Not yet but I will eventually get a new 4K monitor for it.
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MacBook Pro 2020 13" USER Reviews
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Not yet but I will eventually get a new 4K monitor for it.
I hook it up to a 1080P TV with HDMI. I noticed the fan very faintly boost up when doing a Zoom with screensharing today. I think driving 2 displays and using zoom hits the graphics harder than most people think. The CPU isn't being used much, maybe 10% at most... but it's still getting warm and fans picked up. Not even close to what the Air was doing though.
Yeah, I think running online meetings is pretty hard going on a CPU especially with loads of people attending them at the same time.
My 12" MacBook gets serious hot when running Zoom and Google meets. Likewise the battery drains at about 40% every hour when doing a meeting.
My 12" MacBook gets serious hot when running Zoom and Google meets. Likewise the battery drains at about 40% every hour when doing a meeting.
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Has anyone tried whether the 512 SSD performs the same as 1 TB (I suppose, it does)? I am about to max the specs for the 13", but I do not use that much of disk space... using external SSD and clouds.
On the Ice Lake i5, my 512GB model gets read and write speeds of about 2000 MB/s.
Hey guys! I recently got my brand new MBP 13' 2020 and it seems I found one unpleasant issue:
The brightness of the screen doesn't match to 500 nits forasmuch as my old MBP 13' mid-2014 (which is still perfectly working) has around 300 nits (based on what I found on the Internet) and it's brighter than 2020 model. I set the same brightness on both laptops (4, 8, and 16 bars) and every time MBP 2014 was brighter.
I turned off "slightly dim the display while on the battery power" and true tone function despite that my old one is still brighter.
Any ideas?
I hope Apple will drop a new firmware to fix this as it was with 16' MBP (if I'm not wrong) or it's probably a factory defect?
Does anybody experience the same issue with MBP 13 inch 2020?
Thank you.
The brightness of the screen doesn't match to 500 nits forasmuch as my old MBP 13' mid-2014 (which is still perfectly working) has around 300 nits (based on what I found on the Internet) and it's brighter than 2020 model. I set the same brightness on both laptops (4, 8, and 16 bars) and every time MBP 2014 was brighter.
I turned off "slightly dim the display while on the battery power" and true tone function despite that my old one is still brighter.
Any ideas?
I hope Apple will drop a new firmware to fix this as it was with 16' MBP (if I'm not wrong) or it's probably a factory defect?
Does anybody experience the same issue with MBP 13 inch 2020?
Thank you.
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Which model? Base or high? Same thing here with the 1799 model. It seems pointless to have a brightness control since I can't really use it under 85-90%: even at night it's so dark it's unusable. Like my old 2009 brightness is always set 100%.
That is unexpected. I have a 2015 MacBook and I am quite happy with the (specified) 353 nits. I was looking forward to the expect increase to 500 nits of the new 2020 MacBook Pro.
I've ordered the Base model (8th gen processor, 256gb SSD, 16gb ram)
I use my 2014 usually at 50% of brightness and change depends on the day sunlight or evening time about +-20% brightness.
I was thinking maybe it's a different screen technology/matrix or different manufacturer now?
i feel upgrading of ram may be better.
storage can easily be solved by getting external ssd
I have a 2016 12" Macbook and never really use it below 80% brightness either as it's too dark. Will let you know how the brightness compares when my 2020 arrives. AFAIK both the 8th and 10th gen 2020 MBP's have the same display though?
I got the 2020 13" MacBook Pro with the 10th gen i7 processor, 16 GB RAM and 4 Thunderbolt ports but stayed with 512 GB storage. I've been using the laptop now for around a week. The latest MBP looks as fabulous as any Apple product. No complaints there. I was actually surprised by how small the form factor is. I moved from a Microsoft Surface Pro 4, so the overall size difference is not that much. But the sheer engineering skill of Apple is very much on display. It is quite amazing that they managed to fit in so much in such a small laptop.
