Apple MacBook Pro 15 2018 (2.9 GHz i9, Vega 20) Laptop Review

[iAnonGuy]

With the 1050Ti outperforming it in multiple key benchmarks, I can excuse the higher wattage rating.  Other OEMs tend to put adequate cooling and supply a decent power supply to drive it.  This GPU is below entry-level Nvidia GPUs all over these charts.  That's not a selling point, IMO.

1050Ti is an entry level 1080p gaming card from 2017, put in budget gaming laptops that cost < $1,000 and paired with 7th/8th Gen i5/i7 CPUs.

1650 is the new budget card, basically the replacement for 1050 [Ti].  A machine that costs this much more than a Windows PC packaging these cards needs to offer better, IMO

And that's before we get to the thermal design, which basically limits the performance of the CPUs in these machines to "last gen" level.  You can save over $1,000 getting a PC laptop that will perform as well as this, with better durability, better port selection, better thermal design, and no worries about long term viability (inevitable "your machine isn't getting any updates anymore" - though that's quite a few years off, theoretically).

macOS is not worth $1,200+ (which is how much more a MBP equivalent in specs to my PC notebook would have cost at time of purchase - same CPU, worse GPU, slower/less RAM, less storage, slower performance due to inadequate cooling, and a keyboard no one should put their trust in - as far as durability is concerned).