hey guys it's max in front of me I have two of Apple's brand-new laptops we have
the 2020 MacBook Air that was released about a month ago and Apple just updated
their MacBook Pros unfortunately there was no redesign it looks identical as it
did in the past but we have some changes now so we did this video a month ago but
in that video we actually use the i-5 MacBook Air and so this time around we
have the i3 the base model the one that we now recommend will let you know why
in just a bit and in this video we're not only going to be covering the
displays keyboards performance we're going to cover a lot more with some
surprises that you guys probably don't know about so let's go ahead and get
started we're gonna start out with the exteriors and you guys might notice that
these look so similar you really can't tell them apart we're gonna keep the
MacBook Air on the left-hand side one big change for 2020 is that both these
laptops now come with magic keyboards so the magic keyboards they've got rid of
the butterfly keys that have very low travel they weren't that reliable we
have more key travel now the keyboard feels great a lot of people bought
MacBook Airs because this keyboard now we have that with the MacBook Pro as
well now above these keyboards you guys do notice that we have a touch bar on
the MacBook Pro some people like them your little icons can switch depending
on what applications you have open but other people really don't like them
thankfully our skate key is separate now and then our fingerprint touch ID sensor
is on the side so those changes are nice but you get that the MacBook Pro with
the air if you want to avoid that you don't have to deal with it below our
touch pads are pretty much the same in looking at it from the open position
they look very similar but there is one difference the MacBook Air has its
iconic wedge shape where it gets very thin at the bottom here and that means
that for long typing sessions you don't end up getting you know literate
pressure on your wrists from this boxy slate design of the MacBook Pro it's
just a little bit more comfortable there's a couple more minor differences
Mac Pro's trackpad is actually just slightly larger but not enough to notice
and then as far as weight the new MacBook Pro is 3.1 pounds compared to
2.8 both got a little bit thicker a little bit heavier because of the
keyboards but it's also hard to tell a difference there and both of these for
the base model MacBook Pros they have two Thunderbolt three ports on the
left-hand side and a headphone jack and now let's talk about the displays both
of these are thirteen point three inches they use Apple's retina displays we have
just over four million pixels with a sixteen by ten aspect ratio great
displays but we do have some differences the first difference is brightness the
MacBook Air comes with the display that's rated at 350 nits sometimes it
scores closer to 400 whereas the MacBook Pro comes with a 500 nits brightness
display that means it is noticeably brighter especially if you're outdoors
where there's lots of reflections or in a bright room if you work in those kind
of scenarios often the macro Pro is definitely ahead and there's also a
difference in color accuracy if we take a look at this box you'll see that the
MacBook Air just has a solid color whereas the MacBook Pro you see the
circle you see the logo inside that's because the MacBook Air doesn't support
P 3 wide colors and this shade literally cannot be displayed on the MacBook Air
screen now that doesn't mean that the MacBook Air is inaccurate for most
people it's fine but the MacBook Pro can help show about 25 percent more colors
and that is great if you're doing raw photo editing you're doing video editing
and things like that now both of these MacBooks feature 720p webcams this is
the microphone and webcam quality from the 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro and this is
the webcam and microphone quality from the 2020 MacBook Air you guys let me
know if you noticed any differences in terms of microphone or video quality
down in the comment section and now it's time to compare the speakers go ahead
and put on your best pair of headphones and let's take a listen
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know your thoughts down in the comment section but I definitely noticed a
couple differences first off the MacBook Pro does sound better as richer deeper
bass maybe more full mids sounds more balanced but it's quieter and that's
weird because if you guys saw our previous comparison the MacBook Pro was
louder than the MacBook Air but not anymore so I don't know if they took the
2020s and they made the speakers a little bit quieter overall just so it
sounds better like they do the 16 inch MacBook Pros or maybe there's a variance
in machines but this time around the MacBook Air doesn't sound as good but it
definitely is louder let's start getting into performance starting off with SSDs
both have 256 gig SSDs even though they have the same size SSDs the MacBook Pros
are faster the MacBook Air got just under 800 779 right compared to 1,100
and on the reed and got 1,100 almost 1,200 compared to 1600 so the capacities
