261,000 people watched our video from 3 weeks ago that told you guys not to buy a MacBook
Pro just yet, so if you’re one of those people, congratulations because Apple just
surprised everyone with the brand new 2020 13” MacBook Pros!
So in this video, we’re gonna talk about every single change to each of the new 13”
models, we’ll discuss why there’s no 14” MacBook Pro like some expected, and we’ll
talk about the other reason why there are a lot of people that are hugely disappointed
in this refresh.
But before we get into the bad news, let’s talk about the good news, because it’s monday
and we want our good news.
Both new 13” models now come with the new Magic keyboard, which is the most important
change because the old Butterfly keyboard in the previous model was carrying a horrible
reputation for being unreliable.
To sum up the issue, if dust or debris got under the keyboard, it could stop some of
the keys from working, so the new Magic keyboard completely fixes that, but it also feels so
much better to type on since it has a lot more key travel, so it’s a night and day
difference and there might even be some people upgrading for this keyboard alone.
Other than that, the rest of the changes are on the inside, meaning that the display and
everything else about it is identical.
For the $1300 model, the great news is that you now get 256GB of storage at that base
price, compared to only 128GB last year, so this new model basically matches up to last
year’s $1500 model, and you get a better keyboard.
And one huge change is that it’s now only a $100 upgrade to get 16GB of RAM compared
to $200 last year. Now if you don’t know if that upgrade is worth it for you, I’m
actually making a buyer’s upgrade guide right now which will help you decide which
model to buy and which upgrades to buy, so if you’re not already subscribed, click
that sub button below and make sure to also hit that bell icon so you don’t miss out
when I release that video!
And that’s basically the only changes coming to the base $1300 model, but the higher-end
$1800 model is where the real fun starts.
The biggest change is the upgrade to intel’s new quad-core 10th-gen processor, which uses
the new 10nm process and technology, so it’s going to be more efficient and powerful than
before.
With this also comes new integrated graphics that are much faster than before, so this
will be huge for a lot of people doing graphics work.
It also now comes with a 512GB SSD at the base price, which is a huge change because
that’s what the 16” MacBook Pro comes with, and you can also now upgrade it to a
huge 4TB of storage.
And another big change is that it comes with 16GB of even faster 3733MHz RAM, whereas last
year, it only came with 8GB of slower RAM, and you had to pay an extra $200 to upgrade
to 16, so there will be huge changes to our buyer’s guide this year, so stay tuned for
that.
Apart from that, the only other real change is that this $1800 model can now support a
6K display, which means it can now power Apple’s new Pro Display XDR.
So that was all of the good news.. Now let’s get into why people are disappointed.
The main reason is that the base $1300 model still comes with the same old 8th gen processor
that we had last year, which is really disappointing since the 2020 MacBook Air comes with 10th
gen chips across the board, AND the price dropped by $100 while this MacBook Pro stayed
at the same price, which is the second reason why people are disappointed.
However, we still recommend this 8th gen chip over the new 10th gen chips in the MacBook
Air because Apple chose not to connect the fan to the processors heatsink, so this MacBook
Pro will still run circles around it as we discussed in our video from yesterday.
And lastly, we’re still not getting WiFi 6 on either of these models, so that’s quite
a bit disappointing.
So why would Apple leave the base model with the 8th gen chip?
Well, for the past year, before today’s refresh, we’ve been recommending everyone
to buy the $1300 MacBook Pro model, and completely skip the $1800 model if you want more performance
because there honestly wasn’t a very big boost in performance going for the $1800 model,
which is obviously bad news for Apple.
But now, there is actually a huge difference between these two, so spending the extra cash
on the better model actually makes sense for some people, unlike last year where it made
more sense to go straight for the 16” MacBook Pro.
And another reason why Apple left the 8th gen chip is because of the rumored 14.1”
MacBook Pro that will be coming either at the end of this year or some time early next
year if there are production delays.
What we expect is that Apple is only going to upgrade the current $1800 model to the
new 14.1” model and leave the $1300 model alone.
This will give them the opportunity to upgrade that 13” model to the 10th gen processor
at the same time as they release the $1800 14.1” MacBookPro, so maybe that’s why
they left the 8th gen chip for right now.
And then a year after that, they’ll finally upgrade the lower-end $1300 model to the new
14.1” design.
Of course, this really sucks for us consumers, but Apple’s gonna do what they’re gonna
do to incentivize their more expensive laptops and maximize their profits.
So if you’ve been waiting for the 2020 MacBook Pro and you’re wondering which model to
buy, click that circle above to subscribe because our Buyer’s upgrade guide video
is coming tomorrow! Thanks for watching, and we’ll see you.. Tomorrow!