Apple MacBook Pro 2012 Vs. Lenovo ThinkPad T430 Comparison By Laptop Reviews

Hey guys I have here with me on the left, the Apple MacBook Pro, the summer 2012 release and then the ThinkPad t 430 over on the right-hand side, which was released earlier in the spring of 2012. Just kind of wanted to talk about these little today. Do a quick comparison. I know that uh fans of sync pads and MacBook are quite passionate about their existing machines. So you know I, think I think both are great products and of course, people have preferences for one of the other for different reasons and I, just kind of wanted to give a comparison of these two. So if you're in the market for a portable laptop which these both are being thirteen and fourteen-inch laptops and professional well-built laptop, then these both for the profile.

So, lets kind of just take a look at these today. Now, as far as bow quality goes, the MacBook Pro is made of aluminum, so it's rock-solid ThinkPad is made of on the lid. It's got some carbon fiber actually in there and magnesium alloy. So it's got several types of material, the body itself, so the case type of case here is an ABS plastic. So the military uses that it's very durable stuff.

You know, plastic. Might some people mean cheap, but that's not all the case here. It's ABS plastic and very durable. You get a great protection with the lid. You push in its hard to cause ripples you can, but you know overall, that's pretty good protection, the MacBook.

It is again aluminum on the inside. So it's as people know an unibody aluminum crafted case here pushing on the back. It can't cause any ripples, so it's well protected screen. The hinge is very stiff and the hinge on the ThinkPad you see these two metal steel hinges here is very stiff. You do get a spill proof keyboard on the ThinkPad.

MacBook Pro does not promote such a feature. So that's one nice thing overall, I mean these are both premium laptops with their well boat they're, not cheap at all, so I think they're, really, even in that regard. Let's take a look around the ports you get on each of these laptops, so here I am with the MacBook Pro on the left-hand side, and you get the power connector here and the next is an Ethernet jack for Poll and next to that is a FireWire connector for fast data transfer. You have thunderbolt, which is similar to the fire wire and that you can use it for fast transfer, also for display out, and then you have two USB 3.0 ports, and then you have an SD card reader and then right here you have a headphone jack rotate around to the right side and all I have is the optical drive right here is the DVD burner and the Kensington lock slot. So now, let's take a look at the t.430 on the left side, you have VGA, monitor out headphone the mini DisplayPort, then 2 USB 3.0 ports. Here, let's hit around on the right side, optical drive, it's pressed card, 34 millimeters lot, the USB slot and SD card reader down here, Kensington lock slot.

Also, at the back here now on the back side. I have a vertically oriented a powered, USB port, Ethernet adapter here and then the power jack here, so different arrangement of ports, different layouts, depending on your needs, one might be better than the other, but both are pretty well-equipped. I think now, as far as performance goes between these two, it can be pretty even because both offer a core i5 or i7 processor. So just to test the overall performance system, I use Geek bench instead, zero easy to use benchmark on both the macOS and the Windows 7. So the MacBook I have is the base level 13-inch, which comes with the core i5 32 10 M, and it scored a six seven, six, three six thousand seven hundred and sixty-three that's on the Mac and then over on my t.430 I have a slightly faster Core, i5 processors of updated 33, 20 M, and it's Core 2 6 961. Now, as far as overall system performance perceived performance to me, both seem pretty snappy.

Opening applications is fast, multitasking, no problem, 1080p, video, no problem, so really I think on performance. These two are even and really uh. As far as the difference between the OS is you're just going to have to pick which laptop fits your software needs, so, for instance, if you're, if you're using Windows- and you know you have to do a lot of stuff- maybe using CAD- typically it's easier to find those programs for Windows-based machine. However, if you're just you know, doing typical tasks and use Adobe applications a lot, then the macOS, which is been just fine. It's also I know a lot of programmers use it for development because it has the UNIX operating system built right in, so that's real popular feature for the Mac, OS and I think will be another incentive to buy the MacBook Pro.

