the books we just spent over seven Grand
so we can unbox them for you and uh probably make Mac people mad we're gonna
do the 14 inch first because I like it more the 16 is too heavy
smell of Apple products when you first open them absolutely fantastic this
smells like how a new laptop should smell excellent job guys big feature
here for the M2 generation the mag safe
port or adapter coming is color matched
to your laptop oh stickers oh we know
what happens when there's stickers in the Box it's one of the worst things I've ever done
MacBook Pro that's what it is normally in these it tells you to plug it in and
turn it on I don't see that here so I'm going to be absolutely lost for the
charger we get 67 watts and in my experience using the 14 inch MacBook Pro
this thing gives you battery life fast
it is absolutely fantastic how it just it just crams those electrons into the
battery like what zero to a hundred percent and like a little bit over an
hour I think and oh my God it's so heavy here we have the 16 inch we now know
that's a different color than our 14 and the charger we get in here is a 140
Watts that's a lot of juice especially for a laptop like this I've got the XPS
15 let's just make everyone mad there we go everyone's mad now one thing that is
annoying about this tile of charger is that the whole power brick plugs
directly into the wall and it means that you might not be able to use the outlets
that are around it now it is possible to
get an extra cable that goes on here but it's not included in the box and like
Andy do you know anyone that's done that
yeah they used to include it in the Box they don't anymore
In fairness Andy brought me this cable right here and it is just a standard
Connection in this but uh that looks kind of terrible
it does work all right let's have a look at how much these gentlemen weigh here's
the 14 inch three and a half pounds
16 inch is 4.8 pounds I honestly thought
that it was more than that but if we compare that to how's the XPS 15 I think
that's right around the same 4.3 so that is going to be noticeable old 14 inch
3.5 and finally representing thin and lights
we have the HP dragonfly 2.8 pounds so that's way less weight and also very
expensive and not very powerful have a gander at the i o here so on the
14 inch we have headphone microphone combo two Thunderbolts magsafe charger
right on the other side we have HDMI it's now HDMI 2.1 thank you that was
very necessary Apple support for external displays terrible we also have
another Thunderbolt 4 and a full-size SD card reader man I absolutely love that
16 inch is basically the same unsurprisingly the build quality is
exceptional we can push pretty hard on it here barely any Flex anywhere like
I'm really giving her on the keyboard there's like a tiny bit of deflection
it's fine same with the 16 inch I don't even have to touch it but you all know
that Apple makes very well made products
oh now one thing that really really
annoys me about these is the way that you open it there's a little indent
right here which means that you naturally are going to open it right
there in doing that every single time that you open it you put a fingerprint
right over your webcam which means that
every single time that I go on a video call it looks like that there's Vaseline
all over because I've been fingerprinting it every single time that I open it and then it's kind of like ah
crap I look terrible and then you go and have to go like that and it's kind of
weird they're opening it wrong I'm open how am I supposed to open it Mr Jake
don't dig your finger don't dig my fingers face look at where your thumb is
when you look it's funny do you not have fingerprints over your webcam no
no okay bring it over here the whole thing's disgusting but particularly your
webcam right here oh it's so can you
guys see this MacBooks aren't even touch screen on my screen it's disgusting well
I wasn't planning on disk speed test being our first thing that we do but it
is very important because Apple are
so in the 14 inch MacBook Pro much like
they did on some of the earlier revisions of their laptops you're
getting ssds an SSD is made up of a bunch of
different like chips that you put on and having more of them is better because
you can access them in parallel instead of just one at a time and now on this
guy right here even though it is a metric buttload of money you only get
one which means that compared to our 14 inch that we have right here it should
be worse at disk stuff I don't know if we can accurately compare these
unfortunately my 14 inch has a terabyte
SSD well this isn't a perfect test but let's run it and just see what happens
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are seeing considerably less performance on this SSD not that it's really fair
but so yeah it is not a perfect test but
we've been running the good old disk speed test for a while now and we are
seeing pretty consistent a lot faster on
the old one like nearly double it's like actually thrashing it at SSD stuff so
yeah it's just worse that sucks Apple you shouldn't have done that for the
specs on this guy we get 10 CPU cores so
that's six performance cores and four efficiency cores we also have 16
gigabytes of RAM and a 512 Gigabyte SSD that is slow now first of all compared
to when they had the butterfly switches this is just so so much better but it's
not a perfect keyboard now I would give
this a really strong a but probably not
an A plus but I am noticing some very
slight inconsistencies in the key so like if I'm pushing on the side of this
one I can get a fair bit of deflection
whereas like over here it feels a lot stiffer like I'm not able to deflect
these nearly as much like the S key way stiffer side to side it wouldn't be a
huge issue but there isn't a whole lot of throw and there also isn't a whole
lot of feedback when you press them so I find it sometimes a little bit confusing
with my fingers to know exactly what I'm doing again very good keyboard but it's
not the best on the market what is the best on the market though is the
trackpad everybody knows Apple's track pads fantastic they still do it is to
the point where Windows laptops have caught up so like the trackpad on the HP
dragonfly I like it a little bit more not a lot more but it's like they're in
