PS: at present, the app of Apple's online store on the official website has been updated synchronously. The starting price of the latest 16 inch MacBook Pro is 18999 yuan, and the pricing of Apple's MacBook Pro has been renewed again. However, the reservation operation cannot be carried out at present, and the specific opening date will be announced later by apple.
The main reason why there is almost no upper limit is that the updated 16 inch MacBook Pro can be equipped with up to 64GB of 2666mhz lpddr 4 running memory and up to 8tb of high-speed SSD, which is the limit of the pen electric products. With the highest specification of Intel's ninth generation i9, the MacBook Pro is unique in this size and weight.
Let's talk about the change. Since it's a 16 inch MacBook Pro, the most obvious change is to enlarge the 1 inch retina screen diagonally: in addition to the larger size, its resolution has also been increased to 3072x1920 to maintain the PPI of 226. In addition, its peak brightness is still 500nit, which also supports dci-p3 wide color gamut. Left: 2018 15 inch MacBook Pro right: 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro
The larger screen means the larger body size. The new MacBook Pro greatly cuts the screen frame, so that the size of the whole machine is not too much larger than that of the previous generation. Specifically, the new size is 35.79 cm x 24.59 cm x 1.62 cm, with a weight of 2.0 kg; the previous 15 inch size is 34.93 cm x 24.07 cm x 1.55 cm, with a weight of 1.83 kg. The screen changes will affect the length and width of the laptop. Yes, what are the reasons for the slight increase in thickness? The answer is related to the keyboard. Specifically, it's because the 16 inch MacBook Pro returns to the scissor keyboard, with a key range of 1mm (compared with 0.5mm for butterfly). Subjectively, the trigger strength of this generation of scissor keyboard is less than that of the three generations of butterfly keyboard, but greater than that of 2015, that is, the MacBook keyboard before the butterfly keyboard was updated. Of course, the key stroke is longer than butterfly style, and the feeling preferences vary from person to person. However, if you are used to it, you will get used to it. It is still good to use, and the structure strength should be more reliable. With regard to the keyboard, another update is the return of the entity ESC key and the independent touchid power key, both of which form the same design as the touch bar with three floating islands. The power button is OK. The return of entity ESC is really moving. It's really not a good experience to touch the hard touchbar ESC n times a day. Of course, the larger the volume, the better the battery. The new MacBook Pro uses a 100 watt hour lithium polymer battery. According to the official data, you can browse the web for another hour. Another small change is that the power adapter of the 16 inch MacBook Pro is 96w, but the size is the same as that of the previous generation.
Unexpected joy: 6-speaker design with amazing sound quality
The change in appearance is the screen and keyboard. The most impressive or intuitive upgrade of the 16 inch MacBook Pro is not the performance related upgrade, but the speaker. This laptop uses a 4-lf and 2-hf loudspeaker design, in which four low-frequency units are divided into two pairs, which are respectively placed on both sides of the keyboard in the form of "back-to-back". Apple said the reason for this is that the low-frequency units opposite each other can offset the vibration when making a sound, so as to obtain higher loudness and dynamics and reduce the vibration of the fuselage. At the same time, the advanced stereo algorithm can provide users with a wider sound field and Dolby full scene sound support, which is also a recognition of the speaker system.
In the actual experience, the original sound effect of the previous generation of MacBook Pro has been completely destroyed by the new model. The 16 inch version of the sound has greatly improved from the low-frequency sense of quantity, texture, analytical power and sound field. Another small detail that may be overlooked is that the new MacBook Pro uses a three microphone array to ensure the clarity and noise reduction of recorded sound. The actual measurement is excellent. In addition to my part of the video, there are 16 inch MacBook Pro recordings. You can feel it.
