Buy 2016 MacBook Pro considerations

The 2016 MacBook Pro has been released, the most significant update of the MacBook Pro series in four years. Cancel the "a" backlight apple logo; only the Thunderbolt 3 and 3.5mm connectors are retained; The 13-inch machine weighs only 1370g and weighs just 13 inches of air 200g; support for dci-p3 gamut and so on we have to pay more attention to this new MacBook. Pro.

The MacBook is a good example of Apple's measurements and weight (131mmx28.05mm19.65mm;920g) in order to further improve the portability of its products by slashing the interface and launching the butterfly keyboard. The apple is very simple, the routine is very clear, the MacBook's specifications will be further upgraded to become the current 2016 MacBook Pro.

Note: The following is the MacBook Pro abbreviation for MBP.

A setback in the endurance

Left: 2015 MBP right: 2016 MBP (with multi-touch bar and Touch ID)

As you can see from Apple's official website, with multi-touch Bar and touch on the most practical battery capacity, The ID of 2016 MBP has only 49.2 watts of battery capacity, while the bulky 2015 has up to 74.9 watts, in the battery capacity, the new battery capacity shrank by 34.4%.

Apple's web site usually has a time to measure the product's endurance, and this time, Apple officially claims that the new MacBook Pro can reach a 10-hour wireless network, and that old MBP is the same But in the latter itune film when the new version is less than the old two hours of endurance.

Even so, the author does not think that in the case of a 34.4% loss of battery capacity can still maintain the same 10 hours of web browsing.

Although the battery capacity is reduced, the range of products that can be upgraded is not uncommon, but this is achieved through substantial sacrifice of performance.

The old type of MBP is the 14nm process of I5-5257U,TDP 28W, low frequency of 2.7GHz, the core is Graphics Iris 6100; 16 MBP (with multi-touch bar and Touch ID) Adopted is the 14nm process of I5-6267U,TDP 28W, the frequency of 2.9GHz, the core of the iris Graphics 540. and the fifth Daicouri and sixth Daicouri performance and energy consumption is weak, it can be said that these two CPUs in addition to the core, the difference is very small.

screen, the new and old section resolution has not changed, 16 of the screen color gamut wider, so the new MBP in the display will not be more power-saving. The results are obvious, the overall power consumption has not decreased, but the battery has shrunk by 34.4%, the result is that the endurance level must be a certain degree of reduction.

About the Thunderbolt 3 interface on MBP

USB TYPE-C Expansion Dock

Perhaps for the sake of symmetry, perhaps for the sake of light, 16 MBP (with multi-touch bar and Touch ID) left only 4 Thunderbolt 3 (USB type-c) and a 3.5mm headphone interface (OK still leave a headset!), after taking a picture, You can't import the SD card photos directly into the computer; Unable to plug in any USB drive, unable to add a monitor, unable to connect to the mouse; Most of the product interfaces on the market are not Thunderbolt 3, and you may not want to extend your 16 MBP for a short time, plus the excellent trackpad on the MBP, You may not even have a mouse for a long time, but eventually you have to face the awkward interface problem of Thunderbolt 3, the best way to solve the problem is to buy a Thunderbolt 3 docking dock.

The market for this type of Thunderbolt 3 expansion dock is not cheap, the lowest also needs 200 or 300 yuan, expensive thousands.

As Apple officially claimed that the four Thunderbolt 3 interface can be used for charging, a lot of netizens think, if the four power adapter at the same time access to the four Thunderbolt 3 interface is not super fast charge? The idea was rejected by Apple.

Apple says it can connect multiple power cords to the new MBP, but the MBP will eventually choose a Thunderbolt 3 interface to charge it, so it won't get super fast, and there's no need to worry about exploding with 4 chargers.

And because it is a USB type-c interface, actually only need a USB type-c data cable and a mobile phone power adapter can charge it, speed is not slow oh.

The most important point about the Thunderbolt 3 interface of the new MBP is that, in fact! The four Thunderbolt 3 interfaces of 13-inch MBP with multi-touch bar and Touch ID are not all full Thunderbolt 3 interfaces, The two on the left are full speed, the two thunderbolt on the right, and the bandwidth of the 3 interface is reduced. The Thunderbolt 3 interface with no touch bar and 15-inch new MBP is full full speed.

