**A Comprehensive Review of the 2016 MacBook Pro**

In this article, we'll delve into the features and performance of the 2016 MacBook Pro, comparing it to its predecessor, the 2015 MacBook Pro. We've put the laptop through a series of tests, including audio quality comparisons and SSD speed tests, to determine its strengths and weaknesses.

**Audio Quality Comparison**

When it comes to audio quality, the 2016 MacBook Pro holds its own against some of the best laptops on the market. Comparing it side by side with the 13-inch Nike Edition Apple Watch, we were able to identify several key differences. The 2016 MacBook Pro's speakers produce a more balanced sound, with better highs, mids, and bass. The audio quality is definitely an improvement over its predecessor, and it's clear that Apple has made significant strides in this area.

One notable difference between the two laptops is the flatness of the sound produced by the 2016 MacBook Pro. While both laptops produce a good listening experience, the newer model sounds more even and less prone to distortion. This is likely due to the updated speaker design and improved audio processing capabilities. In contrast, the 2015 MacBook Pro's sound can sometimes come across as slightly tinny or boxy.

**SSD Speed Tests**

In our SSD speed tests, we were able to see some impressive results from the 2016 MacBook Pro. When compared to the Blackmagic Speed Test software, which was holding back the performance of the older MacBook Pro, we were able to achieve significantly faster speeds with a different program. This suggests that Apple has made significant strides in this area and is now taking full advantage of the latest SSD technology.

We ran multiple tests on both laptops, using different software programs to push their performance to the limit. The results were impressive, with the 2016 MacBook Pro consistently outperforming its predecessor. In one test, we achieved speeds of over 2,000 reads per second (RPS) on the base model laptop, while the older MacBook Pro struggled to reach even 1,300 RPS.

**Battery Life and Portability**

One of the standout features of the 2016 MacBook Pro is its battery life. With a claimed 10-hour runtime, this laptop can easily keep up with most users' needs throughout the day. This is particularly impressive considering that many other laptops in the same class have shorter battery lives.

In terms of portability, the 2016 MacBook Pro has made significant strides. Weighing in at just 3.02 pounds, this laptop is significantly lighter than its predecessor, making it easier to carry around on the go. The display is also smaller, measuring in at 13 inches, but still provides plenty of space for work and productivity.

**Connectivity and Power**

One of the most significant upgrades in the 2016 MacBook Pro is the addition of USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports. These ports are incredibly versatile, offering a combination of data transfer speeds up to 40 Gbps and power delivery capabilities that can charge the laptop itself. This makes them an excellent choice for users who need to power their laptops on the go.

We also tested the 2016 MacBook Pro's connectivity options, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The results were impressive, with fast and reliable connections throughout our testing process.

**Powering Your Laptop on the Go**

One of the most convenient features of the 2016 MacBook Pro is its ability to be powered by a simple power bank. Using a $13 power bank and a USB-C cable, we were able to charge the laptop from 0% to 100% in just over an hour. This is a game-changer for users who need to work on the go without access to a wall outlet.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the 2016 MacBook Pro is an impressive laptop that has made significant strides in terms of performance, portability, and connectivity. With its balanced audio quality, improved SSD speeds, and convenient power options, this laptop is sure to impress even the most discerning users. Whether you're a professional content creator or just looking for a reliable workhorse for everyday tasks, the 2016 MacBook Pro is definitely worth considering.

**Future Testing and Comparisons**

We'll continue to test and compare the 2016 MacBook Pro against other laptops in its class, including the base model with Touch Bar and the 15-inch version. We're excited to see how these newer models stack up against their predecessors and each other, and we invite you to join us on this journey of discovery.

