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MacBook Pro: 2014 vs. 2018

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MacBook Pro: 2014 vs. 2018

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- [Jeff] Welcome to Final Cut Pro 10 Weekly. This is Jeff. Nick's not here this week. And I spent some money on a brand new MacBook Pro and I thought the results were really interesting enough that they were worth sharing as a tip, especially if you have old hardware and yeah, you know the message at the end, I'm gonna suggest that you buy new hardware but let's see what sort of difference it actually makes. So I'm going to be comparing my 2014 MacBook Pro, my current one. I'm gonna look at two common benchmark tools and then I wanna take a look at some real world, two common exports, some ProRes material and some h264. I did some HEVC exports and something interesting happened. Let's find out. About four years ago, I picked up this MacBook Pro. It's a 15-inch i7 with 16 gigs of RAM. Recently, I picked up a brand new system and it too is a 15-inch machine but it's a hexacore. That's six i9 cores rather than an i7 and I've got a lot more RAM on it. The comparison looks like this. It's…

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