I'm in LOVE again! - Apple MacBook Pro
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,534 words · ~12 min read
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- You know, walking along, walking along, Oops. (men laughing)
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Ladies and gentlemen, (box thuds)
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we got them. (man booing) (laughs)
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Oh, we do have them though. We have both the 16 inch and 14 inch
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of the new MacBook Pro's. This one here is the base model.
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We have a regular model that has the same kind of specs as the 16 inch
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which is the full-fat M1 Pro.
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These are the M1 Pro models. The Max's are a little bit further out.
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People are saying, "Oh, you're getting super excited
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about a thing that you don't even have yet." And it's like, that's not quite what that's all about.
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The excitement isn't about, "Oh, it's a new shiny, I like the shinies.
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Give me the shinies." It's about,
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Apple has been going in the wrong direction for a long time now,
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like, at least since 2016 and now we have something that's,
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what a lot of people feel is a return to form.
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It's back to the similar kind of form factor and design philosophy
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that kind of exemplified the 2015,
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that earlier MacBook Pros. Now, granted, they're probably,
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I haven't taken one apart, but they're probably still not very repairable.
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And obviously you have the Apple ecosystem to deal with
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because these are M1 Apple Silicon processors. So you're not going to install Windows on here
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and Linux is just kind of just getting off the ground
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for these platforms. But it's something that is exciting
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just because it kind of brings us back to the idea that Apple is a company
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that can listen to feedback, that can admit that sometimes it makes mistakes,
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that sometimes innovation requires going back
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to the drawing board in order to make something that's a little bit less restrictive.
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And that's what we've got here today. Let's start off with the 14 inch here.
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I always love Apple boxes. These are super high quality.
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And of course they're just cardboard. They're just good quality cardboard.
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I like it. Actually, let's take a look at the bottom. Yeah, there's nothing on there really.
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And Jono informs me that this is a sponsored video by dbrand,
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which is evident by the nice marble skin we have on here.
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Let's just set this aside for now. We'll talk more about dbrand later.
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- [Jono] They paid us. - They paid us. They didn't pay me though.
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Okay, So we got this. This is the, Oh, is this the base model power adapter?
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what's the size of this thing? Because one of the things about the base model MacBook
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is that you don't by default get the fast charging capable power adapter.
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So what did we get here? We got a 96 watt, I think this is the fast charging one.
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I think the other one is 65 Watts or something like that. So we must've upgraded this or I have the wrong one.
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This is the wrong one. This is actually the 10-core and 16-core GPU model.
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So I thought this was the 14-core and 8-core,
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8 and 14, I of course got the (bleep) model.
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- [Jono] He didn't know? Uh oh. - Oops. - The difference between the 8-core and 14-core
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and the 10-core and 16-core model
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is just basically that one has been down. It's not actually different Silicon,
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as far as I know, it makes the most sense because,
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like, the Apple is not selling this stuff to anybody else.
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So, it's just going to go into a lower model MacBook, but that's not the only interesting thing
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about the new power adapter. We also have this new connector.
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The adapter itself is still type C, that's not changed.
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I don't think. oh, it's braided. I forgot about that.
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Apple cables are never really usually braided. They're usually just like a silicone wrapped or whatever.
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So USB Type-C on one end with a little paper cap,
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plugs into the adapter, like so
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and on the other end, that is MagSafe
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and that is a very, very short MagSafe connector.
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Let's get the MacBook out of its little protective sheet there
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and see what that's like to plug in. That actually looks cooler in person
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than I thought it would. The MacBook Pro embossed on the bottom.
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Sorry, I'm getting distracted. And also these feet are nice. These are better than the feet
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that were on the old MacBooks, like, they were just held in by,
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I think like a plastic rivet.
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Wow! That is shallow. Yeah, so MagSafe just goes right in like that.
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How about that? You know, walking along, walking along. Oops.
