apple just had their 14 and 16 inch macbook pro event and i think we can all
agree that even pc fanboys were blown away by the m1 pro and the m1 max chips
but with that said there are 12 things that apple hid from you
when they did that presentation that i'm going to be sharing both some positives
and also some negatives mostly on the negative side there's enough positives
i'm not going to waste any time telling you guys what you already know
so let's go ahead and get into it now with that i do want to mention that we
are working on a buyer's guide because there are an insane amount of
configurations different bin chips different upgrade
options so that will be coming out most likely today as soon as it is finished
so make sure you guys hit that subscribe button now the first thing i want to
talk about this is kind of obvious but these are more expensive
now not just on the get-go i mean apple showed off that 1999 dollar price for
the 14-inch but what they didn't mention is the fact that that model is a slower
version of the chip that they showed off on stage now yes apple has done that
before with the m1 macbook air but that was only missing one graphics core and
they effectively dropped the price but i think up to about a hundred and fifty
dollars less than previously they gave you a much better performance at the
very cheapest price so we forgave them but this time around they raised the
price by two hundred dollars compared to the four thunderbolt port model
and that one has two less cores for the cpu performance cores and two less
graphics cores now that means that you're getting potentially up to 25 less
performance cores and 20 less cpu performance compared to what they showed
off on stage and 15 less graphics performance you actually have to spend
another 200 more to get the full eight performance
course in the 10 core cpu and another 100 on top of that or 300 more than
their 2 000 price to get the full graphic scores that means that that is a
price increase of 500 compared to before if you want to look at the way of you
know them binning the chips and is it worth spending the extra maybe 200 or
300 upgrading that 14 inch from its base
price well we will have to see and we have both ordered so make sure you guys
are subscribed if you want to see that but with that said that is not the only
upgrade you get if you spend a little bit more money which leads me into
number two and that is the power adapter the batteries in this 14 inch macbook
pro got 20 larger now compared to the 13 inch
macbook pro and apple showed off being able to fast charge from zero to 50 in
30 minutes which is great but what they didn't mention is that you need a 96
watt charger to do that and the base model comes with a 67 watt charger now
thankfully you don't have to buy the next bump up the 2500
configuration to get that 96 watt charger if you decide to upgrade even up
to the the 10 core a non-bin cpu but still the bin graphics that includes
that 96 watt charger for no extra price which is good but even if you don't need
any extra performance other than the base model you can actually spend 20
dollars more to get that 96 watt charger to be able to fast charge this machine
now personally my thought is why even make a new 67 watt charger it's a new
charger used to be 61 watts and then let people upgrade for 20 bucks more and
then if you upgrade anything else in terms of performance you get that
charger anyway it seems like a waste i think should just be included so make
sure you at least spend that 20 extra dollars number three is just how chunky
these machines are as soon as we saw them we're like wow these things look so
thick but in fact there are two things that weren't mentioned both on the
positive and on the negative now the first one is just the fact that these
machines aren't really that thick it's just the shape that changes no longer
tapered and that's because apple's fitting in larger batteries more
components better speakers all of that into these so the sides are a lot more
flat making them look a lot thicker than they are in fact the 14 inch model is
actually slightly thinner than the previous 13 inch now on the 16 inch
model it is thicker even though apple said it's like 16.7 millimeters thin
it is thicker but only by four percent now we do have a bigger difference in
weight the 14 inch model actually went up by 17
it's actually heavier than the older 13-inch macbook pros back when we had
ports but for the 16-inch model the weight only went up by nine percent at
least the base rated weight and that leads me into number four and that is
something that is going to be very interesting as soon as we get our hands
on these because this could be very significant and that is if you go for
the m1 max chip on the 16 inch the laptop is actually heavier it goes from
4.7 pounds up to 4.8 pounds now what really gets me is that for the 14 inch
we don't have anything like this listed at all and this has me thinking that we
might actually have better cooling for the 16 inch model when you upgrade to
that chip and then the 14 inch model it is all the same which also means that we
could have thermal throttling on the 14 inch and not have it on the 16 inch
because apple has more room to play with for the cooling now of course we did get
30 to 32 core graphics on a 14 inch and we got a 16 inch of those graphics so we
will be putting those head to head it's going to be very interesting to check
out the thermals if you guys want to see that make sure you have notifications
enabled now apart from that you can basically get the same configuration for
a 14-inch and a 16-inch model which we have never gotten before not only were
13-inch mac pros way less powerful than 15 or 16-inch models but you couldn't
