WEBVTT 00:00:00.299 --> 00:00:07.740 he paid over thirty thousand dollars to get every version of Apple's new M1 Pro 00:00:05.220 --> 00:00:11.519 and M1 Max MacBooks and now that we've finally got our grubby paws on them we 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:16.800 can really put them through their Paces we're focusing on the 14-inch M1 Pro 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:21.060 Macbook today both the 814 core and the 1016 core models not only are we going 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:24.900 to review and Benchmark the all-new redesign from Notch to bottom we're 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:29.340 going to answer all the questions Apple wouldn't and the question of who our 00:00:27.060 --> 00:00:33.300 sponsor is it's crucial thanks to crucial for sponsoring this video get 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:38.579 more done with crucial's P5 plus NVMe SSD with up to 6600 megabytes per second 00:00:36.300 --> 00:00:44.000 sequential reads and a 5 year warranty crucial makes Tech to last get yours 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:44.000 today at the link below 00:00:51.239 --> 00:00:56.820 as soon as you lay eyes on the new MacBooks the flattened edges strike you 00:00:55.559 --> 00:01:01.800 in the same way older generation MacBooks did this is in stark contrast 00:00:59.579 --> 00:01:05.220 to the 2016 pedigree of MacBooks that did everything in their power to hide 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:08.700 their Dimension by adding curves wherever possible looking kind of like 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:12.900 an envelope with something bulging out from it this refreshed flattened design 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:17.340 philosophy just so happens to allow Apple to stuff more functionality into 00:01:14.580 --> 00:01:22.320 the new machines it's almost like fan at any cost held them back imagine that 00:01:20.460 --> 00:01:27.119 while the changes keep rolling back we're looking at a new touch barless 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:31.860 keyboard with basically zero deck flex and thankfully they brought back the 00:01:29.220 --> 00:01:36.060 function keys personally I'd still like to have the touch bar maybe stick with 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:40.680 half height function keys and sneak it in there just so long as I get function 00:01:38.340 --> 00:01:45.900 keys like look how much faster it is to mute a Mac with function keys than with 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:47.759 the touch bar it's not even a contest 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:52.079 and there's no contest that magsafe always has been and always will be the 00:01:50.460 --> 00:01:56.159 best charging method for an expensive laptop like a Macbook Pro not only is 00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:59.700 the new implementation much shallower and thus less likely to hook your laptop 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.960 off the desk but it's capable of fast charging it up 00:02:01.979 --> 00:02:08.459 to 96 Watts depending on which charger you end up with what's more the number 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:13.739 one complaint people had about magsafe that the cable frayed over time I've had 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:18.660 it happen that's been largely addressed here thanks not only to a much more 00:02:15.720 --> 00:02:23.879 Supple braided cable but also the fact that it's a detachable type c connector 00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:25.980 on the other end mind you apple is still 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:31.080 charging 50 for a mere six foot replacement but that's still cheaper and 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:34.620 less wasteful than a new power adapter besides you can always charge via type c 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:40.379 if you want you just won't get fast training but 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:42.599 um there's one thing here that has never 00:02:40.379 --> 00:02:47.459 been on any Apple notebook or to my knowledge any previous notebook 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:53.280 the notch it looks a smidge larger than the notch 00:02:49.860 --> 00:02:56.420 on my iPhone 11 Pro Max and inside is a 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:59.040 single 1080p webcam 00:02:56.420 --> 00:03:04.080 Apple's justification for The Notches size on iPhones is that they need the 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:10.080 extra space to house face ID sensors and these laptops don't have face ID maybe 00:03:08.099 --> 00:03:13.800 the true depth sensors are too thick for the housing