2018 Apple MacBook Pro 13" vs. Unboxing & Reviews

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what's up guys this is Mike the Detroit
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Borg and it's great to be back with some
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new hardware from Apple so apple has
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updated the 13 inch and 15-inch MacBook
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Pro with touch bar so in terms of the
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13-inch the big new bullet points here
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include the new eighth generation
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quad-core CPUs replacing the dual core
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we also get a true tone display
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hands-free Siri command and the more
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important design change here is a
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redesigned third-generation Butterfly
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keyboard which is designed to be quieter
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and more reliable some other minor
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tweaks include bluetooth 5.0 a
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redesigned option key symbol and we also
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get symmetrical fundable 3 ports both
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the left and right side have the exact
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same speed this time the standard
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configuration starts off at $17.99 then
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I get to a 2.3 gigahertz core i5 you can
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upgrade through 2.7 gigahertz core i7 8
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gigs of ram is standard but you can look
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great - 16 gigs for $200 I think that
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might be worth the upgrade price in
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terms of the RAM specs it's lpddr3 which
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is the same as last year which is
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clocked at 20 133 megahertz in terms of
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storage 256 is standard but you can
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upgrade all the way up to 2 terabytes
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for a mere $1,400 and of course it's
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available in silver or space grave first
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up we have some paperwork and the
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paperwork is pretty familiar of course
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we have a QuickStart guide in this case
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it's highlighting hi Sierra we also get
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a set of Apple stickers and some
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warranty info in terms of our power
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adapter again this is 61 watts with a
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USB type-c connector now this adapter is
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a pretty familiar design by now we have
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folding prongs which can be pulled off
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to add an extension cable or swap out
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for international wall adapters but this
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is actually a redesigned power adapter
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at least internally inside it has been
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cushioned for better shock protection
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but they've also replaced the metal USBC
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connector for a plastic design not sure
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why they did this but it might be more
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durable now the setup in this case is
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slightly different to take advantage of
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some of the new features with this
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MacBook Pro now this is the first Mac to
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use the Siri wake up come and so just
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like an iOS device or your home pod you
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can now use your voice for hands-free
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Siri interaction and of course you have
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to train your voice in order for this
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feature to work now this works thanks to
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the t2 chip and the three microphone
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array similar to Iowa
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the t2 chip allows the computer to
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monitor for your voice using very little
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power so as long as the computer is open
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you can command Siri even when it's
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locked or sleeping the weather is
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looking good on Sunday up to 77 degrees
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also new to the Mac but not new to iOS
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is true tone so again we get a
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demonstration of how the true tone
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display works so in addition to
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brightness the adaptive sensors will
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also measure for color temperature so
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this will reflect the ambient lighting
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conditions of the room the computer is
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in and what's great is true tone extends
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to attach displays like the LG 5k
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display or the Thunder will display and
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even the touch bar is using true tone to
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match the display on the MacBook so
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that's pretty impressive now because
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true tone needs to use the ambient light
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sensors and the t2 chip in the MacBook
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Pro to adapt the display color
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temperature this will not work if the
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lid of the MacBook Pro is closed so for
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a test displays if you want to take
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advantage of true tone you'll need to
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make sure your MacBook Pro is open the
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display is covered edge to edge with a
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glass panel with a nice anti-reflective
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coating so although we have a glossy
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display it does one of the best jobs in
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terms of mitigating glare that i've seen
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on any other laptop the IPS display once
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again is 13.3 inches with a resolution
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of 2560 by 1600 that's good for 227
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pixels per inch
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we get 500 nits of maximum brightness
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along with the wide color spectrum of
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the DCI p3 spec we still have a 720p
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FaceTime HD camera in the same location
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as before with an LED indicator along
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with our ambient light sensors in terms
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of the touch bar once again this
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replaces the traditional function key
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row for contextual aware and interactive
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OLED display it's still a really nice
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looking design then I discover new uses
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for it every time but it's still
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something you have to consciously look
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at to use face ID didn't make it to the
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Mac books just yet but touch ID is still
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here at the red edge of the touch bar so
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again this is the same touch ID too
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sensor so it's pretty quick and accurate
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you can use it for unlocking your
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MacBook or for authenticating for
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passwords or payment the glass force
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touch trackpad is still here as well so
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once again is
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of a mechanical trackpad we have a
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taptic motor that replicates physical
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clicks again it's pressure-sensitive
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which gives you a new layer to the user
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interface and is still one of the best
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track pads on any laptop there is one
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visual tweak that's unique to the 2018
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model and that's a slightly redesigned
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symbol on the option key which is a bit
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taller than it was from the 2017
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redesign so I'm not sure why they keep
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changing this but hopefully they've
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settled on this and they can roll this
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out to other keyboards later this year
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once again we get a backlit keyboard
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with individual LED lights for each key
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so it's a very clean looking backlight
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but by far the most important news here
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is that Apple has added a silicon layer
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underneath each key camp which is
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designed to mitigate dust intrusion so
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it won't interfere with the operation of
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the keys but this also changes the
