apple 2018 macbook pro: $7k for a maxed out macbook

For our purposes, we're interested in MacBook Pro, and MacBook Pro is also getting upgrades under the hood..   The Touch Bar is still key feature in this MacBook Pro, which works with FCPX.  ..   MacBook Pro features new Intel Core processors, however, and the version is 70 percent faster than last year's model, compared to last 3.1GHz quad-core i7..   The new models have also doubled SSD capacity, now up to 4TB in the 15-inch.   That's not big issue for photographers and other creatives, except video editors needing more and more RAM to deal with compressed video codecs at higher bitrates and bigger resolutions..   It's amazing that after years of heavy use, around the clock on the road, in hotels and airports, and at home running the fans at full blast during heavy renders, these MacBooks continue to perform for video edits..   In the early days of DSLR video, we could edit MP4 and MOV clips without transcoding, because H.264 files were simple for MacBook to work with.   Then we moved to compressed AVCHD files, and software transcoding with ClipWrap and EditReady, and FCPX's optimization transcoding..   These days, we working with high bitrate files from Canon C300 mkII, surprisingly HD 10-bit and 12-bit media can still be edited on these old MacBook Pros.   which will have native support on FCPX, we might start seeing Macs used more video environments than we do now.   Read more