(chill hip hop music) - Woo!
That, my friends, was an Apple event.
So not only do we have a new 14
and 16" MacBook
with some of the most powerful processors ever,
but they added ports
and a notch.
Ken, I'm not ready.
I'm not ready, thank you.
I definitely needed a new pair of pants.
Okay, look. This is, there's a lot to talk about here.
Number one, first
and foremost is there's a new design
with these new MacBooks, right?
So, I've been rocking an M1 MacBook Pro since last year,
and I have made no secret of the fact
that I absolutely love this hardware,
even though the design itself is very much directly based
on the 2016 MacBooks, the power
of the Apple M1 chip is incredible,
not only the performance, but also the battery life.
This has easily become my main laptop
for work, home, edit videos, I can do everything on this,
but the new MacBook Pros with the M1 Pro
and the M1 Max have completely taken it
to another changing pants level.
We're going to start with the speeds
and feeds, because if you are a tech nerd,
what Apple have announced today, it's something special.
Okay, so, the M1 Pro
and the M1 Max share the same general CPU layout,
8 performance CPU cores,
as well as 2 efficiency cores.
Now this is a big step up from the 4 performance cores
and 4 efficiency cores on the current M1s,
but beyond that, they're backed up
with a ton more memory, a ton more bandwidth,
and a far more powerful GPU.
The spec that really jumped out
to me most is the transistors.
Now that might not seem like the most exciting thing,
but on the M1 Pro it has 33.7 billion transistors,
more than double the M1.
If you look at the Max,
it has, (exhales deeply) 57 billion transistors.
That is a massive chip,
and it's fed with up to 64 gigs of unified memory
that can go at what, 400 gigabytes per second,
which is six times what the M1 can deliver.
These are numbers that are just simply ridiculous
in a laptop that can be either 14 or 16".
When you look at the performance of these laptops,
you have to keep this in mind,
that there are a couple of ways that you can approach it,
if you are Apple or any sort of designer.
You can take a chip
and run it at low power, but make it very wide,
or you can take a smaller chip, which is cheaper to produce
and run it at very high speeds.
So the performance that you actually get out of it
is very much based on turning both of those dials
and with the M1 Pro
and the M1 Max, they run at 30 watts, right?
That is a fraction of even what most Intel CPU's run
or most AMD CPU's run, especially when you compare it
with the GPUs, right?
GPUs can easily run into the 100 watt+ range.
What this allows you to do with the unified memory,
which is an important thing,
because, while the M1 Max have a lot of performance,
they top out at only 16 gigs,
and that is shared between the CPU
and the GPU.
Whereas on these, you have a lot more memory, up to 64 gigs,
and it's a lot faster.
It's two to four times faster,
which means that you can easily keep your CPU
and GPU fed,
and there's less performance wasted
as something has to copy from the GPU
and over to the CPU
and then back,
and forth, which helps to improve that performance.
But we've got to talk performance,
because some of the stuff they quoted
is straight up (child wooping)
crazy town.
That's the opposite of garbage town, it's crazy town.
In case you're curious.
Okay, so here's the thing
that I think sort of surprised me most, okay?
So they compared it to,
and this is the M1 Max,
this is the high-end version of their chip.
This has 1.7 times the CPU performance at 30 watts, right?
Which is a little bit of a nebulous thing,
and to be fair, in keeping with Apple tradition,
all of the benchmarks they quote are a little squishy
on the numbers, but at least they gave us
the actual systems they were comparing to,
and I will certainly be taking a closer look,
but 1.7 times more CPU performance.
Seven times faster graphics performance
than in PC integrated graphics,
and you get more performance
than a dedicated graphics card with 70% less power.
There's a lot to unpack there, but I think the easy way
to sort of take a look at it
is the Razor Blade 15 Advanced.
That was one of the things
that they put up in the little fine print,
and they claim that it has similar GPU performance
at 40% less power.
For context, that's about the same level
of GPU performance as an RTX 3060,
and a thin
and light 14 or 16" laptop.
That is super
impressive stuff. - [Ken] And you don't have
to plug it in.
- Yeah, they also had a whole thing
about how you don't lose any performance
when you're on battery, versus when you're, you know,
plugged in, which is great.
These are efficiency numbers
that are really only made possible by the fact
that they have this massive, massive chip.
Again, 57 billion transistors.
I mean, that's like taking, I mean,
that's a bigger chip than like an RTX 3090,
when it comes to actual transistors.
Because they have such a huge chip,
they can run it at very low, sort of clock speeds,
which I think is really impressive, right?
I think that's one of the things that's easy to miss here.
Especially when they throw stuff out like,
it can run, what is it, like 150 ProRes streams?
I'm making that up, but it's like, what is it?
- [Ken] It's actually like 30.
- 30 ProRes streams, 30 4K ProRes streams,
like, come on, no one is gonna do that,
but because you have this performance
and you have the battery life to go along with it,
it means that not only do you have the performance,
but you also have
that major new redesign of the MacBook Pro,
which surprise surprise,
brings back almost all of those same features
that they used to have on the old MacBook Pros
and 120 Hertz display with a notch,
but we'll get to that.
We're adding ports to the MacBook Pro, was a great line,
because they have added ports.
- [Ken] They're listening.
- They actually are, right?
So these new MacBooks,
regardless of whether you're looking at the 14 or the 16,
have three Thunderbolt 4 ports,
they have an HDMI, a full sized HDMI, an SD card,
they have a headphone jack that
"works for high impedance headphones",
which I assume means it's got a sweet DAC
where you can run your giant big chungus 9,000 headphones,
and they've brought back MagSafe. (exhales sharply)
- [Ken] Need those pants?
