MACBOOK PRO 2018 WITH TOUCH BAR UPGRADE
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You can now upgrade to macOS Catalina for free. That's about the same runtime as last year's 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and a Core i7 CPU (8:43). Apple's laptop lasted for 8 hours and 41 minutes on the Laptop Mag battery test, which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of screen brightness. Battery LifeĪlthough Apple rates the 13-inch MacBook Pro for up to 10 hours of web surfing, we saw less endurance in our testing. The Yoga C930 was comparable to the MacBook Pro, at 37 fps. On low settings, it turned in a frame rate of 38 fps on the Dirt 3 racing game, while the XPS 13 hit 88 fps and the Spectre x350 reached 56 fps. You shouldn't expect the greatest graphics performance from this MacBook Pro, however. The Dell XPS 13 hit just 226.4 MBps on the same test, while the HP Spectre x360 13 hit 616.3 MBps. On the BlackMagic Disk Speed Test, this system turned in a write speed of 2,573 MBps. The MacBook Pro's SSD continues to be off-the-charts fast.

Both the HP Spectre x360 13 and Yoga C930 took over 20 minutes.

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In our video-editing test, in which we transcode a 4K video file to 1080p, the MacBook Pro was a full 5 minutes faster than its closest competitor, the XPS 13, which needed 19:20 to complete the same tasks.

On Geekbench 4.1, which measures overall performance, the 13-inch MacBook scored a very high 18,221, which wipes the floor with the Dell XPS 13's mark of 14,936 (Core i7-8565U, 16GB of RAM) and the HP Spectre x360 13-inch model's score of 14,935 (Core i7-8565U, 8GB of RAM). I also appreciated the stereo separation on Twenty One Pilots' 'Chlorine.' The drum line was punchy but perfectly balanced with the slacker-melancholy vocals. Not only is there a ton of power here - 'Night Running' from Cage the Elephant and Beck filled a large conference room with sound at 50% volume - but there's also an impressive amount of bass here.

MACBOOK PRO 2018 WITH TOUCH BAR WINDOWS

I would put the speakers on the 13-inch MacBook Pro up against those on any Windows laptop, and Apple would probably win. The 13-inch MacBook Pro's panel turned in a Delta-E score of 0.12. You won't find a display with more-accurate hues, though. The MacBook Pro's screen isn't the most colorful it reproduced 118% of the sRGB color gamut in our tests, which is better than the Yoga C930's result (100%) but behind those from the XPS 13 (119%) and Spectre x360 (150%). MORE: Best MacBook - A Guide to Apple Laptops - Laptop Mag That soundly beats the HP Spectre x360 13-inch model (287 nits) and the Lenovo Yoga C930 (273 nits), and the MacBook's result also outshines the XPS 13's (375 nits). The panel itself also beamed in our lab tests, as it registered an average brightness of 408 nits. Scrolling on this laptop is silky smooth, and it's a cinch to execute gestures like swiping up with three fingers for Mission Control or spreading three fingers to show the desktop. Touchpad, Touch Bar and Touch IDĪt 5.3 x 3.2 inches, the trackpad on the 13-inch MacBook Pro is as massive as ever, and it's just as responsive and accurate.

We plan on using this MacBook Pro for several weeks to see how the improved butterfly keyboard holds up. According to iFixit, which performed a tear down on the 15-inch MacBook Pro with the same design change, the switch cover now seems to be made of polyamide (aka, nylon) instead of polyacetylene, but the benefit to users of that change is not clear. So, what about this new material on the keyboard, and what will it do? Apple isn't providing any details, other than to say that the changes should prevent issues like the double typing of letters or keys that fail to register.

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MORE: Apple's Pro Display Stand Costs a Grand, And Even Mac Fans Are. On my everyday 2016 MacBook Pro without Touch Bar, I hit 75 wpm with 93.8% accuracy. That's slightly faster than the 72 wpm I got on the 2018 MacBook Pro, but I achieved even better accuracy on that system, with 97.6%. On the typing test, I surpassed 77 words per minute with 95% accuracy.

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