Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech.
And this is the 2020 Mac book pro 13 inch with the all new M1 Apple Silicon
in it.
And this starts at $1299 and goes up to $2299 in the
United States. It comes with eight or 16 gigabytes of Ram,
and you can configure it from 512 gigabytes to two terabytes.
This is the top of the line model with 16 gigs of Ram and two terabytes of
storage. It also has the Apple M one chip in it, which is an eight core CPU,
eight core GPU and 16 core neural engine comes in silver space, gray.
Let's go ahead and open it up. So we'll take the package cover off here.
And I haven't seen one of these in person,
but the frame of this hasn't really changed. Let's take the top of the box off
and we'll do a comparison with the new Mac book air a little bit as well.
So we'll set the top of the box aside.
Here's the Mac book pro and it's in space gray.
I know some people really like the silver. I prefer space gray with that.
And then here is a USBC adapter that comes in the box,
and then we've got some paperwork
and we have a MacBook pro starter guide,
a little warranty card along with two space, gray Apple stickers.
Now also we have a different adapter than what we get with the Mac book air.
So this should be the 60 watt adapter. I believe.
Let's see if I can pull this out of here. And as you can see here, it's 61 watt.
So it's a USB-C adapter to help charge it because this has a larger battery
and may have a more demanding workflow.
So let's go ahead and set the box assign.
And here is the new Mac book pro let's go ahead and open it up
And let's look around the outside and then we'll turn it on.
I'll get it set up and we'll check a few other things out. Now,
this is the same as the previous Mac book pro 13 inch,
although it has two less ports. So on the right hand side,
we just have a 3.5 millimeter headphone Jack on the back, nothing here,
just the aluminum frame. On the left-hand side,
we have Thundetrbolt three slash USB, four ports, two of them.
And then on the front, it looks the same.
You have the normal fee on the bottom with the different screws around it.
Let me go ahead and set this down and we'll open it up here
and it should turn on by itself.
We'll wait for it to boot up.
It usually doesn't take too long and there's a couple of nice things that we
have in here. Of course we have touch ID just like we've had for a while.
Now we have the touch bar and they kept the escape key, which is great.
If you're a programmer or you just want a physical escape key and you'll see the
keyboard layout is pretty much everything we expect and it's back lit as well.
So if I turn the lights off,
you'll see that it's back lit it light up a little bit and turn the
keyboard up. You can turn it up or down and you get the idea.
So the Mac book air is wedge-shaped. The MacBook pro is not.
So let me bring these together here.
You'll see the MacBook pro is not wedge-shaped so it's a little bit different
there.
And the MacBook pro is a little bit heavier at three pounds or 1.4 kilograms.
The air is 2.8 pounds or 1.29 kilograms.
So there's a slight weight difference, but you get a much bigger,
bigger battery in the Mac book pro. Now let me go ahead and set this up.
I'll compare a few things and we'll see what it's like to use for a little bit
with some intense tasks. Now, one thing I wanted to point out,
I showed in my Mac book air unboxing is when you first set up your new Mac book,
you have an accessibility option for vision motor hearing or cognitive help.
So if you need a little extra help, it's right at the beginning.
I love that they put this here and I just wanted to point that out.
So I'll go into the Apple here,
go to about this Mac and you can see it's the 16 gigabyte variant.
So this is 16 gigs of Ram. The Mac book air has eight gigs of Ram.
Let's go ahead and close this. And this has two terabytes of storage.
The Mac book air has 512. We'll go into geek bench five.
And in geek bench five,
you can see it's clocked at 3.2 gigahertz has 16 gigabytes of Ram where the
Mac book air has the same clock speed,
3.2 gigahertz and has eight gigs of Ram. If we run the CPU benchmark,
I would expect them to be the same,
but let's go ahead and run that and see what we've got. Now,
the geek bench score is completed and you can see that the Mac book pro was
slightly slower.
Now I would think this is because there's a lot going on in the background.
It's completing a lot of tasks. As you can see here with i-STAT menu,
the CPU is in use and it got this score.
So the CPU's doing some work in the background.
If we go to activity monitor and open it up,
we can see what's using the CPU and the process named
bird is using the most.
So that's using utilizing 88% of the CPU right now doing some
tasks in the background, completing setup. So for it to actually get those,
those scores while doing work in the background is fairly impressive,
but they're the same CPU. So I would think they're the same.
And also this is running Mac iOS 11.0 will need to be updated.
Let me go ahead and go to the we'll close this,
and then we'll go to the compute score and we have open cl of course,
let's just run it and see what we get. We'll go ahead and run the compute score.
And there we go. This time,
the compute score was actually higher on the MacBook pro at 19,049,
verse 18,724.
And so there's a little bit of a difference there.
Let's go ahead and close that and let's see if we see any difference with
another application. And maybe I can really push this,
see if we can get it a little bit warm.
