2020 MacBook Pro M1 (Top Spec) - Unboxing and comparison

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech.And this is the 2020 Mac book pro 13inch with the all new M1 Apple Siliconin it.And this starts at $1299and goes up to $2299 in theUnited States. It comes witheight or 16 gigabytes of Ram,and you can configure it from512 gigabytes to two terabytes.This is the top of the line model with16 gigs of Ram and two terabytes ofstorage. It also has the Apple M onechip in it, which is an eight core CPU,eight core GPU and 16 core neuralengine comes in silver space, gray.Let's go ahead and open it up. Sowe'll take the package cover off here.And I haven't seen one of these in person,but the frame of this hasn't reallychanged. Let's take the top of the box offand we'll do a comparison with thenew Mac book air a little bit as well.So we'll set the top of the box aside.Here's the Mac book proand it's in space gray.I know some people really like thesilver. I prefer space gray with that.And then here is a USBCadapter that comes in the box,and then we've got some paperworkand we have a MacBook pro starter guide,a little warranty card along withtwo space, gray Apple stickers.Now also we have a different adapterthan what we get with the Mac book air.So this should be the 60watt adapter. I believe.Let's see if I can pull this out of here.And as you can see here, it's 61 watt.So it's a USB-C adapter to help chargeit because this has a larger batteryand may have a more demanding workflow.So let's go ahead and set the box assign.And here is the new Mac book prolet's go ahead and open it upAnd let's look around the outsideand then we'll turn it on.I'll get it set up and we'llcheck a few other things out. Now,this is the same as theprevious Mac book pro 13 inch,although it has two less ports.So on the right hand side,we just have a 3.5 millimeter headphoneJack on the back, nothing here,just the aluminum frame.On the left-hand side,we have Thundetrbolt three slashUSB, four ports, two of them.And then on the front, it looks the same.You have the normal fee on the bottomwith the different screws around it.Let me go ahead and set thisdown and we'll open it up hereand it should turn on by itself.We'll wait for it to boot up.It usually doesn't take too long andthere's a couple of nice things that wehave in here. Of course we have touchID just like we've had for a while.Now we have the touch bar and theykept the escape key, which is great.If you're a programmer or you just wanta physical escape key and you'll see thekeyboard layout is pretty much everythingwe expect and it's back lit as well.So if I turn the lights off,you'll see that it's back lit itlight up a little bit and turn thekeyboard up. You can turn it upor down and you get the idea.So the Mac book air is wedge-shaped.The MacBook pro is not.So let me bring these together here.You'll see the MacBookpro is not wedge-shaped soit's a little bit differentthere.And the MacBook pro is a little bitheavier at three pounds or 1.4 kilograms.The air is 2.8 pounds or 1.29 kilograms.So there's a slight weightdifference, but you get a much bigger,bigger battery in the Mac book pro.Now let me go ahead and set this up.I'll compare a few things and we'll seewhat it's like to use for a little bitwith some intense tasks. Now,one thing I wanted to point out,I showed in my Mac book air unboxing iswhen you first set up your new Mac book,you have an accessibility option forvision motor hearing or cognitive help.So if you need a little extrahelp, it's right at the beginning.I love that they put this here andI just wanted to point that out.So I'll go into the Apple here,go to about this Mac and you cansee it's the 16 gigabyte variant.So this is 16 gigs of Ram. The Macbook air has eight gigs of Ram.Let's go ahead and close this. Andthis has two terabytes of storage.The Mac book air has 512.We'll go into geek bench five.And in geek bench five,you can see it's clocked at 3.2 gigahertzhas 16 gigabytes of Ram where theMac book air has the same clock speed,3.2 gigahertz and has eight gigs ofRam. If we run the CPU benchmark,I would expect them to be the same,but let's go ahead and run thatand see what we've got. Now,the geek bench score is completed andyou can see that the Mac book pro wasslightly slower.Now I would think this is becausethere's a lot going on in the background.It's completing a lot of tasks. Asyou can see here with i-STAT menu,the CPU is in use and it got this score.So the CPU's doing somework in the background.If we go to activitymonitor and open it up,we can see what's using theCPU and the process namedbird is using the most.So that's using utilizing 88%of the CPU right now doing sometasks in the background, completingsetup. So for it to actually get those,those scores while doing work inthe background is fairly impressive,but they're the same CPU. So Iwould think they're the same.And also this is running Mac iOS11.0 will need to be updated.Let me go ahead and goto the we'll close this,and then we'll go to the computescore and we have open cl of course,let's just run it and see what we get.We'll go ahead and run the compute score.And there we go. This time,the compute score was actuallyhigher on the MacBook pro at 19,049,verse 18,724.And so there's a littlebit of a difference there.Let's go ahead and close that andlet's see if we see any difference withanother application. Andmaybe I can really push this,see if we can get it a little bit warm.Normally these don'thardly get hot at all.And since the MacBook air doesn'thave a fan