Two days ago, the 2016 MacBook Pro was released, which is the most significant update of the MacBook Pro series in the past four years. Cancel the A-side backlight Apple logo; Only Thunderbolt 3 and 3.5mm interfaces are reserved; The overall weight of the 13 inch air is only 1370g, only 200g heavier than the 13 inch air; Support for DCI-P3 color gamut and other changes make us have to pay more attention to this new MacBook Pro.
MacBook is a good example. In order to further improve the portability of the product, Apple has launched a butterfly keyboard with a bold cutting of the interface. Under this circumstance, the MacBook has reached an astonishing three dimensions and weight (131mmx28.05mm19.65mm; 920g). Apple is very simple and its routine is obvious. After further improving the specifications of MacBook, it has become the current 2016 MacBook Pro.
Note: MacBook Pro is hereinafter referred to as MBP.
Endurance backward
Left: 2015 MBP Right: 2016 MBP (with Multi Touch Bar and Touch ID ）
From the parameters given on Apple's official website, we can see that in terms of the most practical battery capacity, the 2016 MBP with Multi Touch Bar and Touch ID has only 49.2 watt hours of battery capacity, while the 2015 model, which is bulky, has as much as 74.9 watt hours. In terms of battery capacity, the new model's battery capacity has shrunk by 34.4%. Apple's official website usually has a time measurement of the product's endurance. This time is no exception. Apple officially announced that the new MacBook Pro can reach 10 hours of wireless network browsing, while the old MBP is the same time. But when the latter iTunes movie is played, the new version has two hours less endurance than the old one. Even so, the author does not think that the same 10 hours of web browsing can be maintained when the battery capacity is reduced by 34.4%.
Although it is not uncommon for the battery capacity to be reduced and the battery life to be improved, this is achieved by substantially sacrificing performance. The old MBP uses i5-5257U with 14nm process, the TDP is 28W, the main frequency of the low configuration is 2.7GHz, and the core display is Iris Graphics 6100; The 16 MBPs (with Multi Touch Bar and Touch ID) use i5-6267U with 14nm process, the TDP is 28W, the main frequency is 2.9GHz, and the core display is Iris Graphics 540. However, the performance and energy consumption ratio of the 5th generation Core and the 6th generation Core has improved slightly. It can be said that the difference between these two CPUs is very small except for the core. In terms of the screen, the resolution of the new and old models has not changed, and the color gamut of the 16 models is wider, so the new MBP will not save more power on display. It is obvious that the power consumption of the whole machine has not decreased, but the battery has shrunk by 34.4%, The result is that the endurance level must be reduced to a certain extent.
About Thunderbolt 3 interface on MBP
USB Type-C Docking Station
For the sake of symmetry and thinness, there are only four Thunderbolt 3 (USB Type-C) and a 3.5mm headphone connector (fortunately, there is still a headphone port!) left in the 16 MBPs (with Multi Touch Bar and Touch ID). After taking a picture, you can't directly import the photos of the SD card into the computer; No USB stick can be inserted; Cannot connect an external display; Unable to pick up the mouse; Most of the product interfaces on the market are not Thunderbolt 3, and you may not want to expand your 16 MBPs in a short time. With the excellent touch pad of MBP, you may not use the mouse for a long time, but eventually you have to face the interface problem of Thunderbolt 3. The best way to solve the problem is to buy a Thunderbolt 3 docking station. The Thunderbolt 3 docking stations on the market are not cheap. The lowest one costs two or three hundred yuan, and the expensive one costs thousands.
Since Apple officially announced that these four Thunderbolt 3 interfaces can be used for charging, many netizens have a fantastic idea. If four power adapters are connected to these four Thunderbolt 3 interfaces at the same time, wouldn't it be super fast charging? The idea was rejected by Apple. Apple said that multiple power cords can be connected to the new MBP, but MBP will only choose one Thunderbolt 3 interface to charge it eventually, so it will not get super fast charging, and there is no need to worry about the explosion due to the connection of four chargers. Moreover, because it is a USB Type-C interface, in fact, only one USB Type-C data cable and a mobile phone power adapter are needed to charge it, which is not slow.
The most important thing about the Thunderbolt 3 interface of the new MBP is actually! The four Thunderbolt 3 interfaces of the 13 inch MBP with Multi Touch Bar and Touch ID are not all full speed Thunderbolt 3 interfaces. The two on the left are full speed, and the bandwidth of the two Thunderbolt 3 interfaces on the right is reduced. While the MBP without Touch Bar and the Thunderbolt 3 interface of the new 15 inch MBP are all full speed.
