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you know what i don't understand andy why do they call it the macbook air

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it's not like it was a mistake get it error

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macbook error it's been one of their most successful

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products ever they should call it the macbook success

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yeah macbook book correct this is it ladies and gentlemen this

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is the apple silicon macbook air and

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it's like it's been a couple hours since i unboxed the apple silicon mac mini and

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already Anthony has been working on putting together our Linus tech tips

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review and he says uh and i quote

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impressions so far are pretty good that

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is a good sign now of course what we don't know yet is if the macbook air

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whether for thermal reasons or power reasons or any

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other reason might be a little bit lesser than the

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macbook mini but we are certainly going to be finding

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that out for you ladies and gentlemen it's available in

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pretty much exactly the same configurations as the other devices so

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we went for the eight core CPU eight

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core GPU the base model does not have

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like eight core GPU oh it's seven core isn't it yeah so sorry there is a base

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model with a seven core GPU 16 gigs of

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RAM so you can have 8 or 16 gigs of RAM not 32 because the whole thing is

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integrated together into one tight little package uh we've got 512 gigs of

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storage and of course a us keyboard layout

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this is it

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it's a 13.3 inch display

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hold on let's have a look at what else is in here we've got a type c to type c charging

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cable all nice environmentally friendly packaging hey

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look at that we still get a power adapter

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even this is mostly paper very nice

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they don't wrap all the chargers in plastic anymore there's one little

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plastic bit at the end here more of a sticker than a plastic

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that is awesome yeah it's a charger man

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what a concept how many apple logo stickers do i get

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though i only got one with the uh well with the iphone 12 hey there you go

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you buy the you buy the macbook you get two see me i don't think that apple put

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big enough logos on their devices so i'ma go ahead and fix that for them okay

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here we go there we go what do you think dbrand are they gonna

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hire me to put stickers on things so i'm a professional sticker put her on her

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now it's official press command f5 now

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uh triple click touch id to use voiceover to set up your mac

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accessibility shortcuts

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why am i wait what okay whatever i'm canadian

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one of the things i'm expecting to be most remarkable about the apple silicon

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max is how unremarkable the experience is the

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majority of the time i had really hoped that apple would go more aggressive with

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the first apple silicon devices like you know really change up the id do

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something out there but it kind of makes sense that they would stick with

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something more conservative because that way they'll know okay how are customers

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receiving this whole apple silicon concept versus how are apple's receiving

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our new slim bezels or something along those

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lines touch just bring it back to the phones just bring it back to the phones

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we all want it back on the phones andy do you want it back on the phones yeah

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me too or the logo at the back it doesn't even matter just somewhere you know what

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drives me crazy every freaking apple device has this true tone display part

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of their setup process and you can see what the display looks like without true

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tone you can't disable it i always have to go manually disable it after i don't

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like true tone we're so close to a macbook with a touch screen that's one

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of the biggest things that's made it impossible for me to daily drive these

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things i've gotten very accustomed to having a touch screen on my laptop and

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like the ipad pro is like almost there

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but it's running iOS or ipad os excuse me and now the macbook air is almost

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there it's got the keyboard it's got the battery life it's got the beautiful

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screen but it doesn't have the touchscreen they make two devices if i

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could just smush them into one it could actually be extremely compelling like

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what are they quoting something like 18 hours of battery life while playing back

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video on this thing flipping crazy honestly andy i'll tell

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you one of the most interesting perspectives that i've heard

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on the new apple silicon macbooks is that

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maybe it actually doesn't matter what the performance is

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like in x86 application

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x or you know legacy

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developer tool y maybe it doesn't matter at all because

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the vast majority of people just use their laptops pretty much like a

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chromebook anyway which is why chromebooks exist

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and if you did everything within a browser there is absolutely no reason

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that this device couldn't provide a perfectly great user experience andy can

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you help me with this how do i make this full screen without like making it

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completely immersive mode

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why is that not the more default behavior why wouldn't it be like option

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green button for this like stupid i can't see

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i don't know maybe that's just a personal discomfort not being able to

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see the dock or the menu at the top

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i just i can't i can't do it it makes me really uncomfortable here we go

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a little bit of chug there honestly that's not bad for running in a

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browser though like let's be realistic now this is a pretty light 3d

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application but what i like about it is that it's very realistic i would say that poppin

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looks like about what i would expect from a

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thin and light class notebook

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it's not like amazing it's not like oh

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wow i can't believe i've never seen anything like this before

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but it's not bad it's fine using significant energy safari

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i wish you could just set it to never charge past 80

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it would last so much longer you know how i mentioned

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so many people use their computers like a chromebook honestly for my laptop i

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hardly ever touch anything outside of a browser

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like i actually am one of those like i'm trying to imagine an

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application that i would install uh i mean something like obs you know

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i'll use my laptop for capture sometimes actually that's something that i would

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love to know if i could do with this oh my god this installation process is

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so stupid why do i have to drink it's so simple

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why do i have to do that i already clicked on it

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this is just unnecessary bull it's like after the drag your install

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like you have to take through like the things

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okay yeah sure that's fair but like compared to something like nine night

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where you have an unattended install on Windows you just double click it it's completely installed like what what is

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what is this why have this at all like

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you're right you're right there there is there are

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aspects of it that are more painless than the Windows experience

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but this is also just completely unnecessary and we could just

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so here's something that i would like do with a computer

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video so let's change to

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1920 by 1200 i guess let's just try x264 for our encoder and

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then get some reasonable

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bitrate like 30 megabit normally we would go higher for like video capture

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that we're planning to actually use in a video but i just want to see

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i mean we're running like it's non

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non-native right sort of no properties available well oh here we

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go here we go here we go it was another system preference thing it was just in

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the background okay okay let's try this again

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obs hey there it is

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just like that okay start recording

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nice we've even got a CPU usage monitor dude adam and jig down here

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so what are we sitting at now what i wonder is does that mean 45

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of the four high performance cores or does

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that mean 45 of the entire eight core CPU

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how is that divided up very interesting

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where are these recording to i wonder 30 megabit oh yeah that looks all right

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we're using software encoding of course it looks fine 45

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microphones sounds really good

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array microphone built into where is it even

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i don't know i'll i'll find it later it's not terribly important for the

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moment but both the microphone and speakers are impressive right out of the box but then we already knew that man

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the recent macbook some really good speakers

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slightly better brightness compared to the left hand oh yeah that's

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right i think what is it 400 nit or something like that

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yep 400 nit brightness so still not an HDR

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display by any stretch of the imagination but who knows as this apple

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silicon continues to evolve we might gain more

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power savings there that can then be allocated to better backlights or better

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yet uh OLED nice efficient OLED displays

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and we'll finally get like good HDR on mobile

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well that's pretty much it for first impressions anyway so far

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i mean it's seamless even something as

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you know what i would consider to be niche

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as like you know some rando open source screen recording software just

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just worked i'll leave it to andy to or andy i'll leave it to Anthony to try out

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some more like really random stuff though

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