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the new MacBook Pros are here with modern processors and a slightly newer keyboard and true tone displays but here's a question is what's here actually enough to make professionals trust these machines you know what before we get into all of that we should honestly just start with the basics this MacBook Pro looks exactly like the last MacBook Pro it has the same 4 Thunderbolt ports it has the same touch bar it has basically the same Retina display the only external thing that has changed is the keyboard Apple says they redesigned it to make it quieter and in our testing it is in fact just a little bit quieter the other thing that's new here is they've added true tone to the display which we've mostly turned off because we care about color accuracy we were all set to really get into that issue of trust and talk a little bit about the stuff that's eroded over the years for pros but then we got a curveball last night which is a week before you're watching this now this happened problem though is that this chassis the MacBook Pro cannot cool the i9 properly when you look at renders and I'm using Adobe Premiere after a few seconds we're starting to see some very serious throttling so Ryker sitting it's Tuesday July 24th and Apple has just admitted that there is in fact thermal throttling at every single model of the new MacBook Pros they've released a statement which I'm going to read and they've released a software fix that's available right now so here's their statement following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads we've identified that there is a missing digital key in the firmware that impacts the thermal management system and could drive clock speeds down under heavy thermal loads on the macbook pro a book fix is included in today's Mac OS hi Sierra yadda we apologize to any customer who's experienced less than optimal performance on their new systems ok key takeaways here apples not changing their performance results they say it's still the same we are going to retest all of that we're gonna redo all of our tests so stay tuned for that later in this video to really get into it we actually need to talk to one of those professionals who does professional stuff with it and hey look over there it severe and havoc he's one of those he had its videos and directs videos and does photography we should talk to him thank you all right so in front of me we have the new laptop the Vita we're just talking about and to my left or your right is my personal laptop the 2016 MacBook Pro with the touch Bart the one that kicked off the entire redesign of this line the 20th team built is thoroughly modern with super-powerful specs it's on par with the Windows laptops that came out earlier this year and Apple is getting better at updating processor for the MacBook Pro line but a better way to ask theatre's question about trust is this does the power of this thing offset the hassles for the past few days I literally locked myself inside one of the conference room in our office in order to compare these two machines I benchmark Premiere Pro Final Cut 10 and just use it for my every day test but there are a couple of areas I really want to focus on now hey very actually you know what can we just talk about the specs for another minute because there's a lot going on here hey dieter hey buddy how's it going okay so there's the t2 which handles a bunch of the like internal mechanisms of the computer there's faster ddr4 Ram and there's this new faster SSD which does file operations like stupid quickly there's also the fact that you can get a six core processor on this which is actually more than a standard iMac yeah and you can get this I 9 processor as well which is really powerful scrubbing through footage work really well rendering files work well as you expect them to realistically you'll probably want to do a couple of things at the same time so let's spread out that Ram power 32 gigabytes of it in this case so I open up Spotify Lightroom after-effects and I screen recorded my entire process which might have been an overkill I noticed the laptop struggling a bit that most versa were just kind of Jaggi Jaggi that's not a word so I just decided to stop the screen recording anyway once the video was done I started exporting them on both machines at the same time so I was going to show you the results of my macbook pro compared to the new MacBook Pro but at this point it seems like old news so instead let's talk about the performance of the i9 MacBook Pro before and after the south that Apple released earlier this week all right let's start with Premiere Pro first in both of the test before and after the patch the export times were basically the same 11 minutes and 35 seconds once I switched the Final Cut Pro I noticed some improvement what used to be a four minute and 35 second export that was down to 2 minutes and 26 seconds so yeah thermal throttling was an issue Apple released an update and looks like they fixed it as for Premiere Pro we still need to run a few more tests to have more conclusive results to be blunt though it wasn't that much faster than my two-year old MacBook the improvement was as little as 10% for now the only thing that we can assume is that Premiere Pro isn't optimized for this machine yet ok back to our regularly scheduled programming a lot of the time we work out in the field covering events which require us to shoot edit and deliver videos in a matter of hours more often than not I just found myself leaving the 2016 MacBook Pro behind because the 2015 version had better battery life also I didn't want to deal with dongles but that's another topic dongles I heard dongles I'm always here to talk about dog of life you heard correctly okay but the jokes aside it is a genuine source of angst for people with these computers yeah the point is that there was kind of like the one-two punch here I didn't trust the battery they don't deal with the dongles so just bring my old MacBook with me okay so what do you feel about it now with this new MacBook well the speed helps to make up for some of that but you still have to deal with dongles and for me personally there isn't a perfect portable dongle doc that I can use I need SD card readers super you know fast USB ports but also Thunderbolt 2 which nobody supports for me the big one is like can i really trust this keyboard long term right and the speed did improve as well as the keyboard not only the sound but there's like nice resistant to it although this is a new machine so that might change over time ok and then I guess the last thing on our list is the battery how's that oh yeah the thing I was talking about before you interrupted me sorry there it's ok anyways so what we know about battery in this machine that it's slightly bigger than before but that's meant to offset the more powerful processors and I really don't care for my battery lasts longer for you know reading surfing the web watching movies I want it to last long for more intense video editing the 2016 MacBook Pro lasts about 3 hours maybe less and as far as I can tell this one is about the same not saying it's worse but it's definitely not better now at the top of the video I asked can you trust this machine that's sitting in front of your enemy and I asked if all the extra power can offset the hassles that come with it and yeah this laptop finally proved that it can perform as expected too close to what I was expecting it to right but the question is what were you really expected well I was expecting a little bit more noticeable bump in performance and a better battery I didn't get that bump in performance and I definitely didn't get a better battery yeah but the question here honestly is maybe your maybe everybody's expectations we're just too high everybody's frustrations about the Mac got laid on top of this you know unibody frame the same frame thing really can't handle thermals although apparently they got fixed though you know yeah but also they've been really squirrely about the keyboard they say it's only there to be quieter but we also kind of know is redesigned to be more reliable it's like with this Mac Apple just keeps walking ace first into controversies people who buy these machines they don't really care about controversies that much they buy it because of the way it looks and the way it's built and this build kind of backfire at this time this thing is not gonna eliminate a heat as much as like a bigger more chunkier laptop would that's okay as long as you know what you're getting yourself into yeah I mean for my question about trust do I trust this thing yeah I guess it feels like when we ended up with here is this same laptop that a lot of people genuinely loved and a lot of people are genuinely frustrated with only now it's faster maybe it's not as fast as deep down we know a pro laptop could be but maybe that was just too much to expect all right I guess it's time for the end card so all you but okay well thanks everybody for watching let me know in the comments where you think viren just ran off to and also watch Virg science videos they're great last week they did one about wildfires and this week they did one about weathering storms it's like they've been sub tweeting Apple this whole time