Apple finally gave us a lower price large screen MacBook and I think that
it's going to be the best-selling MacBook for the remainder of 2023 but
with that said if you watch their WWDC announcement there are a lot of things
that they flat out did not mention so if you're thinking about buying one of
these here are nine things that you need to know especially if you haven't bought
a Mac for a while now the first one has got to do with the price tag when Apple
showed off that 12.99 price most of us were really surprised now if that seems
like it's just a hundred dollars more than when Apple launched the M2 13-inch
MacBook Air well that is not exactly correct while the M2 13-inch air did
launch at 11.99 that model actually was binned meaning that it had less
performance with that M2 Chip and if you wanted to unlock the full performance
you would have to spend an extra one hundred dollars bringing up to that same
12.99 that the 15 inch just launched at now I was expecting the same thing for
the 15 inch and I was surprised when I went to the order page and I didn't see
that little upgrade but instead it says that it comes with a full 10 core GPU
which is awesome now Apple did lower the price of the 13 inch by a hundred
dollars so technically there's a 200 base starting difference but if you're
ordering spec for a spec with the same performance it's only a hundred dollar
difference and that is incredible now the second thing that they didn't
mention and of course they wouldn't say this is that you can actually buy the 15
inch right now from Amazon for 50 bucks off both for the base model and the
upgraded SSD option I'll go ahead and leave the link down below but the reason
I'm mentioning this is because a lot of people don't know that you can buy it
from Amazon and you get the same exact warranty and you could still get
AppleCare on the device even if you don't buy it from Apple which is why a
lot of people just go to Apple to buy it because they're not informed and there's
some other good news about AppleCare that I'll cover in just a bit now the
third thing is the performance now yes the 15 inch has the same M2 Chip as the
13-inch MacBook Air it is also fanless but when you go over their spec page
they list the same performance for both machines but from what we have found is
that the M2 13-inch MacBook Air does throttle quite a bit and fairly fast if
you're putting in heavy loads because of its thin and light design especially
with that redesign but with the 15 inch model this thing is going to be a little
bit thicker it's also larger and the way that the cooling works is that chip
heats up and then the heat spreads across the chassis so you will get a bit
more performance now we actually did a video getting better performance from
the 13 inch using multiple different methods and some of them were super
simple than just attaching a pad to the bottom or putting on a laptop stand and
we got into some crazier ones so if you guys want to see that we'll have that
linked at the end of the video as for number four we have battery size now at
the event Apple said that this thing gets 18 hours of battery life just like
the 13 inch model and that disappointed some people because we were all
expecting better battery life from this larger device now what they did not
mention is the actual size and if we dig through the fine details in the compare
tool that is where we find the Watt hours the 15 inch has a 66.5 watt hour
battery compared to 52.6 and that is over 26
larger now what weird with apple is that
they like to have these battery life kind of points that they just show off
for example with the Apple watch they have the same battery life across many
generations whereas in the real world the series 7 had way better Real World
battery than Series 6 and 8 got even better but they quoted the same and the
same thing goes for the M1 13-inch MacBook Air it has quite a bit of
smaller battery but they rated the same and of course that is with video
playback with lower brightness not on the web so that number is not accurate
and what we have seen is with these larger batteries your real world battery
life will actually be better so if you're trying to decide between
different models keep that in mind the 15 inch one will be really great the
fifth thing they didn't mention is that there is a new charging adapter and you
have to be very careful with what you purchase and I will explain
when they launched this new machine and we went to the website we saw that
there's a 70 watt adapter that is now available and it replaces their previous
slightly lower one and that is probably to get to 50 charge in 30 minutes on
this new machine now if you're getting a base 13 inch air you actually have to
pay an additional 20 bucks to get that fast charger or you have the option of
the Dual charger whereas with the 15 inch that doesn't cost you anything
extra and you don't have that very slow limited charger as an option so that
makes the 15 inch an even better value but what I have to point out to you guys
is that if you don't know which one you should choose and the Dual charger
sounds really good it's a 35 watt right so if you you know double that well that
seems like it's a 70 watt but that's not the case even on the full page for this