Nine generations of i9 can hold
The core of the 16 inch MacBook Pro is the same as that of the previous generation. It is still available for the nine generations of Intel i7 and i9. Compared with the previous 15 inch version, the CPU performance improvement of the new 16 inch MacBook Pro is actually provided by the better cooling system, in short, it can be suppressed. At present, the configuration of this device in my hand is i9-9880h, the basic frequency is 2.3ghz, the single core Rui frequency can be up to 4.8ghz, the storage is 16GB of operating memory and 1TB of SSD solid state, the graphics card is ryzen 5500m, amd fresh dessert card. The most simple and crude testing of the copying machine is of course the continuous testing with cinebench, where the test room temperature is 21 ℃. A group of ten consecutive tests can guarantee the full heat dissipation of MacBook Pro in the middle of the test, and the final result is relatively true. At the beginning of each test for 3-5 seconds, the CPU frequency can rush to 4.4-4.6ghz, and then it will quickly drop to around 3.7GHz, and it will stabilize at 3.3GHz after about 10 seconds, and then continue until the end of the test. During the whole ten tests, the above process is basically maintained, and the final score is also very stable, 3460 & plusmn; 10 (about 3100 + of the previous generation).
In the process, the core temperature of CPU can reach up to 98 ℃, but it will soon be controlled around 85 ℃ by the "restless" fan and lower Rui frequency. It's obviously impossible to guarantee the 4GHz Rui frequency in the whole process of the laptop cooling system of the same size as the MacBook Pro. The new 16 inch version can stabilize Rui frequency at 3.3GHz, which is already a great thing: the previous generation can probably stabilize around 3GHz, and the temperature is still running at 90 ℃. According to the data provided by apple, the flow of cooling air has increased by 28%. In addition, the cooling efficiency of the heat pipe has also improved. The 10% performance improvement is the credit of the cooling system.
If the temperature control is more radical and the CPU is allowed to rush to 90 ℃, the performance of the new MacBook Pro will be more powerful.
The pressure of i9, which maintains 3.3GHz in the limit test, is not so much in daily use. This paper simply tested the 4K video exported by fcpx for eight and a half minutes, and used LR to export 46 raw images of 24 million pixels to full picture quality jpg. The former took 10 minutes, while the latter took 2 minutes and 20 seconds. During this period, the fan did not even produce sound, which was terrible. Left: fcpx export right: LR export
Specifically, when fcpx exports video, the whole core is stable at 3GHz, the single core and core frequency are stable at 4.4ghz, and the core temperature is kept at 85 ℃ when the sound of the fan is barely audible; when LR exports photos, the main frequency of the whole core is reciprocating between 4.3-3.ghz, and the single core and core frequency are stable at 4.8ghz, and the fan still has no big action.
Better cooling design means more stable and abundant performance. Nothing is more important for professional users. The gpux of the 16 inch MacBook Pro uses ryzen 5500m, which has just been released by AMD. In view of the lack of GPU acceleration program at hand, I simply ran a minute and tried the divine Kingdom: original sin 2, which is much better than 560x. According to the benchmark of geekbench 5 compute, the previous generation of radeon Pro 560x is about 17000 +, and the current generation of 5500m has 25000 +. Under Mac OS, you can play "the divine world: original sin 2". At 2K resolution, the image quality is very smooth.
It's about 80 Liang for half price with 1650ti over n card. If you really want to play games, it's not bad for bootcamp to go to win10, or even good.
Ultra high specification storage configuration for pro users
Apple will provide up to 64GB of memory and 8tb of on-board storage for the 16 inch MacBook Pro, mainly after listening to professional user suggestions. There is no limit to their pursuit of efficiency; the larger the storage capacity, or the need for workflow, the better.
For example, when Photoshop processes ultra-high pixel images, it needs to involve ultra large storage programs. The 16 inch MacBook Pro with 64GB 2666mhz lpddr 4 memory is 4.3 times faster than the previous model with 16GB storage. For users who often need to work in different places with a laptop, the larger the hard disk, the larger the database they can carry. The maximum capacity of 8tb can hold a year and a half of material library, even for photographers who load large capacity raw files all the year round or video workers who stack 4K source materials. No external hard disk is needed, which is convenient and saves travel weight.
What's more, the built-in SSD flash memory has the same read-write speed. With the T2 security chip that we are familiar with before, the 16 inch MacBook Pro has both capacity, fluency and security.
Time and space are money, in every sense.
summary
When the 16 inch MacBook Pro comes online, it will directly replace the 15 inch version. Apple's new pro laptop has a bigger screen, stronger performance, more exaggerated capacity, more reliable keyboard and better voice recording and playback, all of which are based on the needs of professional users. Each of these items may not be very obvious. Together, they are the most powerful MacBook Pro today.
Pro as its name.