WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.640 I'm gonna say something controversial. It shouldn't be controversial, 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:08.120 but a bunch of you in the comments are probably gonna say it is, but if you're in the market for a MacBook, 00:00:08.120 --> 00:00:14.920 this is probably the one you should buy. This is the new MacBook Air with fancy top-of-the-line 00:00:14.920 --> 00:00:19.680 M3 processor, and realistically for most people, 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:25.160 this is more than you need. As with most Apple packaging, simple and sweet. 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:29.960 Oh, hey, it's not plastic anymore. We've got typical propaganda, 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.880 also still with the spacer though. Like, what is this? Look at how much empty space there is in there. 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:39.320 We've got, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, there we go, stickers. 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:43.640 Thank you. I was worried for a second. The day that Apple stops including Apple stickers 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:48.360 in their packaging is the day that we know we have failed as a society. 00:00:48.360 --> 00:00:52.040 We've got charger brick also in a glassine bag. What is this? 00:00:52.040 --> 00:00:57.240 This is a 30 watt USB-C power adapter, and then the cute little sleeved MagSafe cable. 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:01.680 Type-C on one end, MagSafe on the other. I did get confirmation for 20 bucks US, 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:04.920 you can upgrade to a 70 watt single port charger, 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:09.040 or a dual port 35 watt charger. Depending on what you prefer, 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:12.440 I would go with the 70 watt because faster charging. 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.760 On this side, we've got the MagSafe charging port for the cable I showed you earlier, 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:23.000 along with two USB-C ports. These run at Thunderbolt 3 or USB 4, so 40 gig on those. 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.240 There is no additional USB-C ports on the other side, 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:31.520 like some MacBook Pros, and it is going to be the same configuration 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:34.520 if you have the 13 or 15 inch air. We've got a headphone jack here, 00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:40.480 which I like to see on the bottom. Feet for those that are interested, free of charge. 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.920 Ooh, I forgot the M2 air was with the sexy colors. 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:46.280 Look at that, same IO. 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:54.980 Hey, look, same IO. Damn, this is the same laptop, but faster, I guess. 00:01:55.020 --> 00:01:58.900 Let me crack them open. Hey, look, same laptop. 00:02:00.340 --> 00:02:05.100 I can tell you already the moral of this story is gonna be to buy a used M2 MacBook, 00:02:05.100 --> 00:02:10.900 or a refurb maybe, or apparently Walmart has M1 MacBook Airs for like 700 bucks. 00:02:10.900 --> 00:02:14.700 As for on paper, they're not obviously the same laptop. 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:19.980 The big thing you're getting here is the new M3 chip. Now we've gone into the details of far more extensively 00:02:19.980 --> 00:02:25.060 in the MacBook Pro M3 video, but the main differences are a little bit better efficiency, 00:02:25.060 --> 00:02:28.860 really good performance as before, but even a little bit more better. 00:02:28.860 --> 00:02:34.420 We've got AV1 decoding, but not encoding, and right, hardware ray tracing, 00:02:34.420 --> 00:02:38.740 if you game on your MacBook Air or maybe in Blender, 00:02:38.740 --> 00:02:42.140 I don't know if it supports it yet, but that could be a use case. 00:02:42.140 --> 00:02:46.060 And then other than that, specs-wise you're looking at pretty much the same laptop 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:49.500 aside from the Wi-Fi 6E support that they added as well. 