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The MacBook is dead.

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In my last video I talked about all the problems that it had, but Apple just announced a brand

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new MacBook Pro that aims to fix everything that was missing and then some.

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So here's why I'm excited to get my grubby hands on one.

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There are a lot of headlines with the new MacBook Pros, there's MagSafe, more ports,

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on top of the two brand new M1 chips, now called M1 Pro and M1 Max.

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I'll dig it to them in a bit, but let's first take a visual look at what's changed.

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Still available in silver and space gray, the new MacBook Pro's design is a bit of a departure

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in that it's very asymmetrical. The design of the bottom reminds me of the corners of the OJ Intel MacBook from 2006.

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The top screen is flat edged like the new iPad or the old titanium power book that started

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Apple's Pro Laptop Revolution 20 years ago.

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Actually, even the black keyboard calls out to that old laptop too.

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And as I predicted, the touch bar is gone.

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RIP in its place is a function row with full height keys to make it easier to change the

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volume. The ports are a big deal with the new MacBook, bringing back things that really shouldn't

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have been removed in the first place. HDMI, an SD card slot, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, and most remarkably, MagSafe.

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Yes, it has returned, and no, the MacBook is not compatible with your old charger.

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But this time around, MagSafe is now a detachable cable that on the charger end plugs into USB-C.

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So you still have the flexibility if it frays, or the only cable you have around is a USB-C

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cable. Really, the best of all worlds, finally.

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The displays have grown and are massively improved now. The smaller laptop stretches to 14 inches across, while the larger model is still 16

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inches. It only looks bigger. Most notable is the addition of Adaptive Pro Motion, which increases the top refresh

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rate to 120Hz. But when there's not a lot of action on the screen, it drops the refresh rate to save

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battery. And when you're watching a movie, it matches the frame rate of the content.

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The panels are Liquid Retina XDR, with a 1600 nits peak brightness and mini LED contrast

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ratio. This solution is now up to 254 pixels per inch for both.

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With... what aspect ratio? I think the cinema's aspect ratio rating is going to make a comeback.

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So that would be 1.55 to 1 versus 1.6 to 1 in the outgoing MacBook.

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But wait, is there a notch?

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There's a notch on the MacBook Pro screen now. I'm not one of those people who hates the notch on the iPhone, but this notch, which

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contains the much-improved 1080p webcam, but no face ID, blocks the middle of the task

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bar. And what's going to happen in full screen mode? Are they going to have to redesign Safari and other apps?

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I'm not too sure. But I'll investigate in my review, subscribe to find out.

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It's super interesting that there are two brand new chip options, one of which I wasn't

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even expecting. Okay, the performance. The chips.

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Apple announced two new chips in the MacBook Pro, dubbed M1 Pro and M1 Max.

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They are the next layers in Apple's ARM transition.

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For Apple, the name of the game here is both increased performance and efficiency, and

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they raced through this announcement I could barely keep up. The CPU isn't the big story here, though it gets an increase to 10 cores.

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Where Apple has put its focus on is GPU, memory, and machine learning.

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And that's really where the differences between the M1 Pro and Max lie.

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The M1 Pro is available with 14 or 16 GPU cores, and for video editors like me, has

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a hardware accelerated media engine for encoding and decoding the most popular formats, along

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with ProRes. Now, looking at Apple's chip product shots, here it appears that the Max features a duplicated

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GPU, so up to 32 cores, with additional engines for faster video encoding and decoding.

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This is going to be great for video editors.

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This additional module in the M1 Max increases the unified memory to up to 64 gigabytes, and

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memory bandwidth to 400 gigabytes per second, up from the 200 in the Pro.

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Another big boon for professionals is that the Max will support up to 4 external displays,

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with the Pro only supporting 2. Apple made a bunch of charts to show the differences between other laptops in the class, and while

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I don't know how they quantify performance, these charts were really about efficiency.

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And these MacBooks have some crazy sounding battery life.

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Apple claims the 14 inch should get around 17 hours of battery life, while the 16 inch

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will get up to 21 hours. Me wonders how much the more powerful CPUs will affect battery life.

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Regardless, you'll be able to fast charge to 50% in half an hour.

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Another interesting thing about the different chips is both are available on the small and

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large MacBook Pros. And there are a lot of SKUs to choose from.

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So will the performance be a bit different because there's more space to dissipate heat

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on the 16 inch model? Another thing to investigate.

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Pricing wise, a base 14 inch now starts at $2,000, and a base 16 inch will set you back

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$2,500. This is $200 and $100 more than the outgoing models respectively.

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Oh, and if you do want an M1 Max, you will have to upgrade the memory too, so that can

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be a $900 upgrade. Keeping a reasonable amount of storage and maxing out everything else on the 16 inch

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will set you back $3,900.

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Yikes. As for me, I really like the idea of a maxed out 14 inch that I could just dock to the

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desk and use for everything. It could be one computer to rule them all.

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It wasn't just MacBooks that got announced. There are three new colors of the HomePod Mini, which should match your yellow, orange, or

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blue iMac nicely. There are also new AirPods.

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These third generation AirPods appear to be like AirPods Pro, but without the silicon

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tips. The new design is supposed to hold into your ear better.

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The charging case supports MacSafe, that's kind of cool. It's got an IPX4 rating for sweat and water resistance.

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It has force touch and better battery life. It has spatial audio and an adaptive EQ.

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Actually, looking at the comparison chart, these really do appear to be AirPods Pro without

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some features. My concern is still that the mesh is too close to the tips.

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It looks just ready to eat earwax.

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There are $180 while the old second gen model remains on sale for $130 now.

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Alright, thanks for sticking through this Mac Address.

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If you like the new MacBook Pro, give this video a like.

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If you're mad about the notch, then why not subscribe. I was kind of surprised by the amount of skews available in this MacBook, so I'm curious

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if you were to get one, what model you'd order.