the same league they're both a pluses which one you like more just kind of
depends on what you like well it's not an A plus though look at this
wow I sure wish that I had a touch screen if only Apple you know had a
device where they already did the r d to make one of the best touch screens on
the market oh wait they did they make the iPad but they just can't
make it work on this damn it guys I know
a lot of people are going to be like oh I don't need a touch screen on you're
wrong I like touch screens a lot and I'm the one that's doing this review so I'm
getting mad about it moving over to the 16 inch the specs again fantastic
so it's a 12 core CPU a performance course four efficiency cores the ball is
a 38 core GPU I don't really know exactly what that means but you can't
really game on it anyway so it doesn't really matter on this one we also have
32 terabytes of RAM wait that's one we
also have 32 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte SSD now once again keyboard's
fantastic it's an A but not quite an A plus this trackpad though man especially
on the 16 inch in a lot of situations on
Windows laptops they just don't have the budget to develop two separate skus for
the trackpad so you might get like Dell is pretty bad for this on the XPS where
they have an amazing track pad on the 15
inch you can see it right here it takes up almost all of this space but then on
the XPS 17 they just reuse this trackpad
and don't use up all of that whereas on the MacBook yep all of it this is this
the largest trackpad that you can get on a laptop probably is Jake just asked if
the Palm rest and everything's good yeah it's fantastic they have gone a little
bit sharp on the edges here so sharp edge there if we look over here
sharp edge right there don't like it I absolutely love
hp's pillow Corners having a rounded
over corner right there is just so nice for your wrists that said these are both
more than large enough for my hands to fit on it so not really an issue all
right let's have a look at the display here and I don't even really need to
look at it to just tell you it's absolutely fantastic the resolutions are
a little bit strange so it's 3024 pixels by 1964. on the 16 it's 34
56 by 22 34. I don't really know why
they chose those resolutions but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter
display is fantastic now they do claim 1600 nit Peak brightness which it does
do but that's like if you have HDR content and there's like a little break
blip right there that's going to get to 1600 if the whole panel's white or
whatever you're not going to get that it's going to be more around like 500
ish doesn't matter still one of the best on the market it can be argued that the
OLED on something like the XPS 15 is
better just because of the black levels now I don't know if you can tell here
but the black levels on the OLED screen of the XPS 15 just absolutely murder the
Macbook so if you are going to get something with an OLED display
especially in dark situations it's gonna look better that said in bright rooms
MacBook wins and also the largest
problem with OLED displays is battery drain I would very very happily take a
MacBook with the liquid retina that actually gets like 15 16 hours compared
to this piece of that gets like four so our options are Counter-Strike and
Shadow of the Tomb Raider I just want to see what games I can actually play on
this I mean I don't even care about the performance having uh what was a 38 core
GPU does not matter if all that you can
play is shadow of the Tomb Raider okay so of the games that I regularly enjoy
rocket league is what I can play on this we are getting 32.8 megabytes per second
down this does have Wi-Fi 6E that's one
of the big upgrades for the M2 but that seems
fine I'm quite certain that I've seen like
40 50 megabytes per second down here on Windows laptops well rocket League
downloads let's have a little speaker shoot out
all right new one old one
I think I like the new one more they've taken the EQ and sort of softened it a
bit so the old one had a lot of extra bass and a lot of extra trouble this one
right here I think the quality of the components is the same but they've just
taken her a little bit more flat so the highs are a bit less harsh and the bass
is a bit less muddy I like it let's
compare it to the dragonfly
murdered absolutely murdered this sort of thing where before I was saying that
like I liked the sound of the HP more
than the MacBook because it was just way clear now that they've fixed the EQ I
like the 14 inch MacBook Pro more
I think we have to call that one a draw those are incredibly similar sounding
speakers now it's 16 inch time can it beat the XPS 15. all right 16-inch
MacBook Pro
16 inch MacBook Pro wins not by a lot
but the highs are just a little bit smoother and the base is a bit less
crunchy it's a better sounding device now that said some people in the
comments are probably going to be like oh remember through this microphone
through YouTube compression through your speakers that are probably trash that's
not how they actually sound just just trust what we're saying now gaming
despite steam saying that there's Max support for Rocket league if you have an
M1 or M2 you can't play it fantastic wow
I love gaming on Mac it's such a good time Sidetrack a bit here but these are
very good laptops with a lot of battery life and a lot of good things going for
them and I just cannot use one now Mac
OS is fine if you're used to Windows you
can get used to macOS in like a week doesn't really matter vice versa they
all do essentially the same crap problem is there's a lot of applications that
only work on Windows that simply do not run on Mac I need to open up SolidWorks
files fairly regularly can't do it on this simply not an option there's loads
of other just like weird controller softwares and like Niche engineering
things and so on doesn't work on this piece of in
the past when you had the Intel chips you could just you know install
parallels and stuff and it worked and now you can't so if you want to run
SolidWorks on this you don't you go out and buy an XPS 15. the flip side of this
of course is if you are going to be a
filming person like an Andy over there everything creative wise Works fantastic
on this you've got the good old SD card reader
