WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:04.980 - You know, walking along, walking along, Oops. (men laughing) 00:00:04.980 --> 00:00:08.510 Ladies and gentlemen, (box thuds) 00:00:08.510 --> 00:00:12.940 we got them. (man booing) (laughs) 00:00:12.940 --> 00:00:17.780 Oh, we do have them though. We have both the 16 inch and 14 inch 00:00:17.780 --> 00:00:21.920 of the new MacBook Pro's. This one here is the base model. 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.390 We have a regular model that has the same kind of specs as the 16 inch 00:00:26.390 --> 00:00:29.670 which is the full-fat M1 Pro. 00:00:29.670 --> 00:00:33.490 These are the M1 Pro models. The Max's are a little bit further out. 00:00:33.490 --> 00:00:37.020 People are saying, "Oh, you're getting super excited 00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:41.980 about a thing that you don't even have yet." And it's like, that's not quite what that's all about. 00:00:41.980 --> 00:00:45.410 The excitement isn't about, "Oh, it's a new shiny, I like the shinies. 00:00:45.410 --> 00:00:48.023 Give me the shinies." It's about, 00:00:49.020 --> 00:00:52.680 Apple has been going in the wrong direction for a long time now, 00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:58.000 like, at least since 2016 and now we have something that's, 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.160 what a lot of people feel is a return to form. 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:04.720 It's back to the similar kind of form factor and design philosophy 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:08.220 that kind of exemplified the 2015, 00:01:08.220 --> 00:01:12.960 that earlier MacBook Pros. Now, granted, they're probably, 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:17.190 I haven't taken one apart, but they're probably still not very repairable. 00:01:17.190 --> 00:01:21.780 And obviously you have the Apple ecosystem to deal with 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:26.210 because these are M1 Apple Silicon processors. So you're not going to install Windows on here 00:01:26.210 --> 00:01:29.430 and Linux is just kind of just getting off the ground 00:01:29.430 --> 00:01:34.170 for these platforms. But it's something that is exciting 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:38.940 just because it kind of brings us back to the idea that Apple is a company 00:01:38.940 --> 00:01:45.640 that can listen to feedback, that can admit that sometimes it makes mistakes, 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.710 that sometimes innovation requires going back 00:01:48.710 --> 00:01:54.790 to the drawing board in order to make something that's a little bit less restrictive. 00:01:54.790 --> 00:01:58.263 And that's what we've got here today. Let's start off with the 14 inch here. 00:02:00.090 --> 00:02:04.290 I always love Apple boxes. These are super high quality. 00:02:04.290 --> 00:02:07.320 And of course they're just cardboard. They're just good quality cardboard. 00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:11.100 I like it. Actually, let's take a look at the bottom. Yeah, there's nothing on there really. 00:02:11.100 --> 00:02:15.120 And Jono informs me that this is a sponsored video by dbrand, 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.990 which is evident by the nice marble skin we have on here. 00:02:18.990 --> 00:02:23.582 Let's just set this aside for now. We'll talk more about dbrand later. 00:02:23.582 --> 00:02:27.830 - [Jono] They paid us. - They paid us. They didn't pay me though. 00:02:27.830 --> 00:02:32.410 Okay, So we got this. This is the, Oh, is this the base model power adapter? 00:02:32.410 --> 00:02:36.560 what's the size of this thing? Because one of the things about the base model MacBook 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:41.230 is that you don't by default get the fast charging capable power adapter. 00:02:41.230 --> 00:02:44.520 So what did we get here? We got a 96 watt, I think this is the fast charging one. 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:52.420 I think the other one is 65 Watts or something like that. So we must've upgraded this or I have the wrong one. 00:02:52.430 --> 00:02:58.600 This is the wrong one. This is actually the 10-core and 16-core GPU model. 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:02.690 So I thought this was the 14-core and 8-core, 00:03:02.690 --> 00:03:06.870 8 and 14, I of course got the (bleep) model. 00:03:06.870 --> 00:03:11.260 - [Jono] He didn't know? Uh oh. - Oops. - The difference between the 8-core and 14-core 00:03:11.260 --> 00:03:14.350 and the 10-core and 16-core model 00:03:14.350 --> 00:03:17.890 is just basically that one has been down. It's not actually different Silicon, 00:03:17.890 --> 00:03:21.090 as far as I know, it makes the most sense because, 00:03:21.090 --> 00:03:24.350 like, the Apple is not selling this stuff to anybody else. 00:03:24.350 --> 00:03:28.880 So, it's just going to go into a lower model MacBook, but that's not the only interesting thing 00:03:28.880 --> 00:03:33.470 about the new power adapter. We also have this new connector. 