WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.400 And the new MacBook Pro, with its powerful groundbreaking features, simply has no equal. 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:10.900 Together, they join the rest of our extraordinary Mac lineup with Apple Silicon, 00:00:10.900 --> 00:00:15.400 where we continue our tremendous pace of innovation. 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.400 Thanks for joining us, and have a great day. 00:00:21.900 --> 00:00:27.600 Alright, Jonathan, what do you think? Well, it was a nice little announcement. 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:34.300 It's good to see some of the computers get the M2. I felt like the rumors were going to say, oh, we're going to just skip M2 and go to M3. 00:00:34.300 --> 00:00:41.600 But clearly not. Yes, there's a new Mac mini, which is much cheaper down the base model, which is good for everyone. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.700 And it finally gets the M2 Pro processor. 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:51.600 It's $1,300. It's a $300 price increase over the equivalent Mac M2 Mac mini. 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.000 That's the same price increase if you go from an equivalent MacBook Air to MacBook Pro. 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.900 But you get a better screen with that. I don't know what you think about that. 00:00:58.900 --> 00:01:06.000 Okay, check this out. There's this funny moment in here I need to show you. They had this montage with all these people using the Mac mini. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:10.500 And I thought this was quite funny. So, come on, play it. 00:01:10.500 --> 00:01:20.300 Okay, so she goes in. She has to plug the dongle into the back to put in this SD card. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.600 If they're going to upgrade the Mac mini, they should have at least added an SD card reader, right? 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:28.100 You may have to do that. You made a good point. 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:33.400 Apparently, the Mac mini, it's in the same chassis, but it takes up less space, right? 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.800 They obviously have the capability to add an SD port in there, right? 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:43.200 This is the one other thing I'm a little bit cheesed about. It's been the same looking Mac mini since 2009. 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:49.000 And that was a long time ago. And back then, that Mac mini had a disk drive. 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:55.600 And actually, look at this. It had an SD card reader back in 2010. 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:01.900 Like they had an SD card reader in the Mac mini 13 years ago. 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:06.500 Did they have any reasoning for taking it out? 00:02:06.500 --> 00:02:09.900 Only professionals get SD card readers, like if you get the MacBook Pro, 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:13.700 which they upgraded the processors there too. Not really much to report there. 00:02:13.700 --> 00:02:18.500 We're just going to have to see how they are, but apparently they're a little bit faster. 00:02:18.500 --> 00:02:27.300 Oh yeah, the big news as well as the new HomePod. I haven't had a chance to look at the dimensions, but less speakers, less microphones, 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:30.800 it is going to be a little less expensive than the other HomePod was. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:36.000 We'll see if this makes a difference. They're also like pitching it as like, use it as TV speakers, 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.300 which if you need to stereo pair them, that's like 600 bucks. 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:42.900 You need an Apple TV to do it though. 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:47.600 So we'll see. I can't wait to try that out actually, yeah. 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:54.500 And I think that's about it. It was just little, little announcements. I'll be exciting to try kind of just to see how the new computers work out. 00:02:54.500 --> 00:03:04.000 I do think probably for most people having a Mac mini being slightly cheaper and better is a good thing. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:09.500 What do you think is going to be the sweet spot for most people? What Mac book do you think most people are going to buy? 00:03:09.500 --> 00:03:14.500 If you're a normal person and you're just doing like web browsing, like you're not going to like have a bajillion tabs open, 00:03:14.500 --> 00:03:17.900 you probably find with a base model Mac and if you're going to go base model, 00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:22.500 then you can still get like a refurbished M1 MacBook Air or something like that. 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:29.200 But if you're like, say for instance, humming and hawing between like an M2 MacBook Air with upgraded specs 00:03:29.200 --> 00:03:33.700 or getting like a refurbished MacBook Pro, even with an M1 Pro that's base, 00:03:33.700 --> 00:03:37.800 but with the same specs, I would probably end towards that because it's just better screen. 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.900 It is way faster, that sort of thing. So there's like, there are like these kind of weird jumps. 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:53.600 You have to decide whether you're going to go up to that. But you know, there's something very compelling about the M2 Pro 14-inch MacBook Pro 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:58.700 as sort of this like sweet spot for giving you a really excellent computer that is pricey, 00:03:58.700 --> 00:04:03.600 but you could use it probably for just about anything. It's like kind of right in the middle. 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:08.500 That's sort of what I've learned. Even gaming? 00:04:08.500 --> 00:04:15.600 Come on. They were advertising No Man's Sky. They're like, wow, the new Mac Mini is console-level graphics for No Man's Sky. 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:21.200 So sure, if you want to do that, if you want to play two games, it's available. 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:25.900 I mean, there are other games, I guess, with Apple Arcade, but yeah. 00:04:25.900 --> 00:04:31.700 Can't wait to try that. If you want to do gaming, get something that's made for gaming, 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:34.400 which everyone else will tell you about here.