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well Linus has already unboxed the other two m1 the max on ShortCircuit to

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varying reception so here i am with the macbook pro

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13-inch this is completely sealed it's

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even still got the uh little apple tab here you can probably

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tell the tone of this video is gonna be a little bit different

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oh yeah the thing about good packaging is that

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it creates a seal you know all right

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so here's the laptop let's set that aside for now down in here we've got

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you know the traditional apple packet with uh nice apple stickers you know

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got the nice paper

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covering for our included power adapter

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i think this might be the same no it's a 61 watt power adapter that's usb type-c

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this is a usb type-c cable of course as with

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most apple usb type-c cables it's probably not going to be wired for data

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so on the side here we've got a very uh uncourageous headphone jack i guess

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headset combo jack and on the other side we've got the only

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expansion we're allowed we've got uh two usb type c

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4.0 Thunderbolt ports

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usb 4.0 is basically Thunderbolt Thunderbolt 3 is more or less an

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implementation of usb4 at this point Intel opened it up to the usb

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implementers forum i think apple will probably drop the Thunderbolt moniker at

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some point in the near future uh but don't quote me on that

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oh that's that's kind of unfortunate i'm trying to lift it open come on craig oh

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there we go oh

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okay i didn't even i didn't do anything i wasn't gonna

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power it on yet because you haven't responded

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purchase necessary so once again this is the apple m1 equipped macbook pro

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with eight cores 8 GPU cores and 16 gigs

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of RAM we've also got 512 gigs of storage on here

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and as for the display it is i think

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basically the same as the macbook air with a slightly better backlight which

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is really interesting the actually the the

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differences between the macbook pro and the air are evaporating quickly with the

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m1 with the very big exception of the

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fact that this thing actually has a cooler in it with the two side by side

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it's pretty obvious that the macbook pro is

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if not a lot brighter it's brighter but do i really need to talk about the

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keyboard quality it's it's the magic keyboard it's fine it it feels pretty

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much what you would expect right there there is

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basically no give whatsoever

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to this keyboard the keys feel

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responsive and sharp um even pressing them on the

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corners it basically just goes straight down

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yeah i've got no complaints whatsoever about this keyboard this is the pro

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it's actually pretty thin on its own and this is the air

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also very thin honestly the wedge shape of the pro

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makes the keyboard slightly more economic sorry the air see look i'm doing it now

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whereas this you're kind of resting your hands

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on basically a raised flat surface

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let's see the macbook air we got was this one

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and all we did to it was add 16 gigs of memory so 1449

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the macbook pro we got so that was 14.99

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because we got the 512 gig model because for some reason 256 gigs is the standard

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and that's 16.99 it kind of makes sense i do wish they had added like i don't

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know two more CPU cores something to differentiate a little bit

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more

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oh that sounds amazing

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i know this is probably no different than

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the way it's been before but

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the stereo imaging sounds good enough that i'm like oh this must be a spatial

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effect but no not really

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let's uh let's listen to the macbook air

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so this feels like it's got a little bit more in the in the mids and the low end

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whereas this is a little bit more shrill but it's not actually shrill it's just

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like it's a little bit thinner what it is what i mean very interesting i thought they had exactly the same

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speakers maybe they do and it's just that the deeper chassis allows it to

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kind of reverberate a little bit more so what else is there to say really i mean

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it's got the same CPU

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the same guts really as the the higher end uh macbook air with eight GPU cores

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but even without that it's got the 8 CPU cores anyway

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so why buy the macbook pro the answer i

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guess comes down to do you like the touch bar

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there's that but there's also the cooler

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and while i can't show you exactly the difference between

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the two of these right now i can do that in the review

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and i can tell you that the macbook air is totally silent because it has no fan

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no moving parts whatsoever and that actually means that it may be the more

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ironically the more long-lived computer just think about it it's not

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sucking in dust it doesn't have to worry about airflow

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it has no way of the fan ever dying

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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

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fan is obviously it's got a service life

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and it may or may not last for the nearly 10 years that mine has on top

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of that apple is i can confirm this much

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allowing the macbook pro to run

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at its full potential for much longer than the macbook air and in fact it

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throttles down in preliminary testing anyway

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to about 60 degrees after a certain period of time i need to dig a

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little bit deeper into that but the macbook air actually seems like a pretty

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uh bulletproof computer

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it's kind of weird whereas the pro it's got the same guts

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you can run it harder for longer but in burst workloads

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like pretty much anything you do on the internet or

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even things like photoshop or dare i say final cut the macbook air

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should be able to handle most of that no problem

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it's really weird the for the first time in a long time the macbook air

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is just as desirable at least to me

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as the macbook pro in fact more so because it's got the top row it doesn't

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have the touch bar i really feel like i would need more

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for a pro device i feel like if apple had given it

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i don't know like two more cores that would have

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been the push the performance is again basically the same unless you're doing

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long workloads like i don't know compiling video transcoding that kind of thing

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even then it's got the hardware transcoding engine as well so yeah it's

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a really strange time to be into the apple ecosystem

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and i'm looking forward to getting the review out to you guys i

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guess that's about it

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thanks for watching ShortCircuit maybe watch another one stay tuned and uh goodbye