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this one hasn't been easy to sequester myself from every time i know i'm gonna

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be doing a ShortCircuit for a really hot product i go out of my way to learn

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as little about it as possible but obviously there are things that i know

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about the m1 max already like the fact

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that it has absolutely taken the world by storm with its performance so this

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is the 14 inch version of the new macbook pro with their m1 max

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processor inside and immediately

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i absolutely love what they've done with the shape of the machine that might not

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seem like an important detail but for the longest time apple was making

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computers that were kind of sharp you know like andy you know what

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i'm talking about like they were kind of uncomfortable to hold

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but man that is totally not a thing here with an

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exception actually the hinge at the back where it's opened up for ventilation is

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a little like you hear that

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it's something you can hear in addition to just feeling every other surface of

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it though just feels really great

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actually think it's harder to pick up from the desk harder to pick up from the

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desk because you have to really squeeze in your finger

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yep i see what you mean i think it's minor as long as you've got

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two hands you shouldn't have too much trouble picking it up but

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it's got a lot of heft to it too i mean that makes sense so the 16 inch version

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has a 100 watt hour battery while the 14

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inch version has a 70 watt hour battery those are

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extremely hefty considering the size of these machines and especially

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considering that apple went and put one of the most efficient processors on the

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market into these machines right so apple has a long and proud

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history of building extremely efficient processors in their phones and then

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putting weak sauce batteries in their phones when they could be putting ones

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that are three times the capacity because they simply don't need to but

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here they went you know what full ham

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we're going efficient processor and we're going to put a giant battery so

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the 16 inch is actually at the limit of what you are allowed to put in a device

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that can be carried on to an airplane 100 watt hours as usual i need to

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disclose that i'm invested in framework inc they make laptops nothing like this

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one but they definitely do make laptops okay

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this is cool one of the big things that

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the internet's wondering about with the m1 max is hey they've got all of this

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GPU power right we've got this 32 core

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GPU whatever that means but how does that actually compare to the kind of GPU

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that you might find in a pc laptop i mean apple made comparisons to NVIDIA's

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rtx 3080 mobile and depending on the

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application so for some productivity applications

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that has actually not looked that crazy

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but then if you've got all that power what about gaming so we've actually

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preloaded this machine with deus ex mankind divided which i'm going to fire

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up in a minute here but first i just want to i just want to tinker around

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with a little bit just take it take it for a quick take for a quick test drive

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well i was like i was actually oh okay that's as far out as it opens

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this is something i think apple could do a better job of it doesn't happen that

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often but there are times when i find myself wanting to open up the hinge of

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my laptop a little bit more than this i mean this even goes back to when i was

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still in university and sometimes i would walk around on campus with

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wireless b wireless b andy 11 megabit

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per second and i would actually have my machine completely opened up 180 degrees

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and i'd be like happy tapping on something while i'm walking around from

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one place to another remember this is before like touchscreen smartphones so

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like okay maybe it's not part of your life but it

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is something that i still find myself doing once in a while the

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pulling rate on their track pad i would say is it could be better for a 120

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hertz display you can see there's some irregularity in the gaps between cursor

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movements but it's good it's not bad

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can you game on trackpad i wouldn't try to game on a trackpad that's really

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that's really not the point now obviously the most controversial thing

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is the notch i've seen arguments both

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ways i've seen arguments that it matters a lot because you might have a whole

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bunch of stuff lined up in whatever apple calls this and they can

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actually end up hidden by the notch and you can actually see that instead of

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taking the approach that they have with the iphone where that

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part of the screen simply doesn't exist they've actually made it so it does

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exist like you could move your mouse

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quite substantially on this phantom portion of the screen

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back here and this is a trend that apple is not the only one to be responsible

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for so microsoft in their most recent surface device actually has rounded

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corners and you can end up hiding the cursor behind it personally i'm not a

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fan um i i wish there was another way but i

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also recognize the validity of the arguments that go well look other than

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the area with the notch this is a 16x10 display which basically everyone in the

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far off 16x9 which is what a lot of your tv shows and youtube videos are going to

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be rendered out at but it gives you that extra little bit

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of vertical for scrolling documents you know whether you're reading something on

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reddit or whatever the case may be in it you want another couple of tracks in

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your timeline for you know adobe premiere or final cut it really does

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make a big difference something apple has done a really good job of here

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actually better than the iphone now that i look at it

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is matching the blackness

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of the display being off

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to the blackness of the blank part where there is no display

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and that's a minor thing but it is something that i notice on their other

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devices like on the iphone you can clearly see where the notch is

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like without a lot of effort you see that on here

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it's a lot harder to pick up and it's those little things that contribute to

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the distraction of features like this now i'm not going to sit down with this device for long enough to draw a final

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conclusion about how distracting the notch is going to be

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fundamentally i oppose bites out of displays

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but i'm not going to say that i wouldn't be able to get used to it because i'm just not spending enough time with it

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right now i want to fire up some HDR content

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uh like i've been saying about the last couple generations of phone displays

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the best screen in your house which is kind of mind-blowing to think

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about even though microsoft has managed to

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achieve some level of HDR in mobile this is clearly on an entirely different

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level what's the peak brightness of this thing

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1600 nits i mean content like this i'm not even

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going to be benefiting from that that maximum that's freaking awesome

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especially when you consider the kind of battery life that apple is boasting for

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this machines like what did they say 14 hours of web browsing on a single

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battery that 14 hour quad is for the 16 inch version and they quote 21 hours of

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content consumption on apple tv while the 14 inch version is still pretty darn

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impressive it's 17 hours of apple tv and 11 hours of web browsing i haven't

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actually tried the new keyboard yet

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it's got a bit of a clang to it