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:53.900 So it'll be fast on Wi-Fi if you also happen to have a Wi-Fi 6E router 00:02:53.900 --> 00:02:56.900 and fast internet that can take advantage of it. Oh, I almost forgot. 00:02:56.900 --> 00:03:02.220 There is one more important hardware thing. On the M2 Air, you could have an external display, 00:03:02.220 --> 00:03:06.400 but only one. On the M3, you can now have two external displays, 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:11.260 but there isn't really any hardware improvement. It's still a single display controller. 00:03:11.260 --> 00:03:16.340 So when you're using two external displays, you can't use the laptop display. 00:03:16.340 --> 00:03:19.620 That's because they're muxing the normal laptop display 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:24.340 out through display output and not actually giving you an additional display controller. 00:03:24.340 --> 00:03:27.700 It is technically better than the M1 Air 00:03:27.700 --> 00:03:32.020 in terms of flexibility, but not better in terms of supporting more displays. 00:03:32.020 --> 00:03:37.900 It's the same amount. They're just giving you the ability to use the laptop display output on a separate monitor. 00:03:37.900 --> 00:03:42.820 So it sucks. It's still technically like better than they had before, 00:03:42.820 --> 00:03:47.580 but come on, on a Windows laptop, you can have like four display outputs if you want. 00:03:47.580 --> 00:03:52.500 What you can't get on a Windows laptop is this much horsepower without the noise, at least. 00:03:52.500 --> 00:03:57.060 In theory, the keyboard and trackpad should be the same, but let's try them out. 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:00.900 Where does like a notepad happen here? Notes. My name is Jake, 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:05.900 and I think this keyboard is pretty solid. 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:10.900 It feels really similar, but almost like maybe it's just because this one is new. 00:04:11.740 --> 00:04:18.460 Like this feels clickier. This feels like a just slightest bit mushier. 00:04:18.460 --> 00:04:22.260 I don't know. Just because it's used and one is not. 00:04:22.260 --> 00:04:27.500 Hard to say. Trackpad feels the same. It's a nice big size for the class of laptop. 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:30.980 Everything there looks the same and is still good. 00:04:30.980 --> 00:04:34.220 We've got the same display with the notch. 00:04:34.220 --> 00:04:38.420 Thought we were past this thing, Apple, but all right. Why not a dynamic island? 00:04:40.260 --> 00:04:45.260 It's the same 13.6 inch IPS display, 2560 by 1664, 00:04:45.260 --> 00:04:50.100 500 nits brightness, not high refresh rate, but a wide P3 color gamut. 00:04:50.100 --> 00:05:03.300 Let me do some speaker ring. They sound a little different. 00:05:03.300 --> 00:05:06.900 Am I crazy? Come here, Belle. It's okay. Like don't get me wrong. 00:05:06.900 --> 00:05:10.940 It is very similar, but like ever so slightly, 00:05:10.940 --> 00:05:15.540 just the tiny is a bit different. It almost just sounds more distorted on the left. 00:05:18.940 --> 00:05:26.940 Yeah, actually, I did notice on the spec stage on the M2, 00:05:26.940 --> 00:05:31.540 they listed wide stereo sound and they don't list it 00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:39.060 on this one. I don't know that it's better. It's like so close that you're not really gonna be able 00:05:39.060 --> 00:05:44.340 to tell the difference aside from if you were doing this. The one thing I will say you are losing out compared 00:05:44.340 --> 00:05:47.860 to a MacBook Pro is MacBook Pro speakers are obviously 00:05:47.900 --> 00:05:53.460 a little bit better. These are still solid for, I mean, where did the speakers come from? 00:05:53.460 --> 00:05:59.140 They fire the speaker out of like here. So it like bounces at you. 00:05:59.140 --> 00:06:04.220 It's a good design. It works. I mean, it sounds pretty solid. And it has sounded pretty solid on this one too. 00:06:04.220 --> 00:06:07.580 As usual, the display is pretty close to as they specify. 00:06:07.580 --> 00:06:11.900 It seems like it's a tiny bit brighter. Color tracking is very accurate. 00:06:11.900 --> 00:06:15.060 That being said, Apple's not really in the position 00:06:15.100 --> 00:06:18.300 they once were where they just led the class. 00:06:18.300 --> 00:06:23.180 Windows laptops are starting to catch up. And in some cases even surpass Apple, 00:06:23.180 --> 00:06:28.420 but you do at least know that you're gonna get a fairly color accurate display buying an Apple laptop. 