In fact, the Thunderbolt 3 interface can also be used to connect a docking station with a high power consumption display, enabling your MacBook Pro to achieve a leap in graphics processing performance. At present, all the unique display docking stations on the market are expensive, but you can also use a simple DIY.
Application range of DCI-P3 color gamut
The color gamut standard of DCI-P3 is used on the new iPad Pro, iPhone 7 and iMac. It not only covers the sRGB color gamut 100%, but also has more color ranges, especially in red and green colors. The 16 MacBooks are also one of the few notebooks that support the color gamut standard. What is it used for? In fact, most of us usually use MacBook to browse the web. At present, the Internet, especially in China, uses the sRGB standard. Even if 16 MBPs are used to access the Internet, 16 MBPs will automatically adapt to the sRGB mode. You won't feel how amazing this screen is when you go online.
However, the screen of DCI-P3 color gamut is not useless. It is a new standard for digital cinema projection. Especially in film level video capture and post production, it becomes very important. It is used for post color mixing of digital movies and the original color gamut of monitors. You may think that since the movie is made according to the DCI-P3 standard, does it mean that the online movie source we see also supports the DCI-P3 color gamut, and the screen will be very amazing when watching the movie with the new MBP? Unfortunately not. Since most display devices on the market still stay on the sRGB standard, and many large display devices, except mobile phones, cannot cover the 100% sRGB color gamut, let alone support DCI-P3, when selling genuine DVDs and providing genuine online film sources, producers always output the source of the DCI-P3 color gamut as sRGB, which is still the sRGB color gamut standard. Only the original film source we saw in the cinema really supports the DCI-P3 color gamut. To sum up, if you are not required by your job, the new MBP screen will not make you feel that it is different from the old MPB screen. However, we know that the whole Apple family is now using the color gamut of DCI-P3, and even Microsoft's latest Surface Studio also supports DCI-P3. It may be the future trend, but it has a long time to develop, By that time, will the MBP still work for you?
Questions about Touch Bar
The Touch Bar on the new MBP is very promising. Although some software on the new MBP already supports Touch Bar, for most applications, they are not ready. Developers can add Touch Bar shortcut buttons to their apps in the future. Although the Touch Bar looks very convenient and fast, and even has a sense of future technology, due to the differences in the function and sorting of the Touch Bar keys between each application, it must take some time to adapt to early use.
It can be said that the Touch Bar serves as the second keyboard of the computer. Apple's official demonstration, which can directly act as an effective shortcut function in picture processing and video editing. Before the Touch Bar came out, most of our operations needed keyboard+mouse cooperation to complete. Moreover, it is not just an ordinary application. In the game, it has a lot of room to play. It can be directly set as many shortcut function keys, which is just like that in World of Warcraft, the "F2" key is set as the "suppression" skill of soldiers. Now this "suppression" can be directly displayed on the Touch Bar in the form of touch icons.
Someone may ask, if I want to install another Windows/other operating system on the new MBP, what will the Touch Bar look like? Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Apple Software, said that after the new MBP installed Windows 10 through Boot Camp, the Touch Bar would be permanently displayed as ESC and F1-F12 keys, no different from ordinary computers. If you are installing and running Windows on a virtual machine, you need your virtual machine software to adapt the Touch Bar to display ESC and F1-F12 keys normally.
last
As for the choice of the new MBP, different people have different opinions. After all, this is the largest update of the MacBook Pro series in four years, but it seems that we have not been able to change from the use habits of traditional notebooks. Thunderbolt 3, Touch Bar, and DCI-P3 are all advanced specifications and configurations. It can only be said that the market still needs some time to adapt, and they have not been well applied. Apple has installed the performance of Pro in the Air body. There is no doubt about the scalability of Thunderbolt 3 interface. It just needs to bring an additional docking station, but the resulting lightness is very pleasant. Strangely, before the release of the new MBP, the prices of MacBook and 15 MacBook Pro models on various e-commerce platforms were significantly reduced. After the release of the new MBP, the prices of the old models were increased by 500~1000 yuan on various e-commerce platforms. At the same time, Apple officially raised the price of the MacBook from 9288 yuan to 9888 yuan. Although the devaluation of the RMB has been serious recently, the exchange rate problem can still be ruled out, because this kind of price increase only occurs in Apple's MacBook series products, more likely because Apple's official and market expectations for the new MBP are lower, and it is believed that this product update may make the old model after the price reduction more competitive in the market.
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