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The new MacBook Pro (2016) Hands On!

2016-10-27
yo guys Johnson here as a wise man Ice Cube once said today was a good day because finally Apple dropped their brand-new completely redesigned MacBook Pros now personally one of the things I was most excited to hear was the introduction of a Space Gray MacBook Pro kind of hoped for a matte black to be honest but not gonna lie the 15-inch MacBook Pro and Space Gray has my name all over it this also applies to the 13-inch MacBook Pro so in addition to the brand-new space grey color both are thinner and lighter the 15-inch MacBook Pro weighs in at 4 pounds and is 15.5 millimeters thin whereas the 13-inch MacBook Pro is 3 pounds and 14.9 millimeters thin now without question the most attractive thing about these MacBook Pros aside from the design is the brand-new oled touch bar so what it is is an all-glass multi-gesture touch bar that at its core is meant to replace the function keys on your macbook run off the bat that is awesome but what really takes it to the next level is the fact that it adapts to whichever program you're using and not just those function keys I got a chance to mess around with Final Cut Pro with these new MacBook Pros and seeing your entire timeline in that OLED bar and being able to scrub move around through that is crazy this trickles down to Safari where you can no joke see all of your tabs within the OLED bar and switch back and forth so for me I am really excited with this now beyond functionality and programs and basic controls like brightness and volume up and down this also brings touch ID to the MacBook Pro the immediate obvious benefit of touch ID on your MacBook Pros when you're purchasing something online you can then authorize that with your fingerprint but beyond that what is actually cooler for me is you can now log in to your macbook pro with your finger prints they may have noticed alongside the 15-inch MacBook Pro Apple dropped two brand new 13-inch MacBook Pros which may be a little confusing what it really comes down to if we break it down as there is a 13-inch MacBook Pro with the oled touch bar and one without the baseline 13 inch MacBook Pro does of course have lower specs less force but the main difference between the two is the touch bar now with that baseline 13 inch MacBook Pro that brings the death to the 13 inch MacBook Air Apple's reasoning behind that is that the new MacBook Pro is thinner it's faster it's got a better display than the MacBook Air which I agree with but to me it would have made way more sense just to call it the 13-inch MacBook and have that live alongside the 12 inch MacBook because this way is really confusing regardless though I'll have an inbox the brand-new 13-inch MacBook Pro on the channel tomorrow so definitely subscribing have it yet on top of that if that is not a compelling of enough reason to subscribe I've teamed up yet again with one of my favorite youtubers Phil Edie we are giving away not one but two brand new 13-inch MacBook Pros to enter first and foremost just make sure you subscribe here on my channel maybe drop a like if you're feeling like being awesome that'll give you a chance to win the first MacBook Pro and for the second chance head over to Phil's video which is linked here and also down below now as excited as I am with the new MacBook Pros it was a little bittersweet because apple straight-up lucile the nuts off of a few things we've come to love with the MacBook Pro with new MacBook Pros we say goodbye to the glowing Apple logo the SD card slot and last but not least the MagSafe power connection now in that order I will get over the glowing Apple logo the SD card is a little bit of a bummer because now I will have to use an adapter for that Mac safe I actually really like maybe just because I was clumsy but let me know what you think but beyond that after everything is said and done the new MacBook Pros are left with five ports for Thunderbolt three ports and surprisingly a headphone jack quick note like I mentioned the baseline 13 inch MacBook Pro is a little watered down so that only has two Thunderbolt ports but the awesome thing with these under both three ports which run the USB type-c form factors they are chameleons as far as functionality goes with any of these ports you can charge you can transfer data you can power displays I'm not going to lie this may be my next set up but these new MacBook Pros can power to 5k displays so many pixels beyond that more positive things with these MacBook Pros are a bigger trackpad and when I say bigger I mean way bigger there's a better display so not only is it brighter there are more colors and a higher contrast ratio and I'm actually really excited about that for me that is something I always notice on a MacBook Pro that was never as bright as uses something like an IMAX I'm welcoming that with open arms there are better speakers and if they're anything like the 12-inch MacBook we are in for a pleasant surprise obviously there are new processors better specs faster performance yada yada yada but what I am most excited for as far as that goes is there is now a 2 terabyte option as far as storage goes on the 15-inch MacBook Pro so all in all the new MacBook Pros are looking really impressive I am super stoked for the 15-inch MacBook Pro but again tomorrow I will have an unboxing the brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro so stay tuned for that
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