for today's video i did some gaming on this little macbook here and it was actually the first time
i've ever gamed on a macbook and yeah it was it was quite the experience i can't click on apply
this is the first ever macbook pro on the channel and uh just having it in
the office makes me feel like i need to start drinking pumpkin frappuccino lattes or whatever
i'm sorry macbook i'm just lashing out at you because i'm intimidated by you
oh that was quite disappointing i was expecting the whole thing to just
unravel with that one little tug
that does not smell like a new electronic device i think apple puts like a scent in these boxes
smells quite nice it's very like neutral clean smelling wow that's thin but has a nice reassuring
weight to it and then in here it says designed by apple in california which i find is a little
bit of a weird thing to brag about anyway let's see what kind of documentation we get in here
you get some gray macbook stickers so that you can flex that you have a macbook even
if you don't have it on you and then we have our white charge cable with our charge brick
that was what i was expecting the laptop packaging to do that is very satisfying i like that a lot
and then we have our little brick which i touched half a time and it's already gross so that is the
problem with having stuff or white like this is if you have even a little bit of finger cheese
on your hands it's gonna transfer and then this is the 67 watt one which is a weirdly specific
wattage and then other than that that's that's it that's all we get with it okay let's have a closer
look at the macbook now the little macbook in question is the m2 13-inch macbook pro which the
internet seems to think is one of the dumber apple products at the moment which i don't know i feel
like the 600 luggage tag begs deliver but anyway uh i didn't pay for this little macbook it was
actually sent over by micro center who apparently also stocks apple stuff micro center really does
have an awesome selection of electronics and thank you again for sending over this macbook
now i was immediately impressed by the build quality of the neutral clean smelling macbook
but i had a couple of concerns wait a minute so you're telling me you have to use half of
its i o to charge the thing you can't touch a button on it without the thing turning
on i just want to demonstrate the keyboard without switching you on turn off come off no
there we have our fully unsheathed macbook pro that is such a nice looking little laptop but
you know the problem with the nice-lookingness of it is i don't really want to touch it with
my gross manhands because i know it'll just immediately ruin it actually on the note of
immediately ruining it let's try and open it up and have a look inside and after taking a while
to figure out that macbooks use pentalobe screws i ran into a bit of a roadblock
six screws and then do we just lift it off oh i actually have an idea i'm gonna use this thing
does it work oh yeah that please tell me that was the tool that cracked and not the laptop
okay so i just looked at the ifixit video and you do need to use this little thing you kind of
pop it on there and then use one of these bad boys in in here
oh oh i fix it you are very smart but despite ifixit's genius it still felt rough this really
feels like i'm taking a knife to a baby seal's face ah please just come off there we go yay
but there was one thing left for me to discover the hinge there's something here keeping it down
you should be able to there oh oh there we go oh there we go very nice
wow it's open oh it doesn't look like i damaged anything oh one first impression those are some
sexy laptop insides although there's not much of a cooling solution here but it makes sense
considering that the m2 chip in here can actually run passively like it does in the macbook air
so this may actually be an overkill cooling solution for it which is very promising in terms
of thermals and noise while gaming other than that though the ram and the ssd are soldered down which
really sucks especially considering that this only comes with eight gigs of ram and you can't upgrade
it after the fact in fact the only way you can do anything about the storage and memory in here is
by letting apple bend you over a table when you're actually ordering the device so upgradeability
is just not a thing on this laptop at all which you know it's an it's an apple device obviously
but it's still really disappointing to see uh anyway with that let's try gaming on the thing
okay there goes half our ports nice hello that is a pretty laptop as i was setting up the little
macbook i was really flexing my apple knowledge let's go up here and get some more about this mac
information it's about as far as my navigating mac os knowledge goes the news app has the same icon
as dota for some reason that's really weird the keyboard of the little macbook is fine
it does feel like it has more key travel than it looks like there's space for so i guess that's
impressive in terms of the track pad i like the size of it although even on the firmest settings
i feel like it registers clicks too easily and doesn't give you enough haptic feedback which
means it's easy to accidentally click when you don't mean to the aggressive lack of ports on
the little dongle book is definitely an issue which means the little occasions usb hub from
the last video already saves the day oh wait i was supposed to be talking about gaming well while i
was struggling to install steam on the macbook i decided to have a quick look at the apple app
store's game selection which aside from a whole bunch of phone games was barren wow you know a
game selection's bad when the only two games in there that get you excited are more than 10
years old oh wait there's disco elysian that's cool oh we also have psychonauts too apple use
spoilers and once steam was installed it didn't get a whole lot better even most of the games
without that little circle of death next to them don't seem to work and despite steam constantly
trying to convince me to just use a pc instead i eventually found some games that worked kind of cs
go has launched but it's defaulted into windowed mode that shouldn't be much of a problem right
i can't click on apply i can't apply the settings because i can't figure out how to resize
the windows so that i can get to the button to click on it there is no way that's gonna work but
