WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.480 Look, I've been a Windows user for a long time, okay? And I'm not ashamed to 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:11.040 admit Apple's looking pretty nice right now. The things they're doing, I'm kind 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:16.480 of like, "Okay, friends." [laughter] I'm talking, of course, about the Apple 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:21.199 MacBook Neo. It was leaked a little bit. People knew that the a MacBook was 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:26.080 coming or likely to be coming uh with an iPhone chip in it. That is heavier than 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:29.920 I expected. Wow. Maybe I just haven't held a new MacBook in in a while. But 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:35.040 that's that's got heft to it. I think they put the whole iPhone in there. 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:41.280 Anyway, Apple did it. They took the A18 Pro that launched with the iPhone 16 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.879 Pros and they knocked a GPU core off. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:46.719 So, there's five GPU cores instead of six now. And they stuck it in the 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:53.440 MacBook Neo and encased it in this these fun new 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:56.719 colors. That's the best part. Look at this. Oh, okay. What is this? Citrus. 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:00.879 Now, if you've been paying attention to the launch of the Neo at all, you 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:04.640 understand that people are very excited about this laptop despite it having like 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:09.600 a phone chip. That's not exciting. Except that the phone chip is a bit more 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.600 powerful than the first Apple silicon chip that they put in the MacBook after 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:16.720 dropping Intel by the wayside. We're not just talking about any phone chip. We're 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:20.479 talking about Apple silicon, which has like transformed the industry and 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:24.240 remains the standard for laptop processors. They're good. Not only are 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:29.280 the chips good, this is a MacBook that you can get for $600, $500 if you're a 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:33.680 student, US. It's crazy. Anyway, let's see what else is in that box. Designed 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:36.960 by Apple in California. I certainly hope so. 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:41.600 Trackpad. We're going to get to the trackpad. It's not haptic. Lock key. We 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:45.920 did not get the version that has the Touch ID on the key, but we'll we'll get 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:52.320 to that all later. In the box, interestingly, is a 20 watt charger, 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:57.600 USBC to C cable as well. Now, some people have expressed concern about some 00:01:55.360 --> 00:02:00.960 of the specs of the MacBook Neo, including the fact that it has a 20 watt 00:01:59.119 --> 00:02:06.640 charger. It's quite low for a laptop. It's low for a phone these days. That's 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:10.560 a 5ft cable, baby. Let's go. You know 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:13.200 how I can tell? Don't ask. Aka 1.5 m. it 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:18.319 apparently, you know, it takes about an hour or over an hour to to charge from 0 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:21.200 to 100, but you can connect it to more powerful chargers and get like a little 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:24.800 bit faster charging speed. The other thing to note here is that it's not Mag 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:29.599 Safe. Every other MacBook for a while has come with MagSafe. Apple took it 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:33.120 away and then they brought it back. This one doesn't get it cuz it's still a 00:02:31.040 --> 00:02:36.239 student. It has to earn MagSafe. But how annoying will it be to not have Mag 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:40.720 Safe? Well, let's let's see. Let's take a look at the actual 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:47.040 Now, I've heard people say it's got a one finger touch, one finger openable 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:51.040 lid. Ooh, that's nice. This has really 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:53.920 given me the same vibes I got when I got 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:59.440 my first MacBook. It was a plastic Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook that I used for 00:02:55.920 --> 00:03:01.440 university and it was beloved by me. 