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hey how's it gone guys this is Dave 2d so the new MacBooks are coming the ones I'm most interested in are the MacBook Pros so this is a preview based on the information that I've gathered now I think most of it to be quite accurate I can't guarantee any of it but let's get right into it okay first thing the 2016 MacBook Pros are going to be noticeably thinner and lighter than the outgoing models even the footprints will be smaller in terms of ports while they're Apple and they're pretty aggressive with cutting ports these days and they're pretty forward-thinking so there's an audio jack and there's four USB C ports that's it the two USB ports on the left support Thunderbolt 3 and then the other two on the right will just be regular USB 3 there's no SD card slot or any kind of display outputs you will need to rely on adapters for those so yeah with Thunderbolt 3 that means the potential for external GPUs superfast external devices you can even feed a pair of 4k displays at 60 Hertz or if Apple makes have 4k display with Thunderbolt 3 connection you can hook up one of those you can also power these laptops through the Thunderbolt 3 port this port is awesome the display resolutions will be the same for their laptops Apple always tries to hit a resolution where you're getting around 220 PPI so that's like the sweet spot where at normal laptop viewing distances your eye can't resolve anything finer than that or at least that's the theory the most unique feature of the new MacBook Pro is this a little OLED screen it's small it's just a strip of screen and they're calling it the magic toolbar it takes the space on the keyboard that used to be occupied by the function keys so the function keys can still be there if you need them but Mac OS and third-party applications can put their toolbars onto this little screen and I mean you can already imagine the functionality that this could bring from media play controls to photoshop tools I think it's going to be really useful and at the very least it's going to look super cool now on the right of this OLED strip is a power button it obviously turns the device on and off but it's also a fingerprint sensor like iOS devices so you can wake it from sleep and then login to your account pretty much instantly since these laptops are thinner the keyboards have to use butterfly switches the typing experience will be very similar if not chuckle to the 12-inch MacBook in terms of keystroke if you're only familiar with the previous generation of keyboards from Apple like their older MacBook Airs and pros this will take a bit of time to get used to because it only has one millimetre of travel but it is a good keyboard the trackpad uses apples for such so it's that solid-state trackpad with the taptic engine but because it's a bigger trackpad it gives users a significantly bigger surface area for any kind of multi-touch gesture but the cool part is that you can draw on it with the Apple pencil this trackpad is about 40% bigger than previous trackpad so you can essentially use it like a small Wacom art tablet there are speakers flanking the keyboard on both the left and the right the 15-inch MacBook Pros have always had these stereo speakers but for the 2016 models even the 13-inch MacBook Pros will have this placement also expect awesome sound the caliber of audio that comes from the 12-inch MacBook is fantastic so on these ones my money is on some really killer audio okay on the inside the new MacBook Pro is going to be running skylake chips these are the sixth generation chips from Intel not the newest KB lick but they still deliver really solid performance this diagram has a single fan this is for the 13-inch MacBook Pro the 15-inch MacBook Pro will have two fans because they have faster quad-core CPUs in terms of video cards still known video they're going with AMD Polaris chips as for which cards specifically I'm thinking the rx for atm it's an okay card low power consumption and Apple love that but in terms of just raw graphical compute it's kind of mediocre think gtx 960m you can play some low to moderate games with it which I mean it's okay but the thing that bugs me the most about it is the lack of CUDA cores because it's an AMD card and if you're an Adobe user like I am you don't get to use CUDA cores for GPU accelerated stuff you have to use OpenCL and I don't love that but if you're a final cut user you're gonna love this thing the RAM is going to be soldered on as usual not upgradeable my guess is that 16 gigs is what we're going to get at the top-end 32 gigs would be roomier and more comfortable but reality is very few people can make use of 32 gigs of ram for the drives with current Samsung nvm ease pushing ridiculously fast be I think these drives will be just as fast my guess 3000 maybe 30 500 megabytes per second read 2,000 right they can be pretty awesome battery life will be about the same as the previous generation they'll claim 9 to 10 hours but expect seven or eight still really impressive it's a thinner design so there's less real estate on the inside for the battery cells but Apple just has some of the best power optimization in the game okay so the new MacBook Pros are going to be really exciting but don't think that the older generation like the outgoing 2015 or even the 2014 models are obsolete or anything yeah they're not new technology but they're still really solid performance because the CPUs and these new ones aren't that much faster than the older generation the one thing that bugs me though is the choice of video card I understand that they have a great working relationship with AMD I totally get it but Nvidia I mean they've released a really cool card this year the 10 series are just fantastic it's like a 40 or even 60 percent jump in performance from the previous generation so Windows laptops are in for a real treat with this upgrade the AMD chips that they're good they're just not as good so that kind of bums me out but who cares it's the new MacBook Pro I'm sure a lot of people love them hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs have you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time