maybe smaller sensors were 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:20.159 expected to be available but the Silicon shorter to laid them why then did Apple 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:22.319 not wait for the next Generation it just 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:27.239 feels like they planned for it realistic last minute crap we can't make it work 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:34.319 and then thought it ship it as it is mind you the webcam in that Notch is 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:36.060 quite good albeit marred with a skin 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:41.400 smoothing algorithm that I can't find a way to turn off it takes effect both in 00:03:38.519 --> 00:03:46.440 photo booth and QuickTime still the image is otherwise quite sharp around 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:49.860 the edges with a little tweaking I think it could actually be one of the better 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:55.440 webcams integrated into a laptop it's certainly far better even now than Dells 00:03:52.500 --> 00:04:00.659 and how about that microphone away not too shabby if you ask me the speakers 00:03:57.959 --> 00:04:05.879 though Apple says they've got four counter firing woofers and two tweeters 00:04:02.659 --> 00:04:07.980 and quite frankly it sounds so much 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:23.209 better than anything else I've heard in a laptop that it's not even close 00:04:28.580 --> 00:04:35.100 sorry XPS 15 you sound like trash by 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:38.940 comparison Apple's definitely tuned to these speakers with a sweet spot in mind 00:04:36.780 --> 00:04:43.380 and that sweet spot seems to be sitting at a desk when you're in that sweet spot 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:47.699 the frequency response is at its best and stereo Imaging is almost like you've 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:52.820 got widely separated speakers I almost wish we had a binaural 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:52.820 recording rig so I could show you 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:15.600 I can show you the display though this 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:20.220 this is beautiful it reminds me of a TV at home with its 2000 local dimming 00:05:17.580 --> 00:05:23.940 zones and 1600 nits Peak brightness just crammed into a much smaller form factor 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:27.840 thanks to the mini LED backlight array that Apple calls xdr 00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:32.160 the other big feature is the new 120 hertz adaptive refresh rate promotion 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.560 support that can go as low as 24 Hertz to save on battery life during an 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:41.220 activity Apple's way out ahead of Windows on this one way out thanks to having first baked 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:45.660 this into the iPad line several years ago 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:47.039 it's not quite 4K but apple has a 00:05:45.660 --> 00:05:51.180 history of not targeting specific resolutions but rather specific pixel 00:05:49.320 --> 00:05:55.800 densities and in that regard it's close to 4K and definitely retina from any 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:58.919 reasonable distance which is really all that matters day to day for 00:05:57.180 --> 00:06:03.180 professionals a separate pixel matched external display for critical viewing is 00:06:00.900 --> 00:06:07.080 common and can be hooked up via any one of the three DisplayPort enabled 00:06:04.500 --> 00:06:13.500 Thunderbolt 4 ports or the full-size HDMI 2.0 Port which can handle up to 4K 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:14.759 60 with HDR HDMI 2.1 support for 120 00:06:13.500 --> 00:06:18.960 hertz would have been nice on a top-of-the-line laptop like this but 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:23.100 honestly this wouldn't be too useful for non-gamers right now anyway unless 00:06:20.699 --> 00:06:27.960 you're working with 8K for some reason 4K 60 is the most you're going to get 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:31.800 out of a typical projector or TV so it's just not a huge limiter now we don't 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:36.479 have the M1 Max Max in for testing yet but we can put the M1 Pro through its 00:06:33.960 --> 00:06:42.780 Paces with some PC competition a surface laptop Studio an ASUS zephyrus G14 and 00:06:39.960 --> 00:06:46.979 if those fail we've got our trusty GPU bench to show it what for starting with 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:52.080 