hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the 13-inch 2020 MacBook Pro now
this is the top-of-the-line version and it was ordered the day Apple announced
it but it took a while to get here because it's custom so it has the
top-of-the-line 2.3 gigahertz quad-core 10th generation intel core i7 CPU or
processor it turbo boosts up to 4.1 gigahertz
it also has 16 gigabytes of lpddr4 X memory as well as a one terabyte SSD so
let's go ahead and open the box up and take a closer look let's take the cover
off the box here there we go and here is the MacBook Pro and we'll talk more
about all the other specs and things in just a moment but let's take a look at
the box or what's in the box rather and we've got our USB C 2 USB C charge cable
that comes with it and then we've got our information or literature that comes
with it so let's take a look at this we've got a little pamphlet that says
welcome to your MacBook Pro we've got space grey stickers to match the space
grey MacBook Pro and it looks like there's just a little spacer in there
now we also have the charging brick let's take a closer look at this and see
what's included like I said this is the top-of-the-line version normally I'd
just slide these out it's not cooperating so this is a paper instead
of plastic so it looks like it's just going to rip when I take it off so you
can see it's a 61 watt USB C power adapter so that's the one that's
included there's no additional cable or anything you can pop this off by an
extension cable if you want to do that but it's not included with it and it's
something that I missed from the older Mac books and I've kept that part around
so that I can use this as sort of an extension cable now let's take the
wrapper off and take a closer look
and just like you would expect it's basically the same feeling as the
previous MacBook Pro and I'll compare that a little bit later on so we have
Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left hand side we've got two of them and then on
the right hand side again we have two more along with a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack on the bottom there's nothing really other than the four feet
you would expect and a couple vents one on each side so you have a vent here an
event on this side and then that's about it so it's nice and lightweight for the
most part it's 3.1 pounds or 1.4 kilograms so let's go ahead and open it
up and we'll take this sheet off of it and it turns on right away now we'll set
this up in a moment but let's go over some of the specs now the display is the
13 inch Retina display with true tone it's 2560 by 1600 with 227 pixels per
inch it also still has that 720p FaceTime camera in the front so we'll
take a closer look at that in a minute now it has the touch bar along with
touch ID which is really nice and the all-new well sort of new but old scissor
keyboard so it's no longer a butterfly keyboard the keys have nice travel just
like they do on the current macbook pro lineup the MacBook Air lineup everything
is now gone to this particular setup we also have the large trackpad which is
always nice and then that's pretty much it there's nothing terribly new other
than the specs that I've mentioned and this new keyboard but let's take a
closer look it should have better speakers and a better microphone as well
now for a quick size comparison before we set this up here is the 2016 MacBook
Pro so let me close this and you can get a better idea side-by-side what it looks
like now the new one is slightly thicker here's side-by-side so you can see that
it is a little bit thicker than before but I don't think most people will mind
because it has that newer keyboard in it so if we open the old one this is the
2016 MacBook Pro and then here is the 2020 MacBook Pro and they basically look
the same from top down but when it comes to the keyboard there's a huge
difference now on the old keyboard the key travel was very small or very
minimal and the throw on the keyboard was very little due to that butterfly
mechanism where Apple was focusing on being super thin and lightweight now on
the new keyboard the key travel is much greater it has much better feedback and
should be more durable over time so you have additional travel and basically
it's just a return to what we've always known in love now let's go ahead and go
through the setup and we'll select our language here then we'll click Next then
you want to select where you live so for me it's the United States then you want
to select your Wi-Fi network then we have the data and privacy we can learn
more click continue and I don't want to transfer any information now from my old
Mac to this Mac so we'll just click continue and then we need to sign in
with our Apple ID once you've signed in with your Apple ID you'll have terms and
conditions and you'll need to agree in order to use the Mac and here we can set
our password for the computer itself now on this screen it says find my and it's
just telling you that if you have find my on your phone or something like that
this will be added so if the laptop or the MacBook is stolen its activation
