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MacBook Pro 2020 13" USER Reviews
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Why would we? It is expected to be delivered only 7-15 days after release, somewhere next week. Because most of the youtubers opted in $1799 which has longer delivery time. And i guess none of them went with the base in the first place. But base ships faster.
Got mine today base model in Australia. Haven’t used it much but love the keyboard even though I’ve had the butterfly keyboard on my 12 inch since 2015 without issue. The new one is much nicer to type on.
Also haven’t heard the fan fire up yet, so that makes me happy, it seems the 8th gen runs cooler than the 10th gen in the air. So coming from a 12 inch 2015 it’s a major upgrade to me.
Also haven’t heard the fan fire up yet, so that makes me happy, it seems the 8th gen runs cooler than the 10th gen in the air. So coming from a 12 inch 2015 it’s a major upgrade to me.
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Mine has also been silent, No heavy testing so far but general use, setting up not heard a thing.
SSD Write speed of 1250mb / Read 1770mb
I get ~2700mb/sec on a 2018 13" MBP, both read and write. Something is strange there.
The YouTubers would've had these machines for a couple of weeks now.
Reviews should drop any day now. ??
Base 8th Gen. I’m assuming Apple skimped out and are only using the better SSD’s in the new 10th Gen models.
Although presumably not as fast as the SSD’s in the higher-spec’d models, this is actually a fair bit better than last year’s base model, as reported by AppleInsider:
“Moving on to BlackMagic's Disk Speed Test, the $1299 base model 13-inch MacBook Pro tops out at around 495MB/s for its write speeds and around 1350MB/s for its read speeds.”
Review: Apple's 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro is an excellent, inexpensive workhorse | AppleInsider
Without an event, Apple quietly announced an updated base model 13-inch MacBook Pro that featured new quad-core processors, Touch Bar with Touch ID, T2 Security Chip, True Tone display, and an updated butterfly keyboard. Is this new $1299 laptop worth it?
appleinsider.com
Here are two reviews so far from MKBHD and The Verge
I am referring to review units that will be issued to them even before announcement.
I am interested in thermals once it is hooked to an external monitor. Many reports of heat issues on the 16 when attached to external monitor. I would like the price point and size of the 13 over the 16. But 13 will have to work well with external monitor. Need the screen real estate to be able to work from home.
Interesting Geekbench scores from Cult of Mac
From that graph, what I get is that the base MBP is almost as fast as the High End one?
There have not been many benchmarks of the 2.3 BTO option so it may be a fluke - there are many however for the 2.0. The main thing to note is that the new base 2.0 GHz is faster then the previous BTO 2.8
I wonder if that's because they are the same processor etc. as the 2019 base models. Seems that only the keyboard has changed in the base models.
It is a fair point. Almost redundant if it’s identical and theoretically it should be but always worth doing a new Geekbench just in case!