1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,720 The last several years has been a tough time to be a PC laptop guy. And I'm 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:13,519 going to give you five reasons. M1, M2, M3, M4, and most recently M5. We've got 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:19,039 the new MacBook Pro with their M5 processor, which doesn't change much, 4 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:22,480 but if we're being honest, probably doesn't need [music] to. By the way, I'm 5 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:27,840 an investor in Framework. Do you like my hoodie? Damn, that's cool. Inside the 6 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:32,320 box, we get a MagSafe power cable that's got a type-C on one end and a Mag Safe 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:38,079 on the other. Okay, not everybody's super into it, but I love the Mag Safe. 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:42,640 Clumsy guy. Under here, we've got, lo and behold, an Apple product that still 9 00:00:40,239 --> 00:00:45,120 comes with a power brick. I don't think that's new, though, is it? Let's have a 10 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:51,039 look at some more things that aren't new. On the right side, we've got a full-size SD card reader, Thunderbolt 4 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:55,360 port, HDMI 2.1 port, none of which are new. And on the left, we've got our Mag 12 00:00:52,960 --> 00:01:01,760 Safe, two more Thunderbolt 4 ports, as well as an amplified 3 and 12 mm jack. 13 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:04,479 Not new, but definitely appreciated. 14 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:08,320 Flipping it open, we've got macOS Tahoe. Now, that's new. And I've 15 00:01:06,479 --> 00:01:11,920 actually got a few key features that Apple highlighted here. The first of 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:16,880 which is, of course, liquid glass. So, translucency and transparency on some UI 17 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:21,200 elements to go perfectly with your iOS 26 eye device. I don't always love it. 18 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:25,600 Like sometimes you end up with like kind of weird stuff like this. But for the 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:30,320 most part, I was a big fan of Windows Vista and I'm a pretty big fan of this. 20 00:01:28,159 --> 00:01:34,880 It looks really cool even if it doesn't look as clean. Spotlight even lets you 21 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:40,640 send messages, add notes, and with these quick keys create little like shortcuts. 22 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:44,079 So if I was like, uh, I don't know, uh, 23 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:46,399 JFK means I want to make a note on what 24 00:01:44,079 --> 00:01:53,520 really happened, for instance. Okay, I could go JFK and bring up a quick note. 25 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,960 It was all a hoax. He's still alive. 26 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:59,280 Live translations have been added to iMessage, the phone app, as well as 27 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,960 captions on FaceTime. And they've got the ability to schedule tasks and 28 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:08,080 shortcuts to run automatically. That's right, my friends. That Windows 2000 29 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:11,920 feature, Taskuler, [music] now on macOS. Did they not have a way to schedule 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:17,280 a task before? Surely there must have been. I'm going to find out in Safari. 31 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:20,879 Hm. command line utility cron the automator app combined with calendar for 32 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:26,720 graphical tasks or third party apps like launch on time. Oh, so they didn't have 33 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,480 just like a built-in gooey way to do it. 34 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,920 What they have had this whole time is a really nice keyboard. They haven't made 35 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:36,400 any big changes here, but honestly, ever since the butterfly switch fiasco, I 36 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:40,480 don't really think they've needed to. I find it extremely comfortable to type on 37 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:44,319 and it's fast. It's also got all the buttons I need and none that I don't, 38 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:48,160 including Touch ID, which can be used, of course, for authentication when 39 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:53,120 you're logging in and to make purchases. There's still no Face ID on the MacBook 40 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:57,120 due to the thinness of the screen. But personally, [music] I don't even prefer 41 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,879 it on the iPhone, so I don't see this as a problem. 42 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:04,239 >> Why? >> It's just not more convenient for me. I'm not always looking at my device like 43 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:09,599 this. Like, sometimes it's like over there, and I [music] just I'm just going to use it here. And it'd be nice if I 44 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:12,640 could just touch my increen sensor like I can on my Pixel. Like here, I don't 45 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:18,319 have to pick this up. I can go like this. What else is there to say about the hardware? The trackpad's still 46 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:21,440 great. The display is not set to 120 Hz for some reason, but the display is 47 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,840 still great. We ran it through our usual suite of tests and we found that while 48 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:30,959 the default high dynamic range profile was kind of all over the place for 49 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:34,000 accuracy, the best profiles for both SDR 50 00:03:30,959 --> 00:03:36,159 and HDR were extremely accurate with no 51 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,560 real problems related to color. The one area we did run into some issues was 52 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:45,120 gamma. So, you might end up with your darks crushed a little bit, but it was 53 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:48,640 nothing game-breaking whatsoever. And just like we've come to expect from 54 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:54,080 Apple's mobile devices, the display is extremely bright, reaching in excess of 55 00:03:51,360 --> 00:04:00,080 their claimed 1600 nits peak brightness in certain conditions. Prootion. God, 56 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:04,159 why don't you just say 120 Hz? >> Cuz it's not constant. 