Is it really needed? Catalina allows you to control which apps have access to the camera and the led in-use is hardwired, so you always know when the camera is on. I thought this whole issue was a windows problem some years back that has since been corrected iin the OS. (I'm not sure if it ever was an Apple problem, may have been)
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16-Inch MacBook Pro Hands-On: Benchmark and Performance Tests
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How would an iPhone do running Cinebench? The new 16" 2.3/16/5500 scored 1066 on Cinebench 15; that's fast but still a ways off the 1572 a 3.33 GHz 12 core MP 5,1 got . . .
All this does is break my heart at shelling out for a 'new' MBP in July when the first 2019 release came out 
Time to bring out the Apple LaserWriter II NTX again! I've missed using it. Still better looking than just about any modern inkjet, minus color, of course.
5-1/4"? Get off my lawn! Only 8" will do. And where's my paper tape reader. Kids these days and their new-fangled cassette tape interfaces.
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Does your livelihood depend on FCP X and Lightroom? If not, you have a wonderful machine that should give you many years of faithful service.Any idea how the new 16" MBP would compare to one of the May 2019 15" MBPs with things like Lightroom and Final Cut Pro X in terms of rendering times?
I've got a 2.4GHz i9 with 32GB RAM and the 4GB Radeon Pro Vega 20 video card ... just wondering if it's worth selling this one and getting a maxed-out 16"?
Many thanks
David
PS. I don't find myself limited by my current machine and already find it lightning quick for all my work ... so I guess I've probably just answered my own question there!
If your livelihood depends on FCP X and Lightroom, then you might consider it based on the GPU update alone. This video may be helpful
The assumption, if the given figures are correct (which isn't clear at this point), is that the better thermal system is why. It allows Turbo Boost / Thermal Velocity Boost to stay active for longer amounts of time.
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…are you asking if amount of available RAM helps performance?
One of my first cables searched for and purchased for work was a USB-C to Serial port cable so I could update and admin an older HP Ethernet switch. Had to update at the CLI before I could get the web interface to work properly.
New Geekbench 5 Improves Tests but Adds Bias - EE Times
While there are some significant improvements in Geekbench 5, the new version appears to be less of system-level benchmark than before and even appears to have added some biases that did not exist in previous versions.www.eetimes.com
If you read the comments, one of the Primate Labs developers comments.
It sounds like the author:
- didn't try to contact Primate Labs for comment before publishing
- formed a narrative before having all the facts
Thus the iMacBook Pro is born in 8 gumdrop colors!
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Don't forget to notch the other side of the disk so you can use the other side. Double the capacity!
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Forget? That's why I carried an X-acto knife in my backpack in high school (it was a different time).
You mean Read/Write speeds? At this point, why does it even matter? Apple’s not changed anything significantly since the 2016 has come out. You should expect speeds close to what the mid-2019 MacBook Pro was getting.
It’s still PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe storage going through the PCH, which is capped as much by DMI 3.0 as it is by the chipset.
Thanks for your reply
Well I am a full-time photographer and videographer so I'm using Lightroom most days and increasingly often FCPX too ... but I imagine I'll make quite a loss selling this machine and getting a new one so the difference in performance would have to be quite significant to make it worth it ...
And the 2020 update will doubtlessly be even faster still
... the vicious speed which technology improves eh!David
“The drive is absolutely no slouch. Running the BlackMagic disk speed test after the machine had been indexing for two days, we saw a write speed of 2890 megabytes per second, and a read speed of 3150 megabytes per second on both a 512GB and 1TB model.
This is a bit faster than the i9 MacBook Pro from earlier in 2019, and about 350MB per second faster than the 2018 MacBook Pro with 512GB of storage or more.”
16-inch MacBook Pro review: The keyboard is probably enough to convince those waiting | AppleInsider
Welcome to the new 16-inch MacBook Pro. While it looks quite familiar, Apple's new flagship laptop moves the needle forward in a big way. We've spent the last several days taking the new Pro for a spin and can say that Apple has dutifully listened to users' feedback this time around. Let's talk...
It seems the Toshiba chips are slightly newer, but I'm guessing we won't see the next major boost until PCIe 4, which probably won't even come until after Comet Lake-H, so ~2 years from now. (Tiger Lake will have PCIe 4, and that hopefully means that will get merged over to Rocket Lake-H.)
But no, no raw numbers yet.
Thanks for your reply
Well I am a full-time photographer and videographer so I'm using Lightroom most days and increasingly often FCPX too ... but I imagine I'll make quite a loss selling this machine and getting a new one so the difference in performance would have to be quite significant to make it worth it ...
And the 2020 update will doubtlessly be even faster still
David
I don't natively edit much video but it happens from time to time. It's why I use an eGPU set up if that is what you are doing (just being very honest).
Thanks for your reply
Well I am a full-time photographer and videographer so I'm using Lightroom most days and increasingly often FCPX too ... but I imagine I'll make quite a loss selling this machine and getting a new one so the difference in performance would have to be quite significant to make it worth it ...
And the 2020 update will doubtlessly be even faster still
David
Well, 10-cores versus 8-cores and Wi-Fi 6, which is quaint and all, but the real wild card will be the GPU. SSD speeds aren't going to improve as we are at the limit of PCIe 3. and Comet Lake-H is not PCIe 4.0-based.
I get the argument not to take a bath on the resale or trade-in value, regardless.
The iPhone is several times thicker than a MacBook LCD lid. There is no space to put a beefy camera in a MBP lid enclosure.
After waiting out the whole butterfly era, I'm going to order one. Mostly it's like the product team was checking off all of my boxes and a few I didn't even know needed to be checked (the homepod technology sound system for example).
And I think they were brilliant in maintaining the price points while giving us so much added value.
There were a number of things they could have done which would have certainly impacted the price like a new screen technology, so I think it makes sense to let some of those wait a gen.
But that still leaves a few curious omissions which detract to me, and which seemed easily added without adding much to the build cost: an HD webcam and WiFi 6 (which the much less expensive phones with a shorter projected work life time got).
The lack of Wi-Fi 6 in particular leaves an unnecessary bottleneck on performance for a machine that's going to be in a world where that standard is common during the lives of these machines.
Also, a better webcam coupled with the much upgraded microphone would have given us a default quickf podcast studio. So kind of a shame.
As for Face ID (with the ability to disable it!), granted it would have been a good add, but it also would have added more engineering time and possibly more cost, with Apple committed to get this on sale before December. So I have less regret about that.
Whatever, it's here, it is the best MacBook Pro ever, and waay looking forward to mine.
(I will wait a few weeks to make sure no early show stoppers emerge, but the package seems really sound, I'm sure they've totally stress tested the new keyboard, and I'm not expecting that.)