The performance is super smooth, no glitches so far. The much talked about "new" keyboard is as good as it has been hyped up to be - very comfortable to use and has a solid and rather reassuring response to every tap.
This is my first Mac with the touch bar and I am quite happy with it. It takes a bit of getting used to and once you take some time to customize it, it does what it needs to most of the time. It's a rather neat implementation.
The sound from the speakers - boy... just amazing! I have never heard a better sounding laptop in my whole life of using computers! The bass and clarity are just unbelievable, and more so because the whole device is so small!
Battery life looks great, but Apple laptops have always been good at that.
A few issues I did notice are:
Cheers!
The performance is super smooth, no glitches so far. The much talked about "new" keyboard is as good as it has been hyped up to be - very comfortable to use and has a solid and rather reassuring response to every tap.
This is my first Mac with the touch bar and I am quite happy with it. It takes a bit of getting used to and once you take some time to customize it, it does what it needs to most of the time. It's a rather neat implementation.
The sound from the speakers - boy... just amazing! I have never heard a better sounding laptop in my whole life of using computers! The bass and clarity are just unbelievable, and more so because the whole device is so small!
Battery life looks great, but Apple laptops have always been good at that.
A few issues I did notice are:
- The screen is not that bright, tempting me to doubt Apple's 500 nits claim. Even in a not so well-lit room, using the screen at anything below 75% is a strain on the eyes. I was not expecting that.
- Bluetooth issues with older Apple mice - I decided to use my older magic mouse with the new MBP but the connection keeps dropping and the battery on the mouse drains much faster when used with the MBP than when used with my iMac. Again, wasn't expecting this. The issue was serious enough for me to go and order the newest magic mouse. Not happy with that, Apple.
- And yeah, the camera is as ****** as ever.
Cheers!
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Hello everyone, I just bought my first MBP 13' i5/16gb/512gb base model. I have used it so far for one week.
Has anyone found it becoming quite warm easily? The fans rarely get activated in my case.
I have run the diagnostic (d when starting it) and it says that the hardware is fine. Could you suggest anything to check if the temperature it reaches is fine? Do you use any software to manually activate the fans?
Many thanks!
Has anyone found it becoming quite warm easily? The fans rarely get activated in my case.
I have run the diagnostic (d when starting it) and it says that the hardware is fine. Could you suggest anything to check if the temperature it reaches is fine? Do you use any software to manually activate the fans?
Many thanks!
How bright is your screen? A few people have complained about that today but that is the first I've heard of it.
I tend to have it at around 75%. Do you know of any software to check the temperature and/or to manually activate the fans?
After switching off not even close to 500 nits. I assume this is a common issue not just only me based on what people mentioned above.
II'm sorry, but I know that the software exists but I don't know where to get it. I'm sure there are others who could answer that question
Yea, I though as much. However, I saw some strange speed results posts where osome says that the 512GB has speed < 2GB/s (some slightly more) and some says they measure 1TB to get almost 3GB/s which is a huge difference.
oh that blows. Are you measuring with a display tool? With Auto-Brightness off the display is searingly bright on max settings for me. I'm outside right now, easily using it in the sunshine. Touch Bar is barely visible though lol
Very interesting. I’m a little fed up (OK a lot) about the noise my 16” makes connected to an external display (a single 34” widescreen) and am considering opting for the new 13” MBP also. No gaming or video editing required. Just Office apps, multiple Chrome tabs and heavy use of Microsoft Teams for video calls. I installed Turbo Switcher Pro which definitely helps, but I’m also annoyed that this is even required. So if I could switch it for a 13” that runs completely silent, I’d do it instantly. Is this still your experience with the 13”?
Disabling auto-brightness does make it slightly better in terms of screen brightness, but then the whole point of the system adjusting the brightness according to ambient lighting is defeated. Disabling True-tone makes the display too "cold" and almost hurts the eyes if you are in a normally lit office room.
This is not really a deal-breaker, but I do hope they address this in a future update.
This is not really a deal-breaker, but I do hope they address this in a future update.