foreign getting my hands dirty with apples lined
up I've learned something about MacBooks take the M2 MacBook Air for example yes
it's only twelve hundred dollars but with just a few upgrades it suddenly
approaches the price of the MacBook Pro without any of the pro-ness at the other
end of the spectrum upgrades are so expensive that they're only worth doing if you have a specific professional use
case for them that means for the average person there's a sweet spot
this it's the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro
there's a brand new one and it still starts at two thousand dollars a not
insignificant sum even with all the inflation going around but for the money
you get HDMI 2.1 better wi-fi and the
brand new M2 Pro chip but here's where
it gets tricky Apple's also currently selling another entry-level 14-inch
MacBook Pro it's the previous M1 pro
model found in the refurbished store and it's available for quite a discount
hmm that makes for an interesting dilemma right now which sweet spot is
sweeter as we know the refurbished store is a little ephemeral so if you want any
customizations those are not guaranteed it has what it has and once they're gone
they're gone and refurbished models could be imperfect or require an
exchange if you're unlucky like I was performance wise the M2 processor now
starts with 10 CPU and 16 GPU cores but
in the CPU the extra cores are only of the efficiency variety so does that
compromise performance in the tests that I conducted the M2 Pro is faster than
the M1 Pro but not by much I shaved a minute off my crazy DaVinci raw export
test and I got one more playback stream of prores raw and better quality using
Final Cut Pro even if you read Apple's notoriously
vague graphs properly you can see that the improvements are incremental there
two one of the interesting things about the M2 generation is how it does seem to
run hotter than its predecessor on that DaVinci test the fans spun quite loudly
on the 14-inch M2 Pro and M2 Max models
I tested with the highest surface temperature reading 46 degrees above the
keyboard meanwhile the M1 pro model remained barely Audible and barely at
under 43 degrees with everyday use like what I do with the laptop the extra heat
doesn't really matter it won't be burning any holes through your jeans anytime soon and importantly the battery
life doesn't suffer because the additional efficiency cores make all the
difference last time I used the 14-inch M1 Pro battery I got around 7 hours of
on-screen time with this new one that
went up to eight and a half it's faster the battery is better and
there's no refurbished store faffing that sounds like it could be worth the
460 dollars but stop Apple did their
thing again and you should know about it there are fewer SSD storage chips on the
board this means that compared to the M1 pro model sequential reads and writes
are half the speed random rate and write speeds however are slightly improved
this will probably affect app installs or large file transfers to and from
fancy Thunderbolt ssds most but I still haven't quite felt the consequence of
this in day-to-day use with the M2 MacBook Air I've been using for the past
few months which has the same problem
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cheaper M1 Pro or this updated M2 Pro
it's still not that easy to decide and well consider the following on the M2
pro model the HDMI port now supports 8K resolution or 240 hertz 4K with the
genuine 2.1 spec as well as the addition
of multi-channel sound output which I'm surprised I didn't have already if you
have the TV or display that supports this you can now get retina quality on
big screens this is amazing and also hilarious I do not recommend Wi-Fi now
supports the 6E spec 2. it's something I can't really test at the LMG office here
because it's like the iPhone 4 keynote in here you know you could help me out
if you're on Wi-Fi if you could just get off
okay so it's not any easier to decide
that price for the refurbished M1 pro model is quite tempting as you get 16
gigabytes of RAM and half a terabyte of storage things that bring Apple's
cheaper laptops out of their affordable purchase to similar prices if you have
the risk tolerance and they're still available the M1 Pro is not
significantly slower or worse than this new updated model and it is
significantly better than anything below it when those are gone you're going to
be left with this and that's great too this in many ways is the one Mac to rule
them all with apple silicon the performance differences between laptop
and desktop are largely gone it's all about efficiency so if you're the type
of person who previously had both an iMac and a Macbook don't just get one of
these thanks for watching this slightly faster Mac Address if you were waiting
for the M2 Pro processor give this video a like I am curious actually if you
would choose between getting a brand new M2 2 Pro or taking the risk and saving
the money for an M1 Pro in a refurbished
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