the MacBook Air is fantastic look at this thing it is so thin it is super
duper light it is very well built and for an Apple product it isn't even all
that expensive but what if instead oh here we have the new Macbook Air 15 inch
and it is well it's still very well built but it is expensive it is quite
light but very heavy and uh I don't
think it's any more powerful why did they make this well let's have a look
all right I think you can only buy
which charger did we get uh they got the
dually Okay so it sven's currently cheering because we
got the dual power brick right here you have two 35 watt Chargers don't get this
one I really think that you'll be better off if you get the 70 watt one well
because then you know you can charge your laptop just about twice as fast and
if you really need to plug in two things instead of plugging in like here and
here you can plug in your laptop to the 75 Watts then just plug in your phone to
your laptop that's probably fine at least they gave us this though they
don't do that with the new iPhones let's see what else is in here
oh who wants an apple sticker
hell yeah thanks Apple
there we go we also have our nice little magsafe charging cable and depending on
which one you get this does have different colors and it looks friggin
sweet in the dark one now uh oh my God yeah what I noticed when I took it out
of the box is that this thing's half a chunk all right here we have an M2 air
this right here comes in at 2.7 pounds that's really good for
reference HP dragonfly 2.8 very similar
that is great 14-inch MacBook Pro this
is the M1 model 3.5 pounds so what do you think guys
where do we want this to land three pounds I think if this is like 2.9 I'll
be really happy it's not I can tell you it's not
3.3 pounds that's uh that's getting
pretty up there for something with the air name like it is really really thin
like oh can you see that it is quite thin but at the same time it is not as
light as I was hoping In fairness to Apple the surface laptop 15 inch comes
in at 3.4 pounds so they do have them
beat there and if we're honest probably in every other area although 3.3 pounds
isn't great in the past if you wanted to go for a nice large display on an Apple
device you had to get this guy right here the 16 inch which comes in at
oh 4.77 pounds that's a yeah that's
heavy and the only thing that is heavier than this is the weight of the check
that you have to write to get it all right let's have a little look at the
different sizes here so we've got the 15 inch air we have the nice 14 inch pro
and the 13 inch air which is more like
just a 14 inch device really it is quite
a bit larger even compared to the 16 inch I think it's pretty similar to that
why this is getting heavy there you go you can see the whole 16 15 14 13 all
the way down and they do get quite a bit larger at the 15. it's at least thinner
than 14. way thinner look at that now
on the right side almost nothing just a headphone jack although they still have
a headphone jack that's good I guess or on the other side we have two
Thunderbolt threes not four unfortunately and the magsafe connector
right there oh I love that sound
let's be back one of my biggest concerns
with the 15-inch MacBook Air is that as you make devices larger it's way more
difficult to keep them rigid with this as thin as it is I'm a bit concerned she
might be a bit floppy oh no that's quite
good I'm not shocked it is Apple and it has a little bit more Flex than I was
expecting but it's the entire chassis flexing which is way less worse than
there being like localized soft spots that said though
probably get a fair bit of flex like right there above track pad
it's definitely more flexible than a 13 but at the same time like it's an Apple
product I'm not surprised that it's like an A A Plus in build quality
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hopping into the 15-inch MacBook Air and the first thing I noticed is
look at that Notch why did they have to
do that right there yeah oh disgusting
look at this right here so we have the XPS 17 and Dell has been able to get
full IR facial recognition as well as a
webcam up in here look at the size of this bezel compared to the one on the
MacBook where it is the exact same size
but then Apple's gone ahead and just put this big old Dingus there hate it guys
like I know that all the Apple users are not going to complain about this because
I've just gotten used to it but it sucks
still Notch aside though this is a very
good screen the resolution is 2880 by
1864 which is kind of strange but for a
device of this size very good it's a little bit less than 4K so you are going
to have some battery improvements from that and also has 500 in its peak
brightness and full coverage of DCI P3
that is excellent I think it's also
color accurate it must be everything from Apple's color accurate that's said
though when you start comparing it to the not all that far off price wise
14-inch MacBook Pro it is a little bit
