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Greg here and the 16 inch MacBook Pro is
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finally out and it addressed a lot of
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the complaints that people have had with
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Apple's laptop lineup however there is
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another laptop in this lineup that I
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actually had a pretty favorable review
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of just a few months ago and that would
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be the 13-inch MacBook Pro and even
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though the 16 inch MacBook Pro addresses
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a lot of complaints it's not necessarily
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the laptop for everyone so with the
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brand new 16 inch MacBook Pro and that
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older entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro
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out which one is right for you
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well first I think a really big factor
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for almost anyone is going to be the
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price of these machines so the
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entry-level MacBook Pro comes in at one
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thousand two hundred and ninety nine
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dollars and that is for the two USB C
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Thunderbolt 3 port model if you compare
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that with a brand new 16 inch MacBook
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Pro that starts at two thousand three
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hundred and ninety nine dollars and if
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you're doing the math that is a $1100
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difference but with the cravat that's
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because the entry-level 13-inch MacBook
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Pro only comes with 128 gigabytes of
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storage compared to the base model of
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the 16 inch which comes with 512
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gigabytes of storage as well as 16
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gigabytes of RAM as opposed to the 13
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inches eight gigabytes of RAM
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now some people could get by on just
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eight gigabytes of RAM however that
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storage at 128 is awfully low now you do
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have the options to spec that up to 256
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gigabytes for 1499 dollars but if you
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want the same 512 gigabytes of storage
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as the higher-end 16 inch model that's
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gonna cost you one thousand six hundred
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and ninety nine dollars and that's
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overall going to be a $500 difference
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between the entry-level 13-inch with two
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ports and then the higher-end 16 inch
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model of course with that 16 inch you
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could spec it out even higher than the
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base model and of course they even have
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that higher end based model which starts
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at two thousand seven hundred and ninety
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nine dollars not to mention that
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although I'm specifically talking about
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the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro in
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this video there are other 13-inch
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MacBook Pros that have four ports and
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those start at seventeen hundred and $99
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for a 256 gigabyte version
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alright next let's talk about the design
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of both of these laptops and at first
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glance both of these laptops share a
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very similar design language but there
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are a few key differences here first of
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all the 16 inch macbook pro is obviously
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much bigger in size this can be a
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positive point or a negative point
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depending on how you look at it one of
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those positives is that it does come
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with a bigger 16 inch display as opposed
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to the entry-level MacBook Pro which
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does come with a smaller 13.3 inch
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display the 16 inch also has reduced
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bezels making for an overall more
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efficient design but the display quality
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on both of them is pretty much identical
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albeit on the 16 inch you do get the
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additional option for variable refresh
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rates below 60 Hertz I personally
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haven't found these variable refresh
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rates to be all that helpful for me but
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if you are the type of person that can
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take advantage of that that is a plus
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now I think everyone likes a nice big
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display to look at but that also comes
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with some downsides as well first of all
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that 16 inch MacBook Pro is
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significantly heavier at 4.3 pounds
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compared to the 13-inch model which
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weighs just about three pounds not only
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is the 16 inch model thicker than the 15
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inch model but it's also noticeably
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thicker than the 13-inch model which was
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already slimmer than the old 15 inch
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overall that means the 13 inch MacBook
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Pro is a much better option for people
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who are planning to be super mobile with
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this device and if you frequent cafes
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with small tables or airplane seats with
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little legroom or you just carry around
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a smaller bag you'll appreciate the more
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compact design of the 13-inch model as I
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mentioned before I am comparing the
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highest end base version of the 16 inch
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macbook pro with the lowest and 13 inch
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so on the lowest end of the 13 inch you
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only have to Thunderbolt 3 USB C ports
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and that introduces minor pain points
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for example you can't charge the laptop
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on either side of the device like you
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could with the 16 inch version now you
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could rectify this by spending 1799
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dollars for the 4 port model of the 13
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inch which isn't featured in this video