If you are your developer and shopping around for a laptop okay, so what I want to do here is demonstrate a couple of things. First of all that I wanted to demonstrate the glossy nature of the MacBook Pro screen. So you see me waving. That's because the screen on the MacBook Pro is glossy and when it's dark, that means it will reflect things that are in the background. Meanwhile, I'm waving over the tea party, which I'm doing right now, you can't see it because it's a matte screen, so it reduces glare.

Now, if you're in a business work environment, the matte screen is a better option because it reduces eyestrain. You don't receive reflections in the background and it is causes fewer headaches. However, if you're working with colors or watching movies, the glossy screen around the MacBook Pro will make colors pop more. So in some respect it is desirable. Now the next thing I want to do was boot up both of these and see how long it takes me to get to opening Google Chrome so push the power buttons.

At the same time, and here they both boot up I'm, going to see which one allows me to get to opening Google Chrome faster, so I can browse the web whatnot. So I have the macOS mountain lion on the MacBook Pro and Windows 7 Professional Edition on think Betsy 4:30 on the right. So we know the T 4 there is almost ready and the MacBook Pro is going to win and they both have hard drives. So you know, there's no SSD advantage for the MacBook Pro here. So there we go I'm still waiting for Windows 7 to load up and Here I am and about 20 seconds after or 30 seconds, I'm still waiting for chrome to open.

There we go, so it took really an extra 30 seconds to open up there for the back to 4:30. So, as many are aware, the macOS is faster booting up than Windows and you really need SSD and the Windows machine to boot faster, and I'm. Just going to take some heat measurements on both the MacBook Pro T Port Authority, to see where they get hot and just kind of compare how hot they get to each other. So on the left palm rest for the MacBook Pro got 81 the right palm rest, almost exactly the same in the top right corner, 84 so slightly warmer towards the back. There then I move towards the back right, 80 degrees and right in the middle 83.

Meanwhile, over the t, 430 on the left palm rest, so much warmer, 90 degrees right now, and both of these have been basically idling doing a bit of work. Nothing much right. Palm rest, 77s are very cool over on the right side, their top right, 78 or so top left. My heat Bend is over here and the top left side is at 85 a little warmer and then in the middle 82, so cool everywhere, except down here in the lower left side, the where the palm rest gets kind of warm on the ThinkPad t 430. The t 430 fans is on the back right side over here, the MacBook Pro.

It doesn't have a visible and or anything like that, it's just a passive cooling system. So it's a little more quiet than the T 4 Authority in my usage at least, so both are pretty good at keeping cool and both are fairly good on the noise aspect of just you know not becoming a really noisy with the fan or anything as well. Let's check out the viewing angles at the screen separate the MacBook Pro on the left. The t 430 is on the right. We go okay, so right now, they're both pointing straight board.

So we've got a perpendicular viewing angle. Now, if I tilt them back and again, the neither of these are IPS screen, so you're going to expect some color Distortion, that's as far back as the Mac Pro screen goes, so the ThinkPad goes all the way down.180 degrees, MacBook Pro does not, so we'll just leave them. This bar back to Mac, Book Pro will go, and you'll see that basically, they both distort in terms of colors I, don't know if I can call one better than the other. To be honest, you know, maybe the MacBook Pro is slightly better in terms of viewing angles, but it's kind of its kind of close, so I wouldn't say that's for sure. Now, if I tilt them forward, you'll see the colors' washout, they do watch out a little faster when tilted 44:30, and they hold a little more true on the MacBook Pro.

At that angle. Now one thing I should also mention is the screen resolutions on the MacBook Pro. It's a top 80 by 800 I believe on the ThinkPad at 1366. By 768 you can get a 1600 by 900, HD plus screen on the ThinkPad t 430. That is a that is an upgrade on the MacBook Pro.