Normally these don't hardly get hot at all.
And since the MacBook air doesn't have a fan in it and the pro does,
let's see what we can do.
I'll open cinema bench and sort of push this machine as much as I can here.
So we've got cinema bench AR 23.
We'll go ahead and wait for it to load on both.
Let me close out geek bench and activity monitor.
We'll do the same here and let's go ahead and do a CPU
multi-core test and see what happens here. So you'll see,
there's still processes going on in the background on the Mac book pro,
but let's see what we can do and push it and see what kind of scores we get.
So we'll go ahead and hit start and let's see what happens here.
So it's performing a render test. Now,
a couple of things to note on the Mac book pro you can see here's the different
load averages and the MacBook pro just started to spin up its
fan. I can barely hear it. It's super quiet, but it is there.
So the fan is spinning.
Let me move my microphone and see if you can actually hear it as well.
Another thing to note is the temperature of these is fairly cool.
The temperature sensor on this wasn't working.
So I don't know if Apple doesn't allow that here,
but the Mac book air feels a little bit warm right here on a previous
generation Mac book air. This would be hot right now.
It's just a little bit warm on the Mac book pro I can feel a little bit of heat
here as well,
but one thing to know is that the CPU's are maxed out and not throttling.
So we'll see what happens,
but it's at 99% utilization on both of them, which is really impressive.
You can see that it's spiking the CPU and it's just staying there as it
completes this task. So it's really impressive. Now,
you'll see that Cinebench completed on the Mac book pro it's still going on the
Mac book air, and now it just completed. So on the Mac book,
air is scored at 7,214 on the Mac book pro it's scored at
7,713,
because it was able to keep the processor cool enough to keep pushing at full
speed. So let's go ahead and try a single core.
We'll push it again and see what it's doing. Now.
Keep in mind the batteries at 12% on the Mac book air.
So I've never charged the MacBook air other than the transfer that I showed you
earlier with the Thunderbolt cable.
So let's go ahead and see what this does with single core and see how it
sustains the load.
The peak load on the MacBook pro was 29 where the MacBook air is
11. So it's pretty interesting. And we'll give it a little bit.
Now cinebench is completed for single core and the Mac book pro was one point
better at 1,493 verse 1,492.
The multi-core is where there was the biggest difference because you could
sustain the loads with the pro a little bit longer. So you had a higher score.
So sustained with doing multi-core intensive tasks will work better on the,
on the pro.
Obviously let's go ahead and close out cinema bench and
let's go ahead and close that out.
And let's take a look at S and see if there's any difference exporting video.
And then I'll try a couple apps that people were asking about.
Now I did have to plug in the Mac book air because the battery got really low.
It's the first time I've plugged it in. And the test only used about 6%,
but still let's go ahead and see what we can do.
So I'll delete the generated media files.
This is the exact same video I imported into final cut pro
it's actually my iOS 14.3 beta one video we'll go to
file share, and we'll go to master file.
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And we'll go to settings. We'll make sure they're the same.
We'll go to video and audio H dot two 64.
And so this is actually H.265 footage.
It will be eight gigabytes when it's completely compressed and rendered,
we'll hit next.
I'm just going to select the same place we'll hit. Save hit,
start on the stopwatch, see how long it takes and let's open it up.
Now I disconnected the Mac book air from power we're at 30% battery.
And let me show you the CPU here as well.
You can just kind of get an idea how it's spiking and we'll see how fast it
exports.
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So the MacBook pro was able to complete this task in about 12 minutes and 10
seconds where it took about 43 to 44 more seconds for the Mac
book air to complete the same thing. Now,
one thing I didn't mention at the beginning of the video is it took 12 minutes,
but this is an eight minute video. Now, normally it would be faster.
It just depends on how you encode this, but that's pretty impressive,
either way, depending on how many titles you have and everything else.
So let's go ahead and close that, move this out of the way.
Let's take a look and see if disk speed test is any different.
Now I've got disc speed test open on both,
and we've got it set to one gigabyte on both.
So I'll go ahead and hit start and let's see, they should be about the same,
although, because the MacBook pro has a bigger drive. It's possible.
It'll be faster,
but right now they're both getting about 3,600 megabytes per second, right?
And 2,400 read
2,800 read on the MacBook air. Now this is actually a Rosetta app.
It's running an application through Apple's software that allows it to run
virtually through here, since this is an M1 Mac,
this app is not optimized for it. So you'll see,
it's actually a little bit slower.
Read speed on the Mac book pro at 2,400 megabytes per second, verse 2,800,
which is kind of interesting, but either way, it's very fast on both now,
along with what I've already shown, this will run Microsoft office apps,
no problem running them from the app store. I showed that on a different video,
but also this will run Adobe's products, but those are not native apps.
