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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. So it's 2018, we're going to get refreshes on basically every single Apple laptop.
00:09Some will be bigger refreshes, some will be smaller, but I'm going to take this time to kind of explain what I feel like those changes might be.
00:15So the first one, the big one, is going to be this 13-inch entry-level laptop. This is going to be like the new MacBook Air.
00:21And what makes this thing special is its price tag. It's supposed to come in around $900, so cheaper than the current MacBook Air.
00:26And I think it'll have USB-C charging, but no Thunderbolt 3, no fancy stuff, no touch bar, no super high-res display.
00:32It's just going to be a very productivity-focused device that's thin and light. And the key here is price.
00:38They want this thing to be affordable for everyone, basically for students or anyone who doesn't need a super powerful computer, this can be a good option.
00:44Now it's going to have 8 gigs of RAM, nothing super crazy, and the processor is going to be probably a Y processor, maybe a U,
00:50but it really will be just a refreshed version of something like the MacBook Air.
00:54Now the existence of that product, the existence of a $900 MacBook, is going to affect the sales of this,
01:00the base model 13-inch MacBook Pro without the touch bar.
01:04I actually think that this model, the one without the touch bar, is going to be removed.
01:07And the rest of the 13-inch MacBook Pros are going to be upgraded.
01:10So I think those laptops will not be running Kaby Lake-R chips.
01:13So I think a lot of people think that those Kaby Lake-R CPUs that we see in a lot of Ultrabooks will be running in those 13-inch MacBook Pros.
01:20I don't think so. They're going to be running the new Coffee Lake-U processors.
01:23And what makes this thing special is the 4-core CPU.
01:26So basically every single 13-inch MacBook Pro that has ever existed has used a 2-core CPU.
01:31This now has a 4-core CPU that can have 8 threads if it's hyper-threading.
01:35It's a very, very good computer for applications that can take advantage of multi-core stuff.
01:39I think one of the big examples is content creation.
01:42So if you're a video editor or a photo editor, a lot of people prefer to have the size of a 13-inch MacBook,
01:48but they want that power from the 15-inch MacBook.
01:50Now you have a 4-core CPU in a small form factor.
01:53I think a lot of content creators are going to like that.
01:55So let's move on to the next one.
01:57The 15-inch MacBook Pro is going to be changed.
01:59This is still not going to have an NVIDIA card.
02:01It's going to be AMD.
02:02I think a lot of my audience wants to see an NVIDIA card in a MacBook.
02:05It's just not going to happen anytime soon.
02:07One, the wattage is too high.
02:08You can't run any of the 10-series cards from NVIDIA with just a Thunderbolt 3 port.
02:12It goes way over 100 watts.
02:13The other thing is thermals.
02:14There's no way that a MacBook Pro with this kind of thickness is going to be able to cool any kind of 10-series card effectively.
02:20So you're going to get AMD cards in here, lower wattage AMD cards.
02:23In terms of the CPU, I think a lot of people are hoping for the Kaby Lake G,
02:27so that 8th gen chip that pairs an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU.
02:31The performance is very good, and it's very efficient, both energy and space efficient.
02:35So on paper, it seems like that's like the perfect chip for Apple,
02:38but that's just, my guess is they won't be using that.
02:41That's just not how Apple does stuff.
02:43They tend to use more custom stuff, so I think they're going to use the H processors from Intel,
02:48like those Kaby Lake H processors, 6-core, and a custom AMD chip to go with it.
02:53A 35-watt Vega GPU.
02:55It's going to be good.
02:56It's going to be an upgrade from the current existing 2017 ones,
02:59but it's not going to be like a massive increase in the GPU side.
03:02The CPU, because it's running that 6-core, it's going to be a big step up for certain applications,
03:07but again, it's going to be one of those things that are multi-core dependent.
03:11The last one is the 12-inch MacBook.
03:13I think it'll get a bit of a spec bump.
03:15Nothing crazy, I'm thinking the CPU will just bump up to Canon Lake-Y.
03:18It's a really good seller for Apple, so they're not going to get rid of it.
03:21It's just not my type of laptop, so I'm not that interested in it.
03:24So upgrades across the board are going to be pretty good,
03:27and I think battery life for these new laptops will be bumped up a bit,
03:30obviously with more efficient CPUs,
03:32but I actually wouldn't be surprised if they try to put terrorist batteries into the MacBook Pro,
03:36so the 13 and the 15-inch.
03:38When they first launched these in 2016, they didn't use terrorist batteries,
03:41like the type of battery tech that we see in the 12-inch MacBook,
03:44where they kind of shape the battery to the space of the internals.
03:47It's impressive technology, but the 2016 and the 2017-inch MacBook Pros didn't have that tech,
03:52and there were some reports that Apple was trying to put that battery tech into their MacBook Pros before launch,
03:57but it never happened because they ran out of time.
03:59Hopefully, they do it this year, and there's actually a lot of space in here for extra batteries,
04:02so we'll see what they do.
04:04Hopefully, this video was helpful.
04:06I mean, if you're thinking of buying a MacBook Pro or a MacBook right now,
04:09probably hold off because all these things are supposed to come out kind of end of Q2, like June-ish,
04:14so yeah, I would wait till then if you could.
04:16Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video.
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04:19See you guys next time.