good old cinemench we've got our first impressive showing our 10 core MacBook 00:06:49.620 --> 00:06:56.280 Pro matches the zephyrus's top end ryzen 9 and the 8 core Stomps the surface 00:06:54.419 --> 00:07:00.600 laptop Studio and the MacBook Pro 13-inch as well geekbench brings more 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:04.680 pain for Microsoft than even the zephyrus takes a beating from the 8 core 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:08.759 M1 Pro this time around handbrake and software encoding brings more good news 00:07:06.539 --> 00:07:13.380 for apple with only our ryzen desktop outperforming the 10 core and h.264 and 00:07:11.460 --> 00:07:19.919 the zevaris pulling a lead in the more complex and thread hungry h.265 encoder 00:07:16.979 --> 00:07:26.400 when we turn on Hardware encoding why is this Macbook so slow 00:07:22.740 --> 00:07:28.319 okay it looks like Apple's video toolbox 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:34.440 has some issues with the New Media engine right now so unfortunately these 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:38.220 results are unusable but I'm including them here because this is something you 00:07:36.960 --> 00:07:41.580 might run into if you pick one of these puppies up compressor gives us a better 00:07:40.259 --> 00:07:45.180 look at what the hardware encoding performance looks like and strangely it 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:49.560 seems like whatever Apple did with the media engine to add prores support 00:07:46.819 --> 00:07:54.180 negatively affected h.265 in preference to h.264 which is a strange balance to 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:58.380 make but it's not a big difference either way it's just weird in Final Cut 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:02.160 both the new MacBooks put up numbers roughly double what the original M1 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:06.840 MacBook could which is largely down to the additional GPU cores and prores and 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:10.199 coding is almost three times faster than M1 thanks to that new media engine that 00:08:08.940 --> 00:08:14.520 turned Apple's two thousand dollar afterburner card into Retro Tech videos 00:08:12.900 --> 00:08:18.120 not everything people do with their Macs though so let's come back around to 3D 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:22.379 modeling with blender as of right now Apple silicon isn't natively supported 00:08:19.979 --> 00:08:26.039 by blender but Apple has joined the blender Development Fund and provided 00:08:24.180 --> 00:08:30.479 patches to enable metal going forward so stay tuned for that for now CPU random 00:08:28.440 --> 00:08:34.800 performance isn't too shabby the 10 core M1 Pro beating out the zephyrus in both 00:08:32.520 --> 00:08:39.479 the shorter BMW render and the sustained classroom render which is ridiculously 00:08:36.959 --> 00:08:44.279 good Adobe Creative Cloud mostly runs in Rosetta as well and unfortunately that 00:08:42.060 --> 00:08:47.220 means that either Puget bench will often crash or in the case of the few 00:08:45.779 --> 00:08:52.560 available Apple silicon versions of these apps simply not work we do have 00:08:49.860 --> 00:08:56.459 Photoshop numbers though and these shell very similar performance to the M1 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:59.940 perhaps because of Rosetta but also perhaps because of the lightly threaded 00:08:58.019 --> 00:09:04.380 nature of the work what isn't lightly threaded is code compilation it's here 00:09:01.800 --> 00:09:09.300 that M1 Pro comes back to dominance even the 8 core M1 Pro outperforms the best 00:09:06.660 --> 00:09:13.620 mobile ryzen chip on the market and the 10 core is second only to the desktop 00:09:11.220 --> 00:09:16.620 ryzen 9 5950x it's ridiculously impressive when 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.399 something like this happens kind of like our new water bottles at lttstore.com 00:09:18.540 --> 00:09:25.140 you've got to see the new lids and colors and we can get 50 off a lid if 00:09:23.100 --> 00:09:29.339 you bought one of the old ones now we need to talk games I I know I 00:09:28.620 --> 00:09:35.279 know games aren't a Mac thing 00:09:31.980 --> 00:09:37.200 I disagree but more importantly they're 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:41.220 a great way to visualize relative GPU horsepower unfortunately for us I'm not 00:09:39.540 --> 00:09:45.480 aware of any game that takes advantage of Apple silicon that the ones that I 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:49.680 thought did merely run in a rosetta as a result turn times in Civilization 6 for 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:53.760 example are ludicrously long a good three times longer than the surface 00:09:51.180 --> 00:09:57.600 laptop