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hey guys this is Austin and this is a new 2016 15 inch MacBook Pro so I've been using the previous model to edit almost all of my videos for the last year and I've been pretty happy with it however this new MacBook is smaller and basically always while these MacBook look pretty similar at first glance apples actually made some pretty big updates to the pro some of the most noticeable things right off the bat is the keyboard so if you guys caught my video on the third change version of this laptop you'll know that I actually like the keyboard a fair bit sure it's fairly low travel however with that butterfly mechanism it actually feels pretty nice it's not even as good as something like a mechanical keyboard but it's actually really not bad for a laptop one big thing on the new MacBook is the trackpad it's seriously enormous like it's basically the size of my whole hand now my folks have had some of the best try pads on any laptop and this is no exception however one of my big issues is the fact that because that trackpad is so big it kind of gets in the way sometimes so to be fair there is pretty decent palm rejection so if you kind of leave your hand a little bit near it it will usually ignore it however a lot of times I find myself accidentally touching stuff on the trackpad just because it's pretty much the entire bottom of the laptop the speakers are a welcome improvement so while they're a little bit lacking in bass the highs are surprisingly clear and the volume is more than good enough the screen is also nice so we're getting that same size and resolution at 2880 by 1800 however it's now sporting the new Apple p3 color gamut it gets much brighter and honestly this is one of the better laptop screens out there it could be a little bit high resolution but there's not a lot to complain about if you hadn't guessed Apple kinda has the fundamentals of the whole building a laptop thing down by now however that's not all it takes to build a good lap top and that's where Apple is kind of taken a step away from what they've been doing in the past so the first and one of the most noticeable things right off the bat is the brand new touch bar so instead of having a standard row of function keys instead you have what's essentially a very small OLED screen built into the keyboard now this can be used for a lot of things so for example if you hold the function key you can bring up all your standard function keys so you're not really losing anything it's a cool addition but it doesn't really fundamentally change the way I use a macbook however what does are the lack of ports the new MacBook Pros have four Thunderbolt three ports and a headphone jack and that's it no USB a no HDMI no card reader you pretty much get what you get here this this is a bit of a nightmare however if you want to get a ton of pork so you don't really replicate all the stuff that you might be able to get without a laptops this is not that crazy to set up so of course with four Thunderbolt three ports that are all based on USBC well it's a great port you can do a lot of adapters off of it you kind of have to do a lot of adapters off of it to do much of anything so say that you want to connect your new MacBook to Ethernet well if you want to do it the Apple way you're going to pick up a Thunderbolt three defendable to adapter and then a thunderbolt to two gigabit ethernet adapter that's running about $60 for the pair want to say connect an optical drive no big deal just get the USB c2a adapter and of course a good old Apple super drive another 90 bucks but oh no that's not enough ports how dare you only need an Ethernet and an optical drive so we have a wide variety of different dongles to choose from on the other side of the macbook you want to connect something like maybe an HDMI monitor no big deal just get the multi port adapter which is going to run you a cool $50 now on sale not only can we actually charge our macbook through the adapter which is helpful since we're using all the other ports for dongles but this also gives us another USB port which of course we're using for card reader because you know the MacBook doesn't have a card reader anymore but one USB port who do you think we are non USB port but of course one USB port is nowhere near enough that's where this adapter comes in so not only are we going to get four USB 3.0 ports off the adapter but all you need to do is just plug it into the wall to give enough power to supply to all of our devices as well as pick up a USB see two USB micro-b cable to actually connect via data because this is complicated - oh no this is clearly the most functional package that you could possibly hope for with your macbook pro or not okay I'll be the first to admit this is more than a little bit ridiculous however all of these kind of taken by themselves are actually not that crazy sure if you didn't want to have to go the Apple approach you can get a USB see two Ethernet adapter for example some of the t1 and t3 s you can swap the cable out to be native USB C but the bottom line is for a lot of the pro things that you want to do and even some more the standard things you're going to need a lot of adapters with this new MacBook however with the help of the new LG 5k ultra fine monitor you can see our cable situation is just a little bit cleaner so an LG hit me up and wanted a sponsored video with their new five display a bigot this would be the perfect opportunity to show it off now there's actually a lot that is cool about Thunderbolt 3 most notably this entire setup is running off of a single Thunderbolt 3 cable so with the single cable the MacBook is able to drive the 5k display and the monitor is able to send power back to the MacBook so I don't need to plug it in and on top of that we have three additional USB sea ports on the back of the display mean we can plug in all of our peripherals in a much cleaner way there is a smaller 4k ultra fine option out there however if you have the 15-inch MacBook Pro you can actually power two of these 5k displays with the single laptop when you pair the ultra fine with the new MacBooks you actually get a lot of cool extra features so not only can you control things like brightness from inside the settings here but you're also getting that same p3 color gamut which is exactly what you're going to get on a 15-inch MacBook and with that crispy crispy 5k resolution you're getting some seriously beautiful pixels believe me I try I looked at every single one of the pixels and they're all how 2 percent beautiful you're also getting some surprisingly decent built-in speakers especially when you consider that they're from a monitor and on top you're getting a webcam it's a really solid package I gotta say if you're getting one of the new MacBook Pros you should definitely look into the ultra fine displays it should be no surprise that the new MacBook Pros are expensive so while it starts at 2400 dollars for the 15-inch model you can spec it up to over $4,000 so the model I had here has the 2.9 Hertz core i7 16 gigabytes of memory the Radeon pro 460 graphics and a one terabyte SSD these are pretty suspects for a laptop however there are a couple of key things missing one of the biggest is that there is only one option for RAM on the MacBook and that is 16 gigabytes so while that's not a huge deal for me a lot of pro workloads can absolutely benefit from 32 gigabytes of RAM the new MacBooks are also rocking skylake processors instead of the latest 7th generation Intel KB Lake chips now this isn't a huge deal for performance while KB Lake is a small improvement it isn't a massive difference over skylake however what is a little bit of an odd choice is that this actually has lower end integrated graphics unlike the last generation model which had Irish graphics standard by default and an option to go to dedicated graphics the new iPad pros have the less powerful HD graphics 5:30 on the integrated side however it makes up for that with dedicated graphics across the board compared to both the base model as well as the upgraded dedicated model of last year you'll see the Radeon Pro 460 graphics in the new MacBook are a big step forward however if you look at the geek pinch for scores you'll see that while on the single thread side the new MacBooks are slightly faster I'm a multi threaded they're actually a little bit slower in the real world you really shouldn't notice any difference on the processor side where those improved dedicated graphics should make a pretty big difference battery life on the 58 book has never really been the strong suit it's about the same on the 2016 model so with fairly light use you're getting anywhere between 5 and 6 hours however if you're doing something heavier like video editing then you should expect more like 2 or 3 so is this the future of laptops kind of ah I don't know on one hand the hardware is nice there's a lot of core things that make the MacBook a very nice laptop to use however the biggest hang-up for me are the ports sure 2 3 4 years from now I think will be pretty much entirely switched over to us BC and Thunderbolt 3 however in the meantime hashtag dongle like 2016 so what do you guys think about the new MacBook Pros let me know in the comments below and if you missed it you can check out my isn't worth that episode on the 13 inch version of the new MacBook anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one