let's give it a try holy crap it's actually worked what and after that stroke of luck
first impressions were good that is the whole thing right we're loading into a game and this
laptop doesn't sound like a jet engine about to explode from the exertion of it like every gaming
laptop that is very promising but my excitement evaporated pretty quickly keyboard no how do i
i don't want emojis why does that bring emojis up okay that is not a thing crash how do i shift
now keyboard struggles aside we may be running the game at 2560 by 1600 but for cs go at low
settings that is not a very good frame rate and it feels quite input laggy also the display
isn't very good at motion rendering you can see there's quite a bit of motion blur when
you look around even for a 60hz panel the motion rendering is pretty rough so it may be quiet but
it's not running cs go very well let's quickly try some dota that's not a great start i just
clicked on settings and it seems like the game crashed oh no it just took super long never mind
now considering that we want to leave it at the native resolution which is quite high i am going
to leave the settings a bit lower oh despite the quite high frame rate it still feels really
input laggy and it's like a molasses-y feeling i can still last hit but it's against the bot and
it just it doesn't feel very good so let's plug an external display in and see if that fixes it
whoa even plugging an external monitor into it's kind of buggy
for some reason initially when i plugged it in it wouldn't give me a 120 hertz refresh rate
through the aces dongle but then i plugged it into a different dongle which gave me 120 hertz and
then when i switched back to the occasions it now also gives me 120 hertz out so that's all weird i
don't know what the reason is for any of that and then dota also decided to get in on the weirdness
so i'm getting music through the macbook but no video over there and then on the display
i'm getting just the mouse okay let me just un plug the display and then it breaks it there
okay so i've unplugged it from the other display but now it looks like that okay let me try plug
the hdmi back in and then maybe that helps i found so far with this macbook i've had to do everything
three times before anything's actually worked so let's give it a try again we've just gotten
a mouse again okay that's that's very good after that i tried to see if csgo is working hey well
cs go works with an external monitor wow that is a lot better now it's quite unfair because
this is a high refresh rate gaming monitor as opposed to the 60hz display in the macbook
and it's a lower resolution which means we get a higher frame rate all of which will help
the input lag but still it just it feels so much better go see if we can get dota running
yay it's finally worked the way i fixed it was by changing resolution from default for display
to scaled back to default for display and then it was fine yeah it definitely feels a lot more
responsive it's not great but it's definitely better than it was before and one thing that
i do really like about the little macbook is it's been so quiet through all of this i've
basically not heard any fan noise from it which is a huge improvement over any gaming laptop
now just to compare more directly i did try playing dota again on the macbook display with
a more comparable resolution and yeah it may be retina sharp and have beautiful colors but
wow is it not good for gaming now i also tried dirt but getting it to run on an external monitor
was the most annoying of any of the games when you launch the game you have to do it without
the external monitor plugged in and then you have to go into the settings once you're there you plug
the monitor in and then there's like a 30 chance that the settings won't lock off and force you to
use some very low resolution default setting but most of the time the settings locks you out so
then you have to restart the whole process again and hope that this time the settings don't lock
you out and you have to do this every time you want to play the game so you have to decide do
you want to display struggle or use the monitor in the macbook that has the motion rendering and
input lag over 90's plasma television now i'm just gonna stop myself there because it goes on
like that for a while and at this point we all know that gaming on a macbook is like going to
a buffet where most of your favorite food is just locked behind glass counters and the little bit of
food that you do have access to is several years old and just keeps glitching through your plate
but quite frankly i don't mind that apple treats non-mobile gaming like it's an std they may catch
if they're not careful because i don't want apple anywhere near the games industry the one thing
that apple is good at above all else is finding a way to charge unbelievable amounts for things
and then having people still buy them so they're just gonna find a way to make gaming even more
expensive and it's not like game publishers need any help milking their customers dry but
if apple starts buying game publishers we may get apple exclusive games which
would mean we'd have to buy a 20 000 macbook just to play league of legends or whatever
can you imagine what would happen if apple buys a company like nintendo
hey uh i just want to buy one of those new nintendo designed in california switches please
the one that's made from brushed aluminium so it's disgusting after the first time
you've touched it the base model for that is two thousand dollars whoa that is way too much money
yeah but remember it smells neutral clean from the box yeah i guess you got to pay
for that that makes sense oh by the way the base model doesn't actually come with any
storage in it and you kind of need that for it to work uh but luckily we have new neural ssds
and getting a 256 gig one only cost an extra thousand two hundred dollars that is insane i'm
just gonna buy the base model and then i'll add my own storage but you can't upgrade it yourself
because it uses the new neural ssds it's just an oem samsung drive i can see it from here yeah but
it's got neural in it there is no way anybody's gonna pay that amount for it um they all did
you know what no thank you i don't want it anymore okay well i guess you're not gonna
be able to play the new smash bros then look at all these awesome screenshots without any
actual gameplay in it fine let me call my bank oh yeah did you want to charge it with that
you