this one hasn't been easy to sequester myself from every time i know i'm gonna
be doing a ShortCircuit for a really hot product i go out of my way to learn
as little about it as possible but obviously there are things that i know
about the m1 max already like the fact
that it has absolutely taken the world by storm with its performance so this
is the 14 inch version of the new macbook pro with their m1 max
processor inside and immediately
i absolutely love what they've done with the shape of the machine that might not
seem like an important detail but for the longest time apple was making
computers that were kind of sharp you know like andy you know what
i'm talking about like they were kind of uncomfortable to hold
but man that is totally not a thing here with an
exception actually the hinge at the back where it's opened up for ventilation is
a little like you hear that
it's something you can hear in addition to just feeling every other surface of
it though just feels really great
actually think it's harder to pick up from the desk harder to pick up from the
desk because you have to really squeeze in your finger
yep i see what you mean i think it's minor as long as you've got
two hands you shouldn't have too much trouble picking it up but
it's got a lot of heft to it too i mean that makes sense so the 16 inch version
has a 100 watt hour battery while the 14
inch version has a 70 watt hour battery those are
extremely hefty considering the size of these machines and especially
considering that apple went and put one of the most efficient processors on the
market into these machines right so apple has a long and proud
history of building extremely efficient processors in their phones and then
putting weak sauce batteries in their phones when they could be putting ones
that are three times the capacity because they simply don't need to but
here they went you know what full ham
we're going efficient processor and we're going to put a giant battery so
the 16 inch is actually at the limit of what you are allowed to put in a device
that can be carried on to an airplane 100 watt hours as usual i need to
disclose that i'm invested in framework inc they make laptops nothing like this
one but they definitely do make laptops okay
this is cool one of the big things that
the internet's wondering about with the m1 max is hey they've got all of this
GPU power right we've got this 32 core
GPU whatever that means but how does that actually compare to the kind of GPU
that you might find in a pc laptop i mean apple made comparisons to NVIDIA's
rtx 3080 mobile and depending on the
application so for some productivity applications
that has actually not looked that crazy
but then if you've got all that power what about gaming so we've actually
preloaded this machine with deus ex mankind divided which i'm going to fire
up in a minute here but first i just want to i just want to tinker around
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
this is something i think apple could do a better job of it doesn't happen that
often but there are times when i find myself wanting to open up the hinge of
my laptop a little bit more than this i mean this even goes back to when i was
still in university and sometimes i would walk around on campus with
wireless b wireless b andy 11 megabit
per second and i would actually have my machine completely opened up 180 degrees
and i'd be like happy tapping on something while i'm walking around from
one place to another remember this is before like touchscreen smartphones so
like okay maybe it's not part of your life but it
is something that i still find myself doing once in a while the
pulling rate on their track pad i would say is it could be better for a 120
hertz display you can see there's some irregularity in the gaps between cursor
movements but it's good it's not bad
can you game on trackpad i wouldn't try to game on a trackpad that's really
that's really not the point now obviously the most controversial thing
about the new m1 max and m1 pro macbooks
is the notch i've seen arguments both
ways i've seen arguments that it matters a lot because you might have a whole
bunch of stuff lined up in whatever apple calls this and they can
actually end up hidden by the notch and you can actually see that instead of
taking the approach that they have with the iphone where that
part of the screen simply doesn't exist they've actually made it so it does
exist like you could move your mouse
quite substantially on this phantom portion of the screen
back here and this is a trend that apple is not the only one to be responsible
for so microsoft in their most recent surface device actually has rounded
corners and you can end up hiding the cursor behind it personally i'm not a
fan um i i wish there was another way but i
also recognize the validity of the arguments that go well look other than
the area with the notch this is a 16x10 display which basically everyone in the
know agrees is the ideal aspect ratio
for consuming computer content it's not that
far off 16x9 which is what a lot of your tv shows and youtube videos are going to
be rendered out at but it gives you that extra little bit
of vertical for scrolling documents you know whether you're reading something on
reddit or whatever the case may be in it you want another couple of tracks in
your timeline for you know adobe premiere or final cut it really does
make a big difference something apple has done a really good job of here
actually better than the iphone now that i look at it
is matching the blackness
of the display being off
to the blackness of the blank part where there is no display
and that's a minor thing but it is something that i notice on their other
devices like on the iphone you can clearly see where the notch is
like without a lot of effort you see that on here
it's a lot harder to pick up and it's those little things that contribute to
the distraction of features like this now i'm not going to sit down with this device for long enough to draw a final
conclusion about how distracting the notch is going to be
fundamentally i oppose bites out of displays
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
right now i want to fire up some HDR content
wow that's actually that's really impressive right there
uh like i've been saying about the last couple generations of phone displays
unless you've got like a multi-thousand dollar tv this is probably going to be
the best screen in your house which is kind of mind-blowing to think
about even though microsoft has managed to
achieve some level of HDR in mobile this is clearly on an entirely different
level what's the peak brightness of this thing
1600 nits i mean content like this i'm not even
going to be benefiting from that that maximum that's freaking awesome
especially when you consider the kind of battery life that apple is boasting for
this machines like what did they say 14 hours of web browsing on a single
battery that 14 hour quad is for the 16 inch version and they quote 21 hours of