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:05.760 Man, that is a color. I mean, you probably can't really get the 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:10.560 appreciation for it uh via the video here. Maybe on that one. Does that look 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.879 colorful to you? Do you see the color in 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:16.239 person? It's really catching the light in a way that like I don't think it's 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:20.159 going to come across properly on the video. I usually do not care about 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:24.159 colors at all. As you know, I'm a minimalist. Everything should be gray or 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:27.280 black or white. But this is making me feel things. And that's really what's 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.680 all what it's all about. We need tech that makes us feel things more. Oh, but 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.920 before we really start playing with it, we got to take a look at the exterior 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:41.040 here. And yes, they got that crazy color. We got a very, very smooth, nice 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:44.400 finish on this. I mean, it's 600 bucks, 500 bucks with a discount. But I think 00:03:42.959 --> 00:03:50.319 the thing that's blowing everyone's minds is the fact that it's that price 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:52.720 and like it feels and looks like an a a 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:58.000 high-end Apple product. Like if they if you told me that Apple released a small, 00:03:55.200 --> 00:04:02.080 you know, 13-in MacBook Pro in fun colors and you handed this to me, I'd be 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:05.840 like, "Oh, yeah, you I believe you. I'm also very gullible, but I believe you." 00:04:04.239 --> 00:04:09.040 Now, while it does have that nice kind of smooth aluminum enclosure that you 00:04:07.519 --> 00:04:13.760 would expect from a MacBook, there are some obvious design differences here. 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:18.160 One being that the aforementioned Mag Safe is not there. Instead, we have two 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:24.000 USBC ports. The one on the left here is USB 3. whatever kind of USB 3 gets you 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:30.400 10 Gbits per second of of transfer speed. I think it's USB 3.2 Gen 2 X1. 00:04:28.479 --> 00:04:34.560 And the USBC port on the right here is USB 2 speeds. You're only getting 480 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:39.120 megabytes per second from that, which is, you know, somewhat disappointing. 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:43.040 However, use that thing for charging, for like, you know, mouse, keyboard, 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.880 accessories, or whatever. And then this can be more for like dongles. Okay. At 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:50.479 the very least though, they do have a headphone jack. So, we haven't uh we 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.240 haven't come up with some silly excuse for uh removing the headphone jack on 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:58.720 MacBooks yet. Next to that, we have what many might assume from far away is an uh 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:02.880 SD card slot. It's not. Those are the speakers. These days, we're used to 00:05:00.479 --> 00:05:08.720 MacBook speakers being upward-f facing, but these are side facing. And there's 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:13.840 another one on the other side along with no other ports on the sides or the 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:17.759 front. We've got these grippy feet on the bottom that are they look way 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.960 lighter on the top down than they look in person. And we've got eight torque 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:23.840 screws on the bottom. So, you can remove it and uh you know, fiddle around in 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:29.440 there. You're not going to be able to change much because you know this is a 00:05:26.080 --> 00:05:31.199 Apple silicon chip. The RAM is soldered. 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:36.720 I'm not sure about the SSD. There has been some kind of like third-party 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:40.160 fiddling around with unofficial ways to replace the SSD. That's all at your own 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:44.560 risk, though. You might screw something up. I don't know. I'm I'm not recommending you do it. I'm just saying 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:49.120 people have done it. All right, let's open it up again and look at one of the 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:53.360 many cool things about this laptop. This is a Magic Keyboard. It's the same sort 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:56.800 of keyboard that you get on the other MacBooks. It feels good to type on. If 00:05:55.280 --> 00:06:01.199 you've ever felt if you've ever typed on a Magic Keyboard, it's kind of like the 00:05:59.039 --> 00:06:04.560 best laptop keyboard on the market. Someone's going to get at me in the 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:08.960 comments, but like it's good. Okay, it's f it's more than fine. The one big 00:06:07.039 --> 00:06:13.360 downside with this keyboard is that there's no backlighting. It'll make 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:19.280 people who use computers uh only in the dark sad. However, they are white keys 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:22.880 as opposed to the black keys found on pretty much every other MacBook as far 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:27.759 as I'm aware. So, I should say sorry, they're not like white. They're actually 