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but if you are in the market for a 13
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inch model and you can live with just
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two Thunderbolt 3 USB C ports that is
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the model I would recommend I find it to
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be a better value than what you would
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spend for the
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higher-end for port configuration now at
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difference between the 16 inch and the
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13 inch is actually the keyboards with
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the 16 inch macbook pro introducing a
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magic keyboard which replaces the old
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butterfly keyboard found on the 13-inch
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models
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now I'll preface this by saying that
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butterfly keyboards have had a really
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bad reputation of breaking with stuck or
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repeating keys for a lot of customers
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but I personally have never experienced
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this issue with any of my butterfly
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keyboards even dating back to the
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original 2016 MacBook Pro where it
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introduced the butterfly keyboard design
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and for the most part I have not seen
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any major issues with the 2019 model of
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the butterfly keyboard which is the
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fourth revision of the butterfly
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keyboard
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Apple did introduce new materials into
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that design which was supposed to fix
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the stuck or repeat and key issue and I
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think it might have because I'm seeing a
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lot less reports of those 2019 models
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getting stuck or repeated keys and if
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there are any issues with a 2016 to 2019
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MacBook Pro with the butterfly keyboard
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Apple does have a four year replacement
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warranty whenever you purchase any of
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these laptops now in terms of just
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typing on them it's a toss-up because I
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have always liked the way the butterfly
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keyboard felt and the shorter travel
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never bothered me I actually found it
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faster to type on them especially when
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doing short bursts of typing but the
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magic keyboard on the 16 inch combines a
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lot of the tactile punchiness of the
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butterfly keyboard into an older design
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that uses traditional scissor switch
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mechanisms and gives you an enhanced 1
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millimeter of key travel so it's really
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the best of both worlds the magic
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keyboard on the 16 inch also
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incorporates a physical Escape key which
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is going to be a welcome addition for a
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lot of users now in terms of actually
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typing on either the 16 inch or the 13
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inch for me personally it's a toss-up so
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I would say it's a tie that being said
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because there have been reliability
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issues with the butterfly keyboard in
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the past I would have to automatically
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give the win over to the 16 inch MacBook
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Pros keyboard because that scissor
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switch mechanism is a lot less likely to
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fail plus I think most customers aren't
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like me and they would appreciate the
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additional key travel on the 16 inch
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model now moving on MacBook Pros have
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always had what I would call pretty good
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speakers for a laptop and the 13-inch is
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no exception here it provides some
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pretty great audio for a laptop well I
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guess that's until I heard the 16 inch
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MacBook Pro speakers which redefines the
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quality you would expect from a premium
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laptop
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[Music]
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so easy
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[Music]
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that's not to say the 13-inch speakers
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are horrible because they're still
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better than a lot of other laptop
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speakers but when you listen to the
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16-inch speakers with their better bass
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and overall richer sound it's noticeable
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that the 13-inch just isn't up to par
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speaking of which the microphone on the
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16 inch is now also much better than the
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13 inch model and while I think it
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sounds great especially for inbuilt
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laptop microphones and you can
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absolutely podcast with them and sound
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pretty decent they still aren't better
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than a real dedicated microphone so it
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might not be a huge deal to most people
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this is a test recording using the 16
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inch MacBook Pros internal microphone
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this is a test recording on the 13-inch
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MacBook Pros internal microphone okay
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how about another important metric for a
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lot of consumers battery life now you
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might think that the 16 inch MacBook Pro
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with its huge new battery inside of it
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would make a huge difference over the
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entry-level 13-inch model now battery
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life is going to vary a lot depending on
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what you're using your laptop for now
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Apple rates the 16 inch MacBook Pro at
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11 hours completely using it for
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wireless web browsing using that sort of
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metric we can expect the 16 inch MacBook
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Pro to get around 10 hours and 50
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minutes of battery life usage using that
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same Ridgid metric of just using the
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macbook pro as a web browser would get
