Apple just released the brand new M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pros and they look
great but there are many things that Apple did not tell you both on the
positive and on the negative that's going to change your buying decision now
I'm not going to waste your time with all of the specs but I do want to let
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video now the first thing they didn't tell you is that these MacBooks Were
Meant to come out months ago we had many leaks that pointed to that but they
didn't come and after this event multiple people online mentioned that
this video was scrapped from the October event and Ian Zelda went in and download
metadata from the AR and from the wallpapers that clearly show what they
were created in October ready for for a November release now the second thing is
that there are way more changes under the hood than just the performance that
they are quoting we have this whole chip layout and one thing that was pointed
out is that the tlb buffer was really increased if you don't know with the
original M1 Pro and Max laptops we found out in our testing that the GPU scaling
was not good at all especially with the M1 Max now the way that these Apple
silicon chips are designed you have a base ship that M1 and M2 and that gets
duplicated to make the larger chips and it should scale properly but when we
looked at the performance it was not good at all for example if we're even
scaling from the 14 core M1 Pro we should have 80 000 for geekbench 5 but
in fact we had 68 000 and that is because there was an issue with not
enough memory buffer and that was the bottleneck but now we have reports where
that was greatly increased and improved so not only you're going to have the
quoted performance that they gave on their website but in certain
applications the scaling will be much better now we ordered 10 new M1 Pro and
M1 Max machines so we're going to be doing a ton of testing with real world
programs and we will see what the performance will be like for example in
blender we should have way faster results with the 32 core compared to 24
but we didn't so if you guys want to see how they actually perform make sure to
click that subscribe button and enable notifications now for the third one we
have to talk about the course apple is showing off a 12 core system two more
than before and that sounds great but what they're not focusing on as much is
that the two extra cores are actually efficiency cores meaning the performance
cores are staying exactly the same now that might not help as much with
performance but that is gonna really help in terms of battery life which I'm
going to come back to next we have to talk about the architectural design and
the performance now we had many leaks with this chip being three nanometer and
tsmc launching these we've covered all of that and with AMD going to four
nanometer and it might be an in-between point a lot of people thought these
ships could be four nanometer just like the a16 but no they are still based off
of 5 nanometer which is a bummer because that means that it will run hotter and
use more power just like we got with the M2 Chip compared to the M1 what we have
effectively is an overclocked processor running more power to get more
performance but that also affects the Heat and thermals and throttling which
we're also going to talk about but on the plus side this also means that it's
cheaper and easier for apple to make these with better yields and that also
means better availability but before I die dive deep into the performance and
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now on Apple's website they talk about the increase in performance uh being up
to 20 more powerful in terms of the CPU and then 30 in terms of GPU and they
mentioned that it's in the same power envelope but the thing is with the M1
Pro and Max a lot of times they didn't actually hit their Max rated CPU wattage
now Apple didn't mention the clock speed the M1 Max and pro they would run at up
to 3.2 gigahertz but based on the leaks that we have seen this thing goes up to
3.68 gigahertz likely 3.7 and that is a big jump from 3.2 now the way they show
off their benchmarks is they show up the maximum performance not what you
actually get and we also know from our testing that these Macs got really hot
already hitting over 100 degrees Celsius and we did have thermal throttling a lot
more so on the 14-inch model but even the 16 inch model with throttle because
of too much heat because of too much wattage so with this one running higher
clock speeds means it will pull more it'll pull more for longer and for
longer renders we might actually have more throttling so that pretty good
score in geekbench which is not limited by heat might go down and the 3.68
gigahertz might also drop down quite a bit for longer renders of course we
bought multiple configurations because we will be testing them out and telling
you guys which one is worth buying and next let's switch to some positives now
with the previous MacBooks the 16 inch actually was heavier with the M1 Max
than with the M1 Pro because it had a better cooler but the 14 inch model was
the same which also led to more throttling but thankfully this time
around if you go over to switch to the 14 inch you go into the fine specs you
will see that the 14 inch M2 Max now weighs 3.65 so it's heavier than the M2
Pro instead of being the same so hopefully they have stronger fans in
this to help with cooling now the next one is battery life and this is a
positive now with this launch Apple gave it a one hour better rating for both the
14 inch and the 16 inch model but in my opinion it's going to be a lot better
than that and that is because I have tested the M2 Chip already now I
mentioned that we now have 12 cores and instead of having two efficiency cores
we have four just like with the M2 and the M1 chips but those cores are way
more powerful meaning that because of extra power and doubling the cores for a
lot of tasks you can just use those efficiency cores and not even touch the
performance ones now with the M2 MacBook Pro and air I did testing with a low
power mode that basically switches off the performance mode and even though