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:29.360 like a very subtle uh shade of the same 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:32.960 color as the laptop. So, if you get the other colors, blush, indigo, and 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:39.360 >> just silver, >> just silver, the keys will kind of like be a variation of those colors as well. 00:06:37.039 --> 00:06:43.360 Down here, another interesting choice. It does not have the taptic engine in 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:47.600 the touchpad. For like a decade, MacBooks have had touchpads that do not 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:50.479 have like a mechanical clicky action to it. It's just got a little vibration in 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:57.360 it that makes it feel like you're clicking. But I guess they could save a little bit of money by designing a whole 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:01.440 new trackpad that has a mechanical click to it. It's like a clicky trackpad. You 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:05.759 can see it kind of going down in all different corners. Just the fact that 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:10.880 they're launching this this computer for $600. We'll get into this, but is it 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:15.039 Apple being really good or is it just the industry just really sucking? Maybe 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:19.120 a bit of both. I don't know. So, above that, we have one of the other areas 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:24.080 that Apple may have kind of, you know, saved a little bit of money on in a 00:07:20.960 --> 00:07:27.919 reasonable way, perhaps. 13-in IPS 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:31.039 display goes up to 500 nits, uh, 60 Hz 00:07:27.919 --> 00:07:33.039 with a 248x506 00:07:31.039 --> 00:07:37.280 resolution. It only has support for the sRGB color space and it also doesn't 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:40.960 have true tone which it kind of changes the color temperature of the screen uh 00:07:39.039 --> 00:07:45.199 depending on your environment. I always thought that was kind of weird. Uh but 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:49.039 other people like it, you know, regardless it's not here because it's 00:07:47.280 --> 00:07:54.240 $600. It's also worth pointing out here that the USB 3 port on the left or on 00:07:52.080 --> 00:08:00.720 the back does support DisplayPort output. You can power a monitor at 60 Hz 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:02.720 I think up to was it 4K? Wow. Okay. but 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:06.960 only one. You know, now that like we're logged in, we're in macOS, it's a 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:11.680 little surreal to have a device that like looks this fun and I know is that 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.520 inexpensive and you know, you're here. You're you're using an Apple product. 00:08:13.520 --> 00:08:19.919 The vibe is that Apple wants this to be like a lot of people's first Apple 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:23.120 product so they can convince you to pay for a subscription for something, 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:26.720 anything, cuz they're getting a lot of money from services these days. Okay, 00:08:25.039 --> 00:08:31.199 let's start using this thing right after this message from our sponsor Dbrand. 00:08:28.479 --> 00:08:35.279 and they sent over one of their new 1984 MacBook skins. Now, this one is color 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:39.599 match for our Citrus device, but they've got eight different hues for pretty much 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:44.560 every modern MacBook colorway. Now, if you're wondering, why would I put a 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:47.200 citrus skin on my citrus MacBook Neo? 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:52.399 Uh, but the answer is to get a classic Apple logo like this one. Look at the 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:55.839 colors. It's kind of like if 1984 Apple 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:57.680 made a 2026 MacBook. Plus, the logo is 00:08:55.839 --> 00:09:02.000 3D printed to really make it pop. You can feel it. There's texture. Put some 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:06.080 texture in your life. These retrostyled 1984 skins are available for a ton of 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:09.360 MacBooks, new and old. And if you want to see how it'll look on your MacBook 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:16.160 and pick up a skin for yourself, head on over to my bosseshort.com. 