The Office suite of apps for iOS is also receiving a minor update today, with support for the new iPad Pro displays.Īre you excited that more apps are getting Dark Mode support on macOS Mojave? Let us know in the comments below!
Today’s update brings the suite to version 0801 and is available as a free download for current subscribers.
Outlook is seeing minor updates with new additions such as being able to share your calendar, view appointments across multiple time zones, and being able to see who’s attending a calendar event. PowerPoint will also be getting new proofreading tools to help with grammar and spelling. The new update also includes support for Apple’s Continuity Camera feature, which allows you to take a photo on your iPhone and add it to your PowerPoint with ease. This is a welcome update as users can now fully take advantage of macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode without being distracted while typing an essay, creating a spreadsheet, or putting the finishing touches on a Powerpoint. Of course, macOS Mojave is required as Dark Mode in the Microsoft suite of apps is dependant upon your system appearance settings. Microsoft says Dark Mode support is available in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook as of now. It also now supports Mojave’s system-wide Dark Mode feature, making all the window chrome dark instead of a stark white.
Today’s update brings full compatibility with the latest macOS release, Mojave. Based on what we’re seeing with the Polaris-based GPU in the Core i7-8705G, with 20 compute units buffed with High Bandwidth Cache and HBM2 RAM, we’d expect the Polaris-based Radeon Pro 555X, with its 12 compute units and GDDR5 RAM, to be slower by a bit.Microsoft has today released an update to its Office 365 suite for the Mac.
The latest version of Office for Mac for home users is Office Home & Student 2021 (£119.99/US149.99).
To give you an idea how much graphics firepower are in PC laptops, this next chart shows the raw gaming performance of most of today’s modern graphics cards. Read about Microsoft Office for Mac 2021 in our guide. It’s actually a decent discrete GPU, but in pure performance, it’s not going to win any contests beyond tasks heavily optimized for it. AMD just added the ‘X’ to make everyone feel better. In the single laptop our sister site Macworld saw, the unit had a Radeon Pro 555X in it. Also, the graphics in the new 2018 MacBook Pro 15 haven’t changed much.Īpple is apparently still relying on the elderly AMD Radeon Pro lineup for graphics. So after seeing everything above, how can we say for a fact that the new 2018 MacBook Pro 15 won’t be faster than PC laptops? For one thing, PCs offer larger form factors that let the 8th-gen CPUs run even faster. The PC is still faster than MacBook Pro 15 You can see the clock speed advantage of an 8th gen Core i7 over the 7th gen Core i7 illustrated above on light loads (left) and heavy loads (right.). What we do know from previous MacBook Pro laptops is that Apple generally does not like to leave performance untapped, so we expect it to swing for the fences. While not all applications perform the same, we do get an idea of how fast the new chip does in pedestrian, single-threaded tasks, such as Microsoft Word, Safari, and most applications. So to get an idea of how an 8th-gen Core i7 Coffee Lake H stacks up against a 7th-gen Core i7 Kaby Lake H part, we also run Cinebench R15 using just one CPU core. The world isn’t about multi-threaded performance, though, and very few applications actually can use all six cores in the new MacBook Pro 15.
Handbrakes sees about a 33-percent buff by going from a 7th-gen Core i7 to an 8th-gen Core i7.
When you’re in the field on a shoot, and time is money, then yeah, that’s more money. While you don’t get quite a 50-percent improvement, it’s still about 33 percent, which means that a comparable three-hour encode could be done in about two hours. IDGĪ new 8th-gen Core i7-8750H in the 2018 MacBook Pro 15 would give you about a 50-percent performance increase over the previous MacBook Pro 15 (represented by the Core i7-7700HQ-equipped laptop shown here) in multi-threaded tasks.įor example, here’s how the same CPU performs in video encoding. You’ll see varying amounts of performance gains based on how optimized the CPUs are, but the story is still the same: It’s a ton faster. We won’t bore you with too many charts of the 8th-gen Core i7-8750H’s multi-threaded prowess, as you can see them in our review of it here.
You can see about a 50-percent increase in performance between the six-core Core i7-8750H and the typical 7th-gen part, such as that Core i7-7700HQ. Our first comparison runs Maxon’s Cinebench R15, which tests 3D modelling performance.