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Apple's a polarizing company anyway but very few products are as polarizing as their new line of MacBook Pros with the touch bar I was excited to test it had to put it through its paces and see if it could perform for me as a daily driver I'm really impressed with what Windows is doing so I approaches to someone who is looking for a new computer which exactly what I am so I figured the best way to test this is the test like I do a phone to use it as my everyday computer it was my only computer at the office my only computer at home for the better part of seven days so I chanced early know how it worked how it performed while dock at the office and used only as a laptop at home two different versions of the 15-inch MacBook Pro Brendan he did the full written review tested the base 2400 I tested a built order machine the processor is a 2.7 gigahertz quad-core i7 I didn't up at the processor to the available 2.9 gigahertz quad-core i7 I did up the hard drive it's a 1 terabyte SSD and upgraded the GP to the Radeon 460 with 4 gigs of RAM I honestly have both computers perform them be sure to check out Bryon's written review to see how he did on his daily usage of the computer design of the computer is gorgeous it's a machine this is aluminium and it looks stunning I really liked the hinge I liked to open it with one finger I really appreciate that out where he moves the plastic antenna band from the back of the MacBook Pros it's now a single hinge similar what we have with the MacBook I haven't used a 15-inch laptop in a while so I forgot how big it is but if you use a 15-inch it's gonna fit nicely in your bag the screen is still the same 15.4 inch display that we've had before and the resolution hasn't changed either it's still 20 and 80 by 1800 but the panel itself is very different and it's noticeable apple claims it's 67% writer and I can't quantify the percentage but it does like notice will be sharper and brighter than the outgoing 15-inch it's also wiggly less reflective than before you need to work outdoors without having to worry about angling it properly be able to see your screen in fact I did work outdoors I appreciated the anti glare that Apple's added keyboards different here to uses the 2nd gen butterfly switch is found in the 12-inch MacBook and I really liked them it doesn't keep getting used to though if you're used to the older version you got to give it at least like four or five days to be comfortable after that though you won't notice much of a difference I know this is a personal thing here but I kept hitting the caps lock key most the time when I want to hit the a key so for that mine morale though if you're worried about the keyboard don't be the force touch trackpad here it looks like it took some serious HGH it is huge it's almost close to the same size and Magic Trackpad accessory Apple is happy to sell you the same shout is before it's just huge sure this eyes really can project your hands if you have to rest on it while you're typing I don't have any sort of jumps or jitters with it at all it works well it's just gigantic which brings us to the biggest changes generation the touch bars that morphing OLED strip setting with the function keys used to be and a lot of SEOs kind of ambivalent to man when I first are testing the computer but the more I use the laptop to where potential actually I saw in the touch bar first Jill there's any sort of haptic feedback I was kind of expecting that it's not here but you can't customize what it can do and what it shows if you guys want to see some customization options let us know down below make a dedicated video showing that I absolutely loved using it as a media scrubber when watching videos grow through my timeline of final cut it looks really cool what a call came in two people were kind of upset about the Escape key placement that's a big deal for coders and the key is offset and it is in the touch bar-b-q pretty much tap anywhere in your at Fir to work I was also kind of originally annoyed and took extra taps dude enormo things like change the volume of rightness but if you just tap it and hold you can scrub it with just one press album cleared for a lot of thoughts a touch bar I think once it mature it's going to be incredibly useful so I change of initial opinion on it it went from cool gimmick to actually being surprisingly helpful so all the fancy screen tech and touch bar takes battery and I put claims in ten hours of battery life here and I have no idea how anyone could reasonably get close to ten hours of actual usage from a full hundred percent charge with zero apps open as I projected four hours of battery life now the longer they left it open to calibrate the better it got in fact when it's high as five hours and 45 minutes with no apps open after calibration and writing to set to about 60% Brendan had similar experiences with his your experience is good and very obviously and how you the computer for battery life will continue to be a concern especially if you venture away from Safari and use Chrome or do any editing on the go that battery though can be charged via any of the four USB C Thunderbolt 3 slots I like that as a smooth transition the lack of i/o is going to be an issue and you're going to have to carry adapters and dongles wherever you go if you want to do things like transfer files via NSC coach is important for folks like me or oftentimes editing or being on the go and I get that Apple removes slots like that because your quote Unger's and dongles hanging out the side certainly ungainly as well this is gonna be a personal preference if you don't mind clearing adapters and dongles don't you're gonna lose them you're gonna be fine if you do mind that you tend to lose cables you forget to bring things with you you might find this computer not useful if you forget your SD card adapter for example while shooting footage on me goes I get a lot of questions on the speakers and these were definitely louder than before applicants are 58 percent more volume and 2.5 percent more bass I don't know how to test that they are super loud and don't sound very tinny on the processor side I would have absolutely preferred until 7:00 Chen cabbie Lake instead we have Intel's 6 gen skylake chips they aren't any slouch there's still plenty fast the custom machine pulled in the really solid Geekbench scores which only slightly higher than the entry level at brandon tested benchmarks don't mean that much to me though performance does my presage in the real worlds what matters to me machine is a beast even when docked to a 4k display and a thunderbolt display plugged into it I never felt it struggle to keep up and for that matter I even rarely heard the fans we're gonna do separate videos on editing and gaming but not surprisingly it flew through final cut but it was slower than expected with Premiere Pro which is on Adobe's end and should improve with software updates like games like Starcraft or perfect on a 4k display I was able to easily get them a 1080p a 50 frames per second I can probably go even higher but again with the separate ated videos on gaming and editing wanna say anything particular in those videos and see tests let us know down below I'll make sure we include them in those videos I was also quickly surprised how fast the PCIe SSD is in the machine there's going to be a huge benefit when it comes to video editing so conclusion on the MacBook Pro the piece of a machine but it's expensive starting at $2,400 if you're not tied into Apple's ecosystem you can get a lot more bang for your buck in the PC world so that's nothing new here that's always been the case at Apple's machines if you are in a physical system you want to stay in Apple's ecosystem they're much of a choice for pro machines than the MacBook Pro now be aware though you have to pay extra money for dongles and just make sure you carry them with you but you can get past the dongles and you can see the future it's going to be USB see Thunderbolt 3 and you're buying into the future with this computer you're buying to the future of one cable to rule the and we're just not there yet but my can continue using this my everyday computer I don't know yet I wish battery life was better which I have to carry Dom booth with me on the other hand four months has been absolutely incredible and I feel like it can handle anything I throw at it so I can't necessarily say this is for everyone but I can't say it's not for anyone either you got to figure out if you want to spend the money if you want the features if you do it's a great computer definitely know what you're getting into with the 2016 MacBook Pros so what'd you guys think did you buy one you're skipping it leave this in the comments down below please give the video a thumbs up where it's really hard in this video until next time I'm done range from TechnoBuffalo path you guys the next one