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(laughing)
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- [Jono] I actually got scared. - Oh, okay. Well,
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(laughs) it did work, but if that was a little bit closer to the edge,
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it probably wouldn't have worked quite so well. However, if that was a USB Type-C cable plugged into there,
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that would have been on the floor. So, it still points to MagSafe.
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The gap here, usually there's like more of a lip
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where the the lid meets the chassis,
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but it's very, very flush. It's like difficult for me to get into there.
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Like I can get my fingernail in there, but that's about it. So, we've got that shallow MagSafe that did the job,
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Type-C, Thunderbolt 4 connections, two of them on this side,
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and one more on the other side. We have this high impedance headphone output.
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Now this SD card slot, do we have a full size of SD card
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that I can just borrow real quick? I'm interested to know what the depth of it is
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and whether it's like a clicky kind of affair. So how deep does this go?
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- [Jono] That's what she said. (fakes laugh)
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- Yeah, it's about like back then. So, you get one of these half height cards
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and you can flip it in there and it's totally in there.
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Anyway, we got this other Thunderbolt 3 port here and a full sized HDMI port which is,
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(man shouts excitedly) which is HTMI 2.0.
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There are people saying, "oh, well it should be HDMI 2.1.
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Why is a new machine coming with HDMI 2.0?"
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And I mean, I get that. I would prefer HDMI 2.1.
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But at the same time, you had to think about what Apple is trying
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to accomplish there, like not all video cards,
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I think right now, or even displays have HDMI 2.1 inputs and outputs.
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This is mostly intended for use with a TV.
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Most of which don't have HDMI 2.1 to this day.
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(MacBook starts up) Ah, see, I wasn't going to turn it on.
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I was going to wait to turn it on after I talked to you about dbrand.
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Whatever, so dbrand sponsored this video,
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you can see that they sponsored it by the sticker on the back here,
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the nice sticker for your technology products,
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the very expensive sticker. Expensive though, it may be, it actually does feel really nice
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and it is visually appealing. I'm not sure if I would prefer it over the bare metal,
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but at the same time, it's protecting your bare metal. So your MacBook,
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which famously holds its value for a long time, will hold its value even better with a dbrand skin
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on it to protect it from scuffs and scrapes. They're still, They're not following me on Twitter.
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So, I mean, I'm not gonna go out of my way to,
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Anyway. (laughing) This looks real nice.
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Yeah, the keyboard is nice-feeling.
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It feels like an actual keyboard. Like it feels like an Apple keyboard.
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Obviously we have the notch, which wasn't super noticeable just now, but now it is.
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One thing that has been noted about the notch, if there are too many menu items up here
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or there are too many items in the bar over here,
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they'll go under the notch.
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Hopefully Apple fixes that. I don't know how they're going to,
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like, maybe if there's too many things, it'll just give you an overflow menu or,
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I don't know, There's gotta be a way around that.
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It would have been a lot easier to deal with if there weren't such a big notch.
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I don't think it would bother me that much in everyday use
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but I am focusing pretty hard on it right now just because I'm paying attention to it.
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You do get a bigger camera. Yeah, it's 1080p. I should probably take some kind of picture
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or recording with it. Let's, they still have photo booth?
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They do, great. Yes. Okay, cool.
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That just took a moment. Oh, wow. That actually looks pretty good.
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- Yeah, is it smoothing? - I don't know.
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- Yeah. I don't look that young IRL.
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(laughing) - Yeah. You've got no texture in your face. - Yeah. And it looks like I just like lathered up
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with lotion, it's weird. - Is there no way to turn this off?
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- I don't know. - Yeah, we should probably crowd rave, I guess. I have no doubt that it's going to be good.
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This is the 14 inch, by the way. So whatever this sounds like, we're going to have to fire up the 16 inch
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and see what that sounds like. Also, can you get me an iFixit kit.
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I want to take this thing apart. Nah, this is pretty good. Like, this spatial audio is like, actually,
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just really, really good. So like not quite surround, but stereo expansion.
