So i've got the new macbook air m2 and it is great but apple failed on one thing with it or failed
to tell us one thing about it but to keep this simple i'm first of all going to answer one big
question i always get asked with brand new macs and then after that i'm going to show you the
unboxing what i did for the macbook air m2 so what is that question you may ask well that question is
can you game on the brand new macbook air m2 and the answer to that is yes you can especially
if you use nvidia's geforce now who is actually sponsoring today's video nvidia's geforce now
lets you play high frames per second games on the likes of a macbook with an m1 chipset and also at
1440p and 120 frames per second via the cloud geforce now gives amazing quality and features
like ray tracing nvidia dlss from the powerful geforce rtx servers that even offer an rtx
3080 gameplay experience you can stream your own aaa title games over the internet like cyberpunk
2077 right to your mac or even your iphone or ipad using safari even if you have a pc
laptop or chromebook you can still stream your games to these devices as well and you never have
to install games that can take up hundreds of gigabytes of space on your new devices
you just simply have to own them if you are thinking of getting yourself a brand
new map i would really encourage you to try out geforce now especially that you can try it out
for totally free by going to this link right here to download the app and i'll also put
that link in my description for the video and without the way guys let's now do the unboxing
for the brand new macbook so this time around as you can see on the box it's a side angle of the
new macbook air and it's quite a standard kind of apple looking box it's of white box as you
normally get and like i said you just normally get a picture of the product on the front and
yeah it's really really thin you can see here on the picture so let's just turn it around here
you've got all the other bits of information and stuff like that on it and at the top you've got a
tab to open up the seals let's pull this open and get that peeled off let's get all this plastic on
and let's see how eco-friendly this box is as it were to the environment apple like to
do this quite a lot first we do have some plastic though that isn't that eco but you know you can't
win all the times it's back to one side and let's pull this open this is the best moment ready and
voila there we have it there is the macbook air inside the box i'm going to pull this this is
paper so yeah we can see that we've got like a circle there i guess that's where the apple
logo is underneath there let's turn it over and yeah let's give it a pull oh i love that
feeling where you can just pull it away that is absolutely fantastic uh let's just pull out the
macbook wow look at that let me just show you guys look at the colors there oh you can see my fingers
buttocks on it already i can't believe it look at that that's where i just grabbed it from so i can
see what people are saying is a bit of a finger magnet but just look at this gorgeous color i'm
just trying to rub that away but let's admire the color for a second it is gorgeous on there
i love the designs really nice we'll put that to one side for the moment let's just see what else
is inside this box but the paper one side as well so we have here the magsafe free charger
what is color coordinated to the macbook i like that this time around that's really really cool
i do like it's blackish there and it's kind of got that midnight color on the actual main cable
but it's got a white end on the usbc we have sort of some instructions and bits and pieces in here
let me just see let's see we can get out of here i'm just trying to pull it here
so oh there we go we've got the sort of macbook air instructions inside it there so just telling
you how to sort of operate where the ports are what else we've got here we've got some
warranty bits and pieces information and safety you know what you know all that kind of stuff
you wanna have fun reading that and then here's the big one the stickers if i can get them out
i can't actually get him out i think you guys gotta give me a second let me see if i can get
him out six and a half hours later there we go finally got them out at last take me ages to get
these out so let me just show you here there we go the midnight color just like the macbook air looks
really really nice i actually like it the colors are different again just like we got with the imac
and you can see here they're actually bigger than the main logo actually on the macbook so
if you wanted to stick it over the top you can do that if you really really wanted to but uh
that's up to you but yeah i do like it the color of them i like that the stickers are different
but the macbook is absolutely amazing and it definitely is gorgeous so i'm just going to
put it to one side let's have a look what we got here we've got a uk plug because i'm from the uk
we have this three pin one here and then because there's the base model i got the standard kind of
30 watt charger let me just see if i can open this it's in paper again just peel this off it's kind
of just a standard kind of macbook charger or some of the ipads have this charger now maybe
a little bit smaller and depending on what macbook you get you either get a large one or a bigger one
there we go got it out and there we have it there is the brand new charger and everything then with
this so i'm just going to put that down just want to show you guys just quickly there's nothing else
inside the box that is everything you get with the unboxing for the macbook air so let's do a
bit more of an overview of this brand new macbook air m2 and the first thing you must have noticed
is we have a brand new color as you can see here this is the brand new midnight color we also have
