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MacBook Pro 13" (2018)

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Now You Can Experience the Touch Bar and Four Thunderbolt 3 Speeds on the Apple 13" MacBook Pro (2018)

The Apple 13" MacBook Pro (2018) is one of the new MacBook Pro's released in 2018 to support the latest Intel Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 chipset. With Titan Ridge the Mac should enable DisplayPort 1.4, but as of now it can only use DisplayPort 1.2 which is still similar to the 13" MacBook Pro (2017) which supports the older Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 chipset. 

From the previous year's 13-in version, the newer 13" MacBook Pro (2018) also comes with Apple's Touch Bar technology alongside a non Touch Bar version as well as external graphics. The touch bar version of the 13" MacBook Pro (2018) has four Thunderbolt 3 connectors as equivalent to the 15" MacBook Pro (2018) but now supporting the newer and more powerful 8th Generation Intel processor, a major upgrade from the Intel Kaby Lake (7th Generation) processor on previous models. With quad core processor, the touch bar version of the 13" MacBook Pro (2018) should be much faster than dual core on the 13" MacBook Pro (2017).

Other than the touch bar, not much change in design is seen between the touch bar version of the 13" MacBook Pro (2018) and its 2017 predecessor with both screen and keyboard looking a lot similar to each other.

The four Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C ports are located on both sides of the Mac with two adjacent connectors on each side supporting Thunderbolt 3 (40 Gb/s), USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gb/s), DisplayPort 1.2 to connect with 4k@60hz displays, and uses USB Power Delivery 2.0 technology for charging. These Thunderbolt 3 ports can also be used to charge the Mac itself. For own charging, the Mac can use the Apple 61W USB-C Power Adapter that supports USB Power Delivery that ships with the Mac.

Using the USB Power Delivery Compliance C2 Tester from Granite River Labs to run just a subset of the full USB Power Delivery compliance test suite, we can see that the touch bar version of the 13" MacBook Pro (2018) supports 7.5 watts (5 volts @ 1.5 amps) and 15 watts (5 volts @ 3 amps) fixed PDO's as well as variable power supply of 14.25 to 63 watts range (4.75-21 volts @ 3 amps) and 60 watts battery power (@4.75-21 volts) for charging. Note some compliance failures were observed.

GRL

DUT Information

Manufacturer

Apple

Model Number

TR_13'Macbook

Serial Number

CE

Test Information

Date and Time:

20181019_183429

Controller and Instrument Information

Parameter

Value

GRL USB-PD_C2 Serial No.

071.050.071.021.129.

GRL USB-PD Software Version

1.3.7.0

GRL USB-PD Firmware Version

1.3.7.0.0

GRL USB-PD Eload Firmware Version

9.4/9.4

Board Calibration

Calibration Success.

App Mode

COMMUNICATION_ENGINE_TESTS

Tx Mask

true

Rx Mask

false

RX mask Power selection

Neutral Power

Device Type

DRP

Cable IR drop Imp(R)

0

Cable Type.

GRL-Spl-Cable

COMMUNICATION_ENGINE_TESTS CTS Version

1.09

Noise Pattern Generation:

Two-Tone Noise

VIF info

*Since VIF was not loaded below test results are information Only.

Test cases Execution Time:

