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are my expectations too high

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has my view of apple and their products shifted

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because everyone's noticing something poor jonathan horst i feel

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like he's gotten so much more cynical about apples since he started working i

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really think so what

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have i changed or has apple

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look at the settings page like it's just insane how small the buttons are

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people who sit near me at the office note that i moan a lot sometimes about

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things that are trivial and sometimes about things that are not

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in my recent videos i spent a lot of time complaining about the input cable

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placement on two otherwise beautifully designed displays i've complained about

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the iphone se's aged form factor and increased price and i've questioned why

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the latest ipads need an m1 though that's been answered in its own annoying

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way oh and then there are all the policy choices

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the scrappy underdog days of apple are long over and what we're left with is

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such a big and powerful company decisions they make impact billions of

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people and so with power that immense they basically become a political

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institution that means people are rightly frustrated about things like

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developer relations repair restrictions heck even updates

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i don't view having a little bit of skepticism as a bad thing in tech

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journalism one has to be a curmudgeon whizbang marketers are very good at

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conjuring up excitement for their latest products and it's very easy to be swept

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up in it all i know this and i try very hard not to

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be but i don't know sometimes i worry that my healthy skepticism might transform

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into malignant cynicism and who wants to watch that guy wouldn't you rather watch

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someone who's ecstatic about what they're covering

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and yet here i am with a brand new

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kitted out mac studio yet i have more criticism than i was expecting which is

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why i haven't done a video on it yet we ordered a fully rammed up m1 ultra model

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alongside a base m1 max model for Anthony to compare both sides of the

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performance spectrum which you can check out over at LTT that m1 ultra model however because it

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was custom took months to arrive

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so when i sat behind this m1 max model and did some of my own testing i

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realized that it performs just as well as an equivalent macbook pro the m1 max is amazing in a

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laptop but on a desktop the expectations are a little different you're plugged

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into a wall and the enclosure is bigger so you can cool more efficiency isn't as

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beneficial i mean i should concede that this

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hardware efficiency is actually really beneficial out here in the beach i mean

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we're running this off battery so i couldn't really wax poetic about

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the performance so what else is there to talk about

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the mac studio takes on the form of a much taller mac mini it's a nice if not

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dated design and in a funny irony apple now has the hardware efficiency to do

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the radical designs they did in the past and yet this is what we got

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something based on a computer that was always meant to be cheap which this

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is not you know Mac Address doesn't have a

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website wait eddie how did Linus media group make their website squarespace

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really wait are they sponsoring this video yep oh

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well then i should probably get started which will be easy with squarespace's

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all-in-one platform they have tons of mobile supporting templates for

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everything we need now and third-party extensions that can help expand our site

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with other platforms we might need in the future and andy just told me that if

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you head to squarespace.com Mac Address you can get 10 off your first purchase

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i should do that and then there's the framing that

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apple launched the mac studio with on the website and in the presentation they

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compared the mac studio to a fully specced imac in a mid-range mac pro and

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yes when you price out an m1 max apple studio with a display keyboard and mouse

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it comes out to the exact same price as a fully equipped 2020 imac at 3 900

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the m1 ultra model on the other hand looks less like a mac pro and more like

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a successor to the long discontinued imac pro because look

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both come out to six thousand dollars

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so where's the mid-range desktop you can get an m1 in a mac mini or imac or you

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can get an m1 max or ultra for that matter in this the m1 pro which is a

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good balance isn't available if you need more CPU power you have to

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jump up to the m1 max then and that might have more GPU power than you

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otherwise need to say nothing of the jump to the m1 ultra

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so my response to the mac studio is that it's a decent but confused computer

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offering only a smattering of value for a select group of professionals who are

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probably still better off waiting for the apps they rely on to better support

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apple's new architecture if you buy a fully spec 2020 imac you don't have to

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feel bad see i really had high expectations for

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the mac studio and while others were really enthusiastic about it i for some

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reason was unimpressed i think they wanted to make a 27-inch imac but for

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some reason they couldn't so we were left with these in their compromises

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there's that cynicism again i think i need to take some time to appreciate

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some of the great things apple has done much of which during the pandemic

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i love that the iphone 13 mini exists no one else makes a phone this capable and

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this small i still love how personal and colorful the imac is making it a

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statement piece for the home i love the silent performance of the macbook air i

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love their track pads i love their overall build quality and reliability i

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love seeing the return and inclusion of important io and i do like that apple

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listens albeit very stubbornly i mean we did get the mac pro in 2019 we avoided a

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bad user interface design in safari last year and we could now repair our devices

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at home i'm not gonna list the caveats i'm not

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gonna list the caveats

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across the caveats we are going to begin the transition

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from the power pc to Intel processors

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architecture transitions are hard and really annoying apples going through

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their third there's bound to be growing pains in more powerful and demanding

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applications like the ones the mac studio is designed for they are

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amplified and harder to fix so criticism can sound and feel cynical

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but i still have hope as the hardware engineers slip into their iterative

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update cadence the hard work they put into chip efficiency will be taken

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advantage by developers and the designers will be able to express

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themselves better they've already done it with the imac and the macbook pro we

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just need a little bit of patience i also have hope that as real political

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institutions recognize the power apple has they'll create finding policies

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that'll help the tech industry flourish with innovation like it did in the more

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competitive days criticism and cynicism aren't the same

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thing but too much criticism can be a bad thing because you can forget to

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recognize really great accomplishments

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i at the very least want to remain balanced enthused and excited for what's

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to come now on the other hand i won't be changing my tune about

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facebook or uber don't even get me started on those

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thanks for listening to this therapy i mean Mac Address now if you like the mac

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studio give this video a like and if you're excited about what's to come then

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you must subscribe now i'm curious in the comments where the weirdest place

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you've set up a desktop computer is because this is great