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words cannot express my excitement to check out the new

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24-inch m1 imac

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why because honestly guys i've been

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doing a lot of soul searching and deep down i just really don't

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think i'm that into pc anymore i mean

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who wants all those choices for

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motherboards and displays and

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graphics cards when i could just have one choice

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the color actually there's a little more to it than that there's three main tiers

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of the m1 imac hold on gotta just gotta open the

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box oh just trying to get the you open the

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thing and it moves the thing you know what let's talk about the

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performance differences between the tiers a little bit later because first

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i just want to get hands on with this thing it

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how is really thin

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you know what it kind of reminds me of in terms of proportions

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a gigantic ipad

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but with a huge chin on it i

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wow i am like blown away

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by how light this thing is meanwhile over on the pc side the concept of a

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thin client is like a little nook or

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something that you bolt to the back of the vase amount on your monitor but then

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apple goes well i mean why don't you just put the whole computer in a

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gigantic chin bar this is the top tier model so it comes with some things

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that the base ones and even the mid tier one don't starting with

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four type c ports on the back now every model

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gets two Thunderbolt slash usb4 ones

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but only the mid tier and upper tier ones get an additional two usb

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3 ports other than that we've got the same 500 nit peak brightness four and a

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half k display the same 1080p webcam which i am

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extremely excited about i mean we're getting a

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apple's mobile processing on it and b

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finally decent freaking hardware for a change and

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the same microphone array that apple claims gives this thing

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best in class performance both from an audio input perspective and actually

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ah yes there's our i mean sort of like a downward firing

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sound bar there's all the internal speakers along the bottom you get the

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same headphone jack power button and all that good stuff but where they

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differ is in the accessories and actually in

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the internal starting of course with the magic

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keyboard if you go with the base model you do not get touch id on the top right of your

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magic keyboard from my part i think that's honestly

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already a deal breaker for me for the base model patch id is freaking awesome always has

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been kind of always will be from my perspective usbc to

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lightning charging cable we can put that away for now presumably there will be

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enough charge to get started we ah yes good old magic mouse who needs

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to be able to use it while you're charging it if it can be used for

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hours after only a few minutes of charge that's

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the kind of interruption to my work day that i need in my life

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they have made a conscious decision not to fix it

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this puppy right here this is the optional

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upgraded power brick that has apple's new magsafe connector

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so just go ahead and i mean does it just

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grab on look at that wow it really grabs

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doesn't it and gigabit Ethernet and i was really

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curious how they were doing the data right because obviously this can't just be

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you know 12 volt and ground right so there has to be data lines in here and

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it turns out that they've got a really clever little

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kind of um triangle shaped guide

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on two sides of the center of the magsafe connector

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which means it can only go in two ways so you've got what is essentially a

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reversible connector that's got 12 conductors which would be

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enough for usb 3. i wonder if it's just

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lightning but is that i know lightning is not quite standard usb 2 because i'm

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trying to think if that's even fast enough for gigabit

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imagine being apple and just being able to like invent your own standards for

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things for those of you wondering about the graphic that i've got on here by the way

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this is from dbrand who sent over this ipad and sponsored this video

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and they have this is going to be a

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big launch for them i can already tell because this thing looks fantastic

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this is the black colorway for it but you can see that the overall

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pattern is going to have a common theme and that's that it has this kind of

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folded steel look like damascus steel

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which also happens to bear a lot of similarities to the top prestige skin

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in call of duty they've got their hollow green one which i've seen already they i

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think they have a couple of other ones coming and man on pretty much anything this is

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going to look absolutely sick as always with dbrand skins

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they are perfection fitted they've got great guides online that you can use to

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make sure that your application is absolutely perfect

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and their configurator is fantastic it allows you to see exactly whatever your

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device will look like with whatever combination of skins and on whatever combination of surfaces

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you prefer so go check them out we're going to have them at the link in the video description again they

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said they really didn't like the look of the black one on this i think it looks great

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so maybe i'm just tasteless but maybe check out some of their other skins for

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your imac if this doesn't do it for you but we're not quite done with the differences yet there's two more that

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apple tells you about one is that the mid and higher tier are

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available in three additional colors so you get it in yellow orange or purple

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in addition to blue green pink and silver and they both come with an eight core

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GPU rather than a seven core GPU the last difference that i'm aware of

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anyway is that the mid and upper tier one both come with two

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cooling fans instead of one so it is possible that that second

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cooling fan is only necessary because of the eighth GPU core but it's also possible

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that there could be slight performance differences between the base and mid and upper tier we don't know we

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haven't tested it yet this is the first time i'm opening it i guess if i spent the extra i might as

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well get a plug an Ethernet cable in right i

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um i'm gonna sound a little spoiled here

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but i have to confess i had kind of forgotten how small 24 inches is

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it does not feel like a

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um thirteen hundred dollar starting at

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computer size anymore that's interesting now i mean i can see why they

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have a product in this size class you know dental offices or you know whatever

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like they need computers too but yeah that is not a big display anymore

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look at that got my verification code on my apple watch it just

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works okay there's the map of

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not where i am i'm actually over here somewhere but don't worry about it

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that's what she said if people can't find their mouse cursor they just go

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like this and then it gets big and then they can find it sorry it's just going through apple's

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new secure data storage facility in china they like

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built it in collaboration with a chinese government run entity

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instead of hey siri sure why not hey siri open the documents

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folder wow that was so much faster than just clicking on it one really nice thing about the apple

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ecosystem is that default encryption look at that do

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you want to use file vault to encrypt the disk on your mac heck yeah i do and we can set up touch

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id is so amazing just bring back touch id

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on the iphone just make the apple logo on the back a touch sense everyone wants it oh dark mode

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nice neat

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okay i'm just gonna have to do the first thing that i do which is turn off true

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tone because don't understand why it exists now let's

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talk about the difference going from this one to the high tier model because on

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their website they've kind of got good better best it is pre-upgraded from 256 gigs of

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storage to 512. and then you can just take the mid-tier one and upgrade to 512 gigs of

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storage if you want and then it will be exactly the same thing so really there's only two tiers and

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just like any m1 based machine so mac mini macbook

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air macbook pro you're going to be limited to a maximum

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of 2 terabytes of storage and 16 gigs of RAM which again back to

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you know dental offices and the kind of places that you'd be able to fit a machine like this

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is honestly probably fine because you're running safari right you're on a mac

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you're not running chrome or anything boy that really is a clever idea for

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cable management having the network cable just like run somewhere else and then

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they go and ruin it by not putting the usbc on the bottom of the stand or

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something like that god that'd be awesome but then you wouldn't be able to put it

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on a monitor ARM which we all know many of these are destined to end up on

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so all that's left now then is to prompt you guys to make sure

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you're subscribed to Linus tech tips because the one and only Anthony young will be

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