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:20.640 So, yes, we are in macOS, but it's not a normal MacBook, okay? It's got a phone 00:09:18.560 --> 00:09:24.560 chip in it. Let's not forget that. Now, my first thought it was to load Premiere 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:30.000 because I know that it's probably less optimized uh on this hardware than 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:33.360 Apple's own firstparty apps. Um, and I have experience with it. So, we're going 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:37.519 to see how it handles like 4K footage or whatever. But, obviously, at 600 bucks, 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:41.920 they're not targeting this machine towards like hardcore creative video 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:47.279 editors and like people that do that for work. However, I've I've seen a lot of 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:50.000 people say that like, yeah, it'll, you 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:53.680 know, it'll do browsing, it'll do word processing, it'll do light photo 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:58.000 editing, it'll do whatever, like just fine, you know? But we're seeing claims 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:01.200 that Apple's chips just are at the point now where you can push it a little bit 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:04.880 farther and it's not going to like totally break down. It'll kind of slow 00:10:03.040 --> 00:10:07.680 down a little bit as you put throw more at it. Anyway, I'm going to just going 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:12.080 to click around and see if I have any subjective complaints about, you know, 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:16.160 slow down or anything. We're going to get to the Labs results in a minute. We 00:10:14.160 --> 00:10:20.800 downloaded Chrome in a few seconds there. This thing's got Wi-Fi 6E and 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:25.120 Bluetooth 6. So, I've got a few tabs open in Safari. I downloaded Chrome. I 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:31.600 got some tabs open in that. We're playing videos. LT Store. We got Amazon, 00:10:28.959 --> 00:10:35.360 apple.com. We got open I open a bunch of things. And so far, I'm not seeing any 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:38.800 slowdown in terms of like quickly. I was I was doing it quick. You should have 00:10:36.560 --> 00:10:43.200 seen it. This is far from an objective benchmark, but I think that like I'm 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:47.600 using this laptop. It feels like using a MacBook. So far, I haven't really 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:52.880 encountered anything where I'm like, ooh, Apple really I've tried to emulate 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:56.320 Chromebooks in a bit too much. It's not happened. I feel taken care of, which 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:01.120 I've talked about a lot on this channel. I like that. Hello, slightly older Riley 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:05.600 in a different sweater because we gave the MacBook Neo to the Labs team. They 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:08.959 did some testing overnight. So, we got some battery numbers as well and they 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:12.640 gave it back to us. Here's what we found. As other people have found in 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:18.720 their testing, the A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is kind of around the M1 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:24.720 chip uh in a ballpark sense in Cinebench. Uh we got 12% better in 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:27.120 single thread and 17% slower in 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:33.360 multi-thread. The Neo is obviously behind the M4 and the M5 in uh Cinebench 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:37.040 there, but uh it's actually impressively close in single thread. Uh multi-thread 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:41.040 is where it really struggles just because it's got way less cores. Well, 00:11:38.880 --> 00:11:45.120 and for other reasons as well. Now, Labs put the laptops that we're testing here 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:49.279 through a couple of browserbased benchmarks, Jetream and Motion Mark 00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:53.519 1.3.1. uh because you know using a browser, 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:58.480 using light apps is going to be what you're primarily doing on a machine like 00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:01.120 this. And in those tests, the Neo uh 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:05.600 once again outperformed uh the M1 MacBook Air in Jetream 2.0 and is 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:10.560 actually impressively close to the other ones as well. Uh in Motion Mark though, 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:14.399 which is a little bit more intensive, uh it fell behind all three of its I don't 00:12:12.880 --> 00:12:17.600 want to say competitors because they're also Apple MacBooks, but you know, now 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:23.120 while Labs was putting this thing through its paces, uh we were able to 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:24.639 get some Fleer camera uh shots of the 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:30.240 hot spots on there. So, if you're curious as to what spots on the laptop 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:36.399 get hot, these are the ones. And uh 42° C was the absolute top temperature that 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:39.120 they recorded, which Lab says is, you 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:43.839 know, shy of the 50° mark where they start they say that's where things start 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.639 getting like uncomfortably hot. So I I wouldn't expect you to burn your fingers 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:53.040 on this thing or anything. I don't think it could burn you if you tried. It's pure of heart. Now to what is probably 00:12:50.959 --> 00:12:57.200 one of the more interesting uh benchmark numbers for this kind of device, battery 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:01.760 discharge. With the time we had, we were able to test this against the MacBook 00:12:58.800 --> 00:13:07.440 Air M4 and the MacBook Air M5. Both known for having very good battery life. 