0h:16m:9s

Product Capabilities

Parameter

GetCapabilities

VENDOR_NAME

Apple

TID

0

STRUCTURED_VDM_VERSION

Version 2.0

PORT_BATTERY_POWERED

NO

SOP_CAPABLE

NO

SOP_P_CAPABLE

NO

SOP_PP_CAPABLE

NO

SOP_P_DEBUG_CAPABLE

NO

SOP_PP_DEBUG_CAPABLE

NO

SECURITY_MSGS_SUPPORTED

NO

MANUFACTURER_INFO_SUPPORTED

YES

MANUFACTURER_INFO_VID

0x5AC

MANUFACTURER_INFO_PID

0x166F

NUM_FIXED_BATTERIES

0

NUM_SWAPPABLE_BATTERY_SLOTS

0

USB_COMMS_CAPABLE

YES

DR_SWAP_TO_DFP_SUPPORTED

YES

UNCONSTRAINED_POWER

NO

UNCHUNKED_EXTENDED_MESSAGES_SUPPORTED

NO

MODAL_OPERATION_SUPPORTED

YES

USB_VID

0x5AC

PID

0x166F

BCDDEVICE

0x658

XID

0

DATA_CAPABLE_AS_USB_HOST

YES

DATA_CAPABLE_AS_USB_DEVICE

YES

ACCEPTS_PR_SWAP_AS_SNK

YES

SVID1SOP

8087

SVID1Modes Min

1

SVID1Modes Max

1

SVID1Modes Fixed

NONE

SVID1Mode1 Enter Mode

NO

SVID2SOP

FF01

SVID2Modes Min

1

SVID2Modes Max

1

SVID2Modes Fixed

NONE

SVID2Mode1 Enter Mode

NO

SVID3SOP

5AC

SVID3Modes Min

1

SVID3Modes Max

1

SVID3Modes Fixed

NONE

SVID3Mode1 Enter Mode

NO

Power Capabilities

Parameter

GetCapabilities

PD_POWER_AS_SOURCE

7000

USB_SUSPEND_MAY_BE_CLEARED

NO

SENDS_PINGS

NO

Supply Type #1

Fixed

Peak Current #1

0x0(A)

Voltage #1

0x64(5V)

Max Current #1

0x96(1.5A)

PD_POWER_AS_SINK

 

NO_USB_SUSPEND_MAY_BE_SET

NO

GIVEBACK_MAY_BE_SET

NO

HIGHER_CAPABILITY_SET

NO

FR_SWAP_REQD_TYPE_C_CURRENT

0

Supply Type #1

Fixed

Voltage #1

0x64(5V)

OP Current #1

0x12C(3A)

Supply Type #2

Variable

Min Voltage #2

0x5F(4.75V)

Max Voltage #2

0x1A4(21V)

Op Current #2

0x12C(3A)

Supply Type #3

Battery

Min Voltage #3

0x5F(4.75V)

Max Voltage #3

0x1A4(21V)

Op Power #3

0xF0(60W)

USB-IF High Level Mapping Summary

Sl No

Test Category

Test Group Description

Test Result

1

PHY_PRIMARY_TX

BMC Physical Layer Transmitter

PASS

2

PHY_PRIMARY_RX

BMC Physical Layer Receiver

FAIL

3

PHY_PRIMARY_MISC

BMC Phyiscal Layer Miscellaneous

FAIL

4

PROT_PRIMARY

 Protocol Specific Primary

FAIL

5

POWER_PRIMARY

 Power Source/Sink Primary

PASS

Result Summary

Sl No

Test ID

Test Name

Test Result

1

TDA.2.1.1.1

TDA.2.1.1.1 BMC PHY TX EYE

PASS

2

TDA.2.1.1.2

TDA.2.1.1.2 BMC PHY TX BIT

PASS

3

TDA.2.1.2.2

TDA.2.1.2.2 BMC PHY RX INT REJ

PASS

4

TDA.2.1.2.1

TDA.2.1.2.1 BMC PHY RX BUSIDL

FAIL

5

TDA.2.1.3.1

TDA.2.1.3.1 BMC PHY TERM

PASS

6

TDA.2.1.3.2

TDA.2.1.3.2 BMC PHY MSG

FAIL

7

TDA.2.2.1

TDA.2.2.1 BMC PROT SEQ GETCAPS

PASS

12

TDA.2.2.7

TDA.2.2.7 BMC PROT BIST NOT 5V SRC

PASS

14

TDA.2.2.9

TDA.2.2.9 BMC PROT GSC REC

PASS

15

TDA.2.2.10

TDA.2.2.10 BMC PROT IGN PPS

FAIL

16

TDA.2.3.1.1

TDA.2.3.1.1 POW SRC LOAD P PC

PASS

17

TDA.2.3.1.2

TDA.2.3.1.2 POW SRC LOAD CP ACC

PASS

20

TDA.2.3.3.1

TDA.2.3.3.1 POW SNK TRANS C CP

PASS

21

TDA.2.3.3.2

TDA.2.3.3.2 POW SNK TRANS PC

PASS

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