In front of me is the brand new 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro

and with the new Core i9s inside it promises

to be the fastest MacBook ever.

With a $4000 price tag, (cash register ringing)

and that's not even the most expensive one,

I'm curious, how fast is it really?

This is the first time that you've been able

to get anything more than a quad-core MacBook,

well, pretty much ever.

So across the line, you're going to be getting

at least 6-cores on the new MacBooks.

This guy is going to be the Core i9,

which is going to be clocked a lot a higher,

but even the base model of the 15

is still going to be a 6-core Core i7.

Something else new with this generation

is going to be more memory.

So, previously, the MacBook Pro

would top out at 16 gigs of RAM.

A fair bit, but not really enough

for a lot of creative professionals,

whereas this guy you can option it

all the way up to 32 gigs of RAM, finally.

Wes!

So Wes is currently using a

(bell dings) Lenovo ThinkPad workstation

and even though they're actually about the same price,

you can see there's a huge size difference.

Dude, look how much smaller this is.

- Yeah. - Like that's not even close.

Another change is going to be with the SSD.

So, by default, this will come with a 256 gig drive,

however you can option it all the way up to a 4TB SSD.

The only issue, it is gonna cost you

$3400. (receipt printing)

You know, if you don't wanna spend as much

as a nice used car, well, I guess a somewhat nice used car,

as your SSD, there's your option.

For real, though, I mean, if you really need

that extra space, by all means go for it,

but as far as I'm concerned, a 1TB SSD or even a 512 gig

drive should be plenty unless you're on Ken Bolido's phone

texting instead of running the camera.

Oh, wow, great, I've already got a beach ball.

That's really wonderful.

The system's been on for 35 seconds

and it's already frozen and beachballing.

Another new feature is going to be the Apple T2 chip inside

and that's also going to be shared with the iMac Pro.

Essentially, it's going to be like an iPhone processor

that's dedicated to handling all

of the background tasks of the laptop.

So think about trains outside, your speakers,

your webcam, and especially things like security issues,

like making sure that everything

is correctly assigned ahead of time.

So to really see what this new MacBook is capable of,

I have a couple of other laptops here to compare against.

So, first of all, I have a 2016 MacBook Pro

and this is going to be the high-end of that year

so we're getting to Core i7, 16 gigs of RAM,

Radeon Pro 460 graphics, as well as a 1TB SSD.

To give you a good idea of what an equivalent

Windows workstation is going to provide,

we have a 2016 Lenovo P70.

This guy's going to have a Xeon E3-1505,

which is going to be a quad-core Skylake CPU,

very similar to actually what's

going to be in the 2016 MacBook.

You're also going to be getting

32GB of RAM, a Quadro P--

M4000, M4000, I almost said P, it's an M4000 GPU.

As well as a 512GB NVMe SSD.

And last but not least, we have the 2018 MacBook Pro.

Now this is going to be maxed out

with everything besides the SSD.

Core i9, 32GB of RAM, the Radeon Pro 560X.

The only thing we're missing here is a 4TB drive,

but with one 1TB of capacity the price difference between

these three is actually only a couple hundred dollars.

So let's see how fast the new MacBook really is.

The first test we're going to be running is Geekbench 4.

Now, this is going to be a pretty solid test

of the CPU capabilities of all three of these laptops.

Oh, wow, whoah, that's so fast!

Okay, so, the Lenovo and the MacBook are very well-matched.

So single-core is slightly ahead on the Lenovo,

but multi-core's going to be a little bit behind,

but the 2018 absolutely destroys them both.

With 5595 on single-core and 24765 on multi-core.

That, that's fast.

Of course, there's more to it than just CPU power though.

So here we're going to be using the Geekbench 4 compute test

to give us a rough idea of what kind of graphics capability

are going to be on all three of these laptops.

So here the Lenovo definitely takes the win

with a score of 79000 compared

to 58000 with the 2018 Macbook

and 49000 with the 2016 MacBook.

Now, the graphics side is definitely going

to be a big win for the Windows-side

just because you're going to be getting

so many more options, and so many more powerful cards

available in a variety of Windows workstations.

Next up, we have Cinebench.

Now, this is going to be a little bit more

of a multi-threaded workflow as it is basically

going to be Cinema 4D just rendering a single test scene.

And, again, anything CPU-related, the Core i9

MacBook is absolutely going to crush.

Not only is it going to be a fair bit faster

on the single-core score, but even on the multi-thread

with those extra two cores available,

it is going to be seriously fast.

Next up we have the Aja Speed Test.

This is going to be all about how fast the SSDs

are in all three of these systems.

Okay, that one's not particularly fair.

So, it looks like the Lenovo is using a SATA-based

hard drive, which means that the read speed's topping

out at less than 500MB per second

and the read is only about 133.

Compare that with the 2016, which is over 2GB

per second on both read and write,

and the 2018 model, which is actually going to clear 3GB

per second on read and 2700MB per second on the write.

Just like the iMac Pro, a lot of the speed has to do

with the fact that it is using a T2 chip to handle all

of the stuff including actually running the SSD.

So when it comes to writing and reading at almost

3GB per second, that's actually really cool.

I've gotta admit, that's really fast.

Next up, let's put this all together and

do a little bit more of a real world comparison.

So we have DaVinci Resolve running

on all three of these systems.

So we're starting out with some 7K RED RAW footage,

which is then being heavily color-corrected

with power windows and it is going

to be exported as a 4K H.264 file.

Okay, so it looks like Resolve is definitely a big fan

of the Core i9 on the 2018 MacBook.

Here, the '18 MacBook is going to be a full minute faster

than both the 2016 MacBook as well as the Lenovo P70.

Now, the P70 does have other advantages

beyond pure performance.

So not only is it going to run a fair bit cooler.

if you take a look at the thermal shots I got

on the MacBook, which is running pretty warm

especially on the keyboard area.

Compared to the Lenovo, it is a huge difference,

but, on top of that, the Lenovo has a bigger 4K display

and, you know, actual ports, which is kind of helpful

when you're doing video or anything that's not using USBC.

So, conclusion time.

If you pick up the $7000 steal of the MacBook Pro

with the 4TB drive, it's not going to perform any better,

but if you're looking for a system that is going

to give you a ton of power and a pretty small

and thin form factor, I've gotta say,

this actually is a lot faster than I was expecting.