1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,700 this is a MacBook Air M1 it's an 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:08,940 interesting color I would call this more of a salmon than like a rose gold or 3 00:00:07,319 --> 00:00:12,960 anything this is the old style chassis you got the wedge you got two ports on 4 00:00:11,759 --> 00:00:20,400 the side here I think you got nothing over here aside from a headphone jack yep and it's the same old MacBook Air we 5 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:22,640 all know and perhaps love what I have in here 6 00:00:22,740 --> 00:00:29,760 brand new M2 MacBook Air for whatever reason we 7 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:34,920 still have it in a shipping box so I'm just gonna get this out of here what how 8 00:00:32,279 --> 00:00:39,420 does this even work oh okay oh yeah it's one of these fancy Apple 9 00:00:36,780 --> 00:00:43,620 shipping boxes it is a big L most MacBooks you just see the 10 00:00:41,940 --> 00:00:46,860 front of it but the MacBook Air they've always shown the side profiles to show 11 00:00:45,180 --> 00:00:50,879 how thin it is and I guess in this case they've chosen it open to show that it's 12 00:00:49,620 --> 00:00:55,980 even thinner because it has to be thinner than the last gen every time except I don't think it is this time on 13 00:00:54,539 --> 00:01:01,020 the back of the box we can see that we have a base model spec I believe this is 14 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:06,360 eight gigs of unified memory with a 256 gig SSD so this is going to be slow by 15 00:01:03,239 --> 00:01:09,360 comparison to the 512 or higher SSD 8 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:11,640 core CPU and 8 core GPU so I think the 17 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:16,380 higher spec version has a 10 core GPU if I'm not mistaken and that's about all 18 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:20,939 you got on the back of the box just like with the MacBook Pro I don't 19 00:01:18,540 --> 00:01:26,759 think you'll find M2 listed anywhere on the back of this box 20 00:01:22,439 --> 00:01:29,159 Apple stop okay here let's do a 21 00:01:26,759 --> 00:01:33,240 a peel of sorts yeah there we go man I said there was 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:37,799 something in the air there's also grass in the air I'm allergic to grass so if 23 00:01:35,340 --> 00:01:42,780 I'm a little loopy or that's why here we go this is the oh this is the the new 24 00:01:40,619 --> 00:01:47,759 like midnight black is that what it's called Midnight that is black like for 25 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:52,460 comparison that's space gray if you like black laptops you're gonna love this 26 00:01:50,220 --> 00:01:58,020 they are very similar in terms of size that's interesting the feet I think help 27 00:01:55,380 --> 00:02:02,219 give it more height it rests the same height so the the lids are about the 28 00:02:00,119 --> 00:02:07,979 same height off of the desk but uh the area is thinner along with our two 29 00:02:04,619 --> 00:02:09,899 Thunderbolt 4 ports we have magsafe 30 00:02:07,979 --> 00:02:15,420 which is something you don't get on the M2 Pro you can actually get better 31 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,040 expansion out of the M2 air simply 32 00:02:15,420 --> 00:02:21,120 because you don't have to plug in a charger or a power delivery capable dock 33 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:24,599 which is a nice feature and on the other side we just have that headphone jack 34 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:28,620 which I think is high impedance I'm not entirely sure and I mean that's really 35 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:32,160 all there is to the MacBooks exterior like oh there there's a little bit of 36 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,580 Engraving there you can see for the uh I guess the model and serial number one of 37 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:39,959 the things that makes the new Air stand out from the old air is the old Air had 38 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:42,959 that wedge shape whereas the new one is entirely flat let's take a look at the 39 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,540 keyboard and I know it's going to power on yeah 40 00:02:46,140 --> 00:02:52,200 oh but it looks so good like this colorway look at it there is a touch ID 41 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:58,739 sensor for your fingerprint the keys themselves I think they're the same Keys 42 00:02:54,780 --> 00:03:00,720 you would find on this 14 inch pro 43 00:02:58,739 --> 00:03:03,840 they feel pretty much the same if you would like to learn how to use 44 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:07,980 voiceovers stop well wait for this to set up let's get 45 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:12,000 into the rest of the box here because I kind of Dove right in on the laptop so 46 00:03:10,019 --> 00:03:15,980 we've got this here charger this is a 30 watt charger probably make this smaller 47 00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:21,540 with the correct gallium nitride Arrangement this is mag safe it's 48 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:26,220 supposed to not tangle as much with what with the braiding and all but it kind of 49 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:32,000 angled on me it's kind of amazing how shallow the current gen magsafe is 50 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:37,019 that is a perfect match and of course it's 51 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:40,560 magsafe so why does it do dark mode out of the box 52 00:03:38,940 --> 00:03:44,760 it knows what model this is it should know what color it is too there we go 53 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:47,640 now it matches I think the air is a little bit brighter it could just be 54 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:52,920 that the screen is actually just bigger which is a huge advantage to the MacBook 55 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:59,519 Air compared