There is no upgrade option and yeah, so it is 1280 by 800 default resolution on the netbook Pro. So you know if you want the higher resolution 1600 by 900, then the t 430 does have that and is nice to have. Meanwhile, the 1280 by 800 on the MacBook Pro is pretty comfortable resolution text is a nice size. You could just fit two windows on there at the same time and be comfortable reading them both, but it's not as easy to do. If you had a higher res screen size, just a 1600 by 900 on the T 430, let's just check out the keyboards and compare the on the MacBook Pro.

That I think that T 430 so right away. You'll notice on the thing: Patsy 430 you get a red pointing stick right in the middle there, which is kind of a favorite of business users. You get the dual mouse buttons here, so you've got these buttons here you use with the pointing stick or if you use the touchpad, you can use these mouse buttons down here, and then you have a scroll bar here. The macro hostess has the giant touchpad. So it's got all the multi-touch gestures that you're probably familiar with by now.

It is probably the best touchpad in the industry and one of the larger ones too. So if your touchpad person then you'll, like the macro pro, if you're pointing stick person, you like the faint patty 430, both are full-sized keyboards and both feel really nice. The ThinkPad is probably my favorite keyboard, so I do prefer that a little more, the top row of keys on the MacBook Pro you'll see you're actually, first and foremost media keys. So if I were to push the f6 button, that would brighten the screen, but I was to push the f11 button. It would raise the volume or excuse me lower the bottom, it's f12 to raise the bottom.

Meanwhile, over on the ThinkPad seaport there you have to hold down the FN and then push whatever coordinating function. Button is to for the media action to take place, so it's slightly different there. You know, overall, that oh and one other thing I should mention is that both have a backlight. The t 430 is an option upgrade option on there. It's about $40, to upgrade to the micro pro.

The backlights keyboard is standard. I like that feature a lot. The ThinkPad also offers a light at the top of the screen that can shine down on the keyboard. That is, standard comes with any configuration so overall, both these keyboards are nice. I.

Think that C 430 keyboards is slightly better in terms of feel, but the MacBook Pro on that end is still a nice keyboard to use one thing: I really prefer about the thing Pasta for authorities effect. You get a battery here, that's removable! You can easily get two different components, such as the memory on a hard drive, and basically everything is easy to upgrade to add. Furthermore, you have a mini SSD, and it's just it's designed to be replaceable, upgradeable and easy to do. Meanwhile, on the MacBook Pro you'll notice on the bottom, it's very clean, but that well it looks nice means you can access anything you can place. The battery can make upgrades aftermarket.

Can't do anything really. So you know if you're looking to get something you can tinker with play with and easily upgrade down the road. The MacBook Pro is not it. If you do want something like that to think bed t-43. Is its a good option for you? So what does the final question between the ThinkPad see 4:30 in the MacBook Pro is which should I buy, which one is better, and I hate to say one is its fin active LY better, because, depending on your use, is one may fit you better than the other? So I do like to think that t, 430 keyboards and the fact that it's easy to upgrade and replace the battery I do like the MacBook Pro.

It's fast boot up its sleek looks I think it just looks nice from the t4 30 more attractive. It's more iconic people know what you're using, and you know there is a certain consideration built in where you know a cool factor where you kind of like to thank the people. You know that you have this status symbol if you paid a bunch of money for it. Other thing that I should mention is the price to think that t 430 starts around seven eight hundred dollars with a budget configuration, so you can't argue that price you get a great laptop for that price. The MacBook Pro memo starts at eleven.

Ninety-nine, so much more expensive. If you configure the t 430 with the same specs as the MacBook Pro I have their Core i5, it's probably around eight $900, so still cheaper. I do like to think that t 430 for the value proposition upgrade ability the keyboard and just the great build quality I would take it over the MacBook Pro. But of course, if you're familiar with macOS and you like all the features of the Mac- and you really like the brain, then of course the MacBook Pro is a great choice for you, too,.

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