As a result, I spent most of my summer after WWDC straddling Catalina and Big Sur.įor a lot of the summer, I spent about half of my week using Big Sur and the other half with Catalina. Also, third-party apps distributed outside the Mac App Store aren’t prevented from using private Apple APIs that are more likely to break with beta releases. Macs interface with a wider variety of peripherals than iPhones and iPads, which sometimes conflict with macOS betas. Although I have had good luck historically with macOS betas, there’s inherently more that can go wrong than with iOS or iPadOS.
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The latest MacBook Pro with Retina Display ships with OS X Yosemite, which brings an attractively flat, iOS-like aesthetic to Apple's desktop operating system while boasting deep integration with your iPhone or iPad.Every year, testing a new version of macOS is a balancing act. MORE: 10 Laptops with the Longest Battery Life It also beat out our 2014 MacBook Pro (8:29) by half an hour, and toppled our 6:07 mainstream notebook average. The notebook endured 9 hours and 8 minutes of continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi on our battery test, outlasting the XPS 15 (6:59), the ZBook15u (6:44) and the WS60 (3:05). The new MacBook Pro is built to deliver 9 hours of battery life, and that's exactly what it gave us. The MacBook's monitor hinge was its hottest spot, at 88 degrees, which is safely below our 95-degree comfort threshold. After streaming 15 minutes of HD video, the notebook's touchpad reached 74 degrees Fahrenheit, while both the center of the keyboard and the notebook's underside grew to 85 degrees.
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You can count on the MacBook Pro to stay relatively cool while you work. The ZBook (AMD FirePro M4170) achieved a lower score, 22 fps, at its maximum resolution of 1080p. By comparison, the Nvidia GeForce 750 M-powered XPS 15 achieved 34 fps on medium settings, though at a higher 4K resolution, while the WS60 (Nvidia Quadro K2100M) netted 29 fps on autodetect mode at 4K.
The MacBook even handled the game at a manageable 40 fps at its native 2880 x 1800 resolution an auto settings. The MacBook Pro with Retina is suitable for mainstream gaming, running World of Warcraft at 1920 x 1200 at a smooth 66 frames per second and a still-playable 37 fps with the graphics kicked to Ultra. While our 2014 MacBook Pro (with integrated Iris Pro graphics) was similarly quick to render 3D titles, the notebook took a notably longer 10 hours and 46 minutes to perform the same Optical Flow conversion. This intensive Final Cut Pro feature adds frames to a video to give the illusion that it was recorded with a high-speed camera.
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It took just 7 minutes to analyze and convert 1 minute and 48 seconds of 1080p footage into a half-speed slow-motion clip using Optical Flow. Our AMD-powered unit certainly doesn't disappoint 3D titles rendered instantly in Final Cut Pro, allowing me to preview them as soon as I dropped them into a video. A lower-cost configuration with integrated Intel Iris Pro graphics is also available. Packing an AMD Radeon R9 M370X GPU, the newest 15-inch MacBook Pro is designed to deliver 80 times the graphics performance as last year's model. The MacBook Pro took 4 minutes and 14 seconds to match 20,000 names to their addresses, outpacing our 5:05 average while nearly tying the ZBook 15u (4:15) and falling behind the XPS (4:09) and the WS60 (3:53). The latest MacBook also topped the XPS 15's 512GB SSD (154.2 MBps), the ZBook's 256GB SSD (175.5 MBps) and even the WS60's dual 128GB SSDs, which finished the test at an impressive 365.2 MBps. The new MacBook Pro's flash performance crushes the 282.7 MBps we churned out of last year's model, though that unit had a smaller 256GB SSD. Having this kind of flash storage will make finding files amidst huge libraries a snap. Our review unit's 512GB SSD transferred 4.97GB of mixed media in a ridiculously quick 8 seconds, for a colossal transfer rate of 636 MB per second. Apple promises exponentially better flash performance with the refreshed MacBook Pro's next-generation PCIe-based flash storage, and the computer delivers.
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