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I do not like macOS or at least I think

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I don't but the last time I made a genuine attempt to switch was 10 years

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ago so even if Microsoft hadn't spent the last decades speedrunning the

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destruction of Windows I would be way overdue for a bite out of Tim's Apple so

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I'm doing it after switching to the iPhone and honestly not really liking it

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I'm doubling down I am embracing Apple's philosophy which is that if I'm not

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enjoying their product it's probably because I haven't bought enough of their

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other products yet so I need a Macbook for my computer backpack and a Mac for

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my desk and I will either discover why the heck people love these things so

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much or I'll discover why they still only have 15% market share but before I

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can do either of those things which ones do I choose that is where I come in I

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have assembled a trough I mean a trove of apples behind us and I've recruited a

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couple of Mac advisers to help him make the right decision

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and there's Stakes Stakes what Stakes oh yes the stakes at the end of this video

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you don't get to just take something off of the table you have to pull out your

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credit card and buy the exact spec of what we decide is going to be best for

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you then you get to exclusively use your max for a month and see how it goes oh

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so no pressure then well fine but if I have to waste money on a Mac then they

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today let's start things off with the Darkhorse option the iPad Pro In

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fairness to him the performance really is very close to a Macbook it even uses

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the same 10 core M4 processor which is

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kind of incredible when you look at this thing but the processing isn't even the

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real reason you'd want one the real reason is the display this is a 13-in

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tandem OLED panel that goes up to 1,600 knits and it's one of the best

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displays we have ever seen just period

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the brightness combined with those perfect blacks of the OLED makes visuals

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pop in a way that pretty much nothing else can except for one small problem

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I'd be stuck with I P OS not to mention the stupid ergonomics so tell you what

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you can take one of these but I'm more interested in a real laptop you know the

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kind that fits on a lap yeah so wait am

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I switching to I don't see why you should make me switch and you shouldn't

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have to cuz originally like I was okay with that but now we're in February and

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the cool laptops are coming out should have thought of that before you push

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this video looking at Apple's air and pro

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MacBooks then there are a few key things to consider with one being performance

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Apple's lineup is a cluster right now so depending on which shell you prefer your

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processor choices might be limited not to the latest CPUs but rather to a

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generation or even two generations ago for my use case though which is mostly

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word processing in Google Docs performance is not a major consideration

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and there weren't any major efficiency gains in terms of battery life going

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from the M3 to the M4 not to mention

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that the weight and thinness of a MacBook Air is also very appealing but

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there are some areas where the pro clearly pulls ahead for me the Pro

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Models could make more sense even configured with the same CPU they have

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better cooling enabling them to Turbo for much longer for all the solid works

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you'll be doing apparently it works great now what really yeah in parallels

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you just have to spend 100 bucks on getting that that's the Mac way you can

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do anything you want just got to spend regardless of what kind of work we're

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doing we'll be doing it on a liquid Retina Display but it's worth noting

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that that marketing term doesn't actually tell us that much about the performance on the air it only goes to

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500 nits Peak brightness 60 HZ while on

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the pro it'll do up to 120 HZ and up to

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1,600 nits for incredible visuals that

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is everywhere other than the camera Notch another problem for the air are

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the ports you get two Thunderbolt four ports mag safe and a headphone jack that

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is it on the pro there isn't a whole lot more but the additional Thunderbolt Port

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SD card reader and in particular the HDMI 2.1 Port are very very welcome on

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the topic of HDMI output I rarely plug more than one external display into my

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laptop but if you need more your mileage may vary depending on the CPU you use

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you realize you're going to have to put this down at some point and pick one right I know but it's just like surface

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laptop bad Edition here I don't think there's any option

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other than the air for me I kind of want the air I'm just really concerned about

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the cooling cuz I'm guessing solid works probably runs inefficiently yeah and I

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think after like 5 to 10 minutes this thing will just be hitting thermal

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limits and not able to do it well not only that but the skin temperature is

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probably not going to be dangerous because Apple makes sure that it isn't

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but what it won't be is great yeah I

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don't even know if I want some bigger one I don't know the 15's pretty nice oh

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no how much more is it though I don't want to spend any more on this than I

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have to Alex fair enough yeah this seems

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fine 16 gigs unified memory 256 gigs SSD

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sure yeah how much faster is an M3 cuz everything I've heard people are just

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pretty happy with their M series Silicon regardless of what generation it is

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these days yeah not not much I'm just going to get the M2 ,000 us is enough to

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spend on a machine that I don't even want how about you are you going to

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consider pricing it all or because we're not buying you one are you just going to

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grab whatever you want off the table yeah I think it's just going to be this

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one is this an M2 or an M3 I think it's an M2 oh okay so conveniently this is

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basically what I'm getting yeah of

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course we're not done I'm also going to need a desktop or two so let's kick

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things off with a classic the iMac which

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man Alex I know you wrote up a whole bit about this thing but let's be realistic

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these small screen limited IO non- upgradable waste machines are aimed at

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the kinds of folks who desire Beauty over functionality which let's face it I

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am not so why don't we move on to something a little more practical the

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new Mac Mini I am a huge fan of this

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little beast and it was actually the inspiration for us bringing back this

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series our unit here has an M4 chip with

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a 10 core CPU a 10 core GPU and 16 gigs

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of unified memory and I don't know what impresses me more about it the

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performance the size or the cost for

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just $600 this petite pal offers a

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shocking value proposition it takes up virtually no space and it is darn near