stick her in load all your photos and fantastic you've got the display it's
all going to look really good and run very fast one of the things Apple has
apparently upgraded quite a bit on this is the webcam now is it acceptable to
have a notch we haven't brought up the notch yet but just in general thoughts
on the notch yeah it's actually not all that bad but
also it just looks terrible it's especially on something like the 14 pro
with the M1 it's like oh good job guys you got an absolute tier 720p webcam in
this much space like how did they manage
it when people like Dell look at this look at how much space they have for a
webcam that is of the same tier oh and they also have IR facial recognition
here Apple doesn't give you that yeah where's your face ID come on they spent
all that time and money figuring it out and they have the freaking space first
thing we need to uh make this realistic and simulate how you're going to open it
up wow that uh looks pretty bad it is
definitely way better on the new one though so here we have the 14 inch
MacBook Pro M1 I'm going to clean her off now and that
didn't help a whole lot but at the same time this is a perfectly usable webcam
we have a very difficult scene right
here so very bright light very dark stuff it doesn't care it's properly
exposing for my face for the new 1080p webcam it is just
clearly better like the 720p one looks like there's a softening filter on my
face because it just doesn't have the pixels for it this one just looks way
more natural like you know it's just very clear on the 1080p one that like
you know it looks like that I have makeup on on the 720p because it just
isn't sharp enough to I don't know look
at my face like it actually is now comparison
here we have the HP elitebook dragonfly
which instead of a 1080p webcam has a
1440p webcam here is the 16 inch MacBook
Pro and moving over to the HP elitebook dragonfly and I think Apple's taking a
win in this one right here but the way that it's exposing for my skin and like
the tones just look so much more natural on the MacBook compared to HP HP is
still good and I guess it has higher resolution enough that really matters
but I'm kind of like a weird orangey tone like I'm
very red looking whereas MacBook you
know it's the winter time I am very white at the moment and it is accurately
reflected right here and here is the big issue with the 14
inch so we can see we have 512 gigabytes
of storage and it is all right there on
the old one we have two little storage chummies and it would have been very
easy for Apple instead of buying one 512 to just get two 256's put them right
there you would have a much faster SSD and that is unacceptable on something
that's this expensive now one kind of interesting thing about the new 14-inch
also is that it looks like the heat sinks a little bit smaller or not even
the heatsink but the cold plate on top of the CPU GPU this means that probably
they've made just the die size smaller and maybe not the die size but the
package size smaller for the CPU GPU and it's just right in here that doesn't
really matter performance wise it's just kind of interesting for the 16 inch you
get one heat pipe now it is actually amazing the level of performance that
they're able to get out of something with this medium tier cooler situation
this is the sort of thing where Apple has such an efficiency advantage that
they can get away with just worse Cooling than everything in this class
and it's fine because well efficiency it's great let's have a
look at the battery so on the 14 inch you get a 70 watt hour battery it
absolutely poops on everything Windows
like not even comparable I am using the HP dragonfly that's about as close as
you can get and that's not a powerful laptop another thing that's very notable
about the efficiency that we have in here is that the power that you can get
with this on battery is very similar to
the performance that you can get with it plugged into the wall with a lot of
Windows machines particularly with Intel's really fast and Hot Boys you
will have a massive performance drop when you go from plugged in to out and
on the go it sucks it it's just something that Apple simply does better
also on the 16 inch we get a 99.6 watt
hour battery hundreds the max that you can take on a plane so excellent work
that's as good as this could be and again battery life how often do you
charge your laptop Jake Never yeah exactly you can legitimately go two
weeks without plugging this in and it is fine but there's one thing that I need
to discuss Windows modern standby except
it's on Apple this time and I've been having very similar issues it's not very
often but particularly when kind of like Jake said you can go two weeks without
charging your laptop on those occasional times where it just drains itself for no
reason like forty percent to zero in a you Chuck it in your bag and leave it
can actually be a travesty because it's so good normally that you might
just have left your charger at home or at work or somewhere and you open up and
you're like oh me now if you do have your charger again it charges these
really fast so it's not a huge huge issue but I am very disappointed that
Apple has the same kind of a problem just shows you laptops are not phones
they don't always need to be connected to the internet and stuff please just
good old sleep totally shut her down now the price you guys know that Apple
devices are expensive and these are also very expensive but at the
same time it's kind of Justified these days so the 14 inch comes in just under
two grand if you want something that just has lots of battery beautiful
display and pretty good everything else the Windows doesn't have an answer right
now like they're just simply as nothing else that is able to get that kind of
battery life and that kind of power same with 16 inch there's about 3 400 you buy
something like the XPS 15 which is sort of the closest competitor it is cheaper
but the battery life is not even close not even in the same league you have the
OLED display on this thing six hours max away from the wall and a lot of the time
I'm getting more like four it's so big
of a gap in the battery life that yeah if you don't need to do engineering
buy one of these like seriously they're fantastic and you know what's also
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