



But my recommendation is that editors, colorists, photographers, and designers turn this feature off. Generally, it warms up the screen when under interior lighting, which reduces eye fatigue if you are working with a lot of white documents. True Tone was added, which adjusts the display’s color temperature for ambient lighting. The Retina screens on these laptops are gorgeous with up to 500 nits brightness and a wide color gamut. These units also include the T2 chip, which powers the fingerprint Touch ID and the newly added “Hey Siri” commands. But after these couple of weeks, I’ve really enjoyed it, especially when an application, like Final Cut Pro X extends its controls to the Touch Bar. When Apple introduced the Touch Bar in 2016, I thought ‘meh’. MacBook Pros generally last years and if you use them for actual billable work (editing, DIT, sound design, etc), then the investment will pay for itself. It is pricey, but my MacBook Pro experience, like that of others, has been one of good value. Apple engineering has nicely balanced power, size, weight, and battery life in a way that’s hard to counter. Of course, that’s before you add Apple Care and any accessories, like the sweet new premium leather sleeve ($199 USD).īefore you point me to the nearest Windows gaming machine instead, let me mention that this is the fastest and best laptop Apple has made. My configuration was only $4,699 with the 2TB SSD. Touch Bar 15” configurations start at $2,399 USD and can go all the way up to $6,699 USD, once you spec the top choice for everything. The price range on this model is pretty wide, due in part to the SSD options. It came maxed out with the 8th generation 2.9 GHz 6-core Intel Core i9 CPU, 32GB DDR4 (faster) RAM, Radeon Pro 560X GPU, and a 2TB SSD.

Although these new laptops retained the previous model’s form factor, they gained a bump-up in processors, RAM, and storage capacity.Īpple loaned me one of the Touch Bar space gray 15” models to review. July was a good month for Apple power users, with the simultaneous release of Blackmagic Design’s eGPU and a refresh of Apple’s popular MacBook Pro line. Review: Read on as we take a good look at Apple's latest 15" MacBook Pro.