- You know what?
I need one more pair of pants.
Do you just, sorry, these are already,
I know that I didn't put them on,
but I have soiled them nonetheless.
- [Ken] Soiled, soiled, that's a different thing dude.
- So in addition to the ports,
and actually they've shown
that not only can you still use USB-C to charge these,
but it will now do a fast charge over the MagSafe.
So I believe they quoted 50% in 30 minutes,
which actually is pretty quick.
The display is also majorly reworked.
So not only is it a mini LED display,
which is similar to what you get,
not necessarily on the Pro Display XDR,
even though they would like you to believe that
it's a slightly different technology,
it is similar to what you get on the M1 Mac I-
- [Ken] iPad.
- iPad Pro, there's a lot of Apple terms
in my mind right now, thank you very much.
So not only do you get the full 1000 nits
of sustained brightness
and 1600 nits of peak brightness,
but you also get the ProMotion 120 Hertz display,
which is incredibly nice.
Something I took a look at recently,
or at least, a version of it,
on the Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio.
120 Hertz makes a lot of sense on a Pro Display like this.
Now yes, there is a notch. I don't get the notch.
I will say, the notch is kind of silly
because it does not have Face ID.
You still have Touch ID,
although they have removed the touch bar
and they've kind of redesigned,
so you have like slightly larger like function row
and all that stuff,
but the notch purely exists for the larger camera.
Now, it is a better webcam. It's 1080p.
It's like an f/2.0 aperture, better in low light,
et cetera, et cetera.
Great. I love a good webcam.
I personally don't think I'm gonna mind the notch
too much, but it's a weird choice.
- [Ken] Well it's fine
because they hide it in the menu bar anyway-
- They do - and the menu bar
is always persistent, more or less on Macs.
- And, they've also expanded the displays.
So both the 14
and the 16 are roughly the same size
as the previous versions, as far as footprint,
but the bezels have been shrunk down pretty significantly.
I just wish they would've put Face ID in the notch,
but Touch ID is fine.
So because the event has just wrapped up,
I'm gonna take a look
and see what it's like to actually build these 14's
and 16's.
Okay, so the base model of the 14 comes in at $2,000.
It comes with the M1 with a 8-core CPU
and a 14-core GPU, 16 gigs of RAM, 512 gig SSD.
So, you could spend $200 more
to get the 10-core, $300 more to get the 10-core
and the 16-core GPU,
$500 more to get the M1 Max with 10-core,
and 24-core GPU,
and $700 for the M1 Max full (child wooping).
The nice thing is,
is that you can get all of these available
on the 14" MacBook,
and they have talked about
how they've redesigned the cooling,
so you shouldn't really lose performance going
to the small laptop, which is a huge plus for me,
although in practice, there may be some differences.
$700 is a sizable jump, although to be fair, that M1 Max,
that GPU is so big that there's no doubt
that it is a very expensive chip.
And then for memory, you have to do 32 gigs with the M1 Max,
and you can go up to 64 for another $400, okay,
and then storage goes 512, 1, 2, 4
and 8 terabyte, hmm, that's a $5,900 MacBook.
Okay, so I won't be ordering that one.
I'll let Justine do that.
Wow, that is very expensive.
I'm curious, I wanna see the performance differences
between some of the M1 Pros
and the M1 Max.
That's a lot more options than traditional,
although I guess if you think about it
compared to like, you know, a couple of core i5's
and a couple of core i7's or i9's or something,
it does kind of make sense.
Now let's actually build out a 16
and see.
So on the 16" MacBook, it starts at $2499
and you get the 10-core, yeah,
so they don't do the 8-core at all on this,
so at least you get the full M1 Pro.
Whoa.
The Max starts at $3,499, holy.
So, if you want an M1 Max 16" MacBook Pro,
$3,500 for 32 gigs of RAM, 1 terabyte of storage.
So it's another $400 to go to 64 gigs of RAM,
I don't know if you need that,
and then another $2,200, which brings you to $6,100.
So I guess the difference between the 14
and the 16, isn't actually that big of a difference, like-
- [Ken] It's really just, pick your size.
- Pick your size.
- And you just pay a little bit more.
- Wow. Yes.
It's easy to say, $6,000 laptop, ha ha ha,
but, if I was gonna spec these out,
like I'm probably gonna spec it out
for a lot of the people here in the office,
hey everyone, you want a MacBook?
- [Ken] Yeah.
- $3,900 is probably where the 16 should live.
32 gigs of RAM, 2 terabytes of storage.
That is very reasonable.
And if I go down to the 14, that's actually even better.
So I'm like, I'm learning this live.
So if I'm gonna build my own 14,
which is definitely my next main system,
I do want the maxed-out M1 Max,
because I want that.
32 gigs of RAM is fine. 2 terabytes of storage is fine.
So I'd be looking at $3,699 for my MacBook Pro.
The big story here is what these new MacBooks can do,
and I am incredibly excited to get my hands on them.
So let me know, what do you think
about all the goodness that Timmy Cook dropped on us today?
And how many pairs of pants did you go through?
That's probably the real question that I have.
- [Ken] Either that or people are just really blinded
by the notch
and don't like it.
- Look, if you care that much about the notch,
that's fine.
I'm gonna enjoy my RTX 3060
massively powerful 14" MacBook,
and I'm gonna sell a kidney
and give it to Timmy Cook for it.