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- The MacBook is dead.
In my last video,
I talked about all the problems that it had,
but Apple just announced a brand new MacBook Pro
that aims to fix everything that was missing
and then some.
So here's why I'm excited
to get my grubby hands on one.
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There are a lot
of headlines with the new MacBook Pros.
There's MagSafe,
more ports on top
of the two brand new M1 chips
now called M1 Pro and M1 Max.
I'll dig into them in a bit,
but let's first take
a visual look at what's changed.
Still available in silver and space gray,
the new MacBook Pro's design
is a bit of a departure
in that it's very asymmetrical.
The design of the bottom reminds me
of the corners of the OG Intel MacBook from 2006.
But the top screen is flat edged like the new IPad
or the old Titanium PowerBook
that started Apple's pro laptop revolution 20 years ago.
Actually, even the black keyboard
calls out to that old laptop too.
And as I predicted the touch bar is gone.
RIP.
In its place is a function row
with full height keys
to make it easier to,
change the volume.
The ports are a big deal with the new MacBook,
bringing back things that
really shouldn't have been removed
in the first place.
There's HDMI,
an SD card slot,
three Thunderbolt 4 ports,
and most remarkably,
Magsafe.
Yes, it has returned.
And no,
the MacBook is not compatible with your old charger,
but this time around Magsafe
is now a detachable cable
that on the charger end plugs into USB-C.
So you still have the flexibility if it frays
or the only cable you have around is a USB-C cable.
Really the best of all worlds,
finally.
The displays have grown
and are massively improved now.
The smaller laptop stretches to 14 inches across,
while the larger model is still 16 inches,
it only looks bigger.
Most notable is the addition
of adaptive ProMotion,
which increases the top refresh rate to 120 Hertz.
But when there's not a lot
of action on the screen,
it drops the refresh rate to save battery.
And when you're watching a movie,
it matches the frame rate of the content.
The panels are Liquid Retina XDR
with a 1600 nits peak brightness
and mini LED contrast ratio.
The resolution is now up
to 254 pixels per inch for both with,
what aspect ratio?
I think the cinemas aspect ratio rating
is going to make a comeback.
So that would be 1.55:1 versus 1.6:1
in the outgoing MacBook.
Oh wait,
is there a notch?
There's a notch on the MacBook Pro screen now.
I'm not one of those people
who hates the notch on the IPhone,
but this notch,
which contains the much improved 1080p webcam,
but no face ID,
blocks the middle of the task bar.
And what's going to happen
in full screen mode?
Are they going to have
to redesign Safari and other apps?
I'm notch too sure,
but I'll investigate in my review.
Subscribe to find out.
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Okay.
The performance,
the chips,
Apple announced two new chips in the MacBook Pro,
dubbed M1 Pro and M1 Max.
They are the next layers
in Apple's ARM transition.
For Apple, the name of the game here
is both increased performance and efficiency.
And they raced through this announcement,
I could barely keep up.
The CPU isn't the big story here,
though it gets an increased to 10 cores.
Where apple has put its focus on
is GPU memory and machine learning.
And that's really where the differences between
the M1 Pro and Max lie.
The M1 Pro is available with 14 or 16 GPU cores.
And for video editors like me
has a hardware accelerated media engine
for encoding and decoding
the most popular formats,
along with ProRes.
Now looking at Apple's chip product shots,
here it appears that
the Max features a duplicated GPU,
so up to 32 cores
with additional engines
for faster video encoding and decoding.
This is going to be great for video editors.
This additional module in
the M1 Max increases the unified memory
to up to 64 gigabytes
and memory bandwidth
to 400 gigabytes per second.
Up from the 200 in the pro.
Another big boom for professionals
is that the Max will support up
to four external displays
with the Pro only supporting two.
Apple made a bunch of charts to show
the differences between other laptops in the class.
And while I don't know how they quantify performance,
these charts were really about efficiency
and these MacBooks have some crazy sounding battery life.
Apple claims the 14 inch should get
around 17 hours of battery life,
while the 16 inch will get up to 21 hours.
Me wonders how much
the more powerful CPU's will affect battery life.
Regardless,
you'll be able to fast charge
to 50% in half an hour.
Another interesting thing about the different chips
is both are available
on the small and large MacBook Pros.
And there are a lot of skews to choose from.
So will the performance be a bit different
because there's more space
to dissipate heat on the 16 inch model?
Another thing to investigate.
Pricing wise,
a base 14 inch now starts at $2,000
and the base 16 inch will set you back $2,500.
This is $200 and $100 more
than the outgoing models respectively.
Oh, and if you do want an M1 Max,
you will have to upgrade the memory too.
So that can be a $900 upgrade,
keeping a reasonable amount of storage
and maxing out everything else on the 16 inch
will set you back $3,900.
Yikes.
As for me,
I really like the idea
of a maxed out 14 inch,
that it could just dock
to the desk and use for everything.
It could be one computer
to rule them all.
It wasn't just MacBooks that got announced,
there are three new colors of the HomePod mini,
which should match your yellow,
orange or blue IMac nicely.
There are also new AirPods.
These third generation AirPods appear
to be like AirPods pro,
but without the Silicon tips.
The new design is supposed
to hold into your ear better.
The charging case supports MagSafe.
That's kind of cool.
It's got an IPX4 rating
for sweat and water resistance.
It has Force Touch
and better battery life.
It has spatial audio and an Adaptive EQ.
Actually looking at the comparison chart,
these really do appear
to be AirPods Pro without some features.
My concern is still that
the mesh is too close to the tips.
It looks just ready to eat ear wax.
There are $180 while
the old second gen model remains
on sale for $130 now.
All right,
thanks for sticking through this Mac address.
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I was kind of surprised by
the amount of skews available
in this MacBook.
So I'm curious if you were to get one,
what model you'd order.