00:03:33.470 --> 00:03:36.820 The adapter itself is still type C, that's not changed. 00:03:36.820 --> 00:03:41.170 I don't think. oh, it's braided. I forgot about that. 00:03:41.170 --> 00:03:46.180 Apple cables are never really usually braided. They're usually just like a silicone wrapped or whatever. 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:51.310 So USB Type-C on one end with a little paper cap, 00:03:51.310 --> 00:03:55.210 plugs into the adapter, like so 00:03:55.210 --> 00:03:59.420 and on the other end, that is MagSafe 00:03:59.420 --> 00:04:03.040 and that is a very, very short MagSafe connector. 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:06.330 Let's get the MacBook out of its little protective sheet there 00:04:06.330 --> 00:04:10.350 and see what that's like to plug in. That actually looks cooler in person 00:04:10.350 --> 00:04:13.530 than I thought it would. The MacBook Pro embossed on the bottom. 00:04:13.530 --> 00:04:17.280 Sorry, I'm getting distracted. And also these feet are nice. These are better than the feet 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:21.350 that were on the old MacBooks, like, they were just held in by, 00:04:21.350 --> 00:04:23.053 I think like a plastic rivet. 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:30.683 Wow! That is shallow. Yeah, so MagSafe just goes right in like that. 00:04:31.550 --> 00:04:35.202 How about that? You know, walking along, walking along. Oops. 00:04:35.202 --> 00:04:37.452 (laughing) 00:04:39.922 --> 00:04:43.960 - [Jono] I actually got scared. - Oh, okay. Well, 00:04:43.960 --> 00:04:48.600 (laughs) it did work, but if that was a little bit closer to the edge, 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:54.550 it probably wouldn't have worked quite so well. However, if that was a USB Type-C cable plugged into there, 00:04:54.550 --> 00:04:59.370 that would have been on the floor. So, it still points to MagSafe. 00:04:59.370 --> 00:05:02.650 The gap here, usually there's like more of a lip 00:05:02.650 --> 00:05:05.790 where the the lid meets the chassis, 00:05:05.790 --> 00:05:11.120 but it's very, very flush. It's like difficult for me to get into there. 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:18.770 Like I can get my fingernail in there, but that's about it. So, we've got that shallow MagSafe that did the job, 00:05:18.790 --> 00:05:23.240 Type-C, Thunderbolt 4 connections, two of them on this side, 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:28.050 and one more on the other side. We have this high impedance headphone output. 00:05:28.050 --> 00:05:31.190 Now this SD card slot, do we have a full size of SD card 00:05:31.190 --> 00:05:34.850 that I can just borrow real quick? I'm interested to know what the depth of it is 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:39.341 and whether it's like a clicky kind of affair. So how deep does this go? 00:05:39.341 --> 00:05:42.970 - [Jono] That's what she said. (fakes laugh) 00:05:42.970 --> 00:05:46.940 - Yeah, it's about like back then. So, you get one of these half height cards 00:05:46.940 --> 00:05:50.130 and you can flip it in there and it's totally in there. 00:05:50.130 --> 00:05:54.940 Anyway, we got this other Thunderbolt 3 port here and a full sized HDMI port which is, 00:05:54.940 --> 00:05:59.530 (man shouts excitedly) which is HTMI 2.0. 00:05:59.530 --> 00:06:03.060 There are people saying, "oh, well it should be HDMI 2.1. 00:06:03.060 --> 00:06:06.180 Why is a new machine coming with HDMI 2.0?" 00:06:06.180 --> 00:06:10.550 And I mean, I get that. I would prefer HDMI 2.1. 00:06:10.550 --> 00:06:13.950 But at the same time, you had to think about what Apple is trying 00:06:13.950 --> 00:06:17.360 to accomplish there, like not all video cards, 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:22.350 I think right now, or even displays have HDMI 2.1 inputs and outputs. 00:06:22.350 --> 00:06:25.390 This is mostly intended for use with a TV. 00:06:25.390 --> 00:06:28.745 Most of which don't have HDMI 2.1 to this day. 00:06:28.745 --> 00:06:33.700 (MacBook starts up) Ah, see, I wasn't going to turn it on. 00:06:33.700 --> 00:06:37.800 I was going to wait to turn it on after I talked to you about dbrand. 