locked and you can locate it now we can do Express setup so we'll go ahead and
do that now on this page we can either share or not share our crash and usage
data with app developers and here we have screen time we can set it up or set
it up later we'll just click continue and here's series so if we want to ask a
question we can do that or we can turn it off it's up to you and we also have
hey and then our assistant so we can set that up later or now we'll click
continue hey Siri hey Siri open the Documents folder hey Siri show my
downloads hey Siri what's the weather
hey Siri what does the rest of my day look like and now it's setup and we can
just use Hey and then that phrase in order to ask our assistant to do any of
those things for us now here we can either improve Siri and dictation or
choose not to so I'm going to say not now I don't want to share my audio
recordings and this is all your files and photos and iCloud and this is
something I use often but I'm not going to check right now I can do it later
because it will take a long time to install all that information and
download it here so I'll just do that later but if you have a new Mac and
you're going from an old one you can do that and then here is File Vault disk
encryption so you can turn this on or turn it off and that's up to you and now
we have touch ID so we can set this up it's pretty simple we just tap on this
like this just like we did on touch ID iPhones if you have one of those or you
used to have one of those and then it says just use the edges of your finger
you just move your finger around and it Afeni kate's your finger it's one of the
best things about this Mac now why it doesn't have face ID yet I'm not sure
maybe in the future it will and then we can set up Apple pay or set it up later
I don't really want to use that right now and then we can choose our look
light mode dark mode or auto I tend to use Auto so it switches when it gets
darker outside it switches to the dark mode now we have true tone and true tone
is not something I like to use on Mac books because I want it to look as real
to what the actual image looks like so I don't want to use true tone and have the
image look I guess paper white when you see white so I don't want it on but I'll
turn it off later and that allows the display to look nice when you're reading
something but it really messes things up if you're trying to do photography or
video editing now we're at the home screen and what I'm going to do is
install a bunch of apps get this ready so we can run some benchmarks so we'll
run some benchmarks and compare it with the older MacBook Pro that I showed you
earlier as well as the 16 inch MacBook Pro from 2019 now here we have the 2016
MacBook Pro which was the top of the line at
time 13-inch and it's got the core i7 3.3 gigahertz dual-core CPU with 16 gigs
of LP ddr3 RAM then we have the 20 2013 inch macbook pro with the core i7 quad
core 2.3 gigahertz and 16 gigabytes of lpddr4 ram and then we have the 2019 16
inch MacBook Pro with the octa-core core i-9 2.4 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of
ddr4 ram so we'll run a CPU test and then a GPU test as well now as you can
see all the different scores for Geekbench
with the oldest being the slowest with single core at 748 and the fastest
multi-core being the 2019 since it has 8 CPU cores with 7276 now let's take a
look at the speed test or the compute test with metal now metal has finished
on all of these computers and as expected the 2016 came in the lowest at
5748 the 2020 thirteen inch came in at ten thousand three hundred and twenty
eight and the 2019 with its dedicated GPU came in at thirty thousand two
hundred and forty eight Unigine Heaven is installed on all of these devices and
I have the settings exactly the same ultra on all of them and let's see what
we get here now I would expect the 2019 to be the best as far as frame rates
just because it has a dedicated GPU so let's see what it does though now with
the same settings on all of them on the 2016 MacBook Pro I've got 13 frames per
second whereas on the 20 2013 inch macbook pro i've got 32 37 38 depending
on which one we're looking at and then on the 2019 macbook pro were at over a
hundred and twenty seven depending on what we're at so anywhere from 70 to 127
is what I saw on the 2019 16 inch macbook pro so you can see the
difference between all of them here now Cinebench is loaded on all of these
let's go ahead and run Cinebench and see what we get Cinebench completed and as
you would expect the oldest came in at the lowest at 899 points the 20 2013
inch came in at 1900 43 and the 2019 came in at 3480
now finally I want to do an export test to show you how quickly they can export
video compared to one another now that all the generated media files are
deleted I've got background rendering turned off and so it may be a little bit
faster if you had that but let's go ahead and export this we'll export it to
H dot 264 so they're all set up the same way we'll go next you can see they will
all be 1.8 7 gigabytes and then what we'll do is save them and hit start so
we'll go here save save and start and let's see how long this takes to export