**Additional Resources**

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys it's max from Apple Insider and welcome to our first look of the 2016 13 inch MacBook Pro now we've already unboxing you guys could see our unboxing video post it on this YouTube channel so make sure to go check that out but here it is so this is a Space Gray model it's the base model without the touch bar it's going to be a few weeks before those are released and we're gonna get one in as soon as possible and make some great content for you guys but as you guys can see it looks very familiar now we have variety of different mac books right here we have a macbook 12 inch tin Space Gray MacBook Air in a MacBook Pro 15 inch so we're going to be doing a little bit of comparing but taking a look here you guys can see how similar they look they look almost identical this is just a little bit larger so this is Apple's newest latest design and they're bringing that forward to the 13-inch in the 15-inch MacBook Pros so on the outside it doesn't taper as much but other than that we have two headphone ports you know just very similar there on the back apple switched over to a full aluminum design instead of having plastic right there and on this other side we have our USB C and these guys our Thunderbolt 3 is right there so it's very very similar as far as design wise we just have two more ports here other than that you guys can see that the 13 inch MacBook Pro is not much larger it's a little bit thicker but size-wise it's very impressive so this guy comes in at 2 pounds the MacBook and then this is three pounds right here so before we open it up Apple is telling people that they should step up to a macbook pro a 13 inch all the apple air macbook air users that have wanted a better MacBook Air update they're saying they should step up so these guys as you can see this macbook pro 13 inch is quite a bit smaller it's thinner at the thickest part and fairly similar here doesn't taper as much but size-wise it's smaller it's thinner and the weight is exactly the same of course the this MacBook Pro uses different ports but it's pretty impressive how small they got it so let's go ahead and open this guy up here and on the inside if you guys see we have this new trackpad it's very very large so if you use multi-touch if you're doing final cut different editing your power user it's going to be really handy having this much larger touchpad in it is forced touch it doesn't actually click you can adjust the settings overall it just feels great using it of course we have this new keyboard which I'll talk about we have new updated speakers you see this designs a little bit different here we have similar to the 12-inch MacBook and of course we have this new gorgeous display going into my password if I get it right alright so this display is amazing it's brighter it has better contrast ratios more color accurate it's better basically in every way and it's apparent as soon as you open up this laptop how beautiful how bright how gorgeous the screen is so very very nice display and let's go ahead and talk about the keyboard so this keyboard here is Apple's second generation of their Butterfly keys which were introduced in this keyboard here now I have a fair bit of experience using this keyboard here and it is very shallow it doesn't have as much feedback or it has little feedback but it's wider it's more even when you're pressing down compared to the older Mac books and if you get used to it you can type pretty quick and accurately actually with this keyboard here now with the second-generation version Apple has made some changes and it's a lot click here so even though it's very thin and it's very light I'm gonna move this forward here if you guys can hear that it's a lot more click here and you have a lot more feedback now I've done some comparisons already with the MacBook Pro we have a 15-inch MacBook Pro there or a MacBook Air and compared to apples last generation style of keyboard which isn't as wide but it's a lot more clicky and it's not as even when you press it down to kind of move side to side honestly I prefer this keyboard a lot more I think with just a little even just a small amount of use that we've done today this keyboard here is going to be really great to type on so very fast very accurate it's wider it's presses even has some feedback even though it's shallow and I think this is my preference going forward compared to my 15-inch MacBook Pro it's a great keyboard apples done a great job they've made some improvements and overall I really liked it so let's move this guy over here the next thing I want to talk about is the speakers so you guys see the two bars here Apple saying these are they have better dynamics they're louder they have more bass and they're exactly right these are truly phenomenal speakers they they sound great now comparing it to this larger 15-inch MacBook Pro last generation this laptop here had one of the best if not the best speakers inside of any laptop very loud they just sound really really good now comparing them side by side the 13-inch MacBook Pro 2016 model is better believe it or not so we did some testing with our last video which is the nike unboxing the Apple watch Nike version listen so of course I'm closer to this computer here and then going through multiple mics and through the internet it's hard to tell but the new laptop the highs the tweeters are better the mids are better and the the best a little bit more pop on the bass it's definitely a parent and it's louder overall as well so this is a more flat sound even though it's it sounds really good Apple has just one up themselves when they didn't necessarily have to they just they keep improving things and there's a lot of things that you can't you can't compare just looking at spec sheets and that's really what Apple is good at delivering is just the experience of actually using the product the speaker sound phenomenal the keyboard is great the trackpad is great to use the display is amazing so very very nice so far the improvements our first look we're definitely impressed moving on to SSD speed tests the new MacBook Pro was actually being held back by the piece of software that we were using the Blackmagic speed test that's the first time that I've seen that so we found a different