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:41.770 Whatever, so dbrand sponsored this video, 00:06:41.770 --> 00:06:46.959 you can see that they sponsored it by the sticker on the back here, 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.403 the nice sticker for your technology products, 00:06:50.620 --> 00:06:54.390 the very expensive sticker. Expensive though, it may be, it actually does feel really nice 00:06:54.390 --> 00:06:59.900 and it is visually appealing. I'm not sure if I would prefer it over the bare metal, 00:06:59.900 --> 00:07:03.810 but at the same time, it's protecting your bare metal. So your MacBook, 00:07:03.810 --> 00:07:09.160 which famously holds its value for a long time, will hold its value even better with a dbrand skin 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.000 on it to protect it from scuffs and scrapes. They're still, They're not following me on Twitter. 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.703 So, I mean, I'm not gonna go out of my way to, 00:07:17.100 --> 00:07:20.797 Anyway. (laughing) This looks real nice. 00:07:20.797 --> 00:07:24.833 Yeah, the keyboard is nice-feeling. 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:30.170 It feels like an actual keyboard. Like it feels like an Apple keyboard. 00:07:30.170 --> 00:07:34.610 Obviously we have the notch, which wasn't super noticeable just now, but now it is. 00:07:34.610 --> 00:07:39.839 One thing that has been noted about the notch, if there are too many menu items up here 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:44.615 or there are too many items in the bar over here, 00:07:44.615 --> 00:07:48.820 they'll go under the notch. 00:07:48.820 --> 00:07:52.200 Hopefully Apple fixes that. I don't know how they're going to, 00:07:52.200 --> 00:07:58.140 like, maybe if there's too many things, it'll just give you an overflow menu or, 00:07:58.140 --> 00:08:01.850 I don't know, There's gotta be a way around that. 00:08:01.850 --> 00:08:06.020 It would have been a lot easier to deal with if there weren't such a big notch. 00:08:06.020 --> 00:08:09.000 I don't think it would bother me that much in everyday use 00:08:09.860 --> 00:08:14.240 but I am focusing pretty hard on it right now just because I'm paying attention to it. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:19.040 You do get a bigger camera. Yeah, it's 1080p. I should probably take some kind of picture 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.718 or recording with it. Let's, they still have photo booth? 00:08:22.718 --> 00:08:26.570 They do, great. Yes. Okay, cool. 00:08:26.570 --> 00:08:31.210 That just took a moment. Oh, wow. That actually looks pretty good. 00:08:31.210 --> 00:08:34.300 - Yeah, is it smoothing? - I don't know. 00:08:34.300 --> 00:08:36.100 - Yeah. I don't look that young IRL. 00:08:37.495 --> 00:08:42.100 (laughing) - Yeah. You've got no texture in your face. - Yeah. And it looks like I just like lathered up 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:45.370 with lotion, it's weird. - Is there no way to turn this off? 00:08:45.370 --> 00:08:49.890 - I don't know. - Yeah, we should probably crowd rave, I guess. I have no doubt that it's going to be good. 00:08:49.890 --> 00:08:54.450 This is the 14 inch, by the way. So whatever this sounds like, we're going to have to fire up the 16 inch 00:08:54.450 --> 00:08:57.500 and see what that sounds like. Also, can you get me an iFixit kit. 00:08:57.500 --> 00:09:03.270 I want to take this thing apart. Nah, this is pretty good. Like, this spatial audio is like, actually, 00:09:03.270 --> 00:09:08.708 just really, really good. So like not quite surround, but stereo expansion. 00:09:08.708 --> 00:09:11.375 (music playing) 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:18.307 That sounds like a good Bluetooth speaker. I don't know if you were hearing that. 00:09:18.307 --> 00:09:21.360 You'll like sit here and like, listen to that. 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:26.360 - [Man With Mask on] I think that's better than the XPS. 00:09:26.771 --> 00:09:31.520 - [Anthony] Oh yeah absolutely. - [Man With Mask on] Yeah. - [Anthony] It's not even a question 00:09:31.520 --> 00:09:34.187 (music playing) 00:09:36.235 --> 00:09:40.270 - Yeah, not even close. - [Anthony] Yeah. - But like the stereo imaging and the base 00:09:40.270 --> 00:09:44.173 and the tightness of everything is just really good. Also the screen, 00:09:45.307 --> 00:09:48.530 is this in ProMotion? I think it is, like, 00:09:48.530 --> 00:09:52.640 it has to, yeah, that's definitely ProMotion. So one of the neat things about ProMotion 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:59.023 is that it's just Apple's fancy word for saying adaptive refresh rate 120Hz. 00:09:59.870 --> 00:10:04.810 But the neat thing about it is that it can be set for 60Hz or 48Hz, 00:10:04.810 --> 00:10:09.130 which is a multiple of 24 for film stuff. Oh, I can turn off HDR. 00:10:09.130 --> 00:10:12.380 But then again, like if your content looks better without HDR, 00:10:12.380 --> 00:10:15.800 like Apple's HDR tone mapping looks pretty good for the most part. 00:10:17.150 --> 00:10:20.350 But if you end up with issues where you need like accurate color. 