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In short: True Tone looks natural, and you should try it. Your mind does constant adjustments itself, analogous to True Tone in a way, and it’s probably wise to go with the flow. And honestly, allowing the display to blend with the ambient light temperature in your broader field of vision throughout the day instead of forcing it to stay fixed is likely to deliver an overall truer colour into your brain. Unless you have a proper process of regularly calibrating your display and creating/sharing profiles – and that’s part of a chain all the way from clients to output – then colour is always going to be a bit of a crapshoot. While this might strike you as the last thing creative pros working in colour-critical applications might want, note first that it can be turned off, and second that, actually, you probably don’t want to. We also welcome True Tone to the Mac for the first time, a system that debuted on iOS for reading the ambient light around you and adjusting the display’s temperature to blend in.

This might sound esoteric, but it’s in part responsible for that SSD speed, and it dramatically improves the security of the system, with, for example, hardware-level encryption and tougher barriers to circumventing security policies.

New to Apple’s laptop line is the T2 chip, its custom silicon controlling the system. There are other improvements away from raw specs too.

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Ports: 2x Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), 3.5mm headphone jackĬonnectivity: 802.11ac Wi-F, Bluetooth 5.0 Screen: 13.3-inch, 2,560 x 1,600 Retina display (backlit LED, IPS, 500 nits brightness, wide color P3 gamut)

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Graphics card is a Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655, and this can’t be changed. The base config is 8GB RAM, though our review model is maxed out to 16GB (£180+) 256GB SSD is standard, though ours has had a whopping £1,400 extra spent on it to take the capacity to its max of 2TB.

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We’re reviewing the latter the £270 upgrade is worth it for creative pros. With the 13-inch, though, we’re talking a 2.3GHz eighth-gen Intel Core i5 (with Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz), or a 2.7GHz eighth-gen Intel Core i7 with Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz. We’re focussing on the 13-inch here, but it’s worth saying that the 15-inch MacBook Pro (mid 2018) models get 6-core processors, a doubling of the max SSD size to 4TB, and, thanks to a switch to DDR4 RAM, a higher RAM ceiling of 32GB. MacBook Pro 13-inch (2018) reviewĪpple’s laptop line had languished for longer than many were happy with, and while the older versions that don’t have the dynamic Touch Bar above the keyboard remain un-updated, both the 13- and 15-inch Touch Bar models are updated to be more powerful now. More on this later, but let’s start on familiar ground with the MacBook Pro. Currently, the state of support for eGPUs is messy and ad-hoc.

While the operating system now supports it, this doesn’t mean apps can actually access its power. There’s one other major thing you need to know about eGPUs, too.

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There are downsides, though: the card is fixed, and can’t be upgraded it’s basically the Mac vs PC argument writ small. The Blackmagic Design eGPU, by contrast, is engineered around a specific card, a powerful Radeon Pro 580, so it can be smaller, quieter and more elegantly engineered.

Blackmagic eGPU (Blackmagic) at Amazon for £700.

Because the chassis doesn’t know what you’ll put in it, it has to default to the ‘worst-case scenario’ in terms of heat, power and size, which can lead to needless noise and power draw as it tries to vent. This can be inelegant, though traditionally, you got an eGPU setup by buying an empty case, then buying a graphics card to fit inside it.

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But while this has been possible on Windows for years, it was only with a recent update to macOS High Sierra that Apple supported it.ĮGPUs are great, then, because since they’re not constrained by the same power and temperature restrictions as inside a laptop, they can be hulking great monsters. You might quickly surmise, then, that a good solution would be to use an integrated graphics card on a laptop and plug in a discrete graphics card when you need more power. Ports: 2x Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), 4x USB, 1x HDMI