the macbook is dead in my last video i talked about all the
problems that it had but apple just announced a brand new macbook pro that
aims to fix everything that was missing and then some
so here's why i'm excited to get my grubby hands on one
there are a lot of headlines with the new macbook pros there's magsafe more
ports on top of the two brand new m1 chips now called m1 pro and m1 max i'll
dig to them in a bit but let's first take a visual look at what's changed
still available in silver and space gray the new macbook pro's design is a bit of
a departure in that it's very asymmetrical the design of the bottom
reminds me of the corners of the oj Intel macbook from 2006. but the top
screen is flat edged like the new ipad or the old titanium power book that
started apple's pro laptop revolution 20 years ago actually even the black
keyboard calls out to that old laptop too and as i predicted the touch bar is gone
rip in its place is a function row with full
height keys to make it easier to change the volume
the ports are a big deal with the new macbook bringing back things that really
shouldn't have been removed in the first place there's HDMI an sd card slot three
Thunderbolt 4 ports and most remarkably magsafe yes it has returned and no the
macbook is not compatible with your old charger but this time around magsafe is
now a detachable cable that on the charger end plugs into usbc so you still
have the flexibility if it frays or the only cable you have around is a usbc
cable really the best of all worlds finally
the displays have grown and are massively improved now the smaller
laptop stretches to 14 inches across while the larger model is still 16
inches it only looks bigger most notable
is the addition of adaptive pro motion which increases the top refresh rate to
120 hertz but when there's not a lot of action on the screen it drops the
refresh rate to save battery and when you're watching a movie it matches the
frame rate of the content the panels are liquid retina xdr with a 1600 nits peak
brightness and mini led contrast ratio the resolution is now up to 254 pixels
per inch for both with
what aspect ratio uh i think the cinema's aspect ratio rating is going to
make a comeback so that would be 1.55 to
1 versus 1.6 to 1 in the outgoing
macbook oh wait is there a notch
there's a notch on the macbook pro screen now i'm not one of those people
who hates the notch on the iphone but this notch which contains the much
improved 1080p webcam but no face id
blocks the middle of the taskbar and what's going to happen in full screen
mode are they going to have to redesign safari and other apps
i'm not too sure but i'll investigate in my
review subscribe to find out it's super interesting that there are
two brand new chip options one of which i wasn't even expecting but first let's
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announced two new chips in the macbook pro dubbed m1 pro and m1 max they are
the next layers in apple's ARM transition for apple the name of the
game here is both increased performance and efficiency and they raced through
this announcement i could barely keep up the CPU isn't the big story here though
it gets an increase to 10 cores where apple has put its focus on is GPU memory
and machine learning and that's really where the differences between the m1 pro and max lie the m1
pro is available with 14 or 16 GPU cores
and for video editors like me has a hardware accelerated media engine for
encoding and decoding the most popular formats along with prores
now looking at apple's chip product shots
here it appears that the max features a duplicated GPU so up to 32 cores with
additional engines for faster video encoding and decoding this is going to
be great for video editors this additional module in the m1 max
increases the unified memory to up to 64 gigabytes and memory bandwidth to 400
gigabytes per second up from the 200 in the pro another big boom for
professionals is that the max will support up to four external displays
with the pro only supporting two apple made a bunch of charts to show the
differences between other laptops in the class and while i don't know how they
quantify performance these charts were really about efficiency and these
macbooks have some crazy sounding battery life apple claims the 14 inch
should get around 17 hours of battery life while the 16 inch will get up to 21
hours me wonders how much the more powerful cpus will affect battery life
regardless you'll be able to fast charge to 50 percent in half an hour
another interesting thing about the different chips is both are available on
the small and large macbook pros and there are a lot of skus to choose from
so will the performance be a bit different because there's more space to dissipate heat on the 16-inch model
another thing to investigate
pricing wise a base 14 inch now starts at 2 000 and a base 16 inch will set you
back 25 hundred dollars this is 200 and
100 more than the outgoing models respectively oh and if you do want an m1
max you will have to upgrade the memory too so that can be a 900 upgrade
keeping a reasonable amount of storage and maxing out everything else on the
16-inch will set you back 3 900
yikes as for me i really like the idea of a
maxed out 14 inch that i could just dock to the desk and use for everything it
could be one computer to rule them all
it wasn't just macbooks that got announced there are three new colors of
the homepod mini which should match your yellow orange or blue imac nicely there
are also new airpods these third generation airpods appear to be like
airpods pro but without the silicone tips the new design is supposed to hold
into your ear better the charging case supports magsafe that's kind of cool
it's got an ipx4 rating for sweat and water resistance it has force touch and
better battery life it has spatial audio and an adaptive eq actually looking at
the comparison chart these really do appear to be airpods pro without some
features my concern is still that the mesh is too close to the tips it looks
just ready to eat earwax they're 180 while the old second gen
model remains on sale for 130 now
all right thanks for sticking through this Mac Address if you like the new
macbook pro give this video a like if you're mad about the notch then why not
subscribe i was kind of surprised by the amount of skus available in this macbook
so i'm curious if you were to get one what model you'd
order