00:10:20.350 --> 00:10:24.500 Then yeah, you should probably turn it off. So. that's as dark as the screen gets. 00:10:24.500 --> 00:10:29.170 I don't know if you can actually see it. - [David] I can see it - That's as dark as it gets without turning off. 00:10:29.170 --> 00:10:34.883 So if I go one tick over, it turns off. I want to see how the 16 inch sounds. 00:10:36.130 --> 00:10:40.430 Cause like I don't expect it to be significantly different in terms of the display or anything else, 00:10:40.430 --> 00:10:43.740 but I want to see how it sounds because it's bigger. 00:10:43.740 --> 00:10:46.923 It's got a bigger theoretical resonance chamber. 00:10:47.873 --> 00:10:51.230 Actually, I wasn't going to talk about anything else other than the sound 00:10:51.230 --> 00:10:54.380 but the difference in screen real estate, 00:10:54.380 --> 00:11:00.305 makes it so that the notch basically doesn't matter. This is what I would prefer to carry 00:11:00.305 --> 00:11:02.972 (music playing) 00:11:09.070 --> 00:11:14.950 Very similar, but, bass is much tighter and fuller on the 16 inch, 00:11:15.040 --> 00:11:19.410 which is what I would expect. So I'm pretty impressed so far 00:11:19.410 --> 00:11:24.430 with the overall fit and finish of this thing as well as its performance in terms of audio and visuals. 00:11:24.430 --> 00:11:28.693 Let's rip it apart. All right, we got torx as usual. 00:11:29.540 --> 00:11:34.550 There are probably going to be clips down here too, so, I hope there's no screws under these feet. 00:11:34.550 --> 00:11:36.683 This bevels in. 00:11:37.750 --> 00:11:42.400 And that's why I can't, Also yes, I did kind of push that one in. 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:45.683 It's Okay, don't worry about it. Oh, Nope. 00:11:45.683 --> 00:11:49.766 It just comes forward. Great, got it. - As they say, 00:11:49.766 --> 00:11:53.650 Our computers are better looking on the inside, 00:11:53.650 --> 00:11:56.920 than the others are on the outside. Is that true? 00:11:56.920 --> 00:12:00.943 - It does look pretty good. - It does look pretty good, look at those fans. - [David] I love the face. 00:12:00.943 --> 00:12:05.530 - [Anthony] Yeah. The face they made, They make it face all the time. - [Jono] Even just this touch on the fan there. 00:12:05.530 --> 00:12:10.600 - [Anthony] Yeah. I was really hoping that I would see a removable SSD 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:16.336 but I don't see one of those. I do see the wireless antennas here 00:12:16.336 --> 00:12:20.233 that goes out to the main area there. 00:12:21.412 --> 00:12:24.960 I think this is the battery here on both of these sides or any of the speakers. 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.070 Yeah, It's difficult to tell without taking it further apart, what each of these is for. 00:12:31.070 --> 00:12:34.340 Well, that was fun and illuminating. 00:12:34.340 --> 00:12:38.069 We got to see what the insides of this MacBook looked like. 00:12:38.069 --> 00:12:42.350 (MacBook starts up) Does it just power on automatically when you open the lid? 00:12:42.350 --> 00:12:48.340 Like it was off. Bottom line, I mean, fit and finish of it is excellent. 00:12:48.340 --> 00:12:51.500 The notches, we'll see. 00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:54.810 Yeah, It's in a form factor that's reminiscent 00:12:54.810 --> 00:12:58.770 of the older, slightly chunkier, but it's actually not all that much chunkier, 00:12:58.770 --> 00:13:03.190 if any MacBook form factors that we have come to miss? 00:13:04.780 --> 00:13:10.120 I appreciate it. That's where I was going with this. I appreciate the fact that we're not trying 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:13.760 to reduce volume by any means necessary. 00:13:13.760 --> 00:13:16.878 We're using that volume for more, 00:13:16.878 --> 00:13:21.419 maybe not necessarily power, although this is presumably, significantly 00:13:21.419 --> 00:13:24.770 more powerful than this guy 00:13:24.770 --> 00:13:29.300 which I currently have upside down and I'm gonna leave it that way because it's on the way out. 00:13:29.300 --> 00:13:33.210 - [Jonathan] Oh! - Oh, got'em. And this is why people are so excited about 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:36.857 this generation of Mac books, not because, oh, it's a new shiny. 00:13:36.857 --> 00:13:40.650 It's because it represents something more. 00:13:40.650 --> 00:13:43.660 It represents a return to form that, 00:13:43.660 --> 00:13:48.520 honestly, for many people, Apple hasn't been to in a long time. 00:13:48.520 --> 00:13:51.733 And you know, you can stay here for a long time if you want to. 00:13:51.733 --> 00:13:57.630 I'll stick around. You know, the weather recently was pretty bad. 00:13:57.630 --> 00:13:59.603 We had that cyclone, the bomb cyclone, 00:14:01.270 --> 00:14:05.550 but you should probably just get subscribed and follow a ShortCircuit for more unboxes Like this one. 00:14:05.550 --> 00:14:10.333 You don't really want to stick around too long Cause I'm not that interesting in terms of small talk.