MacBook Pro 16'': Review
There is something to show you the best laptop ever which is MacBook Pro 16'' most part the design is still the same but as you may have heard the new 16 inch is slightly bigger in every dimension than the 15-inch MacBook Pro it still fits in most of the same backpacks and sleeves for me it still is fine in my peak design everyday 20 liters which is a smaller one so it's not exactly the same footprint but it's very close only difference I really noticed was the slightly higher weight it's around 4.3 pounds now instead of 4 but for what you get out of this slightly bigger chassis I'll absolutely take it if we start at the keyboard it's no mechanical keyboard.
Anything but it's this new version which has switched back to the scissor switches and it's a significantly better typing experience than those old butterfly keys there's actually some real millimeter key travel now they should be more durable and they're just generally better to type on which for me comes from the fact that the keys are a bit more stable so you're back to getting more confident key presses even when you're not necessarily pressing in the center of the key so yeah for me someone who never really cared that much about the keyboard and with the new butterfly switch I just kind of got used to it I didn't really expect to care this much about the keyboard but now that I've been typing on it I do it is much better oh and they also changes the layout a bit as you may have noticed dedicated Escape key is now separate from the touch bar thankfully which that touch bar still seems to freeze all the time for me and the touch ID sensor the power button is also now separated on the right hand side not as big of a deal still works great for unlocking and then you also now have the inverted T layout for the arrow keys which people seem really pumped about but I honestly didn't mind the bigger sideways arrow keys at all they're actually easier for me to hit but whatever.
I'm not a complete touch typist and then the slight extra thickness gives it a bit more room for a larger battery in fact the largest legally allowed battery for domestic flights in the u.s. a hundred watt hours and the battery life has been excellent especially when you're not pushing it I had a five hour flight where I basically the whole time was using airplane Wi-Fi for email light web browsing and writing parts of this video and landed at about 60% which is nuts of course your mileage may vary you know if you're editing in Final Cut Pro yes the battery life is still going to be trash or if you're doing anything heavy like that but of course you might as well just plug in if you're doing something like that so I do appreciate a thicker laptop for that all-day battery peace of mind also the new brick the new brick it comes with is a 96 watts.
You know probably shouldn't do this but this is what tends to become like my Universal charge everything fast charger for USB type C so the laptop my iPad pro my phone my Sony wireless headphones they all charge via a USB type-c it's like the universal fast charger that just works with everything right so the specs of this laptop here we have the Intel Core I 9 we have 64 gigs of ram we have these new graphics cards and 4 terabytes of storage here there's also an option to go up to 8 terabytes of storage now which is honestly incredible.
It's not even that overpriced so while it is expensive having it be only 2200 bucks for 8 terabytes and essentially never having to use an external drive again is actually kind of reasonable for people considering buying one of these I'd say the order of upgrades should probably always be GPU first the new graphics are excellent and then I'd go upgrade the RAM and you can go up to 64 but it starts at already 16 gigs and then CPU now you may be saying wait this is the same overheating I 9 CPU as the last model and you'd be right this is the same CPU but now because this laptop is a little bit thicker and in a bit of a larger footprint the heatsink is a bit bigger and the fan blades are a little bit larger and they have some room to rearrange components inside in a way that landed at 28 percent better thermal efficiency.
Andbasically that's allowed the MacBook Pro to stay at higher clock speeds from much longer durations without throttling down and if I'm being candid it also just seems like it's less afraid to just spin up the fans quickly whenever it needs them and just be loud sometimes so the difference is you'll notice improvements under sustained loads so for things like rendering a large project compiling code exporting a video a lot of things like that that people do on MacBook Pros so to bring that into daily performance it is markedly better than the performance I got from the 15-inch MacBook Pro for those types of loads and I still refuse to throw read raw footage at my laptop and I'll explain why in a second but basically I threw a ESR 4k footage at it for the Tesla cyber truck event and a handle back just fine part of this is from better GPU optimization in Final. This is the best laptop I ever seen...
There is something to show you the best laptop ever which is MacBook Pro 16'' most part the design is still the same but as you may have heard the new 16 inch is slightly bigger in every dimension than the 15-inch MacBook Pro it still fits in most of the same backpacks and sleeves for me it still is fine in my peak design everyday 20 liters which is a smaller one so it's not exactly the same footprint but it's very close only difference I really noticed was the slightly higher weight it's around 4.3 pounds now instead of 4 but for what you get out of this slightly bigger chassis I'll absolutely take it if we start at the keyboard it's no mechanical keyboard.
Anything but it's this new version which has switched back to the scissor switches and it's a significantly better typing experience than those old butterfly keys there's actually some real millimeter key travel now they should be more durable and they're just generally better to type on which for me comes from the fact that the keys are a bit more stable so you're back to getting more confident key presses even when you're not necessarily pressing in the center of the key so yeah for me someone who never really cared that much about the keyboard and with the new butterfly switch I just kind of got used to it I didn't really expect to care this much about the keyboard but now that I've been typing on it I do it is much better oh and they also changes the layout a bit as you may have noticed dedicated Escape key is now separate from the touch bar thankfully which that touch bar still seems to freeze all the time for me and the touch ID sensor the power button is also now separated on the right hand side not as big of a deal still works great for unlocking and then you also now have the inverted T layout for the arrow keys which people seem really pumped about but I honestly didn't mind the bigger sideways arrow keys at all they're actually easier for me to hit but whatever.
I'm not a complete touch typist and then the slight extra thickness gives it a bit more room for a larger battery in fact the largest legally allowed battery for domestic flights in the u.s. a hundred watt hours and the battery life has been excellent especially when you're not pushing it I had a five hour flight where I basically the whole time was using airplane Wi-Fi for email light web browsing and writing parts of this video and landed at about 60% which is nuts of course your mileage may vary you know if you're editing in Final Cut Pro yes the battery life is still going to be trash or if you're doing anything heavy like that but of course you might as well just plug in if you're doing something like that so I do appreciate a thicker laptop for that all-day battery peace of mind also the new brick the new brick it comes with is a 96 watts.
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It's not even that overpriced so while it is expensive having it be only 2200 bucks for 8 terabytes and essentially never having to use an external drive again is actually kind of reasonable for people considering buying one of these I'd say the order of upgrades should probably always be GPU first the new graphics are excellent and then I'd go upgrade the RAM and you can go up to 64 but it starts at already 16 gigs and then CPU now you may be saying wait this is the same overheating I 9 CPU as the last model and you'd be right this is the same CPU but now because this laptop is a little bit thicker and in a bit of a larger footprint the heatsink is a bit bigger and the fan blades are a little bit larger and they have some room to rearrange components inside in a way that landed at 28 percent better thermal efficiency.
Andbasically that's allowed the MacBook Pro to stay at higher clock speeds from much longer durations without throttling down and if I'm being candid it also just seems like it's less afraid to just spin up the fans quickly whenever it needs them and just be loud sometimes so the difference is you'll notice improvements under sustained loads so for things like rendering a large project compiling code exporting a video a lot of things like that that people do on MacBook Pros so to bring that into daily performance it is markedly better than the performance I got from the 15-inch MacBook Pro for those types of loads and I still refuse to throw read raw footage at my laptop and I'll explain why in a second but basically I threw a ESR 4k footage at it for the Tesla cyber truck event and a handle back just fine part of this is from better GPU optimization in Final. This is the best laptop I ever seen...
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