Studio and zephyrus this trend continues at CS go where it seems that 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:00.660 despite having double the GPU cores running in Rosetta is seriously 00:09:59.100 --> 00:10:05.519 hampering the M1 Pro's performance potential although there is a market improvement over the standard M1 shadow 00:10:04.019 --> 00:10:10.380 of the Tomb Raider meanwhile does come close to the RTX 3050 TI and our surface 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:14.339 laptop Studio and scales pretty linearly compared to the original M1 temperature 00:10:12.420 --> 00:10:18.600 readings on the cores can get alarmingly high under sustained load although Those 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:23.279 sensors are buried inside the soc if we look at the integrated GPU clusters on 00:10:20.339 --> 00:10:26.820 the same SOC we see far more manageable temperatures so these core temps are not 00:10:25.380 --> 00:10:31.920 likely to be a major cause of concern strangely the fans never even got to Max 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:35.820 Speed I suppose I need to hit it with a bind CPU and GPU load to really get it 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:39.839 to scream get subscribed by the way because we'll be comparing every chassis 00:10:37.860 --> 00:10:43.740 and soc's full thermal characteristics throughout the rest of the series and 00:10:41.940 --> 00:10:47.040 you don't want to miss that this is just scratching the surface the main hotspot 00:10:45.779 --> 00:10:52.500 is in the middle of the keyboard where we read somewhere from 46 to 48 degrees 00:10:49.980 --> 00:10:56.700 on both models while the Palm rest area stays relatively cool in the low 30s 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:01.079 that's pretty similar across all the laptops we tested if a bit warmer on the 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.720 hotspot curiously ample has designed the cooling system so that hot air is 00:11:02.459 --> 00:11:07.980 exhausting directly onto the lower corners of the screen where it's getting 00:11:05.760 --> 00:11:11.820 as hot as 50 degrees or more which may be cause for concern over time my 00:11:10.260 --> 00:11:15.000 recommendation to combat this is to manually set the fans to maximum if 00:11:13.380 --> 00:11:19.200 you're doing a sustained all-core load by using TG Pro or another utility that 00:11:17.760 --> 00:11:23.040 can manage the fan speeds that should keep air flowing and prevent heat from 00:11:21.180 --> 00:11:26.640 concentrating in one small spot now we need to talk battery and to do this we 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:29.760 turn the 13-inch MacBooks display down to about a third brightness and matched 00:11:28.260 --> 00:11:34.140 all the laptops up as best we could fired up this YouTube countdown clock 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:38.880 and cut the power not only did the zephyrus die hilariously quickly at just 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:42.839 under seven hours but the surface laptop Studio also ended up dying a little 00:11:40.500 --> 00:11:47.700 early due to the GPU resetting part way in next to fall was the M1 MacBook Pro 00:11:45.300 --> 00:11:53.399 at just under 22 and a half hours and the lower end M1 Pro shortly after that 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:58.140 and the 1016 well it kept going past the 24 hour mark 00:11:56.040 --> 00:12:01.680 honestly the only reason I can think of that the lower end M1 Pro didn't hit the 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:06.660 same Milestone was horse was probably still logged in and I didn't notice ah 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:10.860 the joys of having to share still to say this is luminary battery 00:12:09.060 --> 00:12:15.180 life would be underselling it especially in light of the machine's capabilities 00:12:12.260 --> 00:12:19.380 like the most comparable overall performer is the zephyrus and it got 00:12:16.980 --> 00:12:22.860 less than a third of that I need to see this thing's battery for myself pulling 00:12:21.300 --> 00:12:27.720 it apart is the same process as with other recent Macs but now just two screw 00:12:25.260 --> 00:12:30.899 types like my 2011 MacBook long in the back and short in the front now with 00:12:29.339 --> 00:12:36.540 collars to prevent them from going too far pop two clips on the left and right the 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:39.839 panel slides right off now that is a pretty interior and it shows more of 00:12:38.760 --> 00:12:43.800 what Apple's doing with that extra internal volume not only is there more 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:47.459 battery capacity along with pull tabs for safer user servicing but there's a 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:52.079 reasonably