now you can see there was definite advantages for the 2019 MacBook Pro 15
inch and of course the 2020 MacBook Pro 13 inch was much faster than the old
2016 so if you're thinking of upgrading from a 2016 and you do video editing
either of the 2019 or 2020 MacBook Pros are worth that jump I think as far as
the time it saves in exporting video now let's take a look at the CPU as you can
see it averaged somewhere around the three gigahertz mark give or take
depending on what it was doing and it did get pretty warm but it was keeping
the temperature low enough that it could keep the CPU up at a higher frequency
now during this test the fans are spinning up probably close to their
maximum speed so take a listen now
they're not terribly loud but it came in at about 50 decibels now the 20 2013
inch MacBook Pro if you select the core i7 option has a one terabyte SSD so
let's see how fast that SSD is so let's take a look at our options we'll use a
one gigabyte stress test so let's go ahead and hit start and right away the
write speeds are 2630 2.9 read speeds are a little bit lower at 23 hundred
give or take that's megabytes per second so two
gigabytes or gigabytes per second which is pretty crazy
so 2,600 or so and 2,300 for read speed now as far as the FaceTime camera as
Apple calls it it's only 720p so if we record from it you'll see the video is
just not that great but the audio should be pretty good it has all new studio
mics inside the MacBook Pro lineup and even the MacBook Air lineup and they
sound pretty good compared to this microphone so here's this microphone
that I use for every video and now here's the MacBook Pro microphones and
let me know which one you like best in the comments below now the new MacBook
Pro is on the right and let's take a listen to the speakers because they
should be greatly improved over the previous generation the 2019 16 inch had
great speakers so let's take a listen to this this is the video I just exported
and I have the volume set to the same level so
we've got it about half way on both so listen to this also have it remind you
or let you know if your if it's sensing an arrhythmia so you've got ECG here so
that so have it remind you or let you know if your if it's sensing an
arrhythmia so you've got ECG here now we'll turn them all the way up nice
feature that you'll have in that country now this is up to your government
whether or not you can have this and Apple has to work with them on that
that's a nice feature that you'll have in that country now this is up to your
government whether or not you can have this and Apple has to work with them on
that and so and so the speakers sound a little bit louder on the new one they
did rattle a little bit at full volume but they definitely have a nicer bass
sound on the newer one so I'm not sure if you could hear that but go back and
play and hear that and hopefully you can hear the difference between both of them
now as far as the keyboard experience on both they're very different so let's
take a listen to the old one and then the new one
and as you can see the sound is very different and of course I type a little
bit different than most people but I get the job done and you can hear the
difference between the two and I think the new one sounds a lot better and it
definitely has a lot more feedback so when you push down you feel a lot more
pushback from it and if you're a touch typist that will be great for you
because you'll have a much better ability to type now the new display goes
up to 500 nits of brightness I'm not sure that you're going to notice the
difference if I turn them all the way up here you'll see here's the touch bar
let's go into the brightness we'll turn it all the way up and they look about
the same the new one might be a little bit brighter but basically they're very
similar you'll be able to see the new one a little bit better outside it has
p3 wide color gamut and as far as connectivity the new one also has a toe
2.11 AC Wi-Fi BGA and and AC and also has bluetooth 5.0 it does not have Wi-Fi
6 so keep that in mind now the only thing I don't really care for on this
MacBook Pro is the touch bar it's not something I really use in fact I'd
rather have regular buttons up there but some people love it I'm just someone
that doesn't really use it at all now with this MacBook it seems to be holding
up well as far as speed and everything else and thermals it seems to be cooling
itself properly and it's staying at higher speeds without overheating so
Apple did a good job of keeping it cool as far as that goes
seems to be handling it well now if you're trying to consider this verse say
the 16 inch well it really depends on what you're doing if you're exporting
video the 16 inch is going to be much faster but if you're just typing
documents and things you may just want to look at the MacBook Air if you'd like
to see a separate comparison with that particular device let me know in the
comments below I'll leave a link to this wallpaper it's pretty standard Mac
wallpaper but if you'd like it I'll link it in the description also for iOS and
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