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apple has a problem see these the new M1

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MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are outstanding their performance almost

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lives up to Apple's extraordinary claims their look and feel is reassuringly

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Apple grade their battery life is simply put exemplary and the transition from

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x86 to ARM so far at least has gone

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shockingly smoothly minus you might say those don't really sound like problems

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and they're not for you do you got to pay attention I said apple has a problem

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cuz it's going to be really hard to one up what they've done

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here when Apple unveiled their first Army equipped MacBooks we were surprised

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by the port selection to say the least just two USB type C's might be nothing

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new for the MacBook Air but there's no high-end option available for the pro

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which until now had options for four now this appears to be due to the M1 so's

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limited IO capabilities which also explains why you're limited to a single

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external display unless you turn to display link adapters that may not be a

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deal breaker for these classes of machines but it's worth mentioning

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regardless what's interesting though is that while we did determine in our Mac

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Mini review that you cannot expand that device using an external graphics card

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we followed up our testing with a 10 gig network card and found that when we ran

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that in our Razer corx the Thunderbolt

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like external PCI Express functionality was working just fine so it's definitely

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down to just a GPU compatibility thing

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the magic keyboard style switches remain far superior to the fatally flawed

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butterfly switches that were found on all but the most recent Intel MacBooks

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since 2016 and both the air and the pro are an absolute Delight to typon and

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offer quick biometric authentication through the touch ID sensor in the power

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button the only difference in the keyboard is the touch bar love it or

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hate it you're not getting one if you buy an M1 air and you are definitely

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getting one if you Pony up the extra $300 for the pro and that difference in

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price it's a pretty tough pill to swallow when you consider how close

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these machines appear on paper other than the touch bar but the keyword is of

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course close there are some differences

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aside from its lack of active the Baseline MacBook Air only has seven GPU

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cores with the upgraded 8 core version like ours costing an extra 50 bucks if

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you factor in the cost of the bigger SSD that it also includes that kind of makes

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it a sure why not upgrade if you've got any desire for 512 gigs or more storage

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but if not you're just going to have to swallow it anyway if you need the extra

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GPU power that you can otherwise only get with the pro and this inflexibility

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in configurations is one of the prices that we pay for the tight integration of

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Apple's M1 so same goes for memory it

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starts at 8 gigs and only goes up to 16 gigs for either of these machines

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presumably because adding more dram packages to the current M1 would

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increase cost or power consumption by too much for this class of product they

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do have a history of worrying about such things after all and besides if the

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performance we saw in our M1 Mac Mini review is anything to go by that

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trade-off is one that has paid great dividends

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but that's on the desktop what we haven't seen yet for ourselves is how it

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performs against competing mobile products like Intel's tiger Lake and

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AMD's Renoir apus Dell and HP are going

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to be representing the PC competition and oh yeah we also threw a 15in HP Omen

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gaming laptop in there in case the M1 it gets too fast to compare to anything in

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its weight class spoiler alert by the way it does in cinebench R23 the only

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laptop in this lineup capable of beating either MacBook is a much thicker gaming

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machine and even it doesn't win the single-threaded performance Crown even

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more impressively after a 10-minute run the MacBook proos performance remained

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Rock Solid while the HP Omen with its much beefier cooling working noticeably

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harder dropped over a 100 points unlike

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its bigger cousin the MacBook Air did throttle but it still managed to stay

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well clear of anything else in its weight class

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handbrake again shows our M1 Max outperforming their x86 counterparts by

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nearly double in software en coding seriously guys it's not even close the

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2020 Intel MacBook Air took three times

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as long and as for Hardware encoding again we see the M1 encoding blocks

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doing their job and then some beating out both Intel and amds encoder engines

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by 50 to 100% and this was surprising

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even beating out nank in h26 5 for

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Giggles we ran geekbench since that's what all the cool kids are running and

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if it's to be believed the only CPU with any hope of matching the m1's

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multi-threaded performance is a ryzen 78

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core it is a good thing we put the omen in there the GPU meanwhile soundly

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destroys both the AMD and Intel competition although it should be noted

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that this isn't a useful real world test

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unlike the rigorous real world testing we do on our products at LTT Store.com

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this C pillow contains 40% alpaca WF for maximum comfort and we have a big one

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moving on to non-native tests using Rosetta Adobe Creative Cloud presented a

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challenge not only did After Effects fail to run on either of our Intel Maxs

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it and Premier Pro also failed to run on our HP Envy due to its mere 8 gigs of