things do take longer especially tough productivity it is still more than fast
enough and smokes Windows laptops in real world use while getting insane
battery life now with that machine Apple quoted empty MacBook Air slightly better
in battery life and in real world we got about an hour better but when we enabled
the low power mode the CPU and GPU wattage drops like crazy becomes
extremely efficient and instead of going from about 9 to 10 hours I got 15 hours
of real world use which is insane so with this machine the new 14 and 16 inch
laptops if you're going to use low power mode it will actually be able to do so
instead of basically making very little difference with the current 14 and 16
inch your battery life is going to get a lot better and that is a great thing now
the next one is minor but interesting with these MacBooks we have the mini LED
displays that look amazing they hit up to 1600 nits beautiful beautiful HDR
great for color grading HDR video and photos but this time around if we look
at the fine print I've not seen this before it literally says in temperatures
less than 25 degrees Celsius which is around 77 fahrenheit meaning that now
they're telling us once the Mac gets warmer you're outside or in a warm room
you're not gonna get that full performance now the next one is pricing
now here in the states the prices stayed the same even though I think it's
costing Apple a little bit less to make these instead of doing like a three
nanometer now if we actually go and account for inflation though that 3 500
for a spec like I have here actually turns into about 3 800 meaning that
technically it's a little bit less expensive for us but with that said in
other parts of the world it unfortunately got a lot more expensive
for example in Denmark it went up by about 220 Euros or 300 bucks in England
it went up by 300 pounds which is about 370 bucks and even in Canada by a
hundred dollars now one guy in Denmark said that he bought a 14 inch one
terabyte discounted for 2300 USD now these new ones are 3 300 that's a huge
price Gap and apple had some great sales recently and he's asking should I return
it and get the new one I would say for that big of a price difference I would
not do that and surprisingly in Singapore they actually got Cheaper by a
hundred dollars so pricing is all over the place and it does suck that it got
more expensive in some regions next we have connectivity now this was mentioned
on this slide but I really have to emphasize this because these are the
first Macs that have Bluetooth 5.3 along with Wi-Fi 6E other Windows laptops and
Android phones have had this for a long time and it's great that Apple added
this even though the M2 MacBook Air did not get it now this is great if you have
a new router and you're in a congested area because you have that special band
better for Speed and if you guys saw my video on Apple possibly making another
Wi-Fi air power router we have a lot of leaks about this and that would be very
cool to see so I'm glad apple is finally stepping it up now with that the next
one is the 96 gigabytes of RAM that is a lot of ram to have I think it's more
than enough or too much for most people but if you want to get that what they
advertise on screen you have to have the 38 core M2 Max the most expensive
version of that now I always do videos where I compare different amounts of ram
so with all the MacBooks that I bought I will be comparing 64 gig and 96 along
with 16 versus 32 and even 8 versus 16. so if you guys want to see videos on how
much of a difference that makes for different real world tasks the next one
we need to talk about connectivity now we were so excited to have HDMI again on
a MacBook but people are disappointed because it only supported 4K 60 with old
school HDMI but now not only they show up that they have updated HDMI what they
didn't tell you is that this is something that nobody else really has
the empty Pro supports up to three external displays which is great but the
M2 Max now supports up to four external displays which is a lot you could use
all three of the Thunderbolt ports along with that HDMI and not only can you now
do 4K 120 or you could do 6K 60 you can actually do 4K 240 frame per second
which is absolutely insane now the crazy thing is now the crazy thing is if we go
to hdmi.org the main website the latest HDMI 2.1 a says they can only go up to
4K 120 frames per second because that is the maximum bandwidth so apple is using
something that is even better than the best announced version now that is
because they are using display stream compression to make this happen it adds
very very little latency and it allows you to have higher resolutions have HDR
10 bit and super high frame rate so I'm glad the apple is putting in the latest
tech into this now the one thing that you have to know is that if you want to
make this work you have to have a good cable because there are so many fake
hdmis HDMI 2.1 could actually be older it's crazy so you have to make sure you
buy the right one now I did some research and found a set of cables that
are index offensive but they have the best ratings that will support anything
that the laptop can output so I'm going to go ahead and Link that down below now
along with that we have memory bandwidth and RAM the M2 Chip got faster than M1
but Apple didn't mention that the Mt Pro and Max they did not get any faster
they're just advertising how fast it is so they're sticking with the same exact
Ram speeds as before and along with that the next one is the neural engine the
neural engine they're showing off the 16 core one and they're not saying that
it's the same exact one as with the M2 Chip so if you're doing tasks that are
based on the neural engine more AI stuff even on photography a lot of stuff is
using that now it might not be any faster or much faster than just having
an M2 MacBook Air and the last one that I have for you guys is the fact that
finally the charge cable with magsafe that's braided color matches the space
gray on the laptops now the one I got for myself is space gray so that is nice
just like with the M2 MacBook Air but that's just a simple one let me know
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