MacBook Pro 2019 Review - 10 Advices That You Must Listen Before Buying!

MacBook Pro 2019 Review - 10 Advices That You Must Listen Before Buying!

For the past year, we’ve looked at Apple’s base 13” MacBook Pro as a pretty bad value compared to Apple’s newly updated MacBook Air and the more expensive $1800 Touch BarPro,

since it packed a pretty slow dual-core processor and was lacking a few features, but with Apple’s new $1300 base MacBook Pro, we’ve completely changed our mind, and we’re now calling it

the best value MacBook ever. Let’s discuss everything that’s great and not-so-great about the new base model MacBook Pro. For starters, Apple was able to equip it with the Touch Bar at the

base price, something you previously had to pay at least $1800 to get. Now, of course, not everybody likes it, but what really matters is the hardware that comes with it, like Touch

ID authentication, which makes it really convenient to login and install new apps without having to reenter your password. But the major deal is Apple’s T2 chip, which takes care of a

bunch of system controllers and makes it more secure. And on top of that, it brings hardware HEVC video transcoding, and many people believe that HEVC is going to be the future mainstream

codec, so having the T2 chip makes this MacBookPro much more future-proof. Design-wise, almost everything else about the new base MacBook Pro basically matches the more expensive MacBook Pros, like the

very color accurate and bright display withTrue Tone technology, the class-leading force touch trackpad, and the all-aluminum lightweight and incredibly thin design. Along with that, we also have the latest version of

Apple’s butterfly keyboard, similar to the 3rd gen in 2018 but with updated materials. This alone was a big reason why some people would spend more for the 2018 $1800 model or go

with a MacBook Air instead. The previous Base MacBook Pro had a keyboard design back from 2016, which was the most prone to failure. We’re not sure if this latest design will solve

all the problems just yet, but if any issues arise, Apple will fix them for free. What really makes this years’ base MacBook Pro stand out is the new quad-core processor and from the

first glance on Apple’s website, it seems like it’s quite a bit slower than the $1800 MacBook Pro’s 2.4GHz processor, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. We made a full

video comparing both models and we found that under load, the base MacBookPro ran only 300 MHz slower than the $1800 model, nowhere near the 1Ghz, or 1000MHz difference we see

on the spec sheet. We ran a ton of benchmarks, video-editing tests, and even some photo editing, and found that the $1800 MacBook Pro is only around 5-9% faster than the

$1300 model, so for performance alone, it definitely wasn’t worth the upgrade. If you’re looking to do video editing on a budget, we were able to playback full resolution4K H.264 and

H.265 Files without any dropped frames in both Premiere Pro and Final Cut, and even adding color correction and a Lut would be perfectly fine using Final Cut, while premiere would require

you to drop down to half resolution, which is still very usable. But that’s not the case for editing in Davinci Resolve, which likes to have more video memory like on the

15” with dedicated graphics. Overall, we’re impressed by how this MacBook performs, but keep in mind that final exports will require some patience compared to 15” MacBook Pros. About 2-3 times longer than your

project length in Final Cut Pro, or up to 10 times longer in Premiere, so personally we’d stick with the final cut. For most people that do simple 4K editing from time to

time this new MacBook Pro will do a surprisingly good job, absolutely smoking the previous model thanks to the quad-core CPU and updated graphics. The same thing goes for Photo editing, but

here the performance difference between the13” and 15” models is even lower since graphics are hardly used. Importing 50 42MP RAW images into Lightroom classic was very quick, and exporting editedJpegs

was also impressive. We did notice a small delay in some tasks that we don’t get on our 13” MacBook with16GB of RAM, which makes sense since the 8GB are maxed

out while editing photos. Upgrading to 16GB of RAM will not only smooth out your editing experience but speed up exporting as well. If you’re doing 12-24 MP images in small batches, 8GB

will perform well enough, but if you are working with higher resolution files or doing things like HDR, Panoramas, or working with hundreds of images, we would highly recommend spending $200 more

and upgrading to 16GB. We also decided to include some programming tests, but unfortunately, us being video editors with absolutely no xCode experience at all, we weren’t able to find and run a sample XCode project that would be easy to replicate on future machines. So if you guys know

of a sample XCode project, we could use, comment below, but from what we've seen so far with this machine, you’re getting truly impressive processor performance for the cash out of this

1.4GHz CPU. And we think it’s gonna perform much better than it’s Windows rivals and completely blow the 2019 MacBook Air out of the water. We’ll be getting our hands on that soon

and doing a full comparison, so make sure to subscribe now for that!