to the MacBook Pro the the bezel sorry I got sidetracked with the 56 00:03:56,700 --> 00:04:04,620 universal control feature well what was I saying um Benadryl the MacBook Air has 57 00:04:02,519 --> 00:04:09,840 a 13.6 inch screen whereas the MacBook Pro has a 13.3 inch screen there's much 58 00:04:07,739 --> 00:04:13,920 less bezel around the edges you do have the notch but you get this extra screen 59 00:04:11,819 --> 00:04:19,320 real estate up here for free plus you don't have the menu bar in that viewable 60 00:04:15,659 --> 00:04:22,919 area on the pro on the air 2560 by 1600 61 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:26,580 on this guy 2560 by 1664 on this guy 62 00:04:22,919 --> 00:04:29,520 those extra 64 pixels are the menu bar 63 00:04:26,580 --> 00:04:34,620 at the top Pros display is srgb whereas this one is DCI P3 do you see that 64 00:04:31,979 --> 00:04:38,759 stuttering on the MacBook Pro yeah you're right this looks like yeah yeah 65 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:42,419 this looks really bad it's not running in 60 FPS god what the hell is wrong 66 00:04:41,220 --> 00:04:46,800 with this thing for a minute I was convinced that the MacBook Air had 120 67 00:04:44,580 --> 00:04:50,820 hertz panel the reason being the MacBook Pro is stuttering and I have no idea why 68 00:04:49,259 --> 00:04:55,500 now this battery is not fully charged it's at like 25 there's nothing going on 69 00:04:53,699 --> 00:04:58,919 in activity monitor they both have the same 70 00:04:56,699 --> 00:05:03,900 brightness setup right now I don't know kind of ridiculous for an Apple device 71 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:08,160 you never get that the UFO test still thinks that it's 60 72 00:05:05,940 --> 00:05:12,360 hertz over here too but it is it is definitely 60 hertz over here supposedly 73 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:18,720 these have the same color spaces given the the billion color uh claim but the 74 00:05:15,479 --> 00:05:20,840 xdr obviously is xdr this is just a flat 75 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:26,220 display okay let's get the uh M1 MacBook Air 76 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:31,519 opened up here I mean we have to test the speakers of course 77 00:05:32,039 --> 00:05:38,940 it's actually really good 78 00:05:38,940 --> 00:05:45,900 interesting it seems like it's more balanced it's pretty good 400 nits 500 79 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:49,800 nits of course you're still not getting that HDR I wonder what dbrand is going 80 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:53,039 to do with the new MacBooks thanks to dbrand for sponsoring this video they 81 00:05:51,479 --> 00:05:58,319 sent over some special skins that they're only going to be oh limit 82 00:05:55,380 --> 00:06:00,740 limited time oh my God is this actually a product 83 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:08,520 book 2022 M2 oh my God it's Greg book 84 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:13,440 you asked for this we don't know why while watching WWDC we had two questions 85 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:18,720 for Apple what the hell are you doing with these Transitions and how can we 86 00:06:15,479 --> 00:06:20,340 profit off them typical dbrand they can 87 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,819 only answer one of these questions and it's by turning Craig into an M2 MacBook 88 00:06:22,860 --> 00:06:28,860 skin Jesus I'm I'm not surprised I'm sorry dbrand 89 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:35,220 you told me to be surprised I'm not surprised this is is normal for you now if you guys are 90 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:39,600 crazy like the people at dbrand go to dbrand.com craigbook and buy this I 91 00:06:38,819 --> 00:06:44,940 guess or don't you can buy other dbrand skins that are less ugly but apparently they 92 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:51,120 want you to buy this one so buy this one just do it okay I guess next we'll do a 93 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:56,099 webcam test I believe this is using a 720p whereas this is a 1080p FaceTime 94 00:06:54,419 --> 00:07:01,080 camera comparing the webcam between these two it looks like the 1080p 95 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:04,800 FaceTime camera is an upgrade over the 720p but it's not as big an upgrade as 96 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:10,340 you might think it is the image processing is very similar on both 97 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:15,060 um wait okay yeah we're looking at different 98 00:07:11,819 --> 00:07:17,880 walls Benadryl it's surprising how good 99 00:07:15,060 --> 00:07:22,500 the signal processing is on the Apple silicon platform it's just really good 100 00:07:19,860 --> 00:07:27,479 this is the elephant in the room when it comes to the new Macbook Air this 101 00:07:24,060 --> 00:07:30,900 MacBook Air M1 has a 256 gig SSD this 102 00:07:27,479 --> 00:07:32,400 MacBook Air M2 has a 256 gig SSD what 103 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:38,699 Apple did was they switched from having a multi-chip to having a single chip SSD 104 00:07:35,699 --> 00:07:40,979 for the same capacity at 256 gigs and 105 00:07:38,699 --> 00:07:48,120 you can see already that our performance is not super amazing we've got 3387 106 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:51,720 megabytes per second read sequential on 107 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:53,599 the M1 pretty much exactly half that a 108 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:59,039 little bit more than half that on the M2 these speeds are still very high now it 109 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:03,720 looks like the random reads I think that's Q depth one is pretty close 110 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:07,560 that's a good sign for General usability and that's probably why Apple felt that 111 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:11,940 it was okay to do this actually it looks like the M2 is a little bit faster than 112 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:15,000 