DIGITAL Special Edition Issue #1, May 2020
News and Reviews
tech
Latest iPhone 11 Pro Max
New Triple Lens camera Night Mode Photos A13 Bionic Processor Pro Display
MacBook Pro 13
Magic Keyboard Portable Powerhouse Retina Display MacOS Catalina
A Complete Review of the new iPhone 11 Pro Max and MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020
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What’s new this year at Apple
What is new with the iPhone 11 Pro Max?
Apple’s latest and greatest flagship smartphone takes center stage as new features amaze fans all over the world. With many positive feedback from fans and critics alike, there’s no doubt that Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro Max is not only the best iPhone Apple has ever released, it is the best smartphone you can buy today.
Cameras
With the all-new triple lens camera setup, taking beautiful photos is just as easy as point and shoot. The primary wide-angle lens can take the typical photo we all know all love. The secondary telephoto camera enables you to zoom in to your photo subject without loss of quality. The Ultra Wide lens is the latest addition to the iPhone’s camera arsenal, giving you the ability to capture a photo with a wide field of view, ideal for landscape photographies. The new Night Mode lets you capture beautiful, detailed images in a low light environment, all thanks to the A13 Bionic processor,
Screen
Apple equipped the iPhone 11 Pro Max with their best screen. The so-called “Super Retina XDR” is all fancy talk for having a bright, high-resolution, and color-accurate screen. Watch shows and video comfortably with the large 6.5-inch screen. You never have to worry about not seeing the screen under bright sunlight again. The screen can output deep dark blacks instead of dark grey, so watching movies and videos give a cinematic feel paired with the large screen.
A13 Bionic Processor
Apple’s custom-made chip that runs the iPhone 11 Pro Max and its smaller siblings, the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11. Apple claims that the A13 Bionic processor is 20% faster and 30% more power efficient than last year’s model. Paired with iOS 13, performance is not a problem as launching apps is quick and playing intense games shows no lags and stutters.
Battery Life
Combining the very power-efficient A13 Bionic processor, the larger battery, and start power management by the iOS 13, Apple achieved a long 12 hours battery life under heavy usage. But if you are someone who doesn’t have a heavy workflow, and just uses the iPhone 11 Pro Max for light photography, social media, web browsing, and watching videos, you’d easily get more than a day’s worth of battery. No longer do you have to worry about running out of power during work hours or during long commutes.
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How does the iPhone 11 Pro Max stack up?
The iPhone 11 Pro Max is not only the best iPhone, but it is the best phone today. Built with premium materials such as durable frosted glass back and a stainless steel frame. Has complete and well-implemented features. Allday battery life. The best cameras in the smartphone world. The best screen ever put on a phone. Secure FaceID. Don’t forget that it water and dust resistant, IP68 rated; never have to worry about getting the iPhone 11 Pro Max a little wet under the rain. What more do you want? The iPhone 11 Pro Max packs all features you could want and need in a premium phone. The iPhone 11 Pro Max is available in four stunning colors: Space Grey, Silver, Midnight Green, and Gold.
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What is new with the MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020?
This year’s refresh of the MacBook Pro 13-inch model brought new and overdue features. After 5 years, Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard era has come to an end as this refresh brought the long-awaited switch from the unstable and problematic Butterfly Keyboard back to the stable and widely used Scissor-switch mechanism. As seen with this refresh, the MacBook Pro 13-inch also received a more powerful Intel processor. The familiar “Touch Bar” with support for TouchID fingerprint scanner is also present in this model.
Keyboard
After 5 long years, Apple has finally decided to replace their own Butterfly Keyboard design to the more popular and widely used Scissor-switch mechanism that all laptops aside from Apple use. The reason for the change? Reports of users having broken keyboards plagued Apple’s support website claiming keys on their keyboards would lock-up and stop working, essentially disabling a letter or function of a keyboard. Other issues like a key randomly pressing itself or repeating key strokes were also reported. Switching back to the Scissorswitch mechanism fixed all of those issues and as of May 2020, there are no reports of broken MacBook Pro keyboards.
Screen
Another key feature the MacBook Pro 13-inch have is the Retina Display. It is a 13.3-inch screen with a resolution above Full HD 1080p and below 4K UHD. Because of that, colors are accurate, text is sharp, and the MacBook Pro is an ideal laptop to watch movies, videos, and view photos. The Retina Display offers support for the Display P3 Wide Color Gamut, so if you are a video or photo editor who needs that color-accurate screen, this is the laptop for you. The screen also offers 500-nits of brightness, just imagine that you could clearly see the screen under bright sunlight.
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What is new with the MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020?
Thunderbolt 3 USB-C
The MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 has 4 Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports. This may seem that there are not a lot of ports but with the flexibility of Thunderbolt 3 USBC, a lot of things can be connected with the right connector. There are many USB-C hubs in the market today, make sure to get one if you are planning to get a MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 for yourself. The good thing about Thunderbolt 3 USBC is that you can connect almost anything to it, flash drives and hard drives, external monitors, projectors, speakers, and even external GPU’s for the professionals who need extra power. With that, the MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 easily solves the port selection part of computers.
Performance
With the Intel’s 10th-generation chips, the MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 is a very capable computer. Light tasks such as emails, word and document processing, and internet browsing are smooth with no lags and slowdowns. It is also very capable of heavy workloads such as big video editing projects with Apple’s Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premiere Pro, using Adobe Photoshop presents no lags and stutters, editing audio clips with Audacity is a smooth experience. Playing games such as Minecraft reveals no lag whatsoever. You can launch many apps, programs, and software together for multitasking and you won’t feel the computer struggling to work.
Battery Life
Quite surprisingly, the MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020’s battery life lasts all-day with light workflow. A student who uses it for internet browsing such as researching, social media usage, word and document processing, and watching online videos would get an average of 12 hours of battery, long enough to last the whole day.
MacOS Catalina
The MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 runs on Apple’s latest Mac operating system, the MacOS Catalina. Most users would say that MacOS Catalina is superior to Windows 10 due to a more simplistic and beautiful user interface and Apple’s great implementation of “Continuity” and “Handoff”. iPhones, iPads, and Macs all work seamlessly together. Start a document or email on your iPhone and continue it on your MacBook anytime. Message your contacts on your phone using the Messages app on your Mac, you can even call them using the FaceTime app on your Mac. Share files and photos from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac wirelessly using the AirDrop feature. No WiFi? Just use the mobile data on your iPhone using Instant Hotspot, just enable it in your iPhone and your MacBook will automatically connect, no passwords needed. 4
How does the MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 stack up? The MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 is recommended for creative professionals, students, and just about anyone who needs the power and portability of the MacBook Pro. Battery life lasts all day, it has one of the best screens and speakers in a laptop, it has great keyboard and trackpad, it is very capable of all the demanding work, whether performance intensive or light document editing. The MacBook Pro 13inch 2020 is a great all-around laptop for everyone. With this current refresh, the updated keyboard and processor brings more comfortability and performance to an already powerful and portable computer.
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In the next issue…
Watch out for our reviews of the latest iPhone SE 2020, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2020, and the new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro
By Ramil De Jesus Photographs from Apple.com