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clicking tone of the keys it's not
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necessarily quieter but it's less
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annoying so let's go ahead and take a
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listen to them side by side now
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personally I've been a big fan of this
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keyboard design since it came out
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because it's so fast there's less
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mechanical action and the keys are
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extremely solid and wide so you can hit
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the keys really quickly and accurately
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and this third-generation for the most
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part feels exactly the same but it's a
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little softer sounding and initially it
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doesn't feel quite as crisp as the
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second generation but if I wasn't
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comparing them side by side they
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wouldn't know the difference
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now ventilation is going to be very
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important for this computer because of
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those quad-core chips and if you go for
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the i7 you want to make sure this
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computer can breathe very well now
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there's lots of ventilation here but
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it's pretty well hidden
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so you'll find ventilation inside the
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hinge as before but you also find
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ventilation along the bottom side edge
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which is also part of the speaker design
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Apple also redesigned the internal
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speaker system so although the speaker
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grilles on the top are still fake
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outlets the speaker's actually come from
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the vents on the side the speakers and
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the chambers have been redesigned for
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the new larger battery and the effect
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here is definitely an improvement to my
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ears it's not louder but the quality of
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the sound has improved slightly so
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there's less of that tinny or muffled
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sound and more of a fuller wider sound
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after Christopher Pike requests
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permission to come aboard
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this is awkward but the best way to give
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into a cold Street to jump right
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I'm here a second man in the discovery
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under regulation 19 Section C the bottom
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of the MacBook has a single removable
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panel which is fastened with pentalobe
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screws and it's protected by four black
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plastic feet
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however this computer really is not user
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upgradeable everything is glued soldered
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and otherwise currently fixed to the
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motherboard of this computer so make
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sure you get the configuration you want
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from the store because you can't change
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it later we still get fourth undoable
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three ports two on the left two on the
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right and a headphone jack but this time
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the ports on the right side have the
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same 40 gigs per second throughput as
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the ports on the left side previously
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only the 15-inch MacBook Pro offer this
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capability but we finally get it in the
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13-inch so two years later this four
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port design is still kind of a headache
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for a lot of people because it will need
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some adapters to use legacy peripherals
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but these high-speed ports can drive a
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5k display high-speed storage and most
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recently an external GPU Apple even
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worked with black magic on an external
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GPU design which I'll feature in a
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separate video Apple did redesign the
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battery pack here from five cell to six
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cell and its larger up to 58 watt hours
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from 54 and a half watt hours now that
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doesn't mean we have more battery life
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it's still 10 hours but this offsets the
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power demands of the new quad-core CPUs
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also interesting is that although
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they've increased the size of the
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battery they've kept the weight the same
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by shaving the chassis down just
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slightly now take a look at our
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synthetic benchmarks comparing this to
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the same spec version from the last
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generation we can see this is one of the
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biggest spec bumps we've seen for a
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macbook pro since 2011 so when it comes
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to Geekbench the single core score is up
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modestly but the multi-core score going
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from 2 core 2 quad cores is a huge
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difference we go from about 8800 to over
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15,000 or closer to 16,000 graphics
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performance is up only slightly so again
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we have an integrated GPU there is no
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dedicated GPU on the 13-inch model and
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this time is the Intel iris + 655 chip
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this replaces the standard 650 chip from
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last generation
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so with Cinebench despite the massive
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cpu gains almost twice the performance
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of the previous design the OpenGL score
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is only separated by a few
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frames-per-second SSD speeds are
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unchanged from the last generation which
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is to say they're extremely fast there
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is one side effect of these powerful
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chips that I noticed during my
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benchmarking and that's the fact that
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these get quite hot under low so the
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fans tend to spool up more so than they
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did with the dual-core processors of
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course that's the trade-off of more
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power you get better performance but you
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also get more heat that isn't to say
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that this computer runs hot all the time
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just when it's under load speaking of
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which one of the biggest controversies
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with this MacBook Pro when it first
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launched was thermal throttling which
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was just recently fixed with the patch
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so now we get consistently superior
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performance to the previous laptop so
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ultimately this really is a significant
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update it fixes one of the biggest
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uncertainties about the previous design
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which was the keyboard and makes a
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significant upgrade to the CPU but this
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remains a very expensive computer this
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really is for people who know they need
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the tools that this machine offers
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otherwise it's kind of an extravagance
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that it really goes unused which makes
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it unfortunate that they did not at
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least add a revised keyboard to the
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baseline MacBook Pro with a function key
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row now if you want even more probe
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features I will be covering the new
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15-inch MacBook Pro with the core i9 CPU
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and 32 gigs of ram so make sure you stay
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tuned for that video hope you guys
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enjoyed this one and if you did please
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let me know with a like and I'll see you
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again in the next video

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-Yo guys!