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memory and we suspect that photoshop performance probably suffered as well

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still though we were able to at least observe that even running in Rosetta

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remember this is no non-native code the M1 MacBooks both manag to smoke the

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competition and the same holds true for blender where the M1 MacBook Air manages

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to Triple the speed of its predecessor and run 8 to 9 minutes faster than its

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x86 competitors the only potential

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response to M1 at least in class is in luxmark where the XPS 13's XE Graphics

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core puts up better numbers across the board while the others languished at

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about half of the performance or even less on that subject I mean we can't

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talk about Graphics cores without talking about gaming so of course we ran

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the tomb Raiders to see what we could get and found that our MacBooks managed

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double or better the frame rates recorded by either the AMD or Intel UHD

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integrated Graphics in our competing products the one exception aside from

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the dedicated gaming laptop is the XE equipped XPS 13 which put up an

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admirable fight at least by comparison

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but still couldn't really close the gap thanks to a recent update to another

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great Mac system monitor TG Pro we can glean a little more information about

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m1's throttling Behavior compared to our Mac Mini review by default our MacBook

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Pro at full synthetic load breaches 90°

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and does throttle with the fan ramping up to about 3500 RPM or roughly half

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speed now that's still very quiet and

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there are two important notes Here one

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as we've seen that throttling clearly really didn't have a measurable impact

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on performance and two these core sensors that we're reading are buried

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inside the multi-layered soc so unlike previous generations these readings act

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more like hotspot sensors which from our experience can report 10 to 15° higher

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than the rest of the chip so with that in mind then we don't foresee any

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serious reliability problems but manually setting the fan to maximum

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using TG Pro can improve core thermals to between 80 and 85 Degrees which

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should keep Max performance locked and provide peace of mind to enthusiasts who

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just like low temperatures even if it's at the expense of having a laptop fan

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that they can actually hear it's really refreshing to see apple take a more

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conservative approach to thermals maybe because now it's their own silicon that

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they're messing with the MacBook Air takes a different approach altogether

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though again allowing the cor to reach as high as the mid 90° or so but then

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after it reaches an average temperature roughly 70° it throttles to maintain

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that at least for a while then it dials

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everything back and targets a CPU temperature of 60° this is why the air

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gets such great burst performance while also maintaining comfortable surface

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temperature of course it comes at the cost of sustained performance now since

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we can't just ramp up the fans on the air to see if that changes things maybe

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we'll need to take another crack at fixing Apple's thermal design get

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subscribes by the way so you don't miss that one the webcam on both new MacBooks

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is shockingly the same old 720p Affair

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that they've been using since 2011 but In fairness at least it's got a

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new trick now that MacBooks run the same Hardware as Apple's mobile devices but

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on roids they can use the same image processing tricks that were previously

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iPhone or iPad exclusive so in practice

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the image is still pretty soft I mean 720p is 720p but it's significantly less

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noisy with dramatically more naturall looking lighting no more blue computer

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face the experience using iOS apps is also significantly better on the

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MacBooks compared to the Mac Mini particularly where gestures are needed

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though it's still not perfect you might intuitively think that you'll start

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touching and swiping from where the cursor is visually located on the screen

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instead though the touchpad surface is mapped to the window area now this isn't

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necessarily the wrong approach but it'll

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definitely rub some people the wrong way having an actual touchscreen would

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really make the experience come together in a way that makes sense unless of

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course more apps come through with updates for Mouse compatibility really

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though please apple add a touchcreen to the MacBook just make my dreams come

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true speaking of Dreams in order to test Apple's Pie in the Sky battery life

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claims we set each of our 13-in laptops to roughly match the Dell XPS 13's

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brightness at two steps up from minimum turned on the optimized video streaming

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feature in energy preferences on our Max fired up a 100h hour timer on YouTube

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and set them all off at once using some coordination and a handy dandy power

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delivery unit to cut the power the Intel MacBook Pro was the first to go Keeling

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over it just over a respectable 11 hours followed by the dxps 13 just after the

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12-h hour mark then fell the Intel MacBook Air and the hpmv X 360 not long

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after surprisingly the M1 equipped MacBook Air in second place only lasted

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a little longer longer than those at just under 13 hours still great but well

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shy of the promised 15 to 18 hours as

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for the M1 MacBook Pro it just kind of

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kept going and going and going until

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finally it broke the 20h hour mark and

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decided that was enough Flex for one day

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almost literally one day I mean we ran this test over a weekend because we knew