So they will install and work, but they're not native.
You also have the option for iPad and iOS apps.
So if you want to watch or want to try anything from the optimized
Mac apps to say,
we'll say pixel Mader for photos, that's what I use.
And up at the top, you have iPhone and iPad apps.
So you can switch between iPhone and iPad apps, but not everything is supported.
Now one major difference between them is their battery.
The MacBook pro has a larger battery of 58.2 watt hours versus
49.9 watt hours.
So you get a couple more hours of use out of the MacBook pro 17 hours of
wireless web verse, 15 and 18 hours of Apple TV,
verse 20.
And both of them only support one external monitor up to six K a pro display
XDR or anything else, but just one,
it will use the monitor on the display here and the other monitor,
or you can close it in close clamshell mode.
Now one area where the MacBook pro is a lot better is in its speakers and also
its microphone. So let me move the Mac book air over,
and let's go to quick time and go to file new movie recording
and let's record from the Mac book itself.
So now I'm recording from the MacBook pro with its studio microphones.
It has the same sort of studio microphones as you get with the 16 inch Mac book
pro for example, but we still have a seven 20 P webcam.
So they haven't improved that at all,
but it should be better due to the neural engine. It should respond better,
have better lighting. I'm not sure that it's great,
but it's fine for web calls and things like that, but not for video recording.
So just keep that in mind. We'll go ahead and hit stop there.
And then we'll go ahead and export as a seven 20 P video that's as high as
you can go and MacBook pro webcam,
we'll see how fast it is to save and we're done.
We'll delete it. And now I have it saved. So it's pretty good.
That way let's take a listen to the speakers. So let me open YouTube here.
I'll maximize this and we have 4k
resolution. Let me move the microphone so you can hear it.
Let me know with notifications and that's it. So that's pretty simple.
There's also some additional updates to music as well.
So whatever you were last playing will show up. Of course,
speakers do sound pretty good, and they've got a nice wide stereo sound.
And the display also goes a hundred nits,
brighter on the pro as compared to the air. So it is a little bit brighter here.
So let's go ahead and see if we can turn it all the way up.
We'll turn the, the, this all the way up. It'll be too blown out for the camera,
but you'll get the idea. We'll turn it back down.
And one thing do get on the Mac book pro because you have the touch bars,
you can adjust the keyboard brightness right here,
although it's disabled for some reason, so we can adjust it,
but not right now. So it's disabled.
Maybe it needs to sense that there's no light. Now I can adjust it.
So it sends that there was no light. I can adjust it from the touch bar here,
which I can't do on the Mac book air.
So that's pretty nice that we have that option. And once it senses light,
it doesn't allow you to adjust the keyboard brightness,
probably to save battery life.
Now both have wifi six and Bluetooth 5.0,
they support all of the previous versions of Wi-Fi eight Oh two dot 11,
a B G N a C and now AX with wifi six.
And they've got basically the same thing.
Although the Mac book pro has a larger battery.
So honestly I would go for the Mac book pro.
If you're going to upgrade the Mac book air at all, if you need more storage,
maybe I just jumped to the pro because it has that extra fan.
So it can process things a little bit more long long-term or if you want to edit
video or photos. And then also you get that longer battery life.
And if you like the touch bar, if you really don't, of course,
you can get the physical keys as well. Oh, I'll close the Mac book air,
and I know a couple of people will want to see this, even though I said it.
So again, you can run Microsoft word, for example, you'll see how fast this is.
Just kind of zipping through this. We'll download it and install it.
It'll take just a moment. So Microsoft word is downloaded.
So let's go ahead and open it up for the first time or wait for it here.
The first time we'll always take the longest. I'll just skip to read only mode.
We'll just zip through it. And now we're in.
So we can go to whatever document I'd like,
and now we can just use the document.
So it works just like you'd expect it's word.
And if you have an account with Aqua with office three 65 or any of those,
you can use it. And then again,
I've shown this works with Excel and all of those things as well.
So I wouldn't necessarily run out and get one of these if you use Photoshop or
premiere yet until they have more native support, but it runs those, okay.
Everything I've used so far has actually been really fast.
So I use final cut pro and pixel Mader pro everything's incredibly fast.
In fact, it's as fast as my Mac pro in my test.
So that's the part that's really impressive and surprising to me in regular
use. So I can edit HDS two 65 video, no problem.
And I think for most people,
the PO the pro is probably the correct one to get depending on what you want.
So it's great. It's light enough. It's close enough to the Mac book air,
but let me know if there's anything else specifically,
you want to know about it.
Hopefully Adobe will get their apps ready for this faster,
if you want to use their apps. But since they charge monthly,
I tend to use the Apple apps or final cut in those,
the other things that are alternate to that,
I also find they run better as well.
Let me know if you have any additional questions in the comments below and I'll
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