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The last several years has been a tough time to be a PC laptop guy. And I'm

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going to give you five reasons. M1, M2, M3, M4, and most recently M5. We've got

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the new MacBook Pro with their M5 processor, which doesn't change much,

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but if we're being honest, probably doesn't need [music] to. By the way, I'm

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an investor in Framework. Do you like my hoodie? Damn, that's cool. Inside the

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box, we get a MagSafe power cable that's got a type-C on one end and a Mag Safe

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on the other. Okay, not everybody's super into it, but I love the Mag Safe.

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Clumsy guy. Under here, we've got, lo and behold, an Apple product that still

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comes with a power brick. I don't think that's new, though, is it? Let's have a

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look at some more things that aren't new. On the right side, we've got a full-size SD card reader, Thunderbolt 4

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port, HDMI 2.1 port, none of which are new. And on the left, we've got our Mag

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Safe, two more Thunderbolt 4 ports, as well as an amplified 3 and 12 mm jack.

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Not new, but definitely appreciated.

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Flipping it open, we've got macOS Tahoe. Now, that's new. And I've

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actually got a few key features that Apple highlighted here. The first of

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which is, of course, liquid glass. So, translucency and transparency on some UI

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elements to go perfectly with your iOS 26 eye device. I don't always love it.

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Like sometimes you end up with like kind of weird stuff like this. But for the

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most part, I was a big fan of Windows Vista and I'm a pretty big fan of this.

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It looks really cool even if it doesn't look as clean. Spotlight even lets you

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send messages, add notes, and with these quick keys create little like shortcuts.

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So if I was like, uh, I don't know, uh,

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JFK means I want to make a note on what

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really happened, for instance. Okay, I could go JFK and bring up a quick note.

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It was all a hoax. He's still alive.

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Live translations have been added to iMessage, the phone app, as well as

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captions on FaceTime. And they've got the ability to schedule tasks and

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shortcuts to run automatically. That's right, my friends. That Windows 2000

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feature, Taskuler, [music] now on macOS. Did they not have a way to schedule

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a task before? Surely there must have been. I'm going to find out in Safari.

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Hm. command line utility cron the automator app combined with calendar for

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graphical tasks or third party apps like launch on time. Oh, so they didn't have

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just like a built-in gooey way to do it.

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What they have had this whole time is a really nice keyboard. They haven't made

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any big changes here, but honestly, ever since the butterfly switch fiasco, I

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don't really think they've needed to. I find it extremely comfortable to type on

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and it's fast. It's also got all the buttons I need and none that I don't,

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including Touch ID, which can be used, of course, for authentication when

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you're logging in and to make purchases. There's still no Face ID on the MacBook

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due to the thinness of the screen. But personally, [music] I don't even prefer

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it on the iPhone, so I don't see this as a problem.

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>> Why? >> It's just not more convenient for me. I'm not always looking at my device like

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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

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could just touch my increen sensor like I can on my Pixel. Like here, I don't

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have to pick this up. I can go like this. What else is there to say about the hardware? The trackpad's still

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great. The display is not set to 120 Hz for some reason, but the display is

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still great. We ran it through our usual suite of tests and we found that while

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the default high dynamic range profile was kind of all over the place for

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accuracy, the best profiles for both SDR

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and HDR were extremely accurate with no

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real problems related to color. The one area we did run into some issues was

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gamma. So, you might end up with your darks crushed a little bit, but it was

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nothing game-breaking whatsoever. And just like we've come to expect from

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Apple's mobile devices, the display is extremely bright, reaching in excess of

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their claimed 1600 nits peak brightness in certain conditions. Prootion. God,

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why don't you just say 120 Hz? >> Cuz it's not constant.

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>> Then just say 120 Hz variable. You know what though? I don't even know that I

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would use 120 Hz day-to-day. I've been using this. What is it? Elite

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Book X. It's 40 Hz by default. I've gotten used

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to it and I'm kind of loving the battery life. Ooh, speaking of battery life,

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over 9 hours in our testing. Okay, that

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is well short of Apple's claimed 22 hours or something like that. But our

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test is a little bit more demanding. Running the screen brightness at 200

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nits and using Plex for over network playback. Meaning that under even very

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realworld representative conditions, you can expect all day battery life out of

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an M5 MacBook Pro. Let's go ahead and

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using our link in the description today. Boy, does Apple ever talk a lot about

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the AI capabilities of the MacBook Pro,

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specifically the M5 chip. They claim that the M5 is up to six times faster

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for AI compared to the M1. Now, I don't know about you guys, but when I finished

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high school, I was at least five times stronger than I was when I was in grade

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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

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all seriousness though, I can see why Apple is making comparisons to the M1

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generation because [music] the biggest problem that I see for them around Apple silicon is that it was

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already so good 5 years ago that it's hard to convince people that are running

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M1 MacBooks that they really need to upgrade. And I don't know if AI is their

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best selling point here. We only ran very limited AI testing and yeah, it's a

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lot faster than the early Apple silicon, but we were actually more impressed by

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the improvements to both singlethreaded performance on the CPU as well as

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especially the GPU. Like, okay, in gaming, it's not that much faster than

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even an M1 Max, but that was the max

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configuration with 24 GPU cores. This

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has just 10 GPU cores. that is way more efficient and gaming is not the be all

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and end all especially for Apple users. When we look at Blender rendering, it

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destroys Apple's older generation GPUs in terms of efficiency. So that M4 Pro

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that we've got there, yeah, okay, it's faster, but that has 16 GPU cores.

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Again, this has only 10. When we see an M5 Pro, I'm sure it's going to

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absolutely slay. Let's just leave it on whatever the defaults are and continue

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our game. Ooh, man. How do MacBooks have

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such good speakers? Like Apple and Dell, they just make everybody else look

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stupid. This looks like it's running in HDR, too. This looks great. Oh, yeah. It

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totally is. Oh, man. Coming toward this like blindingly bright window. Oh, it

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looks so good. Let's try out the webcam.

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As expected, that is a fine looking webcam and supports center stage,

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keeping you in frame. I Yeah, don't think it does it in photo booth.

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Nope. Maybe it's a feature. Can we enable it? Hey, there we go. Look at

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that. Puts me right at center stage.

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>> Looks like I'm on a Zoom call with myself. Hi, Lionus. How you doing?

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>> Oh, great. But man, did you get that memo from Lionus?

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>> Yeah, man. that guy. What an One of Apple's highlight

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features is that you can now get the nonpro silicon. So, just the regular M5

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with up to 4 terab of storage. For me, the bigger deal is that as of last gen,

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they don't have any 8 gig RAM starting models anymore. So, even the base model

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at $1,600 has 16 gigs of RAM. For me,

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the 512 storage in the base model is probably enough, but your mileage may

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vary. Meaning that by the time you actually get one of these that's configured the way you'd like it, you're

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probably spending a couple grand. Is it worth it? Man, it depends on what you're

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comparing it to. Like, if you're comparing it to some Chromebook at Best

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Buy or whatever, yeah, MacBook looks really expensive. But if you compare it

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to a premium workstation PC like this HP

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that I've been daily driving, there is so much to love about the MacBook. It's

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thinner. The battery life is comparable or better. It feels nicer. The display

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is brighter. This isn't even HDR at all.

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And maxes out at 60 Hz. And this machine

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is like four grand or something like that because it has Stricks Halo in it.

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It's no wonder then to me that Apple has been continuously growing their market

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share. Also, that's partially because as

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far as I can tell, nobody who's bought Apple Silicon feels the need to upgrade.

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So, macOS market share just go up. They don't even have to sell that many more

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MacBooks necessarily. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. See you later.