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:09.920 And uh despite the Neo having a quite a 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:14.959 bit smaller battery, 36 1/2 W hours versus 53.8 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:20.639 W hours, the Neo was able to last 6 hours 46 minutes 25 seconds, which was 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:25.200 behind, you know, the over 8 hours that uh the other laptops were able to 00:13:22.560 --> 00:13:30.320 achieve. But that is streaming 1080p video off a Plex server uh constantly at 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:34.959 200 nits brightness in low power [music] mode. Um so if you're not just watching 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:39.600 video literally all day, you know, that's nearly 7 hours of use with 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:45.279 Apple's excellent standby time, you're looking at easy uh full day of use for 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:47.279 like a student IMO. Optimally, I'd love 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:51.519 to get even more in-depth with numbers and testing. Uh but this is a short 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:57.120 circuit. We actually are working on a full LTT review of this thing. So stay 00:13:54.480 --> 00:14:01.360 tuned to LTT. I guess that's kind of throwing ShortCircuit under the bus 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:06.160 here. Sorry. So raw performance aside, what about some more kind of quality of 00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:08.880 life things? The speakers. Laptops 00:14:06.160 --> 00:14:13.360 famously often just have poor speakers. Not so with MacBooks. MacBooks usually 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:17.760 have really good speakers. iMacs generally pretty good. You know, as 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:22.160 someone who watched movies for a long time before I had a TV, we watched 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:26.399 movies on a MacBook on an iMac. So, we're going to do our standard crab rave 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:30.880 audio testing. They're coming out the side. It's weird to see a MacBook with 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:35.519 speakers that little like like that dinky. I usually 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:38.519 usually have like these big speaker grills. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.519 Okay. 00:14:46.959 --> 00:14:52.320 I've seen people complaining about these speakers. Like they're like, "Ah, they're not so good. They're not very 00:14:50.959 --> 00:14:56.639 good." Like, these are pretty good speakers for a laptop. Okay. I guess I'm 00:14:55.120 --> 00:15:00.160 just, you know, I've seen a lot of bad laptops in my life. I think the people 00:14:58.560 --> 00:15:03.680 that complain about the speakers are probably just like regular MacBook users 00:15:02.079 --> 00:15:06.320 and they're used to a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro and they're like, "These are 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:11.519 worse speakers." And it's like they might they they are right. 00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:14.959 But like because I heard that these speakers weren't as good as the other 00:15:12.959 --> 00:15:20.320 ones, I was expecting them to be bad. But these are not like I wouldn't call 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:22.250 these bad. They're not like amazing, but 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.270 like [music] 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:31.279 there's like a little bit of mids. There's like a little bit of mids 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:36.639 missing, but like there's still like a a healthy amount of bass and and highs. I 00:15:35.199 --> 00:15:40.639 also generally kind of like take a look at the the colors and stuff in this 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:46.720 video, but like, you know, it looks uh I got no real complaints. It maybe looks a 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:48.320 little bit kind of cooler. I'm not like 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:53.040 kind of blown away in the in the way that I usually am when looking at like 00:15:49.920 --> 00:15:55.120 an iPad display or a MacBook display. It 00:15:53.040 --> 00:16:00.000 looks more normal. Big props to Apple for their, you know, retina thing where 00:15:57.839 --> 00:16:03.920 they basically put as much resolution in a certain size display as they think is 00:16:02.160 --> 00:16:08.079 like proper for the human eye to appreciate. It works. I don't know what 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:12.720 to tell you. Webcam. So far, I got to say, using the trackpad has been totally 00:16:10.800 --> 00:16:16.720 fine, but that's also because I'm used to Windows trackpads more so than 00:16:14.800 --> 00:16:23.040 MacBook trackpads. So, like to me, this seems normal. Uh MacBook people may feel 00:16:20.959 --> 00:16:26.240 like, oh, it's a step down. just based off this, maybe this maybe the actual 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:29.920 file will look better, but the preview is making me think that this is 00:16:27.920 --> 00:16:35.600 definitely a step