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it's a serious tone it's a serious day so this is the new MacBook Pro and this is probably not the first video you've watched about it 2018 core I 9 the most controversial MacBook Pro I can think of in recent memory the hot garbage is my pal Dave 2d likes to call it my overall thoughts on that are that I'm disappointed this thing gets hot apparently and there's some there's a whole thermal throttling conversation going on John got his hands on it you're thinking about this all wrong hear me out because there is a lot to talk about this piece of hot garbage in front of me is actually six thousand seven hundred US dollars and this is the farthest they will let you take it they call this a pro machine so why not order it for you guys this is definitely not the value point though how much is the core i7 well so the core i7 just that upgrade to the core I nine is three hundred more maybe save that three hundred just get the i7 based on the information that's out there right now it seems that some of the throttling issues have something to do with the GPU and CPU working in tandem and heating this baby up you want it to be thin and light you want it to be powerful you're asking a lot could Apple make a fatter MacBook Pro I would still buy it maybe the i9 model it bumps up a little bit in scale regardless of which tests you're looking at this thing has been hot oh look at the presentation you feel special six grand on the throttle master throttle or no throttle it is a bit incredible that there's a core i9 in a form factor like this at all we reserved this one is 87 watts USB type-c from a form factor perspective this is the same stuff as the old ones I also had my criticisms of the previous version I don't like to touch bar that much and then of course no diversity of ports at all it's just type C you get one headphone jack yeah Thunderbolt 3 on this side times 2 Thunderbolt 3 on this side the keyboard apparently has changed there were some issues with the previous one dust issues keys were getting stuck so this new one now has a membrane in there that can supposedly protect from it and maybe it makes it a little quieter smells like almost 7,000 USD there is something else that's new on the new model here true tone display your Mac automatically adapts to ambient lighting conditions to make colors appear consistent in different environment people who are into photo editing video editing possibly as well any kind of color correction a more accurate representation and therefore interpretation of colors now I do have my old version so new one old one here and let's check out this keyboard thing if I can feel the difference or not oh yeah yeah the new one it's a little more muffled there's a little bit less clack to it typing feels the same it's a bit quieter if that matters to you okay so this is obviously a very pretty machine and I open this video up by calling it hot garbage obviously I'm having a bit of fun absurd this is a top spec model if this here wasn't going to constitute an investigation of sorts there's no way that I think that level of spec is justified that is just way too much money for what this thing is the i9 in general is not well suited for this particular form factor as is the case with many Apple products there is this compromise but you want something that's thin and light and stylish but then you kind of want it to be powerful to how powerful where will I add and where will I subtract and when you spec something like this out to like sixty seven hundred bucks u.s. you're nowhere near the value point you're nowhere near the right amount of compromise because performance probably trumps everything for you you could have a multi system set up where you have a desktop setup and then a laptop at sixty seven hundred dollars you could have that in the PC realm there's really nothing with a form factor like this with an i-9 chip in it but ultimately I understand why people are upset Dave's video came out to tested this thing with Adobe Premiere this things started to cook and so people were like man if I'm paying that kind of money I don't want any type of thermal throttling I never want that to be the case Apple can't do magic here if it's gonna be in this form factor software is gonna utilize this hardware differently and your results are gonna vary depending on if you're in an Adobe product and Adobe software product which isn't optimized and an Apple software product like Final Cut which is more optimized I don't think we're breaking a ton of news here Apple doesn't really represent value that's not really what it's about form factor thinness build quality is going to be as important if not more important for example as John mentioned in his video the founder and developer of Geekbench had a completely different use case scenario in which this thing performed better from a thermal perspective he was using it to compile software so it had nothing to do with video editing at all nonetheless I don't think this thing is complete garbage okay but I definitely think it's pricey and possibly unjustified in this specification as well I think the value point might even be in the 13-inch model what price did that start at well 1,300 no touch bar and then 1,800 with starting price and I really do believe that a lot of people are thinking that they need more horsepower than they probably do is a lot of users out there that are buying overkill hardware to begin with they want to make a form factor that's suitable for Jack and Kirk and will and me and then they also want to make a MacBook that a student wants it's hard to figure out what that form factor should look like and maybe what we really want is a product that doesn't even exist maybe the real solution is a another product for that group of people we might potentially be held back by a design decision here a slightly fatter Pro MacBook hmm what are you going to do with this thing the Mac Pro hasn't been touched since 2013 2013 there does seem to be this sense of neglect for the Pro Group when you think of MacBook do you think of Pro I've got plans to do more with this system keep it locked stay tuned that's a very expensive laptop that's a very expensive laptop you