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