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foreign getting my hands dirty with apples lined

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up I've learned something about MacBooks take the M2 MacBook Air for example yes

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it's only twelve hundred dollars but with just a few upgrades it suddenly

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approaches the price of the MacBook Pro without any of the pro-ness at the other

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end of the spectrum upgrades are so expensive that they're only worth doing if you have a specific professional use

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case for them that means for the average person there's a sweet spot

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this it's the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro

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there's a brand new one and it still starts at two thousand dollars a not

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insignificant sum even with all the inflation going around but for the money

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you get HDMI 2.1 better wi-fi and the

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brand new M2 Pro chip but here's where

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it gets tricky Apple's also currently selling another entry-level 14-inch

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MacBook Pro it's the previous M1 pro

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model found in the refurbished store and it's available for quite a discount

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hmm that makes for an interesting dilemma right now which sweet spot is

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sweeter as we know the refurbished store is a little ephemeral so if you want any

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customizations those are not guaranteed it has what it has and once they're gone

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they're gone and refurbished models could be imperfect or require an

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exchange if you're unlucky like I was performance wise the M2 processor now

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starts with 10 CPU and 16 GPU cores but

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in the CPU the extra cores are only of the efficiency variety so does that

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compromise performance in the tests that I conducted the M2 Pro is faster than

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the M1 Pro but not by much I shaved a minute off my crazy DaVinci raw export

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test and I got one more playback stream of prores raw and better quality using

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Final Cut Pro even if you read Apple's notoriously

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vague graphs properly you can see that the improvements are incremental there

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two one of the interesting things about the M2 generation is how it does seem to

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run hotter than its predecessor on that DaVinci test the fans spun quite loudly

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on the 14-inch M2 Pro and M2 Max models

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I tested with the highest surface temperature reading 46 degrees above the

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keyboard meanwhile the M1 pro model remained barely Audible and barely at

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under 43 degrees with everyday use like what I do with the laptop the extra heat

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doesn't really matter it won't be burning any holes through your jeans anytime soon and importantly the battery

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life doesn't suffer because the additional efficiency cores make all the

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difference last time I used the 14-inch M1 Pro battery I got around 7 hours of

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on-screen time with this new one that

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went up to eight and a half it's faster the battery is better and

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there's no refurbished store faffing that sounds like it could be worth the

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460 dollars but stop Apple did their

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thing again and you should know about it there are fewer SSD storage chips on the

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board this means that compared to the M1 pro model sequential reads and writes

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are half the speed random rate and write speeds however are slightly improved

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this will probably affect app installs or large file transfers to and from

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fancy Thunderbolt ssds most but I still haven't quite felt the consequence of

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this in day-to-day use with the M2 MacBook Air I've been using for the past

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few months which has the same problem

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cheaper M1 Pro or this updated M2 Pro

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it's still not that easy to decide and well consider the following on the M2

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pro model the HDMI port now supports 8K resolution or 240 hertz 4K with the

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genuine 2.1 spec as well as the addition

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of multi-channel sound output which I'm surprised I didn't have already if you

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have the TV or display that supports this you can now get retina quality on

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big screens this is amazing and also hilarious I do not recommend Wi-Fi now

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supports the 6E spec 2. it's something I can't really test at the LMG office here

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because it's like the iPhone 4 keynote in here you know you could help me out

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if you're on Wi-Fi if you could just get off

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okay so it's not any easier to decide

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that price for the refurbished M1 pro model is quite tempting as you get 16

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gigabytes of RAM and half a terabyte of storage things that bring Apple's

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cheaper laptops out of their affordable purchase to similar prices if you have

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the risk tolerance and they're still available the M1 Pro is not

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significantly slower or worse than this new updated model and it is

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significantly better than anything below it when those are gone you're going to

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be left with this and that's great too this in many ways is the one Mac to rule

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them all with apple silicon the performance differences between laptop

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and desktop are largely gone it's all about efficiency so if you're the type

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of person who previously had both an iMac and a Macbook don't just get one of

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these thanks for watching this slightly faster Mac Address if you were waiting

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for the M2 Pro processor give this video a like I am curious actually if you

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would choose between getting a brand new M2 2 Pro or taking the risk and saving

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the money for an M1 Pro in a refurbished

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