underwhelming so on the 14 inch you have a thousand nit brightness on the whole
panel 1600 nit Peak brightness on just
like a tiny little bit and that is the difference between having like a full
HDR experience on the 14 inch and just
like normal Computing on the air at the same time if you're going to be going
outside and using your laptop out there a whole bunch the extra brightness will
be much appreciated on the pro that said
though 500 nits pretty darn good on a
laptop another advantage of the 14 inches display is that it goes up to 120
hertz whereas the MacBook Air is just locked to 60. that's it I don't really
expect devices like this to have high refresh rate displays but it is a
disadvantage compared to the 14. let's see keyboard
keyboard on the 15 inch MacBook Air is sort of one step forward one step back
it feels like that they do have more travel here than the 14 and 13 inch
MacBooks but also the key stability just isn't quite what I expect from an Apple
product like if you look here I can sort of
push on the sides of the keys and they move a fair bit it's not terrible but it
just doesn't quite have the level of
just greatness that I sort of expect and
well it's kind of required of Apple laptops yeah because like I don't love
the feel of like the 14 inch MacBook Pros keyboard but it's super Snappy and
super precise so at least for short amounts of time I can be really really
quick on it I don't know if I can be as quick
on the 15 inch and like it's compared to the HP dragonfly it gets
killed like it is nowhere near the
quality of this keyboard like I can look here
there's no there's no flex at all on this key and way more travel and it just
feels so much better it's not even insanely we really need to get our
keyboard tester fully sorted out so that I can actually have numbers for this
kind of a thing but it seems like it's a
bit of a downgrade compared to the 14 inch and just not quite what I expect
out of apple even if it is really great
in like the grand scheme of all the laptops that exist that said though even
though Apple's keyboards are not quite my cup of tea you cannot argue with the
trackpad this thing is friggin massive and it is freaking great they make the
best track pads on the market and have for years and years and years and years
now there are some Windows laptops like you know the HP dragonfly that I have
right here or some Dell xps's that have
a similar ish level of track battery
that Apple has but at the end of the day Apple's let it forever and no one's
truly custom yet now on the MacBook Air you only get one choice of CPU so that's
the M2 Chip the eight core four performance core four efficiency core
version as well as a 10 core GPU and a
16 core neural engine this one that we have right here is a pretty baller tier
model with 24 gigabytes of RAM and one
terabyte of SSD although that said I think a lot of you will be very
satisfied with a bit less than that because uh we'll get to the price later
but this thing is not cheap now one thing that you guys might have noticed
is that uh there's nothing here no speakers nothing
at all that's because much like the 13-inch MacBook Air they're hidden Down
Under the hinge here but if they're anything like Apple's other speakers I
imagine they are fantastic
all right we've got the 15 inch right here and it sounds
no oh there we go
that's good that's really good 15's got a little bit more on the go oh
yeah
way more bass in the 15-inch MacBook Air
when compared to the 13 inch all right you can leave next Challenger
all right 15 inch air 14 inch pro
hmm
ah it does sound like that there's a bit more bass and a bit more trouble in the
14-inch Pro but that said this right here is the M1 version which had a bit
more aggressive of like a v-shaped EQ to
it so I actually prefer the M2 15-inch air over the 14 inch pro that's pretty
surprising that said though I'm guessing that the 14 inch M2 and the M2 air sound
very very similar
unsurprisingly the 16 inch definitely has the edge in just
pure base extension and generally probably having much larger speakers
that said though I am very impressed
with the speakers on this guy right here and if you're looking for just like a
Content consumption machine this thing will be freaking sweet like I know it
doesn't have the sear your eyeballs sort of brightness
that you get from the pro versions but
at the same time like it's not like an OLED display but the blacks on this are
very impressive and they don't have any sort of like
bleeding between the different zones it just looks freaking great oh wow all
right we are currently getting 50 FPS which is actually pretty darn good this
is looking uh much better than I thought that it would it is still low
but at the same time it is doing it that said though I think
that we should really do two runs of this because this right here much like
its smaller sibling does not have a fan so it is fully passively cooled so what
I'm expecting is that the performance will start out very good and then just