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Jonathan here with an unboxing of the brand new
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2018 13 inch MacBook Pro for the first time ever.
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- We did it again!
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- We have a quad-core 13 inch MacBook Pro.
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I am excited, let's go.
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(upbeat music)
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So, here we go, and I realized I don't have a knife,
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so I think I'm gonna have to try and use this bottle cap.
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Probably not the best idea, but.
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Hmm.
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There we go, got it!
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So, like I said,
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I am super excited for this 13 inch MacBook Pro.
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I'm really excited for the six-core 15 inch MacBook Pro,
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but again, I've wanted a quad-core 13 inch MacBook Pro
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for the longest time.
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Something about the form factor of the 13 inch MacBook Pro
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just kinda calls my name.
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The 15 inch MacBook Pro does get a little heavy,
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it's a little cumbersome to bring around.
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So,
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I'm going to responsibly go throw this away in the trash.
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There will be no littering today on this unboxing!
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So, if you're watching this video curious what happened
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to the 13 inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar,
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that actually didn't get updated and it was confusing.
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Go ahead and check the video out here or down below
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and that will explain everything.
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Only the Touch Bar 13 and 15 inch MacBook Pro were updated,
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and here we are!
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Now, of course, I went with Space Gray
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because that is the only way you go.
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Space Gray or get out, Austin.
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Pullin' this MacBook Pro out of the box.
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(plastic crinkles)
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That satisfying plastic.
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Set that off to the side for one second.
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I'm gonna toss it to the side for a second.
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I swear I'm gonna throw it away!
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Again, if you guys have seen a MacBook Pro unboxing,
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you've probably seen this before.
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We get the literature inside,
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MacBook Pro, and most importantly, apple stickers.
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Aside from that, we have the USB-C cable,
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and the USB-C power brick that is tiny,
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just like the 13 inch MacBook Pro.
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Again, this is the baseline Touch Bar 13 in MacBook Pro,
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so it it the cheapest way
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to get into a quad-core 13 inch MacBook Pro.
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This, of course, is maxed out.
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Up to two terabytes with 16 gigabytes of RAM.
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But this particular model
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comes with 256 gigabytes flash storage,
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And 8 gigabytes of RAM.
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That's one of the coolest things
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about picking up a MacBook Pro.
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Is trash sliding between my feet.
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(groans)
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But if you pick up a MacBook Pro,
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the minute you open the lid, it starts booting up,
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which is kind of a cool experience.
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It is talkin' to me.
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Settin' this up we're going to select English
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because aside from some poor Spanish,
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that is the only language I know.
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Curious though, if you speak multiple languages,
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let me know how many with a comment down below.
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Someone's wifi is named Country Mouse.
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Red Robster.
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Red Robster.
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Now, I will be testin' this baseline 13 inch MacBook Pro
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against the fastest, highest in spec,
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13 inch MacBook Pro you can buy,
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as well as the six-core 15 inch MacBook Pro,
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but in terms of early impressions,
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the quad-core CPU makes a huge difference.
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As far as Geekbench goes,
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last year's baseline model got a single-core score of 4,113,
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and a multi-core score of 8,875.
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Jumping over to this year's model,
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single core is not a huge difference at 4,702,
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but where we see the massive difference
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is in the Multi-core score with those two extra cores,
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with a score of 16,916, which is crazy.
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So I've been wanting that kind of power
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in a 13 inch MacBook Pro forever.
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To finally see it is awesome.
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I will definitely be putting this thing through its paces
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in terms of video-editing, graphics performance,
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photoshop, lightroom, you name it.
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If you guys wanna see any in the follow up video,
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definitely drop me a line or suggest it down below.
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Aside from that, that's kind of my first look
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at this brand new 13 inch MacBook Pro.
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Super excited to stack it against all the other models
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and let you know what your best bang for your buck is.
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Definitely subscribe if you haven't yet
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so you don't miss that.
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This is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later.
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(calm electronic music)
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