57 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:08,879 >> Then just say 120 Hz variable. You know what though? I don't even know that I 58 00:04:06,319 --> 00:04:14,560 would use 120 Hz day-to-day. I've been using this. What is it? Elite 59 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:19,199 Book X. It's 40 Hz by default. I've gotten used 60 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:25,600 to it and I'm kind of loving the battery life. Ooh, speaking of battery life, 61 00:04:21,919 --> 00:04:28,560 over 9 hours in our testing. Okay, that 62 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:32,479 is well short of Apple's claimed 22 hours or something like that. 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Boy, does Apple ever talk a lot about 77 00:05:29,759 --> 00:05:35,039 the AI capabilities of the MacBook Pro, 78 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:41,680 specifically the M5 chip. They claim that the M5 is up to six times faster 79 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:45,919 for AI compared to the M1. Now, I don't know about you guys, but when I finished 80 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:48,800 high school, I was at least five times stronger than I was when I was in grade 81 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:53,919 school. So, that's something that Apple and I have in common is we're way better than we were a really long time ago. In 82 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:57,600 all seriousness though, I can see why Apple is making comparisons to the M1 83 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:04,560 generation because [music] the biggest problem that I see for them around Apple silicon is that it was 84 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:08,639 already so good 5 years ago that it's hard to convince people that are running 85 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:13,120 M1 MacBooks that they really need to upgrade. And I don't know if AI is their 86 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:18,720 best selling point here. We only ran very limited AI testing and yeah, it's a 87 00:06:15,919 --> 00:06:23,120 lot faster than the early Apple silicon, but we were actually more impressed by 88 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:28,400 the improvements to both singlethreaded performance on the CPU as well as 89 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:33,919 especially the GPU. Like, okay, in gaming, it's not that much faster than 90 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:37,199 even an M1 Max, but that was the max 91 00:06:33,919 --> 00:06:40,080 configuration with 24 GPU cores. This 92 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:44,960 has just 10 GPU cores. that is way more efficient and gaming is not the be all 93 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:49,520 and end all especially for Apple users. When we look at Blender rendering, it 94 00:06:47,039 --> 00:06:54,800 destroys Apple's older generation GPUs in terms of efficiency. So that M4 Pro 95 00:06:52,479 --> 00:07:00,400 that we've got there, yeah, okay, it's faster, but that has 16 GPU cores. 96 00:06:57,759 --> 00:07:04,479 Again, this has only 10. When we see an M5 Pro, I'm sure it's going to 97 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:09,759 absolutely slay. Let's just leave it on whatever the defaults are and continue 98 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,840 our game. Ooh, man. How do MacBooks have 99 00:07:09,759 --> 00:07:16,000 such good speakers? Like Apple and Dell, they just make everybody else look 100 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:22,160 stupid. This looks like it's running in HDR, too. This looks great. Oh, yeah. It 101 00:07:19,599 --> 00:07:28,720 totally is. Oh, man. Coming toward this like blindingly bright window. Oh, it 102 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:30,800 looks so good. Let's try out the webcam. 103 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:34,560 As expected, that is a fine looking webcam and supports center stage, 104 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:39,440 keeping you in frame. I Yeah, don't think it does it in photo booth. 105 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:46,240 Nope. Maybe it's a feature. Can we enable it? Hey, there we go. Look at 106 00:07:43,039 --> 00:07:47,680 that. Puts me right at center stage. 107 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:52,720 >> Looks like I'm on a Zoom call with myself. Hi, Lionus. How you doing? 108 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:55,120 >> Oh, great. But man, did you get that memo from Lionus? 109 00:07:53,599 --> 00:07:58,400 >> Yeah, man. that guy. What an One of Apple's highlight 110 00:07:56,639 --> 00:08:03,599 features is that you can now get the nonpro silicon. So, just the regular M5 111 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:07,759 with up to 4 terab of storage. For me, the bigger deal is that as of last gen, 112 00:08:05,599 --> 00:08:13,039 they don't have any 8 gig RAM starting models anymore. So, even the base model 113 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:15,440 at $1,600 has 16 gigs of RAM. For me, 114 00:08:13,039 --> 00:08:19,199 the 512 storage in the base model is probably enough, but your mileage may 115 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:23,280 vary. Meaning that by the time you actually get one of these that's configured the way you'd like it, you're 116 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:27,599 probably spending a couple grand. Is it worth it? Man, it depends on what you're 117 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:31,039 comparing it to. Like, if you're comparing it to some Chromebook at Best 118 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:36,240 Buy or whatever, yeah, MacBook looks really expensive. But if you compare it 119 00:08:32,959 --> 00:08:38,159 to a premium workstation PC like this HP 120 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:43,680 that I've been daily driving, there is so much to love about the MacBook. It's 121 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:50,800 thinner. The battery life is comparable or better. It feels nicer. The display 122 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:54,160 is brighter. This isn't even HDR at all. 123 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,760 And maxes out at 60 Hz. And this machine 124 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:59,600 is like four grand or something like that because it has Stricks Halo in it. 125 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:04,399 It's no wonder then to me that Apple has been continuously growing their market 126 00:09:01,279 --> 00:09:06,320 share. Also, that's partially because as 127 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:11,279 far as I can tell, nobody who's bought Apple Silicon feels the need to upgrade. 128 00:09:08,399 --> 00:09:14,320 So, macOS market share just go up. They don't even have to sell that many more 129 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,680 MacBooks necessarily. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. See you later.