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if you were a student looking for a macbook in 2019 things were complicated

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first off all macbooks had the horrible butterfly keyboard

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as for models you could get an inexpensive air that was slow and hot or

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you could pay up for an even hotter pro

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you know i don't know a single person who bought a macbook from the usb-c

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generation and i don't blame them

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it's why the m1 macbook air was such a revolution when it came out it turned

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what was a slow hot and horrible laptop into a great one it made buying a mac

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easy it isn't anymore and this here is why the all-new m2

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macbook air a laptop so good i want to call it perfect

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but yet underneath its surface lie weird flaws that you a beautiful student might

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never find but hate knowing exists

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even if you do find the flaws which i will tell you about in a minute you'll

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still want this laptop i want this laptop gone is the iconic macbook air

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wedge shape and instead we have the macbook pros aesthetic thinned down to

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its most essential

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i really like it it's so sturdy yet light

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sometimes i wish i was sitting opposite somebody using this so i could admire

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this squared off black screen

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hi excuse me do you mind just using this laptop for a little bit uh

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sure thank you

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it is the new air solves a lot of the minor

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day-to-day criticisms we still had left for the m1 model

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instead of always having one Thunderbolt port tied up for charging the addition

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of mag save freeze up both instead of big bezels the screen is bigger and

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taller thanks to the inclusion of the notch and the webcam is now 1080p

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instead of looking like

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poo the taller screen is great i feel like i can fit so much more in even in

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default display scaling the extra tallness is afforded by the notch but

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some of it is robbed by it as well as the menu bar is now significantly taller

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too it also includes apple's new m2 chip

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notable for clocking a little bit faster including a couple more GPU cores and

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offering 8k and pros acceleration with the media engine

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it is by all means the perfect distillation of a laptop no gimmicky

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touch sensitive function keys no noisy fan and no stupid screen size options

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13.6 inches is the perfect size and don't at me about that so is this the

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mac i would buy well i'll answer that but first a word from this video's

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run on macOS like war thunder it's a free-to-play online military vehicle

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combat game that features 2 000 plus historically accurate war machines

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available to battle it out on over 100 major battlefields through the 20th

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century till now and if you want to play with your Windows using friends don't

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worry because it supports crossplay too so head to the link below and start

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signing up okay so i like this laptop and i want it in my life so obviously

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the first question is what color do i pick

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i must confess that i'm very disappointed that this isn't available

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in the imax bold colors with white bezels the options are really rather

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serious space gray and silver plus the new starlight or

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this midnight because it has a tint of blue i thought i'd like midnight it is

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sleek and reminds me of the old black macbook the problem is i have grimy

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hands and you can tell you'll want to keep a cloth with you

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also our resident gen ziers thought this doesn't even look like a mac so i might

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have to go with silver now that's a macbook

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unlike that black macbook i'm pleased to report that all the colors are available

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even on the base model which this is the base model is notable because

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at twelve hundred dollars it's a full two hundred dollars more than the m1

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macbook air that apple still sells but while it has many day-to-day

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improvements over its predecessor there are still a few crucial regressions

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apple's base 250 Gigabyte SSD is stingy

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it's the same amount of storage included in the macbook 13 years ago sure ssds

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these days are much faster except this one in the last macbook air

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the base SSD was actually two stitched together

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Gigabyte modules working in parallel now there's just one bigger 256 Gigabyte

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module this makes things slower the

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slower transfer speeds are not something i've noticed too egregiously in day to

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day use but this could shorten the usable lifespan of the laptop long term

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next is the CPU the m2 is more powerful

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than the m1 blasting through quick benchmarks and lightroom exports a

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garageband project that would make an Intel macbook airs fan blast doesn't

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even make the m2 sweat however when the going gets tough long

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and hot well that's when things unwind

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i've been hearing that premiere is having troubles

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generally these days so if you're using that app maybe just wait a bit to buy

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because editing some mxf's did push the system something that wasn't as big of a

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problem when editing in davinci and speaking of davinci to compare the

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apple silicons socs i have a very intense four minute resolve project

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containing 8k raw footage with noise reduction luts and some green screen

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with an m2 powered macbook pro it takes under an hour

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with an m1 powered macbook air it takes under an hour and a half so on this m2

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macbook air it takes an hour and 40 minutes what

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how well the reason for this is simple while the m1 macbook air has a chunk of

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metal to absorb and dissipate heat the m2 has virtually nothing a little pad

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and an air gap and so that means that this thing is fast right up until it's

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hot and then it's slow very slow if you have any intensive workload that takes

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10 plus minutes of computing prepare for it to be stretched

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though to be fair i did start this export on an Intel powered fan cooled

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macbook air and when it estimated that it would take five plus hours i said

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nope well if you do want to do this workload

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quickly a two thousand dollar macbook pro will do it in 18 minutes

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i'm not sure many poly size students will be pushing things that hard so what

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about them the m1 macbook air arrival made things easy there were no

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trade-offs it was so much better than any Intel macbook that at a thousand

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dollars it was a great deal if you bought one back then you made a great

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decision now though they're still the same price

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this is apple doing inflation by the way usually the older technology gets less

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expensive as it matures but this is a thousand dollars and this is

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twelve hundred dollars so therefore the best value for a student

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getting a macbook is a refurbished m1 macbook air

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sure we had a bit of hassle buying ours but at 850 dollars it's great value for

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a mac i even prefer this keyboard despite the compromises i'm still

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willing to recommend even the base m2 macbook air but only to those who won't

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notice the shortcomings of one SSD module but it's not an excellent value

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like the m1 laptop has been until now because to get the equivalent SSD

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performance you're bringing up the price to at least 1400. the 512 models get two

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256 Gigabyte modules so it gets expensive fast

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if you are humming and hawing over what to upgrade i'm going to lean towards the

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SSD upgrade unless you're one of those people who cannot close browser tabs

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then get the RAM

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and if you're thinking about upgrading both and might need more power consider

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a refurbished or on sale macbook pro those go for around eighteen hundred

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dollars only 100 more than the most equivalently

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specked air see

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it's so complicated now there's no easy answer like there was a year ago and

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that's really annoying so um

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what about me

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in the weeks leading up to the launch of this m2 macbook air i used an older

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Intel model and wow is the different stark if i was coming

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from an Intel macbook this air even with its compromises would feel great it

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really did give me a sense of how revolutionary this apple silicon

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transition is for this form factor

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i actually do have a choice between any macbook to use at work and so i think

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the one i'd go for is the m2 macbook air

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in silver maybe but if it was my own money

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i think i'd go with the m1 model refurbished in gold

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thanks for slowing down this Mac Address if you're just as confused about the m2

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macbook air as i am well give this video a like and if you want to see what color

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i actually do end up with well you might as well subscribe now i'm curious in the

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comments below how many of you would actually have a workload that would push

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the m2 into its really hot state