New MacBook Pro kills the butterfly keyboard once and for all

Nothing more exciting for a Monday morning then some new Apple news. And what we've got today is a bunch of updates to the 13 inch MacBook Pro. [MUSIC] Now there were a lot of rumors about this, especially over the past weekend that they would take that 13 inch pro and upgrade it with a 14 inch screen. Well, I didn't happen and I could have told you that but what we do have is some options for 10th generation Intel chips in some of the models. Upgraded storage in all of the models, and a new Apple Magic Keyboard that is now in the 13 inch MacBook Pro as well as the other MacBooks. So let's start with the 10th-generation parts and intel. Obviously, better performance, better integrated graphics, that's really important as well. But you're not gonna get that in the less expensive MacBook Pro models. The 1299 the 1499 base models, you're gonna have to trade up to these 1799 and 1999 13 inch MacBook Pros in order to get access to that 10th generation part. For the two less expensive MacBook Pros. You're still gonna get an And an eighth generation processor, and that's frankly fine for most people. But if you're shopping for a new MacBook, you may want to have newer parts in it and I get that. I did like, however that there was upgraded storage and all. For the base models, they're basically doubling it. So the 1299 base model goes from 128 gigs of storage, which is shocking that they still have that to 256. The 256 models go to 512. The 512 models go to one terabyte and now the top end upgrade that you can add goes from a two terabyte upgrade to a four terabyte one. So that's plenty of storage right there. You also get that new Apple magic keyboard in all of the models. Now this is something that we first saw in a laptop back with the 16 inch MacBook Pro in the fall of 2019. Worked really well there. They added it to the 13 inch MacBook Air back in March of this year. also worked really well there. They basically took that butterfly keyboard that has been in Macs for years that everybody hated. Frankly, it was never really as bad as everybody said, but it wasn't great. And they made some incremental improvements over the years but it never quite got where it needed to be. People still had stuck keys they had to have the keyboards serviced and replaced. Well, the new version, they call it the magic keyboard which is what they've called their standalone keyboards for IMAX. For a long time, well that magic keyboard is now available in the 16 inch pro, in the 13 inch air and now in the 13 inch pro as well. If you get the new add on keyboard for the iPad Pro they call that the magic keyboard as well and I've been using it since the fall in the larger pro and in the air. Frankly great, it's much more of a throwback to the classic MacBook keyboard. Not quite as big and chunky as that, but definitely much more enjoyable than what we've had for the last couple of years. So now that is available in the three main Mac books, so you don't have to say, I really want to get this but I don't like the keyboard on it. I'm gonna have to wait I'm gonna have to get a different model instead. So what we have with the upgraded 13 inch MacBook Pro is the ability to add some more modern CPUs, but you are gonna have to pay extra for it. You do get the upgraded storage, double the storage and all the base models which frankly is a little bit overdue brings them into the mainstream now in terms of capacity But that's great. And of course the updated keyboard big win there. If you've been holding off saying I want to get a 13 inch MacBook Pro because it really is a great size and has great features. But the processor has been a little out of date and the keyboard definitely out of date and I see these new features and other MacBooks. Well now you can go out and get one and feel like you're at least in line with everybody else. If you've been waiting for that screen size upgrade like they did taking the 15 inch pro and going to the 16 inch size last year well that does not happen yet that could happen at some point. Apple could also switch to their own branded chips at some point like they've been threatening to do for years and we've always heard a lot about still Intel based for now. But the new 13 inch pro not the most gigantic announcement in the world, but those are available with the CPU and storage and keyboard upgrades from today So now you can choose from the 13 inch air the 16 inch probe the 13 inch pro all have modern keyboards all have at least the options for modern CPUs and all have decent storage options.