And now let’s talk about the downsides. When we first got this laptop, we decided to take off the bottom cover and compare the internals to the $1800 MacBook Pro, and we

found a few interesting details. First off, we’re only getting a single fan in the base model compared to two on the more expensive Pro, but seeing as we got such impressive

performance results, with CPU temps that were only slightly hotter than the $1800 model, that doesn’t seem to be a problem. We also noticed that the speakers look way, way different, and

when we tested them, we noticed a huge improvement in the more expensive 13” Pro. Just listen for yourself. And then we tested the SSD storage speed and found that the 128GB SSD

was quite a bit slower than the 256gig on the $1800 model, and not only that but if you pay the extra$200 to get the 256GB SSD, it’s actually still slower

than the 256gig on the $1800Pro.So there are a couple of downsides already, but the biggest difference is that the $1300model only gets two Thunderbolt 3 ports, while the more

expensive one gets four of them. So we can see that while the new base MacBook Pro offers incredible value for performance, there are a few things that you have to sacrifice,

but let’s take a look at all of these things from my own personal opinion and past experiences. As far as performance goes, I think this machine is the way to go

if you don’t do professionalwork every day or if you’re doing entry-level basic stuff, like editing youtube videos. Or if you’re doing your work every single day or if your business

depends on it, like editing wedding videos, then I would honestly recommend just jumping to the 15” model with dedicated graphics. If you’re doing a lot of photo editing or programming, I think

just getting 16GB ofRAM on this model will be a great choice for almost everyone. And for the single fan, we didn’t really notice higher temps at all. One difference we noticed

between this and the dual-fan model was that the single fan would keep blowing at max fan speed during longer tasks like exporting, while the dual-fan would eventually slow down a bit

after the temps came down, but as far as performance itself, the single fan is completely fine. Now for the speakers, I personally like to watch youtube videos, shows and movies on my

MacBook, so that’s actually the most important thing for me, personally. Now if you prefer to use headphones and you like to watch youtube videos on your phone and shows on your

TV, then the speaker difference won’t really matter much to you. And in reality, the $1300 model speakers are still better than practically any Windows laptop out there. As for the SSD speed

the difference, even the slower speeds of the 128GB are near as fast as a lot of the premium laptops out there, like Dell’s XPS, so it’ll be fine for most people, so

you should really just worry about the storage amount itself unless you know you need faster speeds. And finally, I think the factory 8GB of RAM will be okay for a lot

of people, but I personally love to keep a lot of Chrome tabs open, so if you’re like me, you’ll be much better off with 16GB, and especially if you’re doing productivity

tasks more than once or twice a week. For the ports, I’ve found that I don’t really use them that often, but even then, it’s really convenient to be able to swap the

charger to the other side, so it’s a lot more convenient, and I also like to charge my phone using a USB-C to Lightning cable, so that’s already maxing out two ports.So

if I needed to transfer some files, I’d need to unplug one of them if I only had two ports. So if you’re planning on actively using the Thunderbolt 3 ports like

for connecting an external display or working off of an external SSD, you probably would be better off going for the $1800 model with four ports. Now you could make it work with

a Thunderbolt 3 hub off Amazon, but it’s not as convenient to carry that around. But if you’re a simple person who only needs those ports for charging and occasionally connecting an external

drive for some quick file transfers, then you should honestly just be fine with 2 ports. One last question we want to address that some of you may be asking is if

it's worth buying a discounted 2018 4-port model instead of a lower end 2019 config. The 2018 versions perform almost as good as the 2019’s in terms of CPU, but they do have

keyboards that have an older design. Personally, if you were going to buy a $1500 256GB 2019 MacBook Pro and can score an older4 thunderbolt model for up to $100 more

we would make the jump since you also get better speakers and faster SSD’s, but only if you can get 16GB of RAM on the 2018 model. All in all, if you

want to get access to macOS and not have to worry about performance issues in the future, I think the 2019 base MacBook Pro for $1300 is the best value MacBook

years, and I think almost everyone will be happy with it. If you enjoyed this review, make sure to tap like and click the circle above to subscribe so you don’t miss

out on more videos like this one.Thanks for watching, and we’ll see you in the next one!