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yo guys jozhin here and this is the brand new just released 2019 13 inch MacBook Pro specifically this is the lower tier entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro which now features touch bar and prior to this you dish out a minimum of eighteen hundred dollars to get touch bar on a macbook whereas this comes at $12.99 and that's huge it's also packin a t2 chip which is super underrated a quad core processor and more importantly the MacBook lineup finally makes sense after they sadly caught up to 12-inch MacBook and put the non-retina MacBook Airs out of their misery so when Apple finally updated the MacBook Air last year I thought it made the baseline 13-inch MacBook Pro look a little silly on paper the MacBook Pro looked faster and everyone gave the MacBook Air so much crap for the lower clock CPU it was low voltage in a reality performance between those two was nearly identical yes the MacBook Air had a lower clock CPU yes it was lower voltage but in reality that was a newer 8th gen chip versus the seventh gen processor in that MacBook Pro that hadn't been updated since 2017 on top of that because of the low voltage CPU and it's baby charger that equated to much better battery life which i think is way more important for most people looking at a laptop at that price point and the inclusion of t2 was bigger than most people give it credit for so t2 awesome touch bar can be cool it's not a game changer but what I was most interested with this MacBook Pro was the processor specifically this is a quad core chip with a really interesting 1.4 gigahertz base clock yes Taron I know you're water-cooled rig is super fast but slam the brakes on those sweet cherry MX is this CPU I promise you might surprise you and that measly 1.4 gigahertz base clock turbos up to 3.9 gigahertz so I've said it before I'm not the biggest fan of synthetic benchmarks so you just like to dive in and see how it performs in real world tests but at the very least I like to start in Geekbench 4 because it'll give you an idea of what you could expect and in this case clearly that multi-core performance wipes the floor with the previous Jan 13 inch MacBook Pro but what was surprising is even with that measly 1.4 gigahertz base clock it outperforms it in single core as well it's also worth noting as of now this processor technically doesn't exists or it didn't until this video it's not an Intel site but it's the i5 82 57 you which is a quad-core chip it does have hyper threading which surprised me because I figured at a price point of $12.99 Apple was gonna cap it off or at least limit performance in some way additionally for one more point of reference we also compared this MacBook Pro against a 2016 i7 15-inch MacBook Pro and the new 13-inch MacBook Pro outperformed it now jumping into real-world performance naturally got to open up Final Cut Pro 10 and what I did was take one of my older projects it was a comparison of two of the newest 21.5 inch IMAX and one of those honestly is hands-down the best value for a Mac you can grab right now so definitely check that video out but in a nutshell the project's over seven minutes long it's ProRes HQ in 4k the whole nine yards in this tiny brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro with that measly 1.4 gigahertz chip dished out that h.264 file in three minutes in 16 seconds that is bananas and for reference when you smack that side-by-side against the previous generation 13-inch MacBook Pro that dished out that file in four minutes and 40 seconds which is still impressive but the performance jump on this MacBook Pro the new one especially when you factor on everything else you're getting is super impressive from there moving on to dumb ideas I talk a lot of talk about that t2 chip it slept on and now I'm gonna put it through its paces and transcode all of the footage that you should have watched by now on this macbook pro in do HEV c and then edit that in Final Cut Pro 10 so part 2 of dumb dot JPEG what's going on here is I have all that footage again that you hopefully should have watched C fast on going to not only in jest but transcode without HEV acceleration into this MacBook Pro directly through compressor so let's see if this works this is also gonna be a good little tutorial in sight for those that maybe want to transcode into a GBC to edit if you have a t2 equipped macbook shoutout to ck ID Terry Warfield CJ knows Tech you guys pay attention so I'm going to add the file I'm looking for that C fast card and I believe this was around 200 gigs give or take I created a custom high bitrate HEV C file so hopefully it's a very least it should one cut my footage size in half but we'll see got all that footage selected I'm going to add that here I'm going to select that custom HEV C profile I'm going to set the destination I'm gonna go documents into this MacBook Pro folder I'll go ahead and call this footage create that and compressors going to do its thing it's gonna generate each one of those files on the C fast card and in a second I can kind of batch transcode everything directly off the C fast card so I'm not duplicating the media I'm not transferring this first I'm doing it directly off the car so looks like we're good I'm going to hit start and see if this was a terrible idea initially so far that looks like it's flying through this transcode and again that is thanks to the t2 chip now the real meat potatoes test is going to be this last clip right here that is 44 minutes long in theory that should decimate this machine so while this is flying through that I'm gonna throw up activity monitor and just check out those cores and showcase that the t2 chip should be doing that heavy lifting so that is graphics that's not going to be doing nothing right now and then all this course let's see if they're going to work or they're just kind of hanging back so here it looks like they're actually putting in some work they're not maxed out they're not completely taxed but they're working in tandem with that t2 chip and it is crushing this HEV C and code it is worth noting that the HEV C acceleration is limited to 8 bit not 10 bit but it is still impressive nonetheless so kind of checking in here this first clip here that took 20 seconds to transcode from ProRes to HEV see that's a 31 second clip so it is doing this in faster than real time on what should be a slow machine kind of midpoint checking in here it's also worth noting this MacBook Pro does also feature the fourth-generation butterfly keyboard if it's going to fix the problems it's still a little too early to tell off to wait and see but it's nice that Apple didn't leave this one in the dark so we're on the final boss level this super long 40 minute talking head clip this is the ultimate test and if you did this on a machine without a t2 chip it would be pretty ugly so tons of credit here again not only is it doing a touch bar touch ID hey Siri you're getting secure Enclave which is huge and if you use a Mac without that you actually have to verify Apple pay on a phone whereas with this it's all done on that t2 chip so we're done and that entire transcode for all 200 gigs of footage took a total of 33 minutes and again mind you that final clip which was over 40 minutes 4k ProRes that was done essentially two times as fast as real time which is crazy now what I'm really curious is to see the file size of all that footage that we just transcoded 200 gigabytes and we're going to squash that down into 43 gigabytes so for contrast on exactly how impressive that is running the exact same task on the previous 2017 baseline 13 inch macbook pro that took an hour and 27 minutes so it shaved off nearly an entire hour from there this is maybe a little unorthodox but I wanted to take that a TVC footage and see how it performed in Final Cut Pro 10 now I had a theory with this that if it would transcoded to a TVC directly from the C fast card and then edit that was in Final Cut that it would help take some of the load off of the CPU off the integrated graphics and if we play this timeline which is actually full quality its unrendered that's got a color grade on it I can even go full screen if I want that is handling it like a champ and if we go back to Activity Monitor what's interesting is the CPU usage is right around 77 percent 67 percent if you look at those cores there's not a lot going on so be interesting to see is most of that work being done with the integrated graphics or is that t2 chip helping not only acceleration for transcoding but editing HEV C as well so this could be a pretty interesting workflow speaking of that workflow and again this isn't necessarily an orthodox way of doing things going from pro res to HEV C and then going back to h.264 but the entire project excluding this voiceover was just under 10 minutes long and the export was 6 minutes and 45 seconds so faster than real time and that showcases again don't necessarily judge specs just by looking at them on paper this is a pretty impressive little machine so that is the surprisingly impressive entry-level 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro hopefully enjoyed the video if you did make sure you guys drop a like down below and definitely subscribe turn on applications is not only for more coverage on this comparisons but to see what I'm gonna do with this giant PC behind me see on the flip side PC boys you