only part of the story of the
macbook pro line up of course i will be
covering the others but for now I think
this is a fantastic computer but it is
pretty expensive at 1499 so I'm hoping
the price comes down with time i'm also
missing some of the ports along the side
which is going to make things a little
harder because I'm gonna have to adapt
them but overall we have a fantastic
display impressive power great keyboard
and massive trackpad we also have a
great design which is lightweight and
portable and definitely looks really good in
the space gray so definitely a big fan
of this macbook pro but i'm really
looking forward to the upgraded model
with touch ID and the touch bar so make
sure you stay tuned for those videos
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