Photoshop, iMovie and Final Cut Pro X exports were all faster and the fan only kicked in with larger files. Touch ID on the 13-inch MacBook Pro keeps information safe whether customers are unlocking their Mac, entering an online password, or making online purchases. We’ve had it a week and feel as great about it now as we did 48 hours into testing. You have speaker grilles with drilled holes on the left and right side of the keyboards. It’s still housed in its now-classic aluminum unibody design. The headphone jack is still on board. The new Magic Keyboard comes to the 13-inch MacBook Pro, delivering the best typing experience ever on a Mac notebook. As we do with most devices, we tested Elsa’s ocean during “Frozen II” streamed via Disney+. The Magic Keyboard’s keys pop out more from the frame and deliver 1-millimeter of travel. Customers love the super fast SSDs on MacBook Pro, with sequential read speeds of up to 3.0GB/s. 2020 Customers can also enjoy Apple services right on their MacBook Pro, including Mac versions of the Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple TV apps, as well as Apple News. The new lineup also offers 10th-generation processors for up to 80 percent faster graphics performance 1 and makes … Note: The prices above reflect the retailer’s listed price at the time of publication. This generally occurs with all of those apps open and us working on images in Photoshop. On GeekBench 5, it received 863 on single-core and 3,113 on multi-core. With the lid closed on the 13-inch MacBook Pro, you wouldn’t know if it’s the 2020 or the 2019 model. It has Intel power processors and a solid state drive. Whether it’s for work or play, the processor powers the backbone of the interface. As with any Underscored review, we ran a series of benchmarks that put the devices through a series of tests aimed to mimic real-world cases. Additionally, with Elsa and her dress there was a wider range of whites and silvers being depicted. Success! Please click the button below to agree to our Terms and Conditions and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. We noticed the $1,299 slowed down with this workload and the fan would kick on sooner. Customers who are upgrading from a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a dual-core processor will see up to 2.8 times faster performance. Every 13-inch MacBook Pro now sports a Magic Keyboard, the processors are quicker and storage is doubled across all preconfigured models (which is a huge value). It’s a long list, but to mention the big hitters: Photos, Mail, App Store, News, TV and Music. It also allows you to push these without buckling or hearing the fan kicking into overdrive during run-of-the-mill tasks. Apple didn’t change much here. The 2020 MacBook Pro is slightly thicker to accommodate the Magic Keyboard, but by all accounts, this looks like a MacBook Pro. You can even copy something on the iPhone and paste it on the Mac (or vice versa). So what’s new? It still gave us more of a runway than the 2020 MacBook Air and didn’t feel that much slower in comparison to a 16-inch MacBook Pro or the $1,799. That’s good news because it won’t feel cramped. The 2020 MacBook Air, comparatively speaking, scored a 912 on single-core and 1743 on multi-core. To complete your CNN profile and ensure you are able to receive important account information, please verify your email address. But if you want a laptop that’s portable and combines entertainment, productivity and higher performance tasks, the $1,299 base model will work just fine. The $1,299 model lasted 10 hours, 20 minutes, while the $1,799 model lasted for 10 hours, 12 minutes. That is a built-in program that allows for data transfer via a cable connecting two machines or by creating a peer-to-peer network to transfer selected information. The 13-inch MacBook Pro lineup now offers up to 10th-generation quad-core Intel Core processors with Turbo Boost speeds of up to 4.1GHz. We also ran them through the same battery test that all of our devices go through. With mutliple apps open in the background, including Google Chrome (which is known for being a resources hog), it was still fast to run other processes. Its stunning and brilliant 13-inch Retina display delivers more than 4 million pixels and millions of colours, along with 500 nits of brightness and support for the P3 wide colour gamut. Or, at worst, causing a computer shutdown (which we didn’t experience). Allow us to quickly make a plea to Apple: Please — pretty please — put a True Depth setup with Face ID here next time. Fun fact: Did you know the Magic Keyboard on the 13-inch is the same size as the one on the 16-inch? Same goes for the $1,799, which had a 256GB SSD, but now has a 512GB SSD. Visuals are great on both models. When you make a purchase, we receive revenue. It’s a mixture of black, navy and dark blue waves — tinged with white sea foam — crashing during a storm. “Whether you’re a college student, a developer, or a creative pro, the 13-inch MacBook Pro delivers powerful performance, a stunning Retina display, and all-day battery life in our most portable pro notebook. It gives us a quantitative analysis to match with our qualitative testing. The expansive trackpad is at the bottom. Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. And you’ll get pretty much a full day’s worth of power, as we got close to eight hours of use out of them with our workload. You also get a bit more room between the keys and rows than on the previous Butterfly Keyboard that Apple previously used on laptops. The fan kicked in for more tasks on the MacBook Air, though. Apple Arcade is available through the Mac App Store, bringing more than 100 new and exclusive games to Mac customers. The updated 13-inch MacBook Pro now features the new Magic Keyboard, first introduced on the 16-inch MacBook Pro and added to MacBook Air in March. Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double the storage, and faster performance. It weighs more than a MacBook Air in fact – and it’s … And coming down from the 16-inch MacBook Pro as our daily drive, it’s remarkable how light the 13-inch MacBook Pro is in your hand.