being the same doesn't mean that the speeds are the same and now let's take a
look at CPU performance I have Geekbench 5 open right here I'm
gonna go ahead and hit run and both these machines with their base back come
with eight gigs of ram which is great but only the MacBook Air features
Intel's latest 10 generation processors the one in this machine is an i3
dual-core but I'll also give you performance numbers for the i-5
quad-core which we tested previously whereas the MacBook Pro even though this
is a 2020 we still have the same 1.4 gigahertz I 5 quad core that's an eighth
gen so it's multiple generations old now Apple decided to stick with that if you
want a 10 gen CPU in the MacBook Pro you have to spend at least $1,800 and we
have our results which are interesting even though this MacBook Air is a dual
core i3 the single core performance is actually almost 15% higher than the
quad-core MacBook Pro that's because of those 10 generation chips but if we look
at multi-core our MacBook Pro with gen quad-core processor that actually
gets about 80% higher performance now of course we are comparing a dual-core
against a quad-core and with the MacBook Air you could spend $100 more and you'll
get an i-5 quad-core just like this one is but its attention but there we'll end
up getting about 3200 so we're still off I'll explain exactly why that is in a
second but first let's take a look at graphics I'm gonna go ahead and run the
metal test in Geekbench 5 and I do want to let you know that this I 3 comes with
pretty good graphics g4 10th generation Apple didn't use the cheapest until
graphics and the 8th gen chip and here Apple use the better graphics as well
for that time so it's going to be interesting seeing how they compare and
we have our results they are fairly close but surprisingly the MacBook Pro
with its older graphics actually beats out we have 6100 compared to 5700 now in
the past this MacBook Pros scored quite a bit lower but I think it's just driver
optimizations or other improvements that got the score up and the MacBook Air
always got these results with a g4 graphics but if you do spend a hundred
dollars extra on the i-5 that gets g7 graphics at that closer to the 1,800 our
MacBook Pro and then that will get about 9000 so a big improvement
now let's push the graphics even further I have Unigine Heaven benchmark open
here this is a gaming benchmark it's gonna put a big load on the graphics
chip and I've had it running for just a little bit now and it's very interesting
to see the differences as far as fan noise and temperatures the MacBook Air
has been at a hundred degrees pretty much the whole time since I started it
and the fans are just now starting to ramp up same thing with the MacBook Pro
except the macro car is at 91 degrees overall for the CPU package and we're
running out 4000 rpm so let's give it a little bit more time we'll see how they
compare and now we're nearing the end of the test the macro pros fans spun up
it's at 83 degrees compared to these fans also spun up a little bit quieter
though running out a hundred degrees Celsius and here are the results we have
6.3 FP yes on the air and 10.7 on the macro pro
not double but getting that it's a big difference in performance and if you're
wondering about the i-5 with the g7 graphics that are better than these it
actually got 9.0 in our previous test now the reason why we don't recommend
that is because of thermals and that's why you got 9.0 instead of actually
beating the MacBook Pro out like it should of now let's get into our thermal
comparison I'll show you guys a big difference between these laptops
even though Apple updated both of these laptops they didn't change anything with
the cooling systems the MacBook Pro the base model still has a single fan where
the top-end model has dual fans you guys should check out that comparison and the
MacBook Air has a fan but it does not have a heat pipe connected to the CPU
when you're using these laptops they get quite hot too the MacBook Airs do and
they tend to slow down as well which is why we're seeing such a big difference
in performance and even the quad cores aren't performing where they should be
performing so here's an example for you guys here I have a 4k 60 video opened up
go ahead and play it on both here the MacBook Air instantly shot up to a
hundred degrees Celsius our fans are spinning up whereas the MacBook Pros at
65 degrees Celsius the fans are turned off zero rpm completely turned off and
this is definitely a more extreme kind of scenario let's go ahead and just
switch to 1080p 60 instead of 4k 60 iLike watching 4k cuz everything just
looks better even if your screen isn't 4k and here the MacBook Air is running
at 83 degrees Celsius 86 whereas the MacBook Pro still at 64 this is Vienna's
off here fans running at 2700 rpm now this is the i3 model this is the dual
core this is the one that we recommend that's because we use the i-5 we had did
a bunch of tests and comparisons with it and the i-5 will run sometimes ten to
fifteen degrees hotter without quad core and then it runs even louder right now I
am downloading a game in the Epic Games store and as the video is being
downloaded it's also being decompressed or uncompressed and the MacBook Air
