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#SURFACE BOOK 2 VS MACBOOK PRO 2018 PRO#
#SURFACE BOOK 2 VS MACBOOK PRO 2018 PROFESSIONAL#
#SURFACE BOOK 2 VS MACBOOK PRO 2018 MAC#

One of the main reasons why people buy Macs is because of Final Cut Pro.

#SURFACE BOOK 2 VS MACBOOK PRO 2018 PRO#

If you're using Adobe Premiere Pro for editing videos, the Surface Book 2 is the faster system. The Surface Book 2's quad core 1.9Ghz exporting the video much faster than I expected. With Adobe Premiere Pro CC, it took the Macbook Pro significantly longer to export the video. These are the timings I recorded when I exported a 5 min 4K clip without any special effects and filtersĪgain, the findings are quite interesting. When it comes to exporting the videos, again, the processors are important. Working on 4K videos on both systems felt quite smooth. In short, if you work on photos a lot, you may want to invest in the quad core processors. The Macbook Pro on the other hand has high CPU utilization throughout. So even though the turbo boost of the Intel i7 can go up to 4.2Ghz, in real life you'll seldom see that sort of performance. It was never able to maintain high utilization. While the Surface Book 2s were exporting photos, I could see the CPU utilization fluctuating wildly. The dual core Surface Book 2 and Surface Laptop took more than twice the time. The Surface Book 2 is not too far behind the Macbook Pro even though it's a quad core 1.9Ghz vs 2.5Ghz.

Macbook Pro 2015 Quad 2.5Ghz - 3min 21s.

#SURFACE BOOK 2 VS MACBOOK PRO 2018 MAC#

Mac Pro 2013 Quad 3.7Ghz Xeon - 3 min 17s.

Here are the different timings I got when I tried to export 100 RAW 16MP photos with Adobe Lighting using the different systems I have: But when it comes to exporting your photos from RAW to other formats, that's where the processors matter. Photo editingīoth systems are more than capable when it comes to editing photos, making adjustments. For print designers, you'll still need to connect to an external 100% Adobe RGB monitor to check colours.īoth systems use SSD storage so when it comes to booting the system, launching applications, loading and saving large files, performance overall is quite snappy. Colour accuracy is quite good, more than satisfactory for graphic designers. I've calibrated the screens for both and got a readout of 94% sRGB support on the Surface Book 2 and 96% sRGB on the Macbook Pro. Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Designer. Computers nowadays are way more powerful than the graphic design apps we are using nowadays, e.g. There's not a lot of difference between the dual core and quad core models when it comes to graphic design. Graphic designīoth the Surface Book 2 and the Macbook Pro are more than capable enough for graphic design, the 2D type of work for print or web. To do the same with a Macbook Pro, you would need a separate graphics tablet. The Surface Pen is not as sensitive as the styluses of tablets from Wacom, Huion and others, but it's certainly good enough for digital illustration, at least for me.

The issue with jitter diagonal lines is almost non-existent here. This is now a tablet product that has matured and ironed out many of the irritating things that annoyed digital artists in the past. The Surface tablets in the past were not as good as the one with the Surface Book 2.

#SURFACE BOOK 2 VS MACBOOK PRO 2018 PROFESSIONAL#

You can definitely create professional work on the tablet from start to end. The Surface Pen supports pressure sensitivity and palm rejection. It's compatible with the Surface Pen (and other Surface Pen alternatives). The Surface Book 2 tablet is also quite an accurate screen to work on. If you have been spending lots of time on the drafting stage, you're going to be save a lot of time. You no longer have to draw on paper and scan your work.

If you're a comic artist, you can draft out your page and panels, and ink directly. When it comes to digital illustration, being able to draw directly onto the screen can save a lot of time.

The main selling point of the Surface Book 2 is the detachable screen that you can use as a tablet to draw on. The Macbook Pro being compared to is mine, a 2015 quad core 2.5Ghz model.Īlright, let's talk about the different workflows. The following comparison review is from my perspective as a visual content creator, someone who creates digital art, graphic design, edits photos and videos on a daily basis.īefore I start, I've got to thank Microsoft Singapore for providing me with the Surface Book 2 review unit.

I've had the opportunity recently to compare the Microsoft Surface Book 2 and the Apple Macbook Pro side by side and I learned a lot from the differences.