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of deck stiffness outstanding any of the flex that you're seeing right

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sitting under this device as opposed to any kind of

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lack of stiffness of the chassis here by the way lttstore.com i find the

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bottoming out a little bit mushy and i still find that these super short travel

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keyboards are in my opinion really great for bursty

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you know imessage integration on the mac or whatever else but i have a hard time

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kind of sustaining speed on them compared to something with a bit of a longer travel but for most people who

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aren't spoiled by 100 to 200 dollar you

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know desktop mechanical keyboards this is gonna be the best keyboard in the house you know what i mean

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no touch bar yeah no touch bar i mean honestly because i never actually tried

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to daily drive the touch bar i don't have the same kind of anger about the touch bar that i think a lot of people

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do i reserve my anger at apple's unnecessary nonsense for things like the

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lack of integration of face id if you're gonna have a gigantic notch there

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or the uh fact that apple still refuses to put

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a touch screen on the mac because they simply have decided that people don't want

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those things um that that's ultimately the reason they provided for sticking with touch id

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apparently was because touch id is like

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better because your hands are on the keeper no it's not better as someone who

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has daily driven Windows hello i can tell you unequivocally that it is not

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better to have to touch the keyboard in any way

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now i do understand the challenges you might look at something like a phone and

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go well they can put face id in a phone then surely they can put face id in here

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but it's a thickness issue so the camera element for face id is actually quite

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thick it's a lot of the thickness of the iphone and they just don't have enough

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space in the top of the clamshell now i'm sure

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that these are problems that apple could solve because they're very smart people

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they could put something like the dot projector yeah i don't know somewhere else or something i'm i'm sure they

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could figure it out but they didn't and now they're just making excuses oh yeah

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megs i haven't even talked about ports how do we make it this far without talking about ports i don't have a ton

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to say because there's really no room for an opinion on this apple adding more

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ports to their professional device is objectively an improvement megsafe

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welcome back Thunderbolt heck yeah three and a half millimeter jack which is

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apparently suitable even for high impedance or more difficult to drive

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headphones hey thanks absolutely makes sense for something like this

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HDMI the only thing missing to me is i would

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have actually rather had a single usb type a

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rather than this third type c but i've also seen opinions to the contrary where

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people are saying well look i've already invested in the dongle ecosystem because

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i've been stuck with it i don't want to throw it on my dongles let's like not go

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back let's not go back in time but i don't think usb a is going back in

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time i don't think it's going anywhere for a lot

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of devices um sd card though welcome

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welcome back welcome back sd card i had said uh on the WAN Show i said that yeah

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sd card maybe not as big of a deal as it used to be now that so much camera media

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is not sd but people brought up to me that okay

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well you know what about drone enthusiasts or bras pie enthusiasts or

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all these other developers like all these other people that might need to use an sd card it's definitely a thing

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that professionals beyond just cinematographers are going to benefit

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from and hey i read you guys loud and clear i

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have high expectations for the speakers on this it is amazing how much bass they

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pack into these like tiny little speakers isn't it and it's

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actually punchy like it doesn't suck

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sorry i can't hear you andy

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busy like djing on my mac pro dog just

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listening to them i can pretty much guarantee you're gonna get a nicer profile

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on a hard surface

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that's impressive between microsoft dell and apple the bar is so high now for

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laptop audio that if you're not putting a ton of work into

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software tuning your speakers you're just not going to be able to be competitive it's that simple sarah did

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up these uh little ShortCircuit banana for scale

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plushies so if you were wondering how big the laptop is

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here's your here's your banana here's your banana for scale they're a touch

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bigger than a normal banana we actually need a banana for scale

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for the the banana but it was just a limitation of how

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how skinny you can make them yeah the length is about right the length is about right but it's it's girthier and

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as we all know that's the most important thing anyway so you guys can check these out ltteststore.com

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thanks jono we've got different colors too we're going to get to gaming really

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soon but there's a couple of other things i wanted to talk about apple has

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thrown their pro moniker on a lot of products i feel like over the years that

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have not necessarily deserved to be called pro

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but in this case the upgrades over the regular m1 macbook

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are just they're all so pro focused so instead of being limited in terms of how

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many displays you can connect with the max version of the processor for max

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you can have up to three 6k 60hz displays so those are going to connect

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to your Thunderbolt 4 ports and an additional 4k HDMI display and again

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that's going to be 4k 60 hertz because this is an HDMI 2.0

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rather than 2.1 port but still four external displays like

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this thing is actually mobile battle station capable as opposed to just being

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a laptop that's like a little better so it's pro

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i didn't even mention the core count 10 core CPU up to 64 gigs of RAM i believe

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they can do up to like eight terabytes of storage these days

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now let's play some fidget games shall we

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deus ex mankind divided running at ultra on a lot on a mac

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what okay this frame rate is not great um

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but ultra at this kind of resolution on a mobile device is also

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not reasonable let's turn it down to something not stupid

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i don't want the low frame rated ultra to undermine how impressive it was that

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it was even running it that well this is a demanding game oh hi there buddy

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okay oh they're there too and i'm dead

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i was about to say the fan kicked in

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it's still like pretty quiet but it also hasn't been

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under this kind of load for an extended period of time here yet let's give it

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some time to ramp up ah oh no please don't come back

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no you died by the pillar

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fan's going now but it's a whoosh not a

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okay drive malay melee it's running a little choppy

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okay i have three rounds left up there

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hold still got him

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and this display even though this is not an HDR game looks so good

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this isn't the full review though this is ShortCircuit get subscribed for more

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working on it for quite some time and we're gonna have a bunch of follow-up content we actually bought

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every configuration of the new m1 mac

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pros and m1 max max