program here that hopefully is using most of the speed available and we're getting some better results now so first let's take a look at the older MacBook Pro so you guys see the results here I'll go ahead and run it one more time for you guys so this is the Specht out 2015 MacBook Pro 15 inch so it already has a fast SSD so we'll see how this 2016 13 inch compares so here we're getting just about 10,000 or here we're getting just about 2,000 reads so that's really impressive now here's the last test that we've done and we're gonna go ahead and run this again now this is the base model macbook pro 13 inch and typically when you get larger sizes of storage the speed is actually faster so we're looking at a right about 1300 and the we're going up to 26 didn't make it up there to 27 so I'm not sure if this software is giving us the full ability with this MacBook Pro we're just gonna have to do some more testing but overall it's very impressive and Apple keeps pushing what's available and putting the fastest SSDs out there in their MacBook Pros Apple has made this laptop compared to its last generation it's made it thinner it's made it lighter smaller overall and the battery life actually is 10 hours so the battery life either stay the same or got better depending on different models so they've done an impressive job in that way so of course this model the base model has no touch bar and has these two USB type-c Thunderbolt 3 connections so those are very very powerful you could do a lot with them and one huge benefit that you could do with them is power the laptop itself so with just a very simple inexpensive power bank like this one about 13 dollars here maybe even little bit less and a USBC cable you can plug it in if you guys hear that chime now the laptop is charging so that's super convenient if you're using your laptop at the airport really just anywhere on that airplane you don't have to worry about finding a socket to plug into if you're doing some some programs like video editing photo editing just anything else that uses power just a very simple and expensive power bank can power the laptop which is very very convenient and another thing is if you're using devices like this 2 terabyte raid SSD which is really fast you have the new USB 3.1 that's a combo port with the Thunderbolt 3 and you can get full speeds for example we get about 400 with our 2015 MacBook Pro but plugging it into here we got speeds of about over 800 on the reed and about 650 700 on the the right speed so you're going to take more advantage of your your nice devices that can get the full speed out of this new port so overall we're very impressed with this laptop we can't wait to get the version with the touch bar in and 15 inch version as well so we're going to be doing more test comparisons and videos for you guys so make sure you guys are subscribed to this channel check us out at Apple inside comm on different articles that we have out and make sure you guys have liked us on Facebook we just did a live our first live stream video on this laptop answering you guys's questions so it's a little more interactive there so thank you guys for watching and we will see you guys in the next videohey guys it's max from Apple Insider and welcome to our first look of the 2016 13 inch MacBook Pro now we've already unboxing you guys could see our unboxing video post it on this YouTube channel so make sure to go check that out but here it is so this is a Space Gray model it's the base model without the touch bar it's going to be a few weeks before those are released and we're gonna get one in as soon as possible and make some great content for you guys but as you guys can see it looks very familiar now we have variety of different mac books right here we have a macbook 12 inch tin Space Gray MacBook Air in a MacBook Pro 15 inch so we're going to be doing a little bit of comparing but taking a look here you guys can see how similar they look they look almost identical this is just a little bit larger so this is Apple's newest latest design and they're bringing that forward to the 13-inch in the 15-inch MacBook Pros so on the outside it doesn't taper as much but other than that we have two headphone ports you know just very similar there on the back apple switched over to a full aluminum design instead of having plastic right there and on this other side we have our USB C and these guys our Thunderbolt 3 is right there so it's very very similar as far as design wise we just have two more ports here other than that you guys can see that the 13 inch MacBook Pro is not much larger it's a little bit thicker but size-wise it's very impressive so this guy comes in at 2 pounds the MacBook and then this is three pounds right here so before we open it up Apple is telling people that they should step up to a macbook pro a 13 inch all the apple air macbook air users that have wanted a better MacBook Air update they're saying they should step up so these guys as you can see this macbook pro 13 inch is quite a bit smaller it's thinner at the thickest part and fairly similar here doesn't taper as much but size-wise it's smaller it's thinner and the weight is exactly the same of course the this MacBook Pro uses different ports but it's pretty impressive how small they got it so let's go ahead and open this guy up here and on the inside if you guys see we have this new trackpad it's very very large so if you use multi-touch if you're doing final cut different editing your power user it's going to be really handy having this much larger touchpad in it is forced touch it doesn't actually click you can adjust the settings overall it just feels great using it of course we have this new keyboard which I'll talk about we have new updated speakers you see this designs a little bit different here we have similar to the 12-inch MacBook and of course we have this new gorgeous display going into my password if I get it right alright so this display is amazing it's brighter it has better contrast ratios more color accurate it's better basically in every way and it's apparent as soon as you open up this laptop how beautiful how bright how gorgeous the screen is so very very nice display and let's go ahead and talk about the keyboard so this keyboard here is Apple's second generation of their Butterfly keys which were