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you around 10 hours and 30 minutes of
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continuous battery life again people do
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not really just use their laptops for
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web browsing so this is a very
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unrealistic test but it can kind of give
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you a glimpse that the battery life
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between both of these devices are
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actually pretty similar now you might be
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asking how is that possible when the 16
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inch MacBook Pro has such a bigger
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battery inside of it well that can be
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due to a couple of things so for example
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a 16 inch macbook pro has a bigger
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display that's going to have more of a
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battery drain than the smaller 13.3 inch
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display the 16 inch MacBook Pro also has
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more power hungry intel chips inside of
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them and also a dedicated graphics card
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so depending on what you're doing that
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will cause the battery to drain faster
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speaking of those chips
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what kind of performance difference can
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you expect from going with the lowest
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end 13-inch MacBook Pro with its core i5
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quad core processor and then going up to
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the 16 inch MacBook Pro with its beefy
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8 core I 9 well if we're going by
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everyone's favorite benchmark Geekbench
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you can get a single core score of 944
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and a multi-core score of 3000 899 on
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the entry-level 13-inch model if we
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compare that to the 16 inch model with
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the core i9 2.3 gigahertz we are getting
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a single core score of 1103 and a
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multi-core score of 6417 again those
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numbers really don't mean anything
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they're just a benchmark so I wanted to
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do a real-world test of exporting a 4k
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10-minute video project in ProRes now
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obviously the 16 inch MacBook Pro
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finished faster at this export finishing
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in at 5 minutes and 2 seconds the
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13-inch MacBook Pro took 8 minutes and
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55 seconds to complete the same exact
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export so roughly about a 4 minute
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difference between both of those export
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times another difference I wanted to
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test out is the graphics power because
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the 13-inch model is using an integrated
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graphics card while the 16 inch model
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has a dedicated graphics card to test
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out these graphics cards I used the
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Unigine heaven benchmark and set both of
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the machines to high settings at the end
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of the test the 13-inch MacBook Pro got
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an average FPS of 30.6 with an overall
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score of 772 with the Intel iris plus
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graphic 645 running that same test on
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the 16 inch MacBook Pro I got an average
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frame rate of 82.5 and an overall score
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of 2078 with the Radeon Pro 5500 M with
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4 gigabytes of video memory so running
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that test we are seeing more than double
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the performance in terms of graphics for
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the 16 inch model and yes you're not
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surprised this is to be expected the 16
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inch macbook pro has much more powerful
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CPUs and a much more powerful GPU than
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the entry-level 13-inch model that's to
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be expected with a beefier 6 to 8 core
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and dedicated graphics card however I
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thought it was important to show you
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these results so you know what sort of
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expected increase in perform
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you can get when you're spending more
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money because maybe you don't mind
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waiting for longer exports in Final Cut
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Pro 10 or maybe your work doesn't
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involve graphics demanding tasks or
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maybe you just value increased
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portability above all else and at this
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point you probably notice in this video
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that there hasn't been any sort of
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scoring system and that's on purpose
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because in the end there is no clear
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winner between both of these laptops
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that's because people's tastes and needs
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are different some might prefer
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portability thinness and lightness and
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an overall more inexpensive laptop while
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others want the biggest display best
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performance and don't mind spending at
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least two thousand and four hundred
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dollars to have it all and as a viewer
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you need to decide which of these
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features between the 16 inch and 13-inch
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are ultimately more important to you and
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as a viewer you should also be aware
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that refreshes of the 13 inch MacBook
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Pro are expected by next year with at
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least an update changing the Butterfly
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keyboard to the new magic keyboard found
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in the 16 inch model so if you came away
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watching this video and you absolutely
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want a smaller sized MacBook Pro but
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hate the keys on the 13-inch model or
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you are worried about their reliability
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I would recommend waiting until 2020 to
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purchase a new laptop if you can but
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ultimately in the end there is no
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perfect laptop and both of these
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machines have their pros and cons but
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with that being said hopefully this
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