1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,640 How much do you think this laptop costs? 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,800 This MacBook. Which one is this? The M1? 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,880 It's an M1. That's like $800. Seven fifty USD. 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,080 Four thousand dollars. Really? 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,440 Twenty seven hundred. I told you I don't say numbers. I was gonna say fifteen hundred. 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:24,240 Fifteen hundred dollars US. Eight ninety nine or something. How much do you think this HP? 7 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:28,240 Horizon five. Five hundred. Eight hundred nine hundred. 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,560 Five ninety nine. Eight fifty. Nine hundred and fifty. 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,560 Twelve hundred. Twelve? 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,400 The MacBook is six hundred and fifty dollars. Six hundred what? 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,520 Six fifty. What? What? 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,520 And this PC is six hundred and sixty. 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,680 They're brand new. They're brand new. 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,920 I don't even, you don't even use Macs. My eight gig is a little rough. 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:58,920 We'll find out. When Apple released the M3 MacBook Air earlier this year, 16 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,920 they discontinued the venerable M1 MacBook Air from 2020. 17 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:09,920 Except they didn't. Because Walmart stepped in and started selling the M1 brand new for seven hundred dollars 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,920 before further discounting it this summer to six fifty. 19 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,920 It's actually mind-boggling because Apple never sells a laptop for this price. 20 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,920 It's cheaper than what they charge in the refurbished store. 21 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,920 And it kind of shakes up an assumption many of us have when buying a laptop, 22 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,920 which is that one can get a faster, more featured Windows laptop for cheaper than any Mac. 23 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,920 When I was in college I did confront this when buying my first laptop 24 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:37,920 and because the equivalent Macs were around three to four hundred dollars more than the HP I was looking at, 25 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,920 I bought the HP. It had a fingerprint reader that they supported for one year. 26 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,920 But how does that change with a MacBook that's only six hundred and fifty dollars? 27 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,920 To find out, I went hunting for a PC best suited to fight against this MacBook 28 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,920 and came up with this. 29 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,920 It's the HP Pavilion Aero 13. 30 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,920 At the time of writing, it was on sale for only six hundred dollars. 31 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,920 The one I have, however, has the sixty dollar high resolution display upgrade. 32 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:12,920 So it's a bit more. This is not a bad looking laptop, 33 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:16,920 really channeling the classic lines and proportion of the MacBook Air. 34 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:19,920 It's like two weighing in at a spelt one kilogram. 35 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:29,920 Power wise, it's no slouch. It has a Ryzen 5, 8640U, 16 gigabytes of RAM, and 512 gigabytes of storage. 36 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:32,920 Both of those are double that found in the MacBook. 37 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:37,920 And the M1 is getting to be an old chip hitting its fourth birthday come November. 38 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,920 In my tests, the M1 did the same thing. 39 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:46,920 In my tests, the M1 did start to show that age compared to the x86 Windows chip. 40 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:50,920 The Mac still has impressive single core performance in Cinebench and Geekbench, 41 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:57,920 but the Ryzen's extra two cores and multi-threading push it slightly ahead when all the cores are lit up, though not by much. 42 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:03,920 However, Blender's benchmark exposes the MacBook's greatest weakness, memory, or lack thereof. 43 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:08,920 The Monster and Classroom benchmarks show the two chips performing quite close to each other, 44 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:11,920 but Junk Shop outputted a conspicuously low number. 45 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:17,920 And when running Blender's GPU benchmark, the Junk Shop stage filled the memory and did not finish. 46 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:27,920 I got no results. If you are interested, I did run these tests on a 16 Gigabyte M1 MacBook Air with the extra GPU core they offered back in the day. 47 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:34,920 And having both of these upgrades does push the GPU performance results far ahead of the HP, but neither are available anymore. 48 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:40,920 So yes, 8GB is quite stingy, especially considering that we get on an iPhone these days. 49 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:49,920 In an $1100 M3-powered MacBook Air, it's unacceptable, but because the M1 is an older, slower, and less expensive chip, it's less of a bottleneck. 50 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,920 And to be fair to Apple, I saw lots of 8GB Windows laptops in this price range too. 51 00:03:54,920 --> 00:04:02,920 In the real world, when browsing on the HP in edge with a bunch of tabs open, it gave me a couple of memory full warnings. 52 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:07,920 Of course, this is thanks to me clicking between tabs and surfing sites full of advertising cookies. 53 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,920 And so I opened up the same tabs and apps on the MacBook to see how it fared. 54 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,920 Yes, the memory filled up. Yes, memory pressure pressed into the yellow. 