robust cooling solution and that battery no longer overlaps the 00:12:49.620 --> 00:12:55.860 logic board either amazing what you can do with a little more volume huh while 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:01.740 we're under the hood I should mention that Wi-Fi is limited to two spatial 00:12:57.839 --> 00:13:04.440 streams so Wireless AC AKA y55 will Top 00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:08.040 out at 866 megabits per second this has been standard for MacBooks since 2019 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:12.540 and is one of the few design elements that Apple hasn't changed for the better 00:13:10.139 --> 00:13:16.920 if I had to guess why not these Macs use broadcom Wi-Fi adapters while the ones 00:13:14.700 --> 00:13:20.880 with 3x3 support were running on Morata chips that apple co-designed and branded 00:13:18.899 --> 00:13:25.680 as universal scientific Industrial evidently those proved to either be too 00:13:23.160 --> 00:13:29.940 costly too unreliable too power hungry or all of the above 00:13:27.180 --> 00:13:33.959 if cost was a factor though Apple sure hasn't spared any for the Thunderbolt 00:13:31.800 --> 00:13:37.500 because each of the USB type-c ports has its own Thunderbolt 4 controller Apple's 00:13:35.880 --> 00:13:41.880 doing a lot right here there's the return to an SD card slot albeit without 00:13:39.420 --> 00:13:46.139 SD Express support and we've got a high impedance headphone jack that while it 00:13:43.980 --> 00:13:50.639 doesn't sound amazing is better able to drive higher end headphones than 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:52.620 previous gen Max what Apple hasn't 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:56.339 gotten right is the handling of the notch the mouse cursor going behind the 00:13:54.779 --> 00:13:59.639 Notch and getting lost seems like such a colossal oversight next to the way that 00:13:58.260 --> 00:14:03.420 the rounded Corners are handled on the display and this behavior isn't even 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:07.680 consistent if you've got menus open what's more the Notch's whole reason for 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:13.139 being that is to provide a menu bar above the regular 16x10 display area 00:14:09.899 --> 00:14:15.240 that would otherwise just be bezel is by 00:14:13.139 --> 00:14:17.660 default entirely removed if you use full screen mode 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:22.260 Apple why thankfully both of these issues can 00:14:20.940 --> 00:14:27.660 be worked around by either turning off this setting or by choosing get info on 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:32.639 the app and checking scale to fit the letter option nobody should ever 00:14:30.300 --> 00:14:36.060 want to use this the final issue I have is price starting at two thousand 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:39.300 dollars US for the 14 inch model it's not going to be for everybody and as 00:14:37.560 --> 00:14:43.860 we've seen the base model falls behind in a few fundamental ways and of course 00:14:41.699 --> 00:14:46.380 because the memory is part of the soc and storage is soldered to the 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:51.060 motherboard not only does that make future repairs more expensive you also 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:54.120 need to order what you think you'll need by the time you replace the laptop not 00:14:53.100 --> 00:14:57.959 what you think you'll need today personally I wouldn't go lower than 32 00:14:56.459 --> 00:15:01.440 gigabytes of memory to make a machine of this caliber last a while particularly 00:14:59.820 --> 00:15:05.760 considering its unified memory that both the CPU and GPU need to share I also 00:15:04.139 --> 00:15:09.720 wouldn't go higher than two terabytes of internal storage because you've got 00:15:07.560 --> 00:15:12.720 Thunderbolt for high-speed expansion if you need it 00:15:10.740 --> 00:15:17.459 that puts my sweet spot recommendation at about 2 900 U.S which is 200 more 00:15:15.839 --> 00:15:21.240 expensive than a similar configuration for the surface laptop Studio at a 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:24.899 thousand dollars more expensive than the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro albeit with 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:29.100 double the memory is it a thousand dollars more worth it you really need to 00:15:26.760 --> 00:15:33.240 look at what tasks you do daily to see how long it'll take to recoup that cost 00:15:30.779 --> 00:15:38.339 but what Apple has here What attracted me to my 2011 MacBook Pro in the first 00:15:35.339 --> 00:15:40.620 place is a combination of power form 00:15:38.339 --> 00:15:45.839 factor build quality display quality versatility and 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