instantly went up to 100 degrees Celsius and the fans are starting to spin up
this is even the dual core i3 and compare it to the MacBook Pro we're
running at 70 degrees Celsius the fans are spinning at the lowest speed
possible now this is a medium to heavier task but a lot of different tasks like
this the MacBook Air will get it will start to heat up and then the fans will
kick up and then they'll start to get a little bit annoying I know a lot of you
guys commented and mentioned during zoom calls the fan is running loud and it's
these medium kind of tasks that really make me want to push people towards the
MacBook Pro now that we have the new keyboard it's gonna stay cool it's gonna
stay silent for most things that you throw at it whereas even the i3 with
these medium tasks it will heat up and it'll start to get louder the i5 and i7
even louder so with the MacBook Air I would suggest the i3 if you don't like
that fan noise and now finally let's put an even bigger load on it and we'll see
the differences in temperatures and frequencies and I'll also give you guys
the performance from the quad-core options on the MacBook Air and tell you
guys why I don't recommend it we're starting off the test here and as you
guys see the MacBook Air actually hit about 18 watts only not that high
the MacBook Pro hit 40 watts just over that's a big difference in wattage and
as far as the temps the MacBook Air pretty much instantly hit a hundred
degrees Celsius the Mac Pro is about 85 a much slower more gradual curve as far
as temperatures and frequencies both are staying up 2.7 3.0 and keep in mind this
is a quad core not a dual core and now the MacBook Pro is about halfway done
maybe a little bit more so temperatures are 95 degrees Celsius compared to 99
pretty much 100 on the macbook air is running at 3 gigahertz quad core
compared to two point three 2.2 dual-core an interesting thing to note
is that the MacBook Air with the i5 quad core we're running at about 1.5 right
now much lower frequencies because of the heat the MacBook Pros using 25 watts
compared to just nine on the air and as far as fee annoys the MacBook Pro is at
7,000 rpms now the fans are kick up really high to be able to maintain
that 3.1 gigahertz quad-core boost clock whereas the MacBook Air it's running at
5300 it's definitely quieter and that's because we have the i3 when we tested
this with the i5 it also was very loud and finally our results are finished
with the MacBook Air six hundred and nineteen points compared to a thousand
five hundred and fifty six more than two and a half times the performance for
three hundred dollars difference in base price now of course you can get a quad
core tension with the MacBook Air that actually got nine hundred and nineteen
points even though it has twice as many cores so you guys could see the
difference in the thermal performance having the extra Headroom even with the
less efficient older processor that score is excellent and now it's time to
talk about prices in our final verdict so we have a three hundred dollar price
difference between these two machines in their base configurations but that
doesn't tell the whole story sure our SSD is the same our base ram is
the same but if you're somebody likes to have multiple programs open lots of tabs
you might want to go up to 16 gigs and ram with the MacBook Air that costs you
$200 whereas with the MacBook Pro that only costs you $100 and then if you want
a little bit more performance you don't want the i3 dual core you want the i-5
for the better graphics and the CPU that's another hundred bucks and then
we're getting closer and if you go for the i7 which you absolutely shouldn't
get you're up to 14:49 and it gets more expensive than the
MacBook Pro at 1400 and even with the i7 that gives you 3500 Geekbench score
instead of almost 4000 so if you care about performance whatsoever if you're
gonna be upgrading anything go for the MacBook Pro it is worth it it's a better
value overall not only that you also get a brighter screen that is more color
accurate as well and on top of that even if you get the i3 model with the MacBook
Air the MacBook Pro is going to be quieter and run cooler for a lot of the
tasks that you're going to be doing now that doesn't mean the MacBook Air is
a green machine it definitely is but we would just highly recommend if you're
buying one go for that $999 model even better check out the links in the video
description there's often discounts with some of the companies that we link out
to and that also helps to support the channel so get the base model use it
you'll be happy as long as you don't need to have good performance if you
care about performance I'd all go for the MacBook Pro get that $1,300 spec
spend another hundred bucks if you want 16 gigs at RAM and you'll have a great
performing machine with a nice new keyboard and definitely don't go for the
i7 for 300 bucks on this one either if you're gonna spend more money upgrade
more stuff take a look at our video where we compare against the 1800 r-spec
we'll have that linked right over there there's a lot of small differences that
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