00:06:28.420 --> 00:06:32.780 Not to mention that macOS does a really good job of color management. 00:06:32.780 --> 00:06:38.220 It doesn't have HDR like the MacBook Pros because there's no local dimming and it's only 60 Hertz, 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:42.060 which probably doesn't matter to you realistically. 00:06:42.060 --> 00:06:46.060 It does look nice on the eyes though. Well, let's talk performance then. 00:06:46.060 --> 00:06:49.380 What do we got here? In games, it is a bit faster. 00:06:49.380 --> 00:06:53.620 You can and will get slightly more frames than your friend with a MacBook Air M2. 00:06:53.620 --> 00:06:57.580 You won't get more frames than your friend with the MacBook Pro M3, that's for sure. 00:06:57.580 --> 00:07:02.480 But it also has two extra GPU cores on that M3 chip. And a cooling fan, which is gonna make a big difference 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.620 if you plan on gaming for more than 45 seconds. 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:10.780 You are gonna run into a situation where you will thermal throttle, similar to all the previous M based MacBook Airs. 00:07:10.780 --> 00:07:15.140 If you think about it in your day to day, your web browsing, you're never gonna notice that. 00:07:15.140 --> 00:07:19.060 However, gaming, extended workloads, it does make a difference. 00:07:19.060 --> 00:07:22.780 There are ways to get around it. You could get a laptop cooling pad 00:07:22.780 --> 00:07:26.300 or when you're editing and premiering, close the lid and have your two monitors now. 00:07:26.300 --> 00:07:30.720 Haha, screw you MacBook Air M2 dude. But it is still worth mentioning. 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:35.580 That being said, it does also mean that this machine is silent. 00:07:35.580 --> 00:07:39.900 Now, don't get me wrong. I would probably use a Windows laptop if the battery life didn't suck 00:07:39.900 --> 00:07:45.100 and you know, a couple other things. But God damn, Apple really has the leg up 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:48.340 when it comes to that. Here, let's look at the battery life. 00:07:48.340 --> 00:07:53.160 The efficiency is better. So you are getting even better battery life in a stress test. 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.580 Interestingly, the MacBook Air M3 00:07:56.580 --> 00:08:01.980 actually scored better in the stress test. And that's probably because it's thermal throttling. 00:08:01.980 --> 00:08:06.020 So it's drawing less power. It's not a huge difference, 00:08:06.020 --> 00:08:09.180 but I guess if you consider the larger battery, it's pretty noticeable. 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:13.220 When you're in 12 hours, 12 and a half hours in an endurance test, 00:08:13.220 --> 00:08:17.140 you're already into a situation where you can't even really complain about it. 00:08:17.140 --> 00:08:21.820 Like, let's be real here. That's more than a one and a half work days 00:08:21.820 --> 00:08:26.060 of consistently watching YouTube videos. Now let's talk productivity. 00:08:26.060 --> 00:08:30.700 In Blender, we actually couldn't run our typical Blender Barbershop test 00:08:30.700 --> 00:08:34.060 because it runs out of memory. On these eight gig models, 00:08:34.060 --> 00:08:37.420 you actually just can't render that complex of a scene anymore. 00:08:37.420 --> 00:08:41.340 So if you're planning on doing anything a little more serious like video editing regularly, 00:08:41.340 --> 00:08:46.100 let's say, or Blender rendering or whatever, 00:08:46.100 --> 00:08:51.060 you might want to look at getting more RAM. Although the M3 chip does have 00:08:51.060 --> 00:08:55.740 a substantial leg up in Blender. They implemented that months ago already. 00:08:55.740 --> 00:08:58.980 And it's widely supported and we can see it in the numbers. 00:08:58.980 --> 00:09:03.980 The M3 laptops absolutely stomp the M2 Air 00:09:04.220 --> 00:09:07.340 and presumably the Pro, although we didn't test that here. 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:12.260 In Cinebench, little bit of a performance improvement, kind of expected to see that. 00:09:12.260 --> 00:09:16.740 In Nukex, which is a nearly hour-long test, depending on what laptop you have. 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:21.580 Again, the fan makes a huge difference. Not thermal throttling makes a huge difference. 