hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the late 2018 Vega 20 MacBook
Pro this is Apple's top-of-the-line MacBook Pro although this one does not
have the 4 terabytes of storage it only has one terabyte now in this video I've
been using this for about a month or so but I also did the unboxing when I first
picked it up and I just never published the video so that's actually in this
video but if you don't want to see all of that you can just click the link in
the description where there's time codes and you can jump around or whatever
we're going to look at everything from the unboxing to benchmarks to editing
and some other things as well so check that out down there if you'd
like to see that and let's go ahead and unbox it now this is the top-of-the-line
except for storage when it comes to the new 2015 MacBook Pro so let me flip it
over here as you can see it's the 15.4 inch Retina display it's got the 2.9
gigahertz of core I 9 6 core 32 gigabytes of RAM one terabyte of storage
and the radiant pro vega card in it with 4 gigabytes of RAM so this is probably
the most expensive macbook I've ever purchased this is four thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars before AppleCare which is pretty absurd so it
better perform much better than my 2017 macbook that's equivalent now I did try
using the Mac Mini but that just wasn't going to do it for me because I like to
be portable and I have a monitor I like to connect to up here and I had to use
an e GPU just to get the performance and you get out of it so let me go ahead and
unbox this so I get some of this wrapper
there we go since space grade just like the other
one and with this I don't think you get a whole lot other than the computer
you've got a little bit of documentation here see what we've got
so we've got MacBook Pro kind of a QuickStart guide here and then we've got
Apple stickers like you get with everything but they're not Pro or Space
Gray they're just white and then we've got our wall adapter USB see there is no
extension cable for it anymore just like there has been for a couple years and
then USB CD USB C so let's set this aside and set this up and of course we
have the newer third-generation butterfly keys and it turns on as soon
as you open it up wait for that just a moment now I'm
going to set this up as new so I can use it as my main editing computer and we'll
see how it compares to what I've got now and whether it's worth keeping or
picking up for yourself or getting something different now being that this
is one of the newer Mac books it has the latest Butterfly keyboard on it it works
fine for me I don't mind it at all but if you're someone that doesn't like this
it's going to be a pain for you and if you want to type something it can be a
little bit clicky and noisy but it's definitely more quiet than before or at
least a different noise the trackpad is great it's just like any other MacBook
and the touch bar is something I never use in fact I use it for that normal
thing that you'd get with the current MacBooks without the touch bar volume
volume up volume down keyboard brightness screen brightness and that is
it the fingerprint sensor is really nice it's definite
worth having and that's it I could go back to the regular one I have no reason
to use the touch bar even with Final Cut Pro or anything like that
now the display is really nice and if I'm going to do anything like edit video
or photos or anything like that I turn off true tone and it's currently off but
let me show you what it does with this background you'll see here if I turn on
true tone it will try and make this look more paperwhite and I don't really want
that when I'm going for color accuracy and then again if I turn on night shift
which is really nice for your eyes if you're looking at this at night and you
want to really want it to not bother your eyes it's fine but when you're
actually trying to edit it's a bad idea because you'll see again it's kind of
more yellow it takes the blue out of it and while that may be a little bit
better for your eyes at night it's not great again if you're going for color
accuracy so the display is great but it has those added features now one of the
great things is thermals are no longer an issue with this you'll see here this
is ISTAT menu we've got all the different thermals and I'll show you
some shots of this where it's actually using a lot of the processor and it's
not throttling same goes for the GPU when it's using that new Vega 20 GPU it
just doesn't throttle anymore and that's a really great thing so let me show you
something else that I thought was really impressive as well and one of the things
that's really impressive is this is Canon Raw light recorded on this this is
recorded from a c200 camera on a C fast card and it's plugged in directly to the
macbook itself and you'll see these are the files and these files are huge this
is ninety four point nine five gigabytes let's go ahead and just create a new
event we'll just call it test event and we'll leave the files in place we're not
going to replace them or copy them to the drive or anything like that let's
just import those you'll see we've got the little beach ball there takes a
second and here's the file itself let's create an event we'll just call it test
event and we'll leave the resolutions alone we'll hit okay and then let's take
this file and we'll drag it down into the timeline and you'll see this is my
file for the pixel 3xl and we'll just play it in
the timeline it plays fine it's playing directly off this see fast part i'm not
importing it or anything i don't have to wait for it to render or anything it's
super fast no problems there and I do find that it works pretty well on the