charger they don't really give you any additional information about it which I
think kind of suck they don't tell you this that if you are using this compact
dual charger and you plug in your Mac along with the iPhone or an iPad each
device will receive just 17.5 watts of charging and that is going to take a
very long time compared to 70 Watts you guys see that difference it is massive
so what I would say is even though this seems convenient get that 70 watt one
because you can always plug your iPhone or iPad directly into the MacBook itself
and plug that in that is a much better deal now the next one is that the brand
new 2023 15-inch Air does not come with Wi-Fi 6E and I will explain why this is
kind of weird now it does have Bluetooth 5.3 which is great if you're going to be
pairing it with the new Apple watch or with new airpods but it still has Wi-Fi
6 just like the m213 inch which came out about a year ago or so now you would say
what has the same M2 Chip but the weird thing is is that the M2 Mac Mini that
starts at 599 dollars or even 4.99 with an educational discount actually has
Wi-Fi 60 built into it so this seems more like a software lock than an actual
good reason to do that now if you say you don't need Wi-Fi 6E well I actually
made a full video comparing Wi-Fi 60 in a Mac compared to older one like the 15
inch or older chipset with Wi-Fi 6 and even if you have Wi-Fi 5 the speed
difference that I got was absolutely incredible and the same thing with the
range because the you know Mac Mini or the other Macs that have Wi-Fi 6C
capability the 5x5 still has twice the bandwidth available with better
reception so if you're trying to consider maybe an M2 Pro 14 inch or the
15 inch but definitely you want to consider this as for number seven the
next thing they did not mention is that the base 256 gigabyte model doesn't have
the same performance as the 512 gig and above now I know my Apple would not want
to tell you this and if you've been following our Channel last year with a
13 inch launched we took that thing apart we saw that it only had one SSD
wait for a chip on there instead of two now the significance of that is the
transfer speed is about half and you might say I don't need big fast transfer
speed but in real world performance if you're transferring large files it can
slow down dramatically worse than half and then if you're multitasking you have
a couple programs open and some web browsing tabs your real world
performance also goes down because the SSD is used for swap memory now people
have asked why would Apple do this whereas the M1 based products didn't
have this issue while the M1 required two little SSD chips whereas the M2 is
built to not require it and if we look at the prices for SSD chips the 128
gigabyte one actually costs more than a 256 so if Apple used two of these like
they did before it would more than double the cost compared to just using
one so they're definitely saving money but I wish at least they told you the
performance difference on their website so I would strongly recommend upgrading
to 512. now number eight is a positive one and it has to do with Apple Care Now
if you haven't bought a Mac for a while you might think you have to go to Apple
you have to prepay a bunch of money but that is not the case the program's
gotten way better first off if you buy an Amazon you don't even have to add
Apple Care there or any other warranties once you get your Mac you could just go
into your system settings and in general and it will give you how many days you
have left to buy it and you can buy it right there from at home and the cool
thing is you can now get it within 60 days of your new Mac instead of 30 and
even cooler than that it no longer expires after three years where a lot of
Macs will be just fine but you can have it run indefinitely if you keep the Mac
for five years six years seven years it'll basically keep going until you
cancel it so you don't have to just have a three year coverage and pay 229 up
front you could do 80 bucks a year and you also have unlimited incidents of
accidental damage protection so it's only not only one or two a year and it's
99 bucks for a body or screen replacement or 300 bucks for a whole new
Mac and I think this is the best warranty and insurance in the industry
and I wish Apple actually talked about this on stage now the last one for
number nine is a simple one but people keep asking me about it I keep replying
and that is which color they should get now it's a little bit funny but my
personal favorite is the midnight color because it's beautiful but I would not
recommend anybody buying it because it is an absolute fingerprint magnet and
not only a fingerprint magnet it is hard to get the fingerprints off and once you
do as soon as you touch it they come right back so personally I would say go
for the Starlight because it looks great it's a newer color and you'd have to
deal with any of these issues so thank you guys for watching you guys could
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because we have these ordered we're gonna make a bunch of videos using
different real world programs check out that video and I'll see you in the next
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