what
they really did that it has been
a long time since apple has excited me
quite this much in an event yes apple's m1 reveal was groundbreaking and a
turning point for the whole computer industry but this chip
this is the m1 all growed up
and not only that it comes in this package
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apple didn't lead with it but i'm going to the m1 pro and m1 max processors
these are the first evolution of the m1 architecture since apple silicon first
became a thing and they bring a host of
improvements to the table for one they skew towards performance
with six or eight high-speed cores for heavy lifting and just two efficiency
cores for lightweight tasks in the case of the bigger chip this doubles the
performance on tap compared to m1 assuming the core clocks are the same of
course the GPU has also grown up from the 8 cores on m1 with up to 16 or even
32 cores on m1 pro and max respectively
and it's got an expanded media engine that can encode and decode prores so
well that it supposedly out does a 24 core mac pro with an afterburner
accelerator card that's more streams than on a 28 core mac pro with
afterburner what's more impressive than even that is
the memory bandwidth which is up to 200
gigabytes per second on the pro model and 400 for the max primarily thanks to
the expanded memory capacities with these chips with m1 clocking in at about
60 gigabytes per second this implies that not only is the additional memory
being laid out in more channels it's also potentially clocked higher for
reference conventional cpus running ddr4 memory they get between 18 and 35
gigabytes per second and the memory used by most current gen gpus is 448
gigabytes per second and with apple silicon that data doesn't even need to
be copied from the CPU to the GPU like the Intel max and pcs have to so that's
some spicy performance potential to say the least and when we look at
performance oh hey apple finally caved and labeled their
graphs complete with the competitor they're comparing against they're not
perfect like they don't say what benchmarks they were using in every case
like these ones here just say select industry standard benchmarks
but hey it's a start i guess for now they claim double the CPU and
GPU performance over the quad core m1 and as much as twice the performance of
the previous gen 16 inch macbook pro with a core i9 the GPU options
supposedly come in between 2.5 times and 4 times faster than any previous macbook
with a dedicated GPU they didn't specifically mention whether the neural
engine was improved in any meaningful way over m1 though but they do claim
that the machine learning performance that they get is five times faster than
that core i9 macbook so take that how you will of course these performance
numbers come attached to two completely redesigned macbooks in 14 inch and 16
inch sizes apple made a big deal about how all that extra unified memory means
the GPU has way more of it to work with than any other laptop apps have
dramatically more memory for the most demanding graphics tasks no other
notebook even comes close and for once
outside of external gpus this is uncontested truth especially for the 14
inch the best NVIDIA quadros are equipped with 24 gigs of RAM with most
sitting at 16 or under which makes this a very pro differentiator even if it's a
little bit niche both new macbooks are a little heavier
and thicker than previous gen and kind of remind me of how the old polycarbonate macbooks used to look
unlike those dinosaurs the new macbooks featured bezels of just 3.5 millimeters
albeit marred by a iphone style notch it
looks like it's big enough to hold face id sensors in the future but for now
it's only being used for the upgraded 1080p webcam the camera itself has been
updated significantly from previous 1080p models with a four element lens
and f 2.0 aperture although we'll have to see for ourselves if that's really a
big upgrade considering how well apple's image signal processing already works
it's almost as good as our insulated water bottles from ltestor.com now with
a new lga design and new colors apple was careful not to show off the notch
too much in marketing materials though mostly because they know that outlets
like lightest tech tips will complain about it personally
i just wish we had a reason to have it max have traditionally played with
display edges so i don't mind it that much here
i honestly think it'll be less annoying for a macbook seeing as that area is
normally reserved for a piece of the top bar unless you're in full screen mode
and the slightly taller than 16 by 10 aspect ratio means that standard
widescreen content is gonna fit without that notch ever interfering speaking of
the display the new liquid retina xdr is a 10 bit panel capable of 1000 nits
sustained brightness and 1600 peak all
at a resolution just shy of 4k which i mean let's be real it might as well be
4k at these pixel densities for the backlight apple claims to have packed 10
000 mini leds into the display which would mean 2500 local dimming zones if
it's using the same quad led layout as the pro display xdr and 12.9 inch ipad
pro that's not even the best part though the new display is also capable of 120 hertz
dynamic refresh rate like the ipad so max can finally enjoy the buttery
smoothness and improved battery life that ipad users have had for years now
and Windows 11 users recently got albeit with a smaller range they still offer
fixed refresh rates representing clean multiples of common film and media if