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(music playing)
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That sounds like a good Bluetooth speaker. I don't know if you were hearing that.
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You'll like sit here and like, listen to that.
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- [Man With Mask on] I think that's better than the XPS.
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- [Anthony] Oh yeah absolutely. - [Man With Mask on] Yeah. - [Anthony] It's not even a question
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(music playing)
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- Yeah, not even close. - [Anthony] Yeah. - But like the stereo imaging and the base
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and the tightness of everything is just really good. Also the screen,
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is this in ProMotion? I think it is, like,
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it has to, yeah, that's definitely ProMotion. So one of the neat things about ProMotion
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is that it's just Apple's fancy word for saying adaptive refresh rate 120Hz.
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But the neat thing about it is that it can be set for 60Hz or 48Hz,
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which is a multiple of 24 for film stuff. Oh, I can turn off HDR.
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But then again, like if your content looks better without HDR,
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like Apple's HDR tone mapping looks pretty good for the most part.
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But if you end up with issues where you need like accurate color.
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Then yeah, you should probably turn it off. So. that's as dark as the screen gets.
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I don't know if you can actually see it. - [David] I can see it - That's as dark as it gets without turning off.
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So if I go one tick over, it turns off. I want to see how the 16 inch sounds.
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Cause like I don't expect it to be significantly different in terms of the display or anything else,
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but I want to see how it sounds because it's bigger.
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It's got a bigger theoretical resonance chamber.
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Actually, I wasn't going to talk about anything else other than the sound
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but the difference in screen real estate,
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makes it so that the notch basically doesn't matter. This is what I would prefer to carry
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(music playing)
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Very similar, but, bass is much tighter and fuller on the 16 inch,
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which is what I would expect. So I'm pretty impressed so far
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with the overall fit and finish of this thing as well as its performance in terms of audio and visuals.
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Let's rip it apart. All right, we got torx as usual.
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There are probably going to be clips down here too, so, I hope there's no screws under these feet.
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This bevels in.
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And that's why I can't, Also yes, I did kind of push that one in.
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It's Okay, don't worry about it. Oh, Nope.
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It just comes forward. Great, got it. - As they say,
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Our computers are better looking on the inside,
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than the others are on the outside. Is that true?
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- It does look pretty good. - It does look pretty good, look at those fans. - [David] I love the face.
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- [Anthony] Yeah. The face they made, They make it face all the time. - [Jono] Even just this touch on the fan there.
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- [Anthony] Yeah. I was really hoping that I would see a removable SSD
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but I don't see one of those. I do see the wireless antennas here
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that goes out to the main area there.
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I think this is the battery here on both of these sides or any of the speakers.
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Yeah, It's difficult to tell without taking it further apart, what each of these is for.
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Well, that was fun and illuminating.
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We got to see what the insides of this MacBook looked like.
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(MacBook starts up) Does it just power on automatically when you open the lid?
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Like it was off. Bottom line, I mean, fit and finish of it is excellent.
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The notches, we'll see.
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Yeah, It's in a form factor that's reminiscent
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of the older, slightly chunkier, but it's actually not all that much chunkier,
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if any MacBook form factors that we have come to miss?
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I appreciate it. That's where I was going with this. I appreciate the fact that we're not trying
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to reduce volume by any means necessary.
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We're using that volume for more,
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maybe not necessarily power, although this is presumably, significantly
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more powerful than this guy
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which I currently have upside down and I'm gonna leave it that way because it's on the way out.
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- [Jonathan] Oh! - Oh, got'em. And this is why people are so excited about
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this generation of Mac books, not because, oh, it's a new shiny.
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It's because it represents something more.
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It represents a return to form that,
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honestly, for many people, Apple hasn't been to in a long time.
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And you know, you can stay here for a long time if you want to.
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I'll stick around. You know, the weather recently was pretty bad.
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We had that cyclone, the bomb cyclone,
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