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that this result was possible but we didn't really really think it would

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manage it in the real world like guys this cannot be overstated we're looking

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at ipad-like Endurance on a laptop running a full fat desktop operating

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system you could in theory use this thing for days at a time without juicing

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up depending on what you do with it that's what ended up throwing a wrench

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into my original premise for this video because up until now the M1 MacBook Pro

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had very little to show for itself over the MacBook Air for most people but

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suddenly the difference is so much bigger than just well do you want a

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touch bar and a brighter screen the M1 MacBook Pro despite being heavier and a

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bit thicker might end up being the better Commuter laptop for many through

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sheer force of its endurance alone but if you're worried about longevity it may

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ironically be the lesser of the two the

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fact that the MacBook Air doesn't have any fan whatsoever means that there's no

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dust being sucked in and no air intake to clog this means that barring thermal

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compound degradation the thermal profile of this device is going to remain pretty

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much identical throughout its entire life the One internal moving part on any

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modern laptop that is most likely to fail not only isn't necessary to spin up

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in here it doesn't even exist to fail

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there aren't even any heat pipes or vapor Chambers just a plain Jane flat

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mass in spite of these accomplishments it ironically feels though like these

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Macs are more transitional than revolutionary don't get me wrong I'm not

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complaining the transition from Power PC to Intel was a lot worse I mean compared

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to the iBook that came before it the first Intel MacBook brought a new

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chassis design with a new keyboard an integrated eyesight webcam and it

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introduced the Meg safe connector just to name a few of the highlights but it

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suffered from first generation syndrome big time thanks to the very first

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revision using a 32-bit core Duo CPU

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that was one of only a single generation of Macs to ever use 32-bit x86 by

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contrast these M1 MacBooks don't seem to have a problem with their internals at

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all but I expect that Apple will soon introduce new chassis designs with 14-in

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displays that like the 16-in MacBook Pro will reduce buzle sizes without

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significantly altering the footprint that we praised in our review of the

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final Intel MacBook Air I'd also hope to see that 1080p FaceTime HD camera from

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the iMac make an appearance at the same time for now the M1 equipped MacBooks

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have more to differentiate them than I had originally suspected this level of

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battery life in a machine as compact as the MacBook Pro 13 is absolutely a

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GameChanger and that's not even considering its performance meanwhile

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the MacBook Air has performance that Rivals the pro just without the

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endurance both in terms of battery life and thermal design especially when you

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in the lower price so you're really not sacrificing much by choosing one over

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the other and it boils down to your use case at $9.99 the MacBook Air is a bit

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more expensive than the hpnx 360 but for those who are willing to pay the Apple

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tax well you're only sort of paying one cuz you're getting a much faster

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computer with a higher resolution screen a more spacious Palm rest and a better

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trackpad plus arguably Superior expansion thanks to USB 4 although the

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HP does have an internal m.2 slot so you can kind of pick your poison there I can

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see many people then choosing the MacBook Air for a daily driver laptop

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for school or for everyday carry although if you do I would caution

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against ordering one with 8 gigs of memory if you want to use it longer than

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a couple of years remember you cannot upgrade it the MacBook Pro at $1299 at

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first seems to compare less favorably compared to the Delux ps13 2 in one that

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goes for $200 less but you got to remember that's for the base model XPS

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with a core I three the core i7 option runs $100 more than the MacBook that's

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on promo and while Intel's XE Graphics are in the ballpark of what Apple's

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delivering the tiger Lake core i7 simply cannot compete against the M1 in any

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meaningful way I mean never mind the core I3 now the XPS 13 does enjoy a

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convertible form factor and a touchcreen but its expansion is no better than

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Apples unless you count the micro SD reader and like the air versus the envy

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Apple's display is higher resolution and as we've seen that fact for a change

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doesn't negatively impact battery life it's nearly 8 hours longer in this case

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I mean some laptops in this class don't even last for 8 hours let alone 8 hours

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longer than the competition I guess what I'm saying is even if you were to go out

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of your way to point out the flaws it's hard not to recommend either of the M1

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MacBooks they really are just that good

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just like my Segways freshbooks is a

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small business Cloud accounting solution that is built for owners with freshbooks

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professionall looking invoices in seconds when you're on the go snap

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techtips we're going to have that linked below so thanks for watching guys if you

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enjoyed this video go check out our review of the M1 Mac Mini for a look at

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how M1 behaves on the desktop it really

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is a different enough experience that it's worth watching two videos which is

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why we made two different videos