content consumption on apple tv while the 14 inch version is still pretty darn
impressive it's 17 hours of apple tv and 11 hours of web browsing i haven't
actually tried the new keyboard yet
it's got a bit of a clang to it
okay i definitely have some thoughts in terms
of deck stiffness outstanding any of the flex that you're seeing right
now is probably due to the three and a half millimeter thick desk pad that's
sitting under this device as opposed to any kind of
lack of stiffness of the chassis here by the way lttstore.com i find the
bottoming out a little bit mushy and i still find that these super short travel
keyboards are in my opinion really great for bursty
type things so like sending ims which obviously you'll be able to do because
you know imessage integration on the mac or whatever else but i have a hard time
kind of sustaining speed on them compared to something with a bit of a longer travel but for most people who
aren't spoiled by 100 to 200 dollar you
know desktop mechanical keyboards this is gonna be the best keyboard in the house you know what i mean
no touch bar yeah no touch bar i mean honestly because i never actually tried
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
do i reserve my anger at apple's unnecessary nonsense for things like the
lack of integration of face id if you're gonna have a gigantic notch there
or the uh fact that apple still refuses to put
a touch screen on the mac because they simply have decided that people don't want
those things um that that's ultimately the reason they provided for sticking with touch id
apparently was because touch id is like
better because your hands are on the keeper no it's not better as someone who
has daily driven Windows hello i can tell you unequivocally that it is not
better to have to touch the keyboard in any way
now i do understand the challenges you might look at something like a phone and
go well they can put face id in a phone then surely they can put face id in here
but it's a thickness issue so the camera element for face id is actually quite
thick it's a lot of the thickness of the iphone and they just don't have enough
space in the top of the clamshell now i'm sure
that these are problems that apple could solve because they're very smart people
they could put something like the dot projector yeah i don't know somewhere else or something i'm i'm sure they
could figure it out but they didn't and now they're just making excuses oh yeah
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
to say because there's really no room for an opinion on this apple adding more
ports to their professional device is objectively an improvement megsafe
welcome back Thunderbolt heck yeah three and a half millimeter jack which is
apparently suitable even for high impedance or more difficult to drive
headphones hey thanks absolutely makes sense for something like this
HDMI the only thing missing to me is i would
have actually rather had a single usb type a
rather than this third type c but i've also seen opinions to the contrary where
people are saying well look i've already invested in the dongle ecosystem because
i've been stuck with it i don't want to throw it on my dongles let's like not go
back let's not go back in time but i don't think usb a is going back in
time i don't think it's going anywhere for a lot
of devices um sd card though welcome
welcome back welcome back sd card i had said uh on the WAN Show i said that yeah
sd card maybe not as big of a deal as it used to be now that so much camera media
is not sd but people brought up to me that okay
well you know what about drone enthusiasts or bras pie enthusiasts or
all these other developers like all these other people that might need to use an sd card it's definitely a thing
that professionals beyond just cinematographers are going to benefit
from and hey i read you guys loud and clear i
have high expectations for the speakers on this it is amazing how much bass they
pack into these like tiny little speakers isn't it and it's
actually punchy like it doesn't suck
sorry i can't hear you andy
busy like djing on my mac pro dog just
listening to them i can pretty much guarantee you're gonna get a nicer profile
on a hard surface
that's impressive between microsoft dell and apple the bar is so high now for
laptop audio that if you're not putting a ton of work into
software tuning your speakers you're just not going to be able to be competitive it's that simple sarah did
up these uh little ShortCircuit banana for scale
plushies so if you were wondering how big the laptop is
here's your here's your banana here's your banana for scale they're a touch
bigger than a normal banana we actually need a banana for scale
for the the banana but it was just a limitation of how
how skinny you can make them yeah the length is about right the length is about right but it's it's girthier and
as we all know that's the most important thing anyway so you guys can check these out ltteststore.com
thanks jono we've got different colors too we're going to get to gaming really
soon but there's a couple of other things i wanted to talk about apple has
thrown their pro moniker on a lot of products i feel like over the years that
have not necessarily deserved to be called pro
but in this case the upgrades over the regular m1 macbook
are just they're all so pro focused so instead of being limited in terms of how
many displays you can connect with the max version of the processor for max
you can have up to three 6k 60hz displays so those are going to connect
to your Thunderbolt 4 ports and an additional 4k HDMI display and again
that's going to be 4k 60 hertz because this is an HDMI 2.0
rather than 2.1 port but still four external displays like
this thing is actually mobile battle station capable as opposed to just being
a laptop that's like a little better so it's pro
i didn't even mention the core count 10 core CPU up to 64 gigs of RAM i believe
they can do up to like eight terabytes of storage these days
now let's play some fidget games shall we
deus ex mankind divided running at ultra on a lot on a mac
what okay this frame rate is not great um
but ultra at this kind of resolution on a mobile device is also
not reasonable let's turn it down to something not stupid
i don't want the low frame rated ultra to undermine how impressive it was that
it was even running it that well this is a demanding game oh hi there buddy
okay oh they're there too and i'm dead
i was about to say the fan kicked in
it's still like pretty quiet but it also hasn't been
under this kind of load for an extended period of time here yet let's give it
some time to ramp up ah oh no please don't come back
no you died by the pillar
fan's going now but it's a whoosh not a
okay drive malay melee it's running a little choppy
okay i have three rounds left up there
hold still got him
and this display even though this is not an HDR game looks so good
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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
every configuration of the new m1 mac
pros and m1 max max