in it and the pro does,let's see what we can do.I'll open cinema bench and sort of pushthis machine as much as I can here.So we've got cinema bench AR 23.We'll go ahead and waitfor it to load on both.Let me close out geekbench and activity monitor.We'll do the same here andlet's go ahead and do a CPUmulti-core test and see whathappens here. So you'll see,there's still processes going on inthe background on the Mac book pro,but let's see what we can do and pushit and see what kind of scores we get.So we'll go ahead and hit startand let's see what happens here.So it's performing a render test. Now,a couple of things to note on the Macbook pro you can see here's the differentload averages and the MacBookpro just started to spin up itsfan. I can barely hear it. It'ssuper quiet, but it is there.So the fan is spinning.Let me move my microphone and seeif you can actually hear it as well.Another thing to note is thetemperature of these is fairly cool.The temperature sensoron this wasn't working.So I don't know if Appledoesn't allow that here,but the Mac book air feels a littlebit warm right here on a previousgeneration Mac book air.This would be hot right now.It's just a little bit warm on the Macbook pro I can feel a little bit of heathere as well,but one thing to know is that theCPU's are maxed out and not throttling.So we'll see what happens,but it's at 99% utilization on bothof them, which is really impressive.You can see that it's spiking theCPU and it's just staying there as itcompletes this task. Soit's really impressive. Now,you'll see that Cinebench completed onthe Mac book pro it's still going on theMac book air, and now it justcompleted. So on the Mac book,air is scored at 7,214 on theMac book pro it's scored at7,713,because it was able to keep the processorcool enough to keep pushing at fullspeed. So let's go aheadand try a single core.We'll push it again andsee what it's doing. Now.Keep in mind the batteriesat 12% on the Mac book air.So I've never charged the MacBook airother than the transfer that I showed youearlier with the Thunderbolt cable.So let's go ahead and see what thisdoes with single core and see how itsustains the load.The peak load on the MacBook prowas 29 where the MacBook air is11. So it's pretty interesting.And we'll give it a little bit.Now cinebench is completed for singlecore and the Mac book pro was one pointbetter at 1,493 verse 1,492.The multi-core is where there was thebiggest difference because you couldsustain the loads with the pro a littlebit longer. So you had a higher score.So sustained with doing multi-coreintensive tasks will work better on the,on the pro.Obviously let's go ahead andclose out cinema bench andlet's go ahead and close that out.And let's take a look at S and see ifthere's any difference exporting video.And then I'll try a couple appsthat people were asking about.Now I did have to plug in the Mac bookair because the battery got really low.It's the first time I've plugged itin. And the test only used about 6%,but still let's go aheadand see what we can do.So I'll delete the generated media files.This is the exact same videoI imported into final cut proit's actually my iOS 14.3beta one video we'll go tofile share, and we'll go to master file..And we'll go to settings. We'llmake sure they're the same.We'll go to video and audio H dot two 64.And so this is actually H.265 footage.It will be eight gigabytes when it'scompletely compressed and rendered,we'll hit next.I'm just going to select thesame place we'll hit. Save hit,start on the stopwatch, see howlong it takes and let's open it up.Now I disconnected the Mac book airfrom power we're at 30% battery.And let me show you the CPU here as well.You can just kind of get an idea howit's spiking and we'll see how fast itexports..So the MacBook pro was able to completethis task in about 12 minutes and 10seconds where it took about 43to 44 more seconds for the Macbook air to complete the same thing. Now,one thing I didn't mentionat the beginning of thevideo is it took 12 minutes,but this is an eight minute video.Now, normally it would be faster.It just depends on how you encodethis, but that's pretty impressive,either way, depending on how manytitles you have and everything else.So let's go ahead and closethat, move this out of the way.Let's take a look and see ifdisk speed test is any different.Now I've got disc speed test open on both,and we've got it set toone gigabyte on both.So I'll go ahead and hit start and let'ssee, they should be about the same,although, because the MacBook prohas a bigger drive. It's possible.It'll be faster,but right now they're both gettingabout 3,600 megabytes per second, right?And 2,400 read2,800 read on the MacBook air. Nowthis is actually a Rosetta app.It's running an application throughApple's software that allows it to runvirtually through here,since this is an M1 Mac,this app is not optimizedfor it. So you'll see,it's actually a little bit slower.Read speed on the Mac book pro at 2,400megabytes per second, verse 2,800,which is kind of interesting, buteither way, it's very fast on both now,along with what I've already shown,this will run Microsoft office apps,no problem running them from the appstore. I showed that on a different video,but also this will run Adobe'sproducts, but those are not native apps.So they will install andwork, but they're not native.You also have the optionfor iPad and iOS apps.So if you want to watch or wantto try anything from the optimizedMac apps to say,we'll say pixel Mader forphotos, that's what I