The last several years has been a tough time to be a PC laptop guy. And I'm
going to give you five reasons. M1, M2, M3, M4, and most recently M5. We've got
the new MacBook Pro with their M5 processor, which doesn't change much,
but if we're being honest, probably doesn't need [music] to. By the way, I'm
an investor in Framework. Do you like my hoodie? Damn, that's cool. Inside the
box, we get a MagSafe power cable that's got a type-C on one end and a Mag Safe
on the other. Okay, not everybody's super into it, but I love the Mag Safe.
Clumsy guy. Under here, we've got, lo and behold, an Apple product that still
comes with a power brick. I don't think that's new, though, is it? Let's have a
look at some more things that aren't new. On the right side, we've got a full-size SD card reader, Thunderbolt 4
port, HDMI 2.1 port, none of which are new. And on the left, we've got our Mag
Safe, two more Thunderbolt 4 ports, as well as an amplified 3 and 12 mm jack.
Not new, but definitely appreciated.
Flipping it open, we've got macOS Tahoe. Now, that's new. And I've
actually got a few key features that Apple highlighted here. The first of
which is, of course, liquid glass. So, translucency and transparency on some UI
elements to go perfectly with your iOS 26 eye device. I don't always love it.
Like sometimes you end up with like kind of weird stuff like this. But for the
most part, I was a big fan of Windows Vista and I'm a pretty big fan of this.
It looks really cool even if it doesn't look as clean. Spotlight even lets you
send messages, add notes, and with these quick keys create little like shortcuts.
So if I was like, uh, I don't know, uh,
JFK means I want to make a note on what
really happened, for instance. Okay, I could go JFK and bring up a quick note.
It was all a hoax. He's still alive.
Live translations have been added to iMessage, the phone app, as well as
captions on FaceTime. And they've got the ability to schedule tasks and
shortcuts to run automatically. That's right, my friends. That Windows 2000
feature, Taskuler, [music] now on macOS. Did they not have a way to schedule
a task before? Surely there must have been. I'm going to find out in Safari.
Hm. command line utility cron the automator app combined with calendar for
graphical tasks or third party apps like launch on time. Oh, so they didn't have
just like a built-in gooey way to do it.
What they have had this whole time is a really nice keyboard. They haven't made
any big changes here, but honestly, ever since the butterfly switch fiasco, I
don't really think they've needed to. I find it extremely comfortable to type on
and it's fast. It's also got all the buttons I need and none that I don't,
including Touch ID, which can be used, of course, for authentication when
you're logging in and to make purchases. There's still no Face ID on the MacBook
due to the thinness of the screen. But personally, [music] I don't even prefer
it on the iPhone, so I don't see this as a problem.
>> Why? >> It's just not more convenient for me. I'm not always looking at my device like
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
could just touch my increen sensor like I can on my Pixel. Like here, I don't
have to pick this up. I can go like this. What else is there to say about the hardware? The trackpad's still
great. The display is not set to 120 Hz for some reason, but the display is
still great. We ran it through our usual suite of tests and we found that while
the default high dynamic range profile was kind of all over the place for
accuracy, the best profiles for both SDR
and HDR were extremely accurate with no
real problems related to color. The one area we did run into some issues was
gamma. So, you might end up with your darks crushed a little bit, but it was
nothing game-breaking whatsoever. And just like we've come to expect from
Apple's mobile devices, the display is extremely bright, reaching in excess of
their claimed 1600 nits peak brightness in certain conditions. Prootion. God,
why don't you just say 120 Hz? >> Cuz it's not constant.
>> Then just say 120 Hz variable. You know what though? I don't even know that I
would use 120 Hz day-to-day. I've been using this. What is it? Elite
Book X. It's 40 Hz by default. I've gotten used
to it and I'm kind of loving the battery life. Ooh, speaking of battery life,
over 9 hours in our testing. Okay, that
is well short of Apple's claimed 22 hours or something like that. But our
test is a little bit more demanding. Running the screen brightness at 200
nits and using Plex for over network playback. Meaning that under even very
realworld representative conditions, you can expect all day battery life out of
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the AI capabilities of the MacBook Pro,
specifically the M5 chip. They claim that the M5 is up to six times faster
for AI compared to the M1. Now, I don't know about you guys, but when I finished
high school, I was at least five times stronger than I was when I was in grade
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
all seriousness though, I can see why Apple is making comparisons to the M1
generation because [music] the biggest problem that I see for them around Apple silicon is that it was
already so good 5 years ago that it's hard to convince people that are running
M1 MacBooks that they really need to upgrade. And I don't know if AI is their
best selling point here. We only ran very limited AI testing and yeah, it's a
lot faster than the early Apple silicon, but we were actually more impressed by
the improvements to both singlethreaded performance on the CPU as well as
especially the GPU. Like, okay, in gaming, it's not that much faster than
even an M1 Max, but that was the max
configuration with 24 GPU cores. This
has just 10 GPU cores. that is way more efficient and gaming is not the be all
and end all especially for Apple users. When we look at Blender rendering, it
destroys Apple's older generation GPUs in terms of efficiency. So that M4 Pro
that we've got there, yeah, okay, it's faster, but that has 16 GPU cores.
Again, this has only 10. When we see an M5 Pro, I'm sure it's going to
absolutely slay. Let's just leave it on whatever the defaults are and continue
our game. Ooh, man. How do MacBooks have
such good speakers? Like Apple and Dell, they just make everybody else look
stupid. This looks like it's running in HDR, too. This looks great. Oh, yeah. It
totally is. Oh, man. Coming toward this like blindingly bright window. Oh, it
looks so good. Let's try out the webcam.
As expected, that is a fine looking webcam and supports center stage,
keeping you in frame. I Yeah, don't think it does it in photo booth.
Nope. Maybe it's a feature. Can we enable it? Hey, there we go. Look at
that. Puts me right at center stage.
>> Looks like I'm on a Zoom call with myself. Hi, Lionus. How you doing?
>> Oh, great. But man, did you get that memo from Lionus?
>> Yeah, man. that guy. What an One of Apple's highlight
features is that you can now get the nonpro silicon. So, just the regular M5
with up to 4 terab of storage. For me, the bigger deal is that as of last gen,
they don't have any 8 gig RAM starting models anymore. So, even the base model
at $1,600 has 16 gigs of RAM. For me,
the 512 storage in the base model is probably enough, but your mileage may
vary. Meaning that by the time you actually get one of these that's configured the way you'd like it, you're
probably spending a couple grand. Is it worth it? Man, it depends on what you're
comparing it to. Like, if you're comparing it to some Chromebook at Best
Buy or whatever, yeah, MacBook looks really expensive. But if you compare it
to a premium workstation PC like this HP
that I've been daily driving, there is so much to love about the MacBook. It's
thinner. The battery life is comparable or better. It feels nicer. The display
is brighter. This isn't even HDR at all.
And maxes out at 60 Hz. And this machine
is like four grand or something like that because it has Stricks Halo in it.
It's no wonder then to me that Apple has been continuously growing their market
share. Also, that's partially because as
far as I can tell, nobody who's bought Apple Silicon feels the need to upgrade.
So, macOS market share just go up. They don't even have to sell that many more
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