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so you're looking at the new MacBook Pro the one with the touch bodice the 15 inch model you know what for some reason this thing has been controversial a lot of people have made videos I just received mine it was a custom order this one has all the specs it's like 5 grands the worth 5 grand no definitely not all right but for the purpose of this video for the purpose of this channel it's an interesting thing to cover as a topic so whatever but for the average person they're looking at this thing and going why would I get that instead of a used car and that makes sense you don't need to be paying this much money for computing power these days especially when you're you're looking at a product that in many people's eyes has given up some of the versatility of the previous version but I'm gonna give you some my thoughts on this thing as I open it up here why I think Apple is doing what they're doing here and why this still might be a good machine for you as you know with Apple to get a very expensive unboxing experience as well it's very special but you can see on the back here this one 2.9 gigahertz so has the upgraded processor 16 gigs of ram now this is a this is something I was reading about that actually does kind of bother me a little bit only the ability to get 16 gigs rather than 32 it's soldered onto the motherboard now so it's not like you're gonna be able to upgrade that in the future so if you need more RAM it ain't happening here the Radeon Pro 460 so the graphics are one of the areas where there is a substantial improvement and not much of an argument between this version and the previous one and I have the two terabyte SSD in here which it's gonna be nice it's an incredibly exorbitant amount of money I think that upgrade alone is like fourteen hundred dollars let's crack inside the box here it definitely feels slimmer than the old version the Apple logo no longer lights up it's got this mirrored finish like the 12-inch MacBook and the other thing you're going to notice is the ports no more versatility there you have Thunderbolt 3 in the form of this USB type-c connector and you've got a headphone jack and that's it USB type-c connector cable the laptop no more MagSafe that's kind of a that's kind of a letdown right MagSafe you kick it it pops out in technology you're always making compromises right-size battery life thinness portability power it's always a give-and-take relationship in this case you've got better throughput in exchange you no longer have the convenience of a MagSafe connector 87 watt USB C power adapter that's all that's in there another thing to mention about this one there's no more power switch so you lift it up and it turns on before I boot it up I just want to do a quick comparison here with the older version so what you'll notice beyond the fact that it's a tiny bit thicker is that the footprint is actually larger as well how significant is it not major so the previous max-flow SD card slot full size HDMI and a USB port old-fashioned style compared to two thunderbolt 3s and a headphone jack and then the other side of the laptop two USB type-c connectors for your Thunderbolt 3 and then here we've got MagSafe 2 Thunderbolt twos a USB and a headphone jack from a throughput perspective with 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports you can do some things that you wouldn't be able to do here with the 2 ports or with the slower speed USB connectors yes you may have to adapt these for your current peripherals I think it's only a short matter of time before we see maximum throughput hard drives and such that could take advantage of these ports this laptop can output to 2 separate 5k monitors right or 3 4k monitors from a laptop that's one of the benefits of having all this Thunderbolt access almost a terabyte of data in five minutes over this port that affects my daily life whew and it just boots up straight away it does have touch ID so you can login with your fingerprint if you like the trackpad is gigantic I'm just noticing now it is clicky it's clicky and it's loud but just very low travel right not not very much key travel there now the trackpad is of course the haptic version there's no physical click there you can now use your fingerprint not just to unlock the Mac but also to make purchases close it goes to sleep pop it back open touch ID oh now I notice I can hit this button here and expand the multimedia controls here now this touch bar will adapt to whatever application you're using if it's Final Cut Pro for example you'll see a timeline in there you can get emoji in there but I mean that's kind of the thing I think that's going to take some getting used to and experimentation to truly figure out new MacBook Pro old MacBook Pro trackpad it's almost double the size to be honest measured diagonally new one has more of a thump to it also the screens they're both at full brightness now and you should be able to tell that the new screen is more vibrant there's much more detail you can make out in the trees it's a brighter screen so now the speaker grills look similar but I have heard some very nice things about the sound maximum volume old MacBook Pro ok new MacBook Pro there's a little thump to it a little bit of low-end in there speakers are way better should you be upgrading forgot the old one probably not you can make the argument it's more versatile with all the ports that are available SD card slot and stuff like that are there some improvements to the new one sure right you get the nicer screen you've got all this Thunderbolt 3 throughput if you can use it but this thing is more than 5 grand for most people they'd be better suited with a used car in their old MacBook just remember it's a 1 it's not gonna all of a sudden do something for you that the old one couldn't but that said there's a bunch of people out there they just want to have the latest and greatest myself included they are happy to sell at a high margin to a customer who has a lot of money to spend that's their game who can evaluate value right it's it's so subjective it's so personal I mean this entire package is very nice amy has been in the past but it still is it's a very nice package how much is that worth to you