In fact, the Thunderbolt 3 interface can also be used to connect to the docking dock with large power consumption, allowing your MacBook Pro to achieve a leap in graphics processing performance. Only now on the market of the exclusive expansion dock is more expensive, but you can also own a simple DIY one.

Application range of DCI-P3 color gamut

The new ipad Pro, IPhone 7, and imac are all DCI-P3 gamut standards, which not only 100% cover the sRGB gamut, but also have more color ranges, especially in red and green colors. The 16 MacBook is also one of the few laptops that supports this gamut standard. What is the use of it?

In fact, most of us use a MacBook when the Web browsing, and the current Internet, especially in China's Internet page is the use of sRGB standards, even with 16 of MBP to the Internet, 16 of MBP will automatically adapt to the sRGB mode, You don't think the screen is stunning when you surf the Internet.

But DCI-P3 color gamut screen is not useless, it is the new standard of digital cinema projection, especially in film-level video capture and post-production, it becomes very important, it is used for the later color palette of digital movies, the original color gamut of the monitor.

You may think so, since the film is made according to DCI-P3 Standard, that is not to say that we see the online chip source is also support dci-p3 gamut, with the new MBP to see the film, will feel the screen is very stunning? unfortunately not.

Because most of the display equipment on the market still stay in the sRGB standard, and in addition to mobile phones, many large display devices can not cover the 100%srgb gamut, let alone support DCI-P3, so the production side in the sale of genuine DVD and provide genuine online chip source, Are the output of the DCI-P3 gamut in accordance with the sRGB, they are still sRGB gamut standards. Only the original source that we see in the movie theater is really to support the DCI-P3 gamut.

To sum up, if you are not a job demand, the new version of MBP this screen does not make you think it and the old section of the MPB of the difference, but we know that now the Apple family are using dci-p3 this gamut, even Microsoft's latest surface studio also support DCI-P3, It may be the trend of the future, but there is still a long time to develop, and by that time will you have this MBP to continue to work for you?

The question about Touch bar

This touch bar on the new MBP can be a big deal, although some of the new MBP has some software that supports touch bar, but for most applications they are not ready yet and developers can add touch bar shortcuts to their apps in the future.

Although Touch bar looks convenient and fast, there is even a bit of future science and technology, but because of each application of touch bar function and sorting are different, in the early use of it will take some time to adapt.

It can be said that touch bar is the second keyboard of the computer, Apple's official demo, it can directly in the image processing, video clips as an effective shortcut function, and before the touch bar out, most of our operations need a keyboard and mouse cooperation to complete.

Not just the general application, in the game, its space is also very large, can be directly set to a number of shortcut function keys, which is like the "F2" in World of Warcraft "" button set into a warrior's "suppression" skills, and now this "suppression" can be directly in the form of touch icon in the contact bar.

One might ask, if I wanted to install more than one windows/other operating system on the new MBP, what would touch bar become?

Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Apple software, said that when the new MBP installed Windows 10 through the boot camp, touch bar would be fixed as ESC and F1-F12, no different from normal computers. If you are installing and running Windows on a virtual machine, you will need your virtual machine software to fit into the touch bar to display the ESC and F1-F12 keys normally.

At last

As for how the new MBP should be chosen, it is a matter of opinion, which is after all the biggest update of the MacBook Pro series in four years, but it seems that we have not yet been able to change from the habits of traditional notebooks. Thunderbolt 3, Touch Bar, DCI-P3 These are relatively advanced specification configuration, can only say that the market also needs a certain amount of time to adapt, now they are not well applied.

With the pro performance in the air, the Thunderbolt 3 interface has no doubt that it just needs to have one more docking dock, but it's very refreshing to get the light.

Oddly, before the new MBP release, in the major electric platform of the MacBook, 15 MacBook Pro have made a substantial price reduction, and in the new MBP released, the major electric platform and the old price of the 500~1000 yuan to increase the range, Meanwhile, Apple also raised the MacBook's 9288 yuan to 9888 yuan.

Although the renminbi has recently depreciated significantly, it can still rule out the exchange rate because the price increases are only on Apple's MacBook series, which is more likely to be the result of an expected drop in Apple's official and market expectations for new MBP, and believes the product update could make the old price-cutting market more competitive.