introduced in this keyboard here now I have a fair bit of experience using this keyboard here and it is very shallow it doesn't have as much feedback or it has little feedback but it's wider it's more even when you're pressing down compared to the older Mac books and if you get used to it you can type pretty quick and accurately actually with this keyboard here now with the second-generation version Apple has made some changes and it's a lot click here so even though it's very thin and it's very light I'm gonna move this forward here if you guys can hear that it's a lot more click here and you have a lot more feedback now I've done some comparisons already with the MacBook Pro we have a 15-inch MacBook Pro there or a MacBook Air and compared to apples last generation style of keyboard which isn't as wide but it's a lot more clicky and it's not as even when you press it down to kind of move side to side honestly I prefer this keyboard a lot more I think with just a little even just a small amount of use that we've done today this keyboard here is going to be really great to type on so very fast very accurate it's wider it's presses even has some feedback even though it's shallow and I think this is my preference going forward compared to my 15-inch MacBook Pro it's a great keyboard apples done a great job they've made some improvements and overall I really liked it so let's move this guy over here the next thing I want to talk about is the speakers so you guys see the two bars here Apple saying these are they have better dynamics they're louder they have more bass and they're exactly right these are truly phenomenal speakers they they sound great now comparing it to this larger 15-inch MacBook Pro last generation this laptop here had one of the best if not the best speakers inside of any laptop very loud they just sound really really good now comparing them side by side the 13-inch MacBook Pro 2016 model is better believe it or not so we did some testing with our last video which is the nike unboxing the Apple watch Nike version listen so of course I'm closer to this computer here and then going through multiple mics and through the internet it's hard to tell but the new laptop the highs the tweeters are better the mids are better and the the best a little bit more pop on the bass it's definitely a parent and it's louder overall as well so this is a more flat sound even though it's it sounds really good Apple has just one up themselves when they didn't necessarily have to they just they keep improving things and there's a lot of things that you can't you can't compare just looking at spec sheets and that's really what Apple is good at delivering is just the experience of actually using the product the speaker sound phenomenal the keyboard is great the trackpad is great to use the display is amazing so very very nice so far the improvements our first look we're definitely impressed moving on to SSD speed tests the new MacBook Pro was actually being held back by the piece of software that we were using the Blackmagic speed test that's the first time that I've seen that so we found a different program here that hopefully is using most of the speed available and we're getting some better results now so first let's take a look at the older MacBook Pro so you guys see the results here I'll go ahead and run it one more time for you guys so this is the Specht out 2015 MacBook Pro 15 inch so it already has a fast SSD so we'll see how this 2016 13 inch compares so here we're getting just about 10,000 or here we're getting just about 2,000 reads so that's really impressive now here's the last test that we've done and we're gonna go ahead and run this again now this is the base model macbook pro 13 inch and typically when you get larger sizes of storage the speed is actually faster so we're looking at a right about 1300 and the we're going up to 26 didn't make it up there to 27 so I'm not sure if this software is giving us the full ability with this MacBook Pro we're just gonna have to do some more testing but overall it's very impressive and Apple keeps pushing what's available and putting the fastest SSDs out there in their MacBook Pros Apple has made this laptop compared to its last generation it's made it thinner it's made it lighter smaller overall and the battery life actually is 10 hours so the battery life either stay the same or got better depending on different models so they've done an impressive job in that way so of course this model the base model has no touch bar and has these two USB type-c Thunderbolt 3 connections so those are very very powerful you could do a lot with them and one huge benefit that you could do with them is power the laptop itself so with just a very simple inexpensive power bank like this one about 13 dollars here maybe even little bit less and a USBC cable you can plug it in if you guys hear that chime now the laptop is charging so that's super convenient if you're using your laptop at the airport really just anywhere on that airplane you don't have to worry about finding a socket to plug into if you're doing some some programs like video editing photo editing just anything else that uses power just a very simple and expensive power bank can power the laptop which is very very convenient and another thing is if you're using devices like this 2 terabyte raid SSD which is really fast you have the new USB 3.1 that's a combo port with the Thunderbolt 3 and you can get full speeds for example we get about 400 with our 2015 MacBook Pro but plugging it into here we got speeds of about over 800 on the reed and about 650 700 on the the right speed so you're going to take more advantage of your your nice devices that can get the full speed out of this new port so overall we're very impressed with this laptop we can't wait to get the version with the touch bar in and 15 inch version as well so we're going to be doing more test comparisons and videos for you guys so make sure you guys are subscribed to this channel check us out at Apple inside comm on different articles that we have out and make sure you guys have liked us on Facebook we just did a live our first live stream video on this laptop answering you guys's questions so it's a little more interactive there so thank you guys for watching and we will see you guys in the next video\n"