2017 macbook pro but sometimes it hiccups here even with an external
display it doesn't seem to hiccup at all you can go in here color grade it to
whatever you'd like change that maybe bump the saturation will mess with the
exposure a little bit and just make it look correct we'll make it fullscreen
and we'll just play it back after the lots been applied everything's in place
we can just jump through the timeline and if you've had it ever edited cinema
Raw light using a C fast card its direct off the C fast card nothing special
going on here so that's pretty impressive to me one thing that's really
helpful is the 32 gigabytes of RAM that you get with this now you can see the
CPU is kind of doing some background rendering in Final Cut Pro but even with
Final Cut Pro Open we have Pixelmator Pro open we also have tweet bot messages
mail Chrome Safari the App Store iTunes and photos and if we take a look at how
much memory we're using we're using about very little there's 20 gigabytes
free we're using about 8 to 19 or so and not not very much we're using maybe 12
gigabytes we're still under 16 gigabytes that you'd use on the previous versions
of the MacBook Pros maxed out so it's doing really well managing all of these
things at once often times I'll actually export video using Final Cut Pro and at
the same time I'll be using Pixelmator Pro and have some other things open
maybe a video playing in the background there's no issues although those fans do
spin up quite a bit and then talking about external devices using it with an
e GPU is not recommended at least in my experience I find it to be far too buggy
it would lock up on me at least once a day when using an e GPU and since the
Vega 20 is fast enough I don't really find that I need it too much but there
is a downside to that with the thermals is the fans get really
really loud and let me see if you can hear this I'll just turn them up so you
can hear them I've got a little fan management thing here max fan control
and if you want to turn them up they spin up to 6000 rpm now we'll hit okay
and I find that full processor use when I'm really pushing this editing video or
compressing video it's quite loud so here this for a second and to see what
you think so here is my decibel meter it's just an app I don't know how
accurate it is but this gives you an idea this is me at my speaking volume
currently I'm around 70 decibels let me stop talking so you can hear how loud
this is so wrong around 50 DB or so and it's it's fine for most things if you're
exporting you're not really needing it to be too quiet but just keep that in
mind it is quite loud and it normally spins up to the full 6000 rpm or just
under when you're editing so we'll just flip that back to auto it goes to silent
but if I'm editing c200 raw light or Canon raw light it definitely spins
those up full speed while I'm editing the entire time so it's not like one of
the new Mac minis or even the iMac pro so let's take a look at some of the
benchmarks and how they compared to some other Mac books as well
I ran Geekbench on three different Macs my 2017 MacBook Pro it's a fully SPECT
quad-core 3.1 gigahertz core i7 16 gigs of ram and radian pro 560 graphics we
also have the 2018 Mac Mini fully SPECT out with a 3.2 gigahertz six core i7 32
gigabytes of RAM and it's Intel u HD graphics 630 and then the 2018 MacBook
Pro with the Vega 20 graphics and you'll see how they can compare and will do the
same devices for each comparison so the first
thing is the 2018 macbook scored five thousand six hundred and seventy five
the Mac Mini was five thousand six hundred and seventy and the 2017 MacBook
Pro was 4342 for the multi-core scores we have fifteen thousand six hundred and
sixty nine for the MacBook Pro from 2017 the 2018 Mac
scored twenty four thousand three hundred and forty three and the Vega
twenty MacBook Pro scored twenty five thousand six hundred and fifty now the
OpenCL test from Geekbench was a little bit different with the 2017 macbook pro
scoring forty six thousand nine hundred the 2018 Mac Mini scored of twenty three
thousand two hundred and ninety one and the Vega twenty MacBook Pro scored
seventy eight thousand fifty nine now let's move on to the metal test and you
can see it's very very similar forty four thousand seven hundred and sixty
seven for the 2017 macbook pro twenty five thousand three hundred and forty
four for the Mac Mini and for the Vega twenty MacBook Pro seventy nine thousand
nine hundred and thirty seven the next test I did involved exporting a 4k video
using Final Cut Pro 10 I exported it in h.264 and deleted the render files each
time before exporting to make sure that these were accurate now as you can see
the Vega 20 macbook pro was the quickest with 13 minutes and 23 seconds coming in
second was the 2017 macbook pro with 13 minutes and 58 seconds so not that much
slower and then last is the 2018 Mac Mini with 15 minutes in 28 seconds now I
ran the same test but exporting to h.265 since the t2 encoder on the newer 2018
MacBook Pros should speed this up a lot and it certainly did it exported in
seven minutes in 14 seconds whereas the 2017 MacBook Pro exported in 15 minutes
and 32 seconds so it's a very big difference the next test is Cinebench so
let me go ahead and open that up wait for it to load here and we'll run the
cpu test and also we'll see what the CPU is doing here as we're doing it it
actually should spike when we're running the CPU test so let's go ahead and run
that and if you look up here at the very top you'll see the CPU is kind of spiked
and the temperature hits 100 degrees so let's see what it does and it's back
down to 87 or 90 so that's good it's keeping itself pretty cool