use.And up at the top, youhave iPhone and iPad apps.So you can switch between iPhone and iPadapps, but not everything is supported.Now one major differencebetween them is their battery.The MacBook pro has a largerbattery of 58.2 watt hours versus49.9 watt hours.So you get a couple more hours of useout of the MacBook pro 17 hours ofwireless web verse, 15and 18 hours of Apple TV,verse 20.And both of them only support oneexternal monitor up to six K a pro displayXDR or anything else, but just one,it will use the monitor on thedisplay here and the other monitor,or you can close it inclose clamshell mode.Now one area where the MacBook pro is alot better is in its speakers and alsoits microphone. So let memove the Mac book air over,and let's go to quick time andgo to file new movie recordingand let's record from the Mac book itself.So now I'm recording from the MacBookpro with its studio microphones.It has the same sort of studio microphonesas you get with the 16 inch Mac bookpro for example, but we stillhave a seven 20 P webcam.So they haven't improved that at all,but it should be better due to theneural engine. It should respond better,have better lighting. I'mnot sure that it's great,but it's fine for web calls and thingslike that, but not for video recording.So just keep that in mind. We'llgo ahead and hit stop there.And then we'll go ahead and export asa seven 20 P video that's as high asyou can go and MacBook pro webcam,we'll see how fast it isto save and we're done.We'll delete it. And now I haveit saved. So it's pretty good.That way let's take a listen to thespeakers. So let me open YouTube here.I'll maximize this and we have 4kresolution. Let me move themicrophone so you can hear it.Let me know with notifications andthat's it. So that's pretty simple.There's also some additionalupdates to music as well.So whatever you were lastplaying will show up. Of course,speakers do sound pretty good, andthey've got a nice wide stereo sound.And the display also goes a hundred nits,brighter on the pro as compared to theair. So it is a little bit brighter here.So let's go ahead and see ifwe can turn it all the way up.We'll turn the, the, this all the way up.It'll be too blown out for the camera,but you'll get the idea.We'll turn it back down.And one thing do get on the Mac bookpro because you have the touch bars,you can adjust the keyboardbrightness right here,although it's disabled for somereason, so we can adjust it,but not right now. So it's disabled.Maybe it needs to sense that there'sno light. Now I can adjust it.So it sends that there was no light. Ican adjust it from the touch bar here,which I can't do on the Mac book air.So that's pretty nice that we havethat option. And once it senses light,it doesn't allow you to adjustthe keyboard brightness,probably to save battery life.Now both have wifi six and Bluetooth 5.0,they support all of the previousversions of Wi-Fi eight Oh two dot 11,a B G N a C and now AX with wifi six.And they've got basically the same thing.Although the Mac bookpro has a larger battery.So honestly I would gofor the Mac book pro.If you're going to upgrade the Mac bookair at all, if you need more storage,maybe I just jumped to the probecause it has that extra fan.So it can process things a little bitmore long long-term or if you want to editvideo or photos. And then alsoyou get that longer battery life.And if you like the touch bar,if you really don't, of course,you can get the physical keys aswell. Oh, I'll close the Mac book air,and I know a couple of people will wantto see this, even though I said it.So again, you can run Microsoft word,for example, you'll see how fast this is.Just kind of zipping through this.We'll download it and install it.It'll take just a moment. SoMicrosoft word is downloaded.So let's go ahead and open it up forthe first time or wait for it here.The first time we'll always take thelongest. I'll just skip to read only mode.We'll just zip throughit. And now we're in.So we can go to whateverdocument I'd like,and now we can just use the document.So it works just likeyou'd expect it's word.And if you have an account with Aquawith office three 65 or any of those,you can use it. And then again,I've shown this works with Exceland all of those things as well.So I wouldn't necessarily run out andget one of these if you use Photoshop orpremiere yet until they have morenative support, but it runs those, okay.Everything I've used so farhas actually been really fast.So I use final cut pro and pixel Maderpro everything's incredibly fast.In fact, it's as fast asmy Mac pro in my test.So that's the part that's reallyimpressive and surprising to me in regularuse. So I can edit HDStwo 65 video, no problem.And I think for most people,the PO the pro is probably the correctone to get depending on what you want.So it's great. It's light enough.It's close enough to the Mac book air,but let me know if there'sanything else specifically,you want to know about it.Hopefully Adobe will get theirapps ready for this faster,if you want to use their apps.But since they charge monthly,I tend to use the Appleapps or final cut in those,the other things thatare alternate to that,I also find they run better as well.Let me know if you have any additionalquestions in the comments below and I'lllink these wallpapers from all of the bigSur wallpapers in the description likeI normally do. If you haven't subscribedalready though, please subscribe.And if you enjoyed the video, pleasegive it a as always. Thanks for watching.This is Aaron. I'll see you next time.\n"