55 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,920 Yes, SWAT memory was utilized. But it didn't feel slow. 56 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,920 The caveat here is that macOS is using SWAT memory, which is using the storage SSD. 57 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:31,920 And if you fill that up too much, which you will because there's less space, your computer will slow down. 58 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,920 And perhaps even more surprising, the Sims runs slightly better on the MacBook. 59 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,920 In War Thunder's benchmark, it appears that the Ryzen performs much better. 60 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,920 But more so, macOS has a microscopic list of supported games. 61 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,920 So if you want to go beyond these two, you'll want to get the HP. 62 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:54,920 Though I should note that with its integrated graphics, this is categorically not a gaming laptop. 63 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,920 I'm actually quite impressed with how cool the Ryzen runs. 64 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:05,920 Yes, it has a fan and can get a bit audible, but it gets nowhere near as hot as Intel chips I've used in older MacBooks. 65 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,920 And I should note that playing the Sims, the MacBook gets as hot as I've ever felt it. 66 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,920 Oh, and look at the ports. This is a selection I could only dream about. 67 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:24,920 HDMI 2.1, USB-A, and the Ryzen chip can output up to three external monitors alongside the built-in display. 68 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:29,920 A major improvement over the M1's single external display limitation. 69 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,920 You can also upgrade the storage if you think the generous half a terabyte isn't enough, 70 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,920 as the HP is easily serviceable and the storage isn't soldered on. 71 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,920 You can't upgrade the MacBook Air even at checkout. 72 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:49,920 The basic skew it is. Oh, and despite being modular, the HP's SSD is notably faster too. 73 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,920 So, for out-now performance, the HP is the way to go. 74 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,920 It is simply faster and more capable. 75 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,920 But as a package, the MacBook is still better. 76 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,920 For one, it has doubled the battery life. 77 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:11,920 Even this two-plus-year-old unit will last me an entire day with about eight hours of screen-on usage. 78 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,920 I'm lucky to get half that with the HP. 79 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,920 Then there's the trackpad. Apple's glass-clad Force Touch trackpad is perfect. 80 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,920 While the HP's surface feels good and is responsive enough, 81 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,920 the physical click requires a lot more force. 82 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,920 And so it feels more exhausting to click my way around Windows. 83 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,920 It's not so bad if you just tap through, but I can't get used to that. 84 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:39,920 It's the same story with the keyboard. It's solid, if a bit slappy sounding, but the key actuation requires more force. 85 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:45,920 That said, the HP has longer key travel, and others who try to here have an easy time typing accurately and quickly with it. 86 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,920 Too bad there's so much flex under the board, though. 87 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,920 If you're used to Apple keyboards like I am, you really have to calibrate for that. 88 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,920 On the other hand, I think the M1 MacBook Air has the best keyboard they fitted to any laptop, 89 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,920 even compared to the newer models. 90 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,920 These inputs really do reflect the differences in build quality. 91 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:14,920 The HP is lighter in your bag, but the recycled metals and ocean-bound plastics do feel cheaper than the solid chunk of aluminium the MacBook is hewn from. 92 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,920 I mean, look, you can't open it with one finger. 93 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,920 Back in 2020, Apple upgraded the display on the Air to produce nearly every colour in the DCI-P3 gamut. 94 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,920 HP's upgraded panel, while matching in pixel count, can't show as many colours, 95 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,920 only offering full coverage of sRGB, though it is a bit brighter. 96 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,920 Oh, and the speakers. The MacBook Airs are the weakest Apple make, 97 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,920 but as long as you don't run them at full blast, they are still better than the HPs, 98 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,920 which sound exactly like laptop speakers. 99 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:51,920 I'm relieved to see that software bloat on Windows laptops has gone down since the days when I bought mine. 100 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,920 Meanwhile, Apple keeps turning on iCloud photos with every update when I don't want it. 101 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:03,920 And while that brings them closer together, Windows is still very busy. 102 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:09,920 If I was looking for a laptop for school right now, I'd pick the MacBook. 103 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:15,920 Yes, the HP is more capacious and powerful, but only slightly. 104 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,920 The MacBook, however, is a much better package. 105 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:27,920 We've never really been in a place like this where a MacBook is so inexpensive it touches on value PC territory. 106 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,920 It's a great place to be. Thanks for discounting this Mac Address. 107 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:38,920 I'm curious in the comments below who among you would be able to live with this M1 MacBook Air 108 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,920 because you'd get a great deal if you can. 109 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:48,920 And if you want to watch another video, you can check out the one where I bought the worst Mac that Apple was selling at the time. 110 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,920 That was not a good deal. Not even close.