This is easily the most expensive thing I've bought for a video and it doesn't really
surprise me that the first Apple product I buy handily takes that crap but anyway in today's
video we're going to talk about gaming on this very expensive laptop because I think it may fix
some of the problems I had with my first gaming experience on a MacBook not too long ago I think
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now I broke my MacBook gaming virginity with this 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro an experience that
left me much colder than I was expecting oh wow it even struggles to run dodo which I didn't know
was possible aside from the fact that there's like half a game that runs properly on an Apple silicon
MacBook the main thorns in my side was a display that has the input lag and motion rendering of
an axis sketch and that connecting an external display to that MacBook using a dongle is an
extremely buggy and frustrating process so with the display that makes gaming feel like you're
swimming through maple syrup it just wasn't a good gaming laptop which is why I thought the
16-inch MacBook Pro may solve this problem because for your massive additional outlay amongst other
things you get a 120 hertz display which should be good for gaming right well let's find out
now this is the base model of the new 16-inch MacBook Pro now I didn't want the base model
but we'll talk about why I refuse to spec it up later in the video Even though I wanted to
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yep there's that neutral clean smell very nice [Music]
oh it's a heavy boy this is always the case the packaging is immaculate and then down here it
says designed by Apple in California which somehow never stops being funny to me but I guess built by
Foxconn in China doesn't quite have the same ring to it so you know I guess it makes sense
that's nice yo Apple really knows how to make good packaging don't they open that up just like that
and then in here we've got like a nice braided power cable cool and then over here we've got our
metal magsafe connector this power cable situation really gets the juices flowing It's pretty dope
you know it's fancy when the corners of the paper
is rounded it's a diagram of what the two ports on the laptop do cool
oh never mind look I found the mention of it being assembled in China in the
smallest letters I've ever seen at the base of the power brick packaging this
just makes me feel like at some point there was a boardroom meeting at Apple with like 50
high-paid Executives in pastel color shirts discussing the least conspicuous place to
put the legally obligated assembled in China text yeah that'll do a good job of it I'd say
and then this is our 140 watt USBC power adapter it's nice and small okay so now
I've washed my hands for the 17th time and I think I'm finally ready to touch it oh this
looks exciting [Applause] almost dropped it holy [ __ ] what a magnificent device
damn first impressions are something Apple does better than anyone this laptop really grabs you
by the crotch it's very impressive that they can Mass produce a laptop with this kind of
build quality the panel gaps are remarkably even the material quality is amazing even the screws
that hold the bottom panel on are beautiful those Foxconn workers really know how to make a nice
laptop damn but the moment it turned itself on I noticed a problem what no way this is
what the 100 okay it has to be not running at 120 hertz otherwise that is a complete outrage
that's that's what it looks like 60 hertz blocks and feels exactly the same look at that ghosting
what now this is something that's very difficult to accurately capture on camera but let's do a
comparison to give you an idea this is a video frame of movement over a similar color palette
on the not particularly special display of a gaming laptop I paid 500 for and this is
what similar speed of movement looks like on the pro motion MacBook display and this doesn't even
illustrate the input lag which is very noticeable on the MacBook even on the desktop but we'll talk
more about that when we get to the gaming section now I want to clarify I'm not saying the MacBook
has a worse display in it than the little Aces that would be ridiculous when it comes to Colors
brightness contrast and sharpness the MacBook display is nothing short of physically arousing
but to achieve this it sacrifices the two arguably most important characteristics for a good gaming
display input latency and motion rendering luckily it's got a dedicated HDMI so that could help one
of the problems at least I'm really glad I didn't spec it up because again it's not the internals
that are going to be the problem on that note let's crack open this beautiful laptop and have
a look at those internals [Music] well this is terrifying uh although one thing that is
already promising about this bottom plate is that it kind of ends over here and it doesn't
wrap around halfway through the i o in the way that a lot of Windows laptops's bottom
plates do so it may actually be less annoying to get off but I am ready to eat those words
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a bit of struggle and with the fear of accidental Hulk smash setting in I
decided to refer to a teardown video which taught me about the clips oh
that's not nice but I was the only one that came away from that experience injured I keep
hurting myself with tech stuff lately look at that oh it smells very neutral clean in here
that's where most of the neutral clean smell lives actually again it it is a beautiful thing
Majestic undercarriage aside it all fairness to Apple according to ifixit's repairability
guide this laptop's not a complete train smash important things like the battery
are relatively easily replaceable the problem comes with upgrade ability Apple just loves to
solder things like storage and RAM down almost like they're scared you're gonna steal it and
then they charge you what I can only describe as an extortionate amount when you spec these
up while buying them which I think is a good point to explain why I only got the base model
while specking up the laptop I wanted to go for this M2 Max upgrade to get the additional 11 GPU
cores because gaming right and I thought that the 250 upgrade was steep but I was willing to pay it
however when you click on it the price goes from 3 200 Canadian dollars to almost 4 000 Canadian
dollars now I'm not very good at math Apple but I'm pretty sure that 3200 plus 250 is not 4