down than the normal level of Apple quality than I that I 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:37.600 would uh expect. Once again, $600 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:41.920 MacBook, what are you going to do? It's pretty good. It's fine. You know, like 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:46.079 for a student, this is this is what you this is all you get. Graduate and then 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:51.360 talk to me. So, as for battery life, Apple put a 36 1/2Wh hour battery in 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:56.480 here. Apple says that'll get you 11 hours of wireless web browsing and 16 00:16:54.160 --> 00:17:00.639 hours of video playback. I appreciate Apple giving the actual like wireless 00:16:58.880 --> 00:17:03.279 web browsing number, the estimate for the battery life there, because that's 00:17:01.920 --> 00:17:06.959 kind of what this is going to be primarily used for. Now, I've seen a lot 00:17:05.199 --> 00:17:12.319 of people say it's only got 8 gigs of RAM. You know, it's it's got 8 gigs of 00:17:09.520 --> 00:17:16.799 unified memory as part of that A18 Pro chip. that can punch a little bit above 00:17:14.959 --> 00:17:20.400 its weight class on an Apple device where they've so heavily optimized 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:23.439 everything and you're using firstparty Apple apps. And the other thing to keep 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.959 in mind here is that especially if you're coming from a Windows ecosystem, 00:17:25.280 --> 00:17:30.480 8 gigs of RAM is not enough. You're right, it's not. But this is not a 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:36.720 Windows device. And I think that a lot of people are going to find out now that 00:17:34.080 --> 00:17:40.640 macOS is available at a at a lower price point. It's true. there's been the 00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:44.080 Refurb, you know, store and you've been able to get like discounted MacBook Airs 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:49.039 for a while. And based on the impressions and reviews that we're seeing about this thing so far, there's 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:52.559 probably a good contingent of people who are going to look at this thing and be 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:56.320 like, "Yeah, this is really cool, but I do need a little bit more juice." And 00:17:54.160 --> 00:18:00.240 you're going to go for like a Refurb M4 MacBook Air for a few couple hundred 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:06.799 bucks more or something. Or maybe you can find a M3 one used. Like regardless, 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:10.480 this represents a cool new entry point 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:13.440 into the macOS ecosystem where 8 GB can 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:18.160 potentially act like more than 8 GB. As I said, this is the 256 gig version, the 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:23.679 base model. There is one available upgrade up to 512 gigs of internal 00:18:21.520 --> 00:18:27.360 storage that will also get you the Touch ID power button, which is like an 00:18:25.600 --> 00:18:31.840 interesting thing for them to like link those two together. Apple's ways are 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:37.360 mysterious. That upgrade costs $100 uh USD. Um, but it does not upgrade that 8 00:18:35.120 --> 00:18:41.520 gigs of RAM. I know a lot of you are stressed about the 8 gigs of RAM. Okay, 00:18:39.280 --> 00:18:47.280 you're thinking, "What? 8 gigs of RAM? How am I supposed to run my local LLMs 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:48.880 and uh generate all of my content?" 00:18:47.280 --> 00:18:54.000 You're not supposed to. You're not supposed to do that. This thing reminds 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:56.640 me of that plastic MacBook that I had 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:00.320 back in 2006. I shouldn't date myself like that, I guess, but that's when I 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:06.240 had it. and it had your garage band on it and me and my friends would fool 00:19:03.280 --> 00:19:10.080 around and make fun songs and like I love that Apple is still putting that 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:15.200 stuff, you know, some of that stuff on here and taking their beautiful 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:20.000 hardware, well optimized hardware and putting it out there for 600 bucks. 00:19:17.120 --> 00:19:25.039 Students can get it. They can learn to create things. Okay, we have to learn to 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:28.400 create again and buy beautiful tools that have cool colors on them. I'm not 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:32.320 saying that other companies can't make beautiful hardware. They can, but uh 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:35.840 that's not the thing that's in front of me right now. It's the MacBook Neo. And 00:19:34.320 --> 00:19:40.400 that's basically all I have to say about it. So, thanks for watching Short 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:43.520 Circuit. Uh subscribe, and if you're looking for something else to watch, 00:19:41.840 --> 00:19:47.919 check out our other video on the MacBook Air. If this isn't quite going to cut it 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:53.080 for you, maybe that will. Okay, we're we're in our Apple glazing era. Go 00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:53.080 Apple.