{"video_id":"JAZdUmsCvsw","title":"Should I upgrade to the Apple M1 MacBook Pro?","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":478,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":7.759,"text":"well Linus has already unboxed the other two m1 the max on ShortCircuit to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.44,"end_s":13.759,"text":"varying reception so here i am with the macbook pro","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.639,"end_s":15.839,"text":"13-inch this is completely sealed it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.759,"end_s":18.96,"text":"even still got the uh little apple tab here you can probably","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.76,"end_s":21.52,"text":"tell the tone of this video is gonna be a little bit different","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.76,"end_s":27.68,"text":"oh yeah the thing about good packaging is 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doesn't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":437.68,"end_s":443.52,"text":"have the touch bar i really feel like i would need more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":441.68,"end_s":447.599,"text":"for a pro device i feel like if apple had given it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":444.88,"end_s":451.36,"text":"i don't know like two more cores that would have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":448.639,"end_s":454.24,"text":"been the push the performance is again basically the same unless you're doing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":452.8,"end_s":458.4,"text":"long workloads like i don't know compiling video transcoding that kind of thing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":457.12,"end_s":463.759,"text":"even then it's got the hardware transcoding engine as well so yeah it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":461.28,"end_s":467.599,"text":"a really strange time to be into the apple ecosystem","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":465.44,"end_s":472.08,"text":"and i'm looking forward to getting the review out to you guys i","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":469.199,"end_s":472.08,"text":"guess that's about it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":472.24,"end_s":479.68,"text":"thanks for watching ShortCircuit maybe watch another one stay tuned and uh goodbye","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"well Linus has already unboxed the other two m1 the max on ShortCircuit to varying reception so here i am with the macbook pro 13-inch this is completely sealed it's even still got the uh little apple tab here you can probably tell the tone of this video is gonna be a little bit different oh yeah the thing about good packaging is that it creates a seal you know all right so here's the laptop let's set that aside for now down in here we've got you know the traditional apple packet with uh nice apple stickers you know got the nice paper covering for our included power adapter i think this might be the same no it's a 61 watt power adapter that's usb type-c this is a usb type-c cable of course as with most apple usb type-c cables it's probably not going to be wired for data so on the side here we've got a very uh uncourageous headphone jack i guess headset combo jack and on the other side we've got the only expansion we're allowed we've got uh two usb type c 4.0 Thunderbolt ports usb 4.0 is basically Thunderbolt Thunderbolt 3 is more or less an implementation of usb4 at this point Intel opened it up to the usb implementers forum i think apple will probably drop the Thunderbolt moniker at some point in the near future uh but don't quote me on that oh that's that's kind of unfortunate i'm trying to lift it open come on craig oh there we go oh okay i didn't even i didn't do anything i wasn't gonna power it on yet because you haven't responded that is true get the best prices and best selection at microcenter at any of their 25 locations across the united states or online join the new micro center community to get give and receive advice on pc parts selection or check out their custom pc builder configurator follow the link in the description for a free 32 Gigabyte flash drive and 32 Gigabyte micro sd card valid in-store only no purchase necessary so once again this is the apple m1 equipped macbook pro with eight cores 8 GPU cores and 16 gigs of RAM we've also got 512 gigs of storage on here and as for the display it is i think basically the same as the macbook air with a slightly better backlight which is really interesting the actually the the differences between the macbook pro and the air are evaporating quickly with the m1 with the very big exception of the fact that this thing actually has a cooler in it with the two side by side it's pretty obvious that the macbook pro is if not a lot brighter it's brighter but do i really need to talk about the keyboard quality it's it's the magic keyboard it's fine it it feels pretty much what you would expect right there there is basically no give whatsoever to this keyboard the keys feel responsive and sharp um even pressing them on the corners it basically just goes straight down yeah i've got no complaints whatsoever about this keyboard this is the pro it's actually pretty thin on its own and this is the air also very thin honestly the wedge shape of the pro makes the keyboard slightly more economic sorry the air see look i'm doing it now whereas this you're kind of resting your hands on basically a raised flat surface let's see the macbook air we got was this one and all we did to it was add 16 gigs of memory so 1449 the macbook pro we got so that was 14.99 because we got the 512 gig model because for some reason 256 gigs is the standard and that's 16.99 it kind of makes sense i do wish they had added like i don't know two more CPU cores something to differentiate a little bit more oh that sounds amazing i know this is probably no different than the way it's been before but the stereo imaging sounds good enough that i'm like oh this must be a spatial effect but no not really let's uh let's listen to the macbook air so this feels like it's got a little bit more in the in the mids and the low end whereas this is a little bit more shrill but it's not actually shrill it's just like it's a little bit thinner what it is what i mean very interesting i thought they had exactly the same speakers maybe they do and it's just that the deeper chassis allows it to kind of reverberate a little bit more so what else is there to say really i mean it's got the same CPU the same guts really as the the higher end uh macbook air with eight GPU cores but even without that it's got the 8 CPU cores anyway so why buy the macbook pro the answer i guess comes down to do you like the touch bar there's that but there's also the cooler and while i can't show you exactly the difference between the two of these right now i can do that in the review and i can tell you that the macbook air is totally silent because it has no fan no moving parts whatsoever and that actually means that it may be the more ironically the more long-lived computer just think about it it's not sucking in dust it doesn't have to worry about airflow it has no way of the fan ever dying whereas this it's going to suck in dust you're going to clean it out from time to time like every other computer the fan is obviously it's got a service life and it may or may not last for the nearly 10 years that mine has on top of that apple is i can confirm this much allowing the macbook pro to run at its full potential for much longer than the macbook air and in fact it throttles down in preliminary testing anyway to about 60 degrees after a certain period of time i need to dig a little bit deeper into that but the macbook air actually seems like a pretty uh bulletproof computer it's kind of weird whereas the pro it's got the same guts you can run it harder for longer but in burst workloads like pretty much anything you do on the internet or even things like photoshop or dare i say final cut the macbook air should be able to handle most of that no problem it's really weird the for the first time in a long time the macbook air is just as desirable at least to me as the macbook pro in fact more so because it's got the top row it doesn't have the touch bar i really feel like i would need more for a pro device i feel like if apple had given it i don't know like two more cores that would have been the push the performance is again basically the same unless you're doing long workloads like i don't know compiling video transcoding that kind of thing even then it's got the hardware transcoding engine as well so yeah it's a really strange time to be into the apple ecosystem and i'm looking forward to getting the review out to you guys i guess that's about it thanks for watching ShortCircuit maybe watch another one stay tuned and uh goodbye"}