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force touch trackpad Thunderbolt to Intel Broadwell processors and a faster SSD the 2015 MacBook Pro has seen a pretty decent update but is it worth it take one look around and you'll see the design hasn't changed much that's not really a complaint though the retina MacBook Pro has been one of the best built laptops for a few years now and the 2015 model is no exception it's a solid aluminum chassis with some of the tightest tolerances out there and subtle touches like a nicely weighted hinge so you can open up the lid without picking up the entire laptop it's got a pair of decent speakers hidden on the edges by the ports the SS intakes for the fan the MacBook vens above the keyboard which can still breathe even with a lid closed the keyboard is still about as good as it gets for a laptop they could add just a touch more key travel in my opinion but it's nicely spaced and keeps the adjustable backlighting which automatically kicks on in darker environments something shared from the new MacBook is the force touch trackpad it looks the same however instead of being a normal click pad there's a tactic engine which vibrates the trackpad when you click it sounds bizarre but it actually works you can notice the lack of travel compared with a normal MacBook but it does feel like you're clicking turn off the laptop it's really trippy it moves a tiny amount but nowhere near as much as it feels like when it's actually on it's also pressure sensitive which lets you use the new force touch gesture in OS 10 for example the harder you press the more you fast forward in quick time with the slight bit of feedback as you go through each of the speeds the coolest way to use this is in Safari where you can force click on a link to preview before actually opening it it took me a few days to get used to it but the new try pad is a nice addition reports you've got an SDXC card reader HDMI and USB 3.0 on the right side along with MagSafe 2 for charging a pair of Thunderbolt 2 ports along with one more USB and a combo headphone microphone jack the Thunderbolt ports are the most interesting having that much bandwidth is mostly useful for high-end raid arrays and docks to give you things like extra USB ports Ethernet an HDMI off a single cable they also double as many display ports with the ability to drive 4k monitors at 60 Hertz it won't be buttery smooth but it is totally possible speaking of that screen the MacBook Pro is sporting a eighteen point three inch IPS display with a resolution of 2560 by 1600 while this has been passed by Windows laptops pushing resolutions up to 4k and practice the MacBook is more than sharp enough it's got solid viewing angles a far cry from the MacBook Air which washes out almost immediately OS 10 scaling is quite a bit better than on Windows 2 it scales the resolution by double giving you the same screen real estate as a 1280 by 800 displayed by default you can adjust this up to 1680 by 1050 but for me the sweet spot was 1440 by 900 giving you a decent amount of resolution without making things too tiny there are also apps like set res X that will drop the retina scaling altogether if you really need every single pixel which I use for some apps like speed grade things like the design and screen are important but a laptop is basically a paperweight without some decent specs the base configuration comes with a Broadwell Core i5 with iris 6100 graphics 8 gigabytes of RAM and I 128 gigabyte SSD compare this with the new MacBook and for the same price you get a 256 gigabyte drive but a much less powerful Core M processor we'll see how they actually compare soon so be sure to subscribe to catch my video on the new MacBook but the pro is looking pretty solid right now the 13-inch Pro I've got here is upgraded with the core i7 16 gigabytes of memory and a 512 gigabyte SSD one of the big behind-the-scenes upgrades on the new MacBook is a faster PCIe based SSD it's fast like the fastest SSD I've ever tested with read and write speeds over 1,300 megabytes per second things get a little as exciting when you look at the CPU though we're still looking at a dual-core chip across the board on the 13-inch MacBook if you want quad-core you'll have to take the step up to the 15-inch the new 14 nanometer Broadwell chips to keep the clocks relatively high even the base 13 inch starts at 2.7 gigahertz and goes up to 3.4 gigahertz with the core i7 still though we've only got two cores and the Geekbench numbers top out at just about half of what the 15-inch MacBook can muster on the graphics side things are a bit better the iris graphics are able to keep OS 10 running nice and smooth and it posts a solid improvement over the MacBook Air and last gen pro and Cinebench no one should buy a Mac for gaming but that graphics performance does make some light gaming possible minecraft runs no problem here with everything turned up and even of your title like Tomb Raider is playable as long as you don't mind turning down the settings a bit one of the biggest questions I've had was how the 13-inch pro handles video I've edited my last three videos with Adobe Premiere CC on MacBook and I've been pleasantly surprised it's able to keep up with editing 1080p AVC HD clips just fine only slowing down when I'm working with complicated effects where I really miss a quad-core CPU is when exporting but for the actual edit the 13-inch MacBook Pro is absolutely usable battery life isn't too bad either with wider use like listening to music and web browsing you should expect around 9 hours of longevity where things like gaming and video editing will bring that closer to 3 hours the MacBook Pro is an expensive laptop you do get a solid build excellent screen and press a new track pad and a blisteringly fast SSD the lack of dedicated graphics is a slight disappointment but not having a quad-core CPU option it's a big problem for a laptop at this price 95% of the time you won't notice but I would happily trade a couple hours of battery life to have the extra power when I need it if you're looking at a macbook the 13 pro is the best trade-off between power and portability but you're going to have to pay for it so what do you guys think about the new MacBook Pro let me know in the comments below if you enjoyed want to see more videos like this definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one