so the CPU test completed we've got one thousand 113 let's go ahead and run the
OpenGL test with OpenGL we got a hundred and nine point nine five frames per
second so it did pretty good there so again CPU was 1113 now when it comes to
games I don't really game on this I added
video on this most of the time so if it'll video 4k video Canon raw light
it'll do pretty much anything else but here's some fun games I play of course
it's gonna play those with no problems whatsoever and run them at decent frame
rates but if you really want a gaming machine this is not the one to buy this
is too expensive for that and we'll talk more about that in a moment but let's
take a look at the heaven benchmark so you can see what that's like so we'll
open the heaven benchmark and let's just set it to extreme to see how it does and
let's click run and we'll see what we've got so up here is the processor speed
and you'll see different things like memory and things like that well wait
for it here and it didn't go fullscreen but it's running at a solid 29 frames
per second right now in extreme so that's pretty good and much better than
the previous generation or 2018 MacBook Pro and again you'll see it's not really
using much of the CPU but rather the GPU at this time so you can see everything
wired and what's running here but it's running pretty well frames per second
54.3 right now it's at 60 so that's pretty solid that's probably the best
I've seen on any MacBook Pro ever so it's doing a great job as far as that
goes so you'll see it's nice and smooth no problems there and that's an extreme
so let's do one more thing here we'll change the settings it's not in full
resolution so that wasn't the standard and then let's see if we can hit
fullscreen click okay let's change it to full resolution and see what we get and
there we go I expected it to hiccup a little bit more so we'll click close and
now we're down to 27 frames per second in full screen and at full resolution
which you would expect you would expect it to drop quite a bit so we're at 33
frames per second it's doing pretty well especially for a MacBook
so let's go ahead and quit this and so I think you'll see that the benchmarks
themselves are very impressive nothing really slows this down too much
and it's really made for editing video and music and doing really heavy
applications and hopefully with a little bit better GPU support I was using it
with an RX 580 it works fine but it locks up for me regularly with Final Cut
Pro and that's even using it there's a way you can force it to use the e GPU
and that's what I was doing and it still doesn't seem to work really well for me
all the time let's talk about battery life for a little bit the battery life
on this is just like any other MacBook Pro if you're editing it's going to go
down to a couple hours if you're doing just browsing the web it'll last you
seven hours or so maybe a little bit longer maybe a little bit less depending
on what you're doing I never let it get down to that point where I don't just
plug it in because I'm usually editing content now after using the 20 18
MacBook Pro for a month it's definitely fast it's great at multitasking but I
never used over about 16 gigabytes of RAM so the 2017 models with 16 gigabytes
of RAM seem to be ok even though that 32 is great to have is kind of a buffer
overhead I never used it at least with Final Cut Pro anyway and having multiple
applications open now as far as the price the price is four thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars plus 375 for Apple care plus tax and that puts it
around five thousand dollars or I Mac Pro territory or 5k iMac and MacBook Pro
territory you could get both of those things for the price of this and using
that is just it's great to use but when it's five thousand dollars for a laptop
and you can get an equivalent Windows laptop for about twenty five hundred
dollars with the same specs from Razer or something like that maybe even less
maybe a little bit more depending what we're looking at it's kind of a lot of
money for what it is and using it with things like an external display this LG
back here it has a lot of issues waking up from sleep and I found that to be
true across multiple displays and a lot of people have told me the same thing in
fact some friends on YouTube have had the same experience
and one of them decided to get an iMac Pro because of it they just couldn't
deal with the MacBook Pro and its display issues from time to time so
there's definitely some issues there and then the e GPU in my opinion as much as
I want to like it is useless for Final Cut Pro because it locks up every single
day every time I use it I have an issue with it locking up
it completely freezes I'll unplug it with Thunderbolt and it seems to work
again so for whatever reason it's just a problem over and over and over and it's
really driving me crazy because it's not something that I expect from Apple it's
not an aftermarket one it's actually the developer box I'm using but I know of
other people that have different ones and have the same experience so there's
something there that is causing problems not just with final cut but other
applications as well and then finally there's the issue of people that bought
the mid 2018 MacBook Pro are out of luck for getting this one in an upgrade if
you paid four thousand dollars for that one you can't just go trade it in and
get this one in them and then have them upgrade you for a little bit of extra
money they just won't do it and that's unfortunate but that's it and
that's my thoughts and experience with this if you have any other questions or
comments I'd love to hear what you have to say in the comments below if you
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