000. now it's not really difficult to see why this happens if you just scroll down you'll
see that Apple forces you to upgrade to 32 gigs of memory for the M2 Max upgrade which costs you 500
Canadian dollars for 16 gigs of RAM and at that point I just refused there is no way I'm paying
500 for 16 gigs of RAM I don't even want so that I can get 11 extra GPU cores this is just Madness
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oh that smearing always catches me off guard anyway in terms of game Library it looks pretty
much exactly the same as it did six months ago when I was on here last a selection of
games that are primarily played by under sex middle-aged people on their iPads in terms
of top paid game we've got Resident Evil Village which is quite funny it's like it's the only game
they ever talk about like every time at a press conference they need to mention gaming they wheel
out Resident Evil Village like we're all supposed to be super excited by that oh but we've got limbo
on here which as we all know is a game that you definitely need 2 500 worth of Hardware to play
oh I see civilization still five dollars more than on Steam for some reason actually let's
start off with some civilization five that ran very well on the little Berber MacBook now for
a more relaxed game like Civilization 5 gaming on a MacBook is really nice because of the very
efficient Apple silicon I don't even think the fans have turned on it is extremely quiet
which means you can comfortably game with the Fantastic speakers on this laptop which is not
something you can do on a normal gaming laptop which would sound like a Harrier taking off at
this point and considering that there isn't much movement going on in Civilization 5. the motion
blur isn't that much of an issue and you don't have to react to anything quickly so the input
lag though noticeable isn't really problematic but for two thousand five hundred dollars a nice
civilization 5 experience isn't quite enough so let's try some Resident Evil Village which should
run very well considering how proud apple is of it application you must first sign in I I am signed
in with my Apple ID signed in as and then there's my name yeah but it is signed in what do you mean
how do I sign in more than I'm already signed in account settings which wasn't a great start
to trying out Apple's showpiece game which is apparently a reasonably common problem so this is
a known thing that the one game that Apple brags about being great on Apple silicon just doesn't
work for some reason you've just gotta love that lack of bugginess on Mac OS and after ages of
struggling the only way I could get it to work was by creating a new user on the MacBook specifically
for Resident Evil Village but at least I can finally play the game aside from another quick
problem I'm confused it just said that it was connected will not reconnect I forget it
and then it it instantly reconnects why has nothing worked on it yet but apparently it just
wanted to Gaslight me a bit because eventually it just worked like nothing happened so finally we
can play the game so that only took four attempts very good I don't know this is this is definitely
a horror game this is the most terrifying thing I've ever had to do in a video game oh there's
no button to drop it so we're good okay that motion rendering is so wild but aside from the
motion rendering once I dropped from the very high native resolution of the MacBook down to
1080p it started running pretty well it is so dark see anything the mini LED is is too good
at producing contrast it actually has a similar problem to OLED but aside from Resident Evil
being very dark I was quickly getting invested in the plot package is secure no Hall and he
says about the bay as he hands the baby over and once we got outside at 1080p with this expansive
Vista the combination of the great frame rate beautiful visuals and complete lack of noise
the MacBook was making a compelling argument for it being a good gaming laptop until actual
gameplay happened so last night I took the laptop home to do some gaming on it and the
zombie battles leading up to this point was like the hardest thing I've ever had to do you can see
here that there's a bit of a delay between when you do the input and things happen on the screen
so you just couldn't react quickly enough to what the zombies were doing and it meant I just missed
all of my shots it was really crazy although I will say it is way better since I turned camera
acceleration off with that on it was crazy bad whereas now it's only pretty bad and oh that
motion rendering is rough it's like there's heavy motion blur built into the Monitor and
that smearing is just a one-way Street to eye fatigue even for my seasoned gamer eyes which
really makes me want to plug this into a decent gaming monitor so let's try out the HDMI ports hmm
wow when switching over to this display you can really tell how
good the colors are on that MacBook display this looks so much worse
and this isn't even a bad monitor but again there was a problem wait a minute why can't I set it to
above 60 hertz it eventually let me set it to 240 hertz but only once I changed from the Default
Resolution to a different resolution and then back to the Default Resolution For some reason now I
use Dota 2 a game that I play a lot to gauge the difference between the built-in display and the
external NZXT Monitor and again on the built-in promotion display it felt like swimming in treacle
for any kind of competitive game you just can't use the built-in display on this laptop but once
I switched over to the NZXT monitor it felt like I was gaming on a completely different system I
did have to drop the settings to potato levels to deal with the stutters but now it was playable I
actually won a ranked game using the Macbook so when all said and done putting aside game
optimization what you can and can't play on the MacBook which in my opinion even if they fix all
that this MacBook won't be good for gaming because its display isn't good for gaming and that's kind
of an important part of it they really need to fix the Apple smear it's a problem I've had on all of
their non-o-led devices either way I still stand by my conclusion in the previous apple video I
don't mind that Apple treats gaming like it's a suspicious package at the airport because Apple
buying game Publishers is my idea of purgatory and with that until the next video bye-bye
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