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silent doing it however that value proposition drops off sharply as soon as

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you need more storage or memory here we are I don't think I need the M4 Pro so

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these are my base options but I also don't want to pay extra for storage I'm

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going to be using 10 gig networking for all of my storage because this is going

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to be a work machine so what I actually want is oh my God you don't even get

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double the RAM for $200 you get 8 gigs of RAM for

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$200 it's like apple took that observation that we made that their

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memory and storage upgrades cost more per weight than literal gold and they

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were like we can do

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better 100 bucks for 10 gig I don't even mind but I don't want to be $200 for 8

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gigs of RAM 16 enough I was using 15 gigs in

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Chrome tabs yesterday I'm going to get 24

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gigs

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$900 no I'm not doing it I'm over it

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$700 there is good news though you don't actually have to pay the exorbitant

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Apple tax for storage and memory if you know the right people so get subscribed

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because we plan on exploring upgrade abilities that some might consider to be

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unnatural which could be particularly valuable for purebred tab hounds or more

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realistically AI developers who could easily blast through the Mac Mini's

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maximum 64 gigs of RAM which brings us

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to the big boy the Mac Pro with 64 gigs

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of RAM as the starting configuration and a $7,000 starting price the Mac Pro

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strikes fear into any workload and into

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the wallet of any YouTuber cring enough to buy one as a flex this particular

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specimen contains a comical 192 GB of

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unified memory a 24 core CPU 76 GPU

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cores and a 32 core neural engine

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bringing the price to an eyw watering $9,600 I do have a question though given

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that this monster is still limited to M2

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series chips and our little tiny Mech

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mini over here has an M4

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how close are these in performance should we drag race them yeah I'm team

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Mac Mini let's go 3 2

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1 there's no way realistically I know the answer but whatever performance per

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volume very high and um yeah okay 24

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cores still beats 10 cores regardless of how much better those cores are absolute

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shocker do you know what else is shocking it is Alex next week we have

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three exclusives on Floatplane centered around me to well celebrate myself so

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check it out at lg. g/ alex2 now there

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is one notable Mac missing from our lineup here the Mac Studio splitting the

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difference between the mini and the uh not so mini you can option the studio

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with the wild core counts and RAM capacities of the pro but just without

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the PCIe expansion slots we do have a

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Mac Studio in the house but we weren't able to steal it because Labs is using

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it for AI stuff which makes sense that is the powerful Mac desktop that makes

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any sense oh now I pick one this one

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easy I didn't even need to look at that one oh but because we didn't choose the

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iMac I'm going to need a display as well wait what I have to choose an Apple

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display this one this is as low as the height adjust goes and this one doesn't

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have any at all okay well you have to look at them at least a all all right

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well first up is the non-display display the Apple Vision Pro which I could

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connect to my laptop or my desktop and then project a screen or screens now

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that it's been updated anywhere around my office which sounds pretty great

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except that I typically need to work longer than 1 hour at a time and if I

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spend longer than that in the Vision Pro it gives me a splitting headache I also

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can't be arriving on set with goggle marks all over my face so I think we'll

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have to move on to the studio dis display at 27 in with 5K resolution and

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600 nit Peak brightness this is a pretty darn nice monitor or at least it was in

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2025 though it's pretty difficult to stomach the $1,600 asking price for

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specs like that especially when a height adjustable stand brings the price up to

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$2,000 but hey why try to stomach $2,000

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for this when you can projectile vomit $5,000 at Apple for the pro display

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xdr okay maybe I'm getting a bit hung up on the price here but come on I'm still

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not over the fact that the stand for this monitor alone costs

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$1,000 with that said there is a lot to

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like here it's $1,600 nits Peak brightness is enough for not just an

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impactful HDR experience but conceivably enough to master HDR content on it and

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its 6K resolution allows you to have a full resolution 4K video with plenty of

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pixels left over for your timeline and your media bin of course I'm not a

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professional video editor just a professional video reviewer so what

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about oh goodness a third option the

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display that I already use on my desk at work the Asus PG 42u although the

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resolution is just 4K and the peak brightness tops out at just 1,000 nits

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not to mention that it has its own issues with respect to height adjust and

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stand maneuverability in every other conceivable way it wins over Apple's

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offerings it's OLED for perfect blacks it has 138 HZ refresh rate for snappy

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navigation is way bigger to help with multitasking oh and it costs barely more

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than the fing stand for the pro display xdr like I know this isn't an Apple

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product but I'm guessing that the vast majority of Mac Mini buyers are not

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going to be eviscerating their wallets for a display it's just so hilarious if

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you want excellent display from Apple at a fair fair price they're very happy to

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sell it to you you just have to be okay with having a laptop attached to it on

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that note I guess it's time to head to apple.com and order the laptop I'll be

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loading into my commuter backpack LT store.com all right let's get on with

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this $2500 do you know how much of a single

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GPU that could buy for me most of it actually makes it sound

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like a deal I'm getting two whole computers for less than a

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5090 place your order do a lot less gaming though actually realistically

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I'll just be playing batro so like whatever there it is great hey look my

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Apple watch says they're processing my order it's going to be interesting to

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see his perspective since he doesn't have an iPhone and doesn't have a watch

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he's not ecosystem at all

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no not stoked charge while iPhones are

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sorry if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out the one where Alex and I

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switched two Snapdragon laptops for a month or in my case much longer than a

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month yeah neither of us switched back we'll see what happens with these apples