the M1 in terms of random rights and that might make a little bit of sense 113 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:19,440 that storage controller might actually be a little more capable if you're going 114 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:23,280 to buy a MacBook Air I would suggest buying the upper end model versus the 115 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,940 base model because the upper end model I think comes with a 512 gig SSD which 116 00:08:25,259 --> 00:08:30,960 would be faster and it comes with those extra GPU cores which are definitely 117 00:08:28,919 --> 00:08:35,219 faster and the better charger just upgrading the storage alone is a 200 118 00:08:32,580 --> 00:08:38,820 upgrade on the Us website that makes it a no-brainer to get the higher end model 119 00:08:37,260 --> 00:08:43,740 straight up like why would you buy the base model Creative Cloud alone 120 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:49,200 we'll take a big chunk of that as will xcode as will Final Cut and that all 121 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:53,820 adds up I I would prefer the extra room afforded by a 512 gig SSD personally you 122 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:57,779 can also get a one terabyte or two terabyte SSD as well instead of just the 123 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:03,360 512 I would probably upgrade the memory personally eight gigs is not a lot 16 124 00:09:00,180 --> 00:09:06,019 should be standard okay let's grab 125 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:11,459 the M2 Pro as well three two one 126 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:17,040 obviously we know that the M2 equipped Pro is slower than the M1 Pro equipped 127 00:09:14,399 --> 00:09:22,440 MacBook Pro it should be faster than the M1 equipped MacBook Air as it was then 128 00:09:20,220 --> 00:09:25,140 the N1 equipped MacBook Pro honestly I don't know why they couldn't fit a fan 129 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:30,180 into the MacBook Air like a tiny little fan I guess they just didn't want the whiny noise it already looks like 130 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:33,959 cinebench is going to complete in a very similar time frame in any situation 131 00:09:31,980 --> 00:09:39,360 where you're not racing to sleep the M2 air is going to be just as fast as the 132 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:43,860 M2 Pro I don't understand why this exists yeah I'm looking at the pricing 133 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:48,180 here for the base model MacBook Pro 13. it's a little more expensive than the 134 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:51,180 base model MacBook Air but you do get 135 00:09:48,180 --> 00:09:52,560 that 10 core GPU and you get a fan and 136 00:09:51,180 --> 00:09:57,060 the touch bar if you care about that which are the only real upgrades you're 137 00:09:54,360 --> 00:10:02,339 getting over the MacBook Air for the upgraded MacBook Air you're looking at 138 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:06,779 14.99 and to get the same upgrade you're 139 00:10:02,339 --> 00:10:10,500 looking at 14.99 for the MacBook Pro 140 00:10:06,779 --> 00:10:13,380 why so for the pro you're getting 141 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:17,040 a fan the touch bar at the expense of the function keys which are full height 142 00:10:15,060 --> 00:10:20,339 this time instead of these half height things on the old errors and you're 143 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:23,459 getting a slightly better battery I like the air a lot better than I like the pro 144 00:10:21,779 --> 00:10:27,120 and if you're already looking at buying a Macbook I would say buying MacBook Air 145 00:10:25,140 --> 00:10:31,019 instead of the MacBook Pro at least for the 13 inch model with that being said I 146 00:10:29,279 --> 00:10:34,680 guess now we take it apart maybe I'll end up breaking it wouldn't 147 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:38,889 that be great I've got a body count going you know 148 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,779 picks 149 00:10:43,579 --> 00:10:48,600 oh this is always really annoying 150 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:53,880 getting this to move okay so I think it pulls this way 151 00:10:51,779 --> 00:11:00,660 there we go four screws battery a force touch track 152 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:02,519 pad okay there's our speakers 153 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:06,839 those speakers are actually larger than I expected they would be it's not as 154 00:11:04,860 --> 00:11:10,680 held down as I would expect for an Apple device I think this is all mostly 155 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:14,640 heatsink to be honest with graphite tape yeah one thing that 156 00:11:13,140 --> 00:11:18,300 I've always really liked about Apple's designs is that they've always gone out 157 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:22,320 of their way to make the internal look nice even though they don't expect or 158 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:25,260 want anybody to ever look at it neat well I'm not going to take the battery 159 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:31,079 out or the cooler off because we're gonna have to test The Thermals and everything on this later I've seen 160 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:35,100 people ask me like oh well you opened it up you disturbed The Thermals 161 00:11:33,420 --> 00:11:40,140 oh engage those clips 162 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:45,860 oh oh 163 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:45,860 I tore a big strip off my thumb 164 00:11:50,060 --> 00:11:55,860 well if you liked this uh injurious uh 165 00:11:53,940 --> 00:12:00,300 ShortCircuit uh hit like and get subscribed make sure you check out some 166 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:04,680 more of them there are plenty of them not all of them contain Grievous bodily 167 00:12:02,339 --> 00:12:07,100 harm but hey sometimes they have violence