get lower and lower and lower as it continues to saturate like we've already
gone from 50 to 35 FPS
okay average FPS of 46 run Benchmark
again so last time we went into this first area at about 50 FPS 44 is where
we're starting okay so a little bit slower I don't know
it's getting up there right around the 50. maybe maybe it won't have heat soak
as badly as I thought that it would in that amount of time of time but like seriously though I'm
impressed that it's doing this at all like my expectation was us to start this
game and it to just be like
but it's doing it all right last time we got 46 now it's down to 39. so that kind
of shows you how it will perform really well but The Thermals of this are super
holding it back and the more that you try to do the slower it will be now for
the most part this is actually going to be fine so a lot of people will buy this
for like emails and just using the internet and that sort of stuff and if
that's your use case this is going to be quite a good laptop that said though if
you want to do things that are strenuous for an extended amount of time like
gaming or video editing or photo exporting a whole bunch of them
this will start to let you down now now
you can maybe just like stick a fan down here dirty style and it probably will
actually help out a lot but that said if you want to do actual work you're gonna
have to Shell out for the Pro or just
get something with Windows on the 15-inch MacBook Pro we get a 1080p
webcam and this right here looks really quite good this is a very challenging
environment where it's like dark stuff very bright stuff it is having very
little trouble just exposing for my face let's see here moving around direct
light in it not a problem it is doing pretty darn
good I do see some graininess but at the same time for laptop webcam good job
guys all right now let's see what's inside of it I am guessing a 13-inch
MacBook Air but bigger so I guess first of all we should take it for the 13.
there we have our 13-inch taken apart I
imagine it is very similar to get into the 15. now this right here requires
four pentalobe screws if you're not totally sure what pentalobe is it's a
it's Apple's Q Fastener there we go
we're inside that was easy enough let's turn this off again I'm actually pretty
surprised that this thing just turned right on while I had the bottom off a
lot of Apple devices have chassis intrusion switches which will have it so
that if the bottom isn't on you cannot turn on the laptop it is actually really
good on the Pro Models because it is theoretically at least possible to
access the data that is on your RAM while the laptop is on if you can remove
the bottom yep that's a battery
that's uh that's pretty much all that there is in
here in both of them now we can't see that there is a tiny bit more battery on
the 15 inch although according to Apple the battery life on these two is almost
identical so like you have a tiny bit more battery on the 15 but also you have
the 15 inch screen that is pushing more pixels and just consuming more power and
it about evens out to both of them having
14-ish hours of battery life
that is pretty freaking good the ability
of this M2 Chip to be able to play Tomb Raider like it did while still just
sipping power this is 66 watt hour battery being able to just keep that
going and going for a whole like 14 hours or so is super impressive I was
sort of hoping that they would have a bit of a cooling upgrade in here but
from the looks of it that's not the case there's a there's nothing in here
nothing at all all right well overall I actually really like the 15-inch MacBook
Air there are so many people out there that just simply want and laptop that
will do laptop things for you and it doesn't necessarily have to be powerful
it just has to have a long battery life pretty good looking screen all right
keyboard and it's good enough for a lot
of people that said though the make or break of this thing is going to be the
price now it starts at thirteen hundred
dollars but uh that one kind of sucks that that gets you eight gigabytes of
RAM and a 512 Gigabyte SSD which is kind
of not acceptable for a thirteen hundred dollar laptop all right hit me Sven how
much is this one 2100 USD
the one that we have with its 24 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte SSD
comes in at 2100 US dollars that is
pretty rough for that kind of a price I
would without a doubt be getting this guy right here 14 inch MacBook Pro
beautiful machine absolutely love this
thing that said though if you want to go for the 16 Gigabyte 512 version of the
MacBook Air 15. it's coming in a bit
less than the 14 inch and you are getting more screen real estate and
slightly less weight what's the price it's a bit more difficult of a decision
for sure so this right here I think is gonna be a maybe get it now if you
really like the looks but I would really wait until there's an M3 version and
then just buy the M2 cheaper so if you like this video hit like get
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