a brand new twilight color as well but the first thing i did notice what a lot of other youtubers
and a lot of other reviewers have said out there it is a bit of a finger magnet and it does leave a
lot of marks but comparing this brand new macbook air m2 to the older macbook air m1 first of all
you can see a thickness difference here that the macbook air is basically thinner at one end but
thicker at the other because you've got that more of that wedge design but the brand new macbook air
m2 has that kind of brand new design what's really similar to the likes to say the 14 inch macbook
pro but just a lot more thinner the weight is basically almost identical to the macbook air m1
but i have been told it's about a pound lighter but i can't really tell the difference in my hands
but for ports wise we do have a bit of a change here this year we actually have the magsay free
charger on the brand new macbook air m2 whereas the m1 air didn't have this you did have to use
usb-c to charge it but you can still use usb-c charging for the brand new macbook air as well
the look is also a bit more different as well especially like if i open it up here we've
also got this notch inside the screen whereas the older m1 air didn't actually have this the display
itself though on the brand new m2 macbook air is really really crisp but there isn't any pro motion
inside it i've also been testing out this brand new macbook air and i've opened up a few tabs and
i've also opened up pages as well and this macbook air is absolutely fine in handling tasks like this
so yeah we're on to something a bit special here now i do say special but i mean special depending
on who the user is and i want to show you the one thing that lets down the macbook air and that very
simply is just usage now as i've just shown you if you jumped onto this macbook air for say 30 or 40
minutes a day opened a few safari tabs checked your emails wrote the odd letter say in pages
then you'd have no problems but what i would say is do not buy this macbook air if you're planning
to use high-end tasks on this and what i mean by this if you're planning on buying this macbook air
base model to use it for say final cut pro photo editing having say 10 tabs open all at the same
time and maybe photoshop open as well with it this macbook air is just simply not going to cut it
even if it costs 1 200 you do need a more powerful macbook we've got to remember that the macbook air
is completely fanless and if you start to use sort of high-end tasks on this macbook it will start to
struggle i've opened exactly what i said i've opened up final cut pro photoshop and 10 tabs
and look at the heat compared here i've got the 14 inch macbook pro and then next to that
i've got the macbook air and you can see the temperature is a little bit higher here on this
m1 model and then compare it to the m2 macbook air it's about 44 degrees and that's absolutely crazy
it's much more hotter inside this machine and the two reasons behind this well one is because it's
a fanless design and what goes on with that is apple have designed this macbook air to basically
be completely fabulous because if they're not intending the user to buy it to run kind
of savings like final cut pro photoshop really regularly every single day and for long periods of
time it's just simply not designed for that this is what the m1 pro m1 max and even what the m1
ultra is for another factor is the m2 chipset is bigger than the m1 footprint with a faster clock
speed and an extra gpu caught on the base model m2 macbook air compared to the m1 macbook air
meaning it will get hotter quickly especially that it's sitting on the same 5 nanometer die as well
this macbook air will get hot if you try to use it for professional tasks and for that you're better
off saying getting the base model 14 inch macbook pro with dual fans inside but for my point of view
this is where i believe apple has failed us we now have a bigger m2 chipset what's giving out
even more heat and yet it's still fanless and then on top of that as well as you might have
seen some other reviews here on youtube they've only put in one nand ssd what basically makes the
actual storage a bit more slower and could make the m2 struggle a little bit more and cause even
more heat with more heat this basically means that the m2 chipset has to slow down and this is called
throttling what basically means you can't utilize all the speed what's inside this actual chip apple
are giving us a shiny new design macbook air that everyone will pick over say the chunkier
14-inch macbook pros and why wouldn't you at the end of the day it's a macbook on the box isn't it
it looks nice it's new and it's one of the cheapest out there but yeah do anything beyond
basic tasks on this macbook air and it will start to get hot and it will start to throttle and your
macbook air will start to slow down quite quickly so my initial conclusion for just trying out this
macbook air for a little while it is gorgeous it is brilliant it does look absolutely stunning and
amazing but the thing is if you use this macbook air beyond doing basic tasks on it and i really
do mean basic tasks do not install any pro apps on it otherwise it will start to get hot and it will
start to throttle and with that what i would say is you're better off saving up your money
to get yourself say a 14 inch macbook pro m1 pro that base model and there are a lot of sales out
there right now and you can get one for really really good money right now just check out things
like amazon and lots of other websites out there because there's some really good prices on that
and i would really encourage to buy that instead if you're definitely going to be using pro apps
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