you need it and you might end up playing back a lot of media if the upgrades to
the speakers are any indication aside from spatial audio which it didn't quite
live up to apple's virtual surround sound promises on the imac but provided
exceptional stereo imaging both new macbooks feature an upgraded
six speaker array that apple says displaces twice the amount of air from
previous generation macbooks considering how excellent apple's speakers have been
over the past couple of generations this could be a new bar for laptops and
you can be sure we're going to crab rave it in fact
we kind of went on a spending spree and
got every permutation of the new macbooks so we can thoroughly review the
first major redesign in a long long time so get subscribed so you don't miss it
but what if you want headphones well apple's got you covered they proudly
exclaimed that they're adding ports to the new macbook pro and not only is
there a headphone jack they say it's capable of driving high impedance
headphones on one side there's an HDMI port for conveniently connecting to
displays and tvs a Thunderbolt 4 port which connects to high speed peripherals
and an sd card slot enabling fast access to media
on the other side the headphone jack now has advanced support for high impedance
headphones and there are two more Thunderbolt 4 ports for a total of three
in the system so depending on what they mean by that audiophiles and users of
studio monitors may no longer need an external amplifier and
do my eyes deceive me it cannot be
magsafe is back magsafe is back
and it's capable of fast charging up to 50 capacity in 30 minutes flat which is
damn impressive given how high battery life already is
or you can charge via the Thunderbolt ports for docking to say a pro display
xdr or two pro display xtrs
or with the 16 inch three pro display xdrs and a 4k tv simultaneously no more
dongle book not only that but the new blacked out
key deck and full height function key row finally brings apple's magic
keyboard back into the yeah i want that territory for me
some people are going to miss the touch bar and i i know and i think it was a
good idea in theory maybe they could throw it up above the keyboard someday in the future or or
maybe they could give us multiple touch bars down next to the track pad
just just don't touch my function keys okay my precious
precious function
apple has basically taken every major complaint that their users have had
about the recent macbook pros and rectified them with the sole exception
of the glowing apple logo seriously i can't be the only one who
desperately wants that back can i i mean they brought back the bong
they also brought back the HDMI port and the sd card slot they even brought back
magsafe i guess the the one thing that i would
trade the glowing apple for would be repairability
but that ship has probably sailed for good at least all the aluminum is
recycled pricing is a bit harder to swallow though
starting at two thousand dollars for the base model with two missing CPU and GPU
cores and a 512 giga SSD pci express gen
4 yes but 512 gigs
is a tough sell given how capable m1 already is it's an extra 300 bucks to
get the standard m1 pro soc and 700
bucks to get the top end m1 max what's worse the 64 gig memory option is only
available with an m1 max although given that option itself is eight hundred
dollars you probably don't care about the cost of the laptop to begin with i
guess i was talking to our resident mac guy mark who recently had an Intel
extreme tech upgrade and he mentioned that
it's basically matched spec for spec with the dell xps which is
something that i didn't catch at first and i am grateful that he caught i guess
laptops are just expensive now what's even worse than all of that is
the base model power adapter for the 14 inch it's just 67 watts
that's incapable of fast charging so you're not even getting one of the
advertised features if you don't pay an extra 20 bucks are your margins
that thin apple do you really gotta nickel
and dime people like that it was bad enough with the 24-inch imax Ethernet
adapter it's starting to feel like paid dlc over
here like a 14 inch with full fat m1 pro
32 gigs of RAM and a terabyte of storage will set you back 2 900 which is
i mean in my opinion frankly i've seen unless the performance really does beat
the best Windows laptops around of course not everything is about mac
apple also announced third generation airpods featuring very airpods pro
styling and an extremely similar case design now with
magsafe for some reason in fact these things
incorporate most of the features that made the airpods pro special
with the exception of active noise cancelling and removable tips audio
quality should be better than previous gen airpods same deal with battery life
and fast charging is able to provide up to an hour of additional listening in
just five minutes they'll still be selling last gen airpods for 129 but
these will go on sale for 179. one thing apple didn't announce today is the new
pro mac mini that we were expecting with a new soc a slimmer design and more
ports most of the other leaks were pretty accurate right down to the notch
so unless they got this one thing wrong
apple could be trying to manage their limited silicon supply by delaying it
whatever the case you can order all of this today with order shipping
next week although from our experience the up model max will take some time you
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