00:09:21.580 --> 00:09:24.860 In Pugetbench, which is a lot shorter of a test, 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:29.580 sort of, in Photoshop, you can see, you're getting pretty much the same performance 00:09:29.580 --> 00:09:34.300 and that's because any sort of high load is typically gonna be for short bursts, 00:09:34.300 --> 00:09:39.780 which the kind of thermal mass of the chassis of this laptop can absorb. 00:09:39.780 --> 00:09:43.320 When you go into Premiere, which is video editing, where you're gonna have a sustained load, 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:48.380 well, now there's a big difference, especially if you go to render like a 30-minute-long video. 00:09:48.380 --> 00:09:53.740 It'll go pretty fast and then it will slow down. And it's also somewhere where having extra RAM 00:09:53.740 --> 00:09:58.180 will definitely help you. It is still faster than the Air M2. 00:09:58.180 --> 00:10:03.200 Sure, don't get me wrong, but an M3 Pro is a lot faster. 00:10:03.560 --> 00:10:07.480 But overall, I mean, it's a fast laptop. 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.360 Let me do a Wi-Fi speed test. Hey, look at this, all right, open speed test. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.080 All right, 500, 500, that's not bad. Let me try speed test, speed test, 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:18.800 and see if it's any different. Oh, look at that, upload speed, let's go. 00:10:18.800 --> 00:10:24.200 Why is it faster than open speed test? That's weird. All right, seems like we're getting around 500 down, 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.220 500 to 700 up, depending on which service I use 00:10:27.220 --> 00:10:31.440 for whatever reason. And then let's try Wi-Fi 6E. 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:38.640 500, 600, it's not really looking that much better. 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:42.480 I'm gonna be honest with you. I mean, 600, 600 is faster than the 5G Wi-Fi. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.600 Try the local open speed test, see how that goes. 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:49.080 Still about the same, 600 down, a little bit faster. 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.120 Look, the Wi-Fi on the laptop, it's pretty fast. 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.840 It's not the fastest I've ever seen, but also I tried it on my phone and it wasn't faster. 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:00.840 So maybe the AP is just, I don't know, having a day. 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.080 Let's be honest. This is a pretty iterative update. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.200 Do I like it? Yes, it's still faster. If you do Blender, yeah, probably upgrade, 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.760 but if you do Blender, you should probably buy a Pro as well. 00:11:11.760 --> 00:11:15.400 It is 100 bucks cheaper than the M2 was at launch. 00:11:15.400 --> 00:11:19.400 Mind you, when the M2 Air launched, we ran a little bit of a different 00:11:19.400 --> 00:11:23.480 global supply chain situation and that could maybe be a justification for it. 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:27.160 But as of right now, it's $100 more than the M2. 00:11:27.160 --> 00:11:31.680 If all you do is web browsing and watching memes 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:35.860 and YouTube videos and basic photo editing, 00:11:35.860 --> 00:11:40.240 like buy an M2, you'd be kind of silly to buy this. 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:44.200 It's pretty much the same other than in the situations I laid out. 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:48.320 Honestly, buy an M1, you don't get the cool colors 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.960 on the M2 and the M3 with the M1, but you can buy it at Walmart for 700 bucks, 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.920 which is 300 bucks cheaper than the M2 to buy new 00:11:56.920 --> 00:12:02.000 and 400 bucks cheaper than this one. So yeah, if you liked this video, hit the like button. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.200 It's a nice laptop. I don't have anything bad to say about it. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.440 It's still realistically expensive in the grand scheme of things, 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.840 but not that expensive for what you're getting.