get as much ram and storage but now you can get both of those you can get 64
gigs and an 8 terabyte ssd the new ultra fast 7.6 gigabytes per second ssds on a
14 inch now because of that the price difference now is very little we're
talking only 200 difference if they're spec the same between a 14 and a 16. so
now you can actually choose do you just want the larger size and be quiet siri
do you want the larger size you want to spell a little bit more or would you
prefer something more compact which a lot of people do and fun fact you can
now spend up to five thousand nine hundred dollars on a 14-inch macbook pro
pre-tax now like i mentioned you could get the same exact processors on both
but what apple didn't mention is that if you want to go for an m1 max processor
you're automatically forced into getting 32 gigabytes of ram which you never had
to do before and that costs automatically an extra bump of 400 not
counting the extra money for the processor itself now don't get bumped
out about these higher prices right away because you can actually save money with
these new machines in two different ways just yesterday if you wanted to get the
best cpu and the best graphics with a one terabyte ssd 32 gigs of ram which
that's what a lot of people buy that actually costs four thousand and one
hundred dollars but today if you want the same configuration with the best cpu
and the best graphics you will spend three thousand five hundred dollars
meaning you actually save six hundred bucks
and you get a much better machine and the second part of this that you have to
keep in mind is even the 16 core base graphics for the 16 inch those are more
powerful than the 5600 m that you would spend 4
hundred dollars on and with that unified memory is much more efficient than the
standard memory and the new ssds are more than twice as fast so a lot of you
guys that had to buy 32 gigs of ram you no longer have to spend that amount of
money so if you count it this way a two thousand seven hundred dollar sixteen
inch will be faster way faster than that four thousand one hundred dollar model
now of course because the 14 inch can support the same configuration if you
don't want the larger size if 14.2 inches is enough for you you can save
another 200
meaning a macbook this year can be up to a thousand six hundred dollars less
expensive than the one you bought last time and a lot more powerful with extra
ports much better displays better speakers webcam all of that or a
thousand four hundred dollars less expensive if you still wanna stick with
that 16 inch size now number nine is that 24 core graphics configuration that
they completely didn't mention during their keynote they talked about the 16
core and the 32 but as we see on the configurator we have that now what you
might think is that hey you're spending only 200 more than the
16 core only half what the 32 core option costs and maybe it's worth that
for eight extra graphics scores or maybe it's worth spending more but one thing
that most people don't know is that if you choose that option you pay 200 more
if you're already getting that amount of ram that it requires you're getting way
more than eight cores you are getting not only double the encoders and
decoders which means that exporting video will be twice as fast even if you
don't need the extra raw performance but with that you're getting support for
twice the amount of external displays as well and up to twice the memory
bandwidth as well so for an extra 200 more that just might be the best bang
for the buck configuration because this is an m1 max chip that is binned that
means that it's using the same cooler as the 32 core with probably either better
heat pipes or more conductivity to cover that much larger
m1 max chip meaning that it can actually run cooler and quieter potentially than
the 16 core definitely cooler and quieter than the 32 core so this might
just be the ultimate configuration and i got to tell you we ordered not only a 16
core and a 32 but also a 24. i spent way too much money but we will see how these
compare once we get these and i'm extremely excited to test them out now
something that's a little bit less exciting definitely a bummer is the fact
that these new chips still have no support for wi-fi 6e which was actually
announced and certified almost two years ago and no bluetooth 5.2 so it's still
just standard wi-fi 6 and bluetooth 5.0 and that's a bummer because unlike
phones which people upgrade every year or maybe two years every three years
some people most people will keep their laptops for five six seven years a long
time and wi-fi six e has support for the six gigahertz band which has a lot less
issues with other people's wi-fi you have better bandwidth so that definitely
is a bummer for me the apple did not update it and it's still using the old
standard and with that the next thing the apple didn't tell you is that the
hdmi port that they finally put back in it's very convenient that it's there it
is not using the latest hdmi 2.0 technology now this makes no sense to me
because this port is limited to 4k 60 hertz like we had years and years ago
five six years ago now instead of being able to support 4k 120 hertz or 8k
support through that port now the weird thing for me is that the new apple tv 4k
that came out this year that cost 180 that thing supports hdmi 2.1 where this
macbook pro does not and if you want to support higher frame rates high
resolutions you are still going to have to connect through the thunderbolt port
and that hdmi is just going to be a waste there now the last one that i want
to cover is battery life the 16 inch one has great battery life but unfortunately
the 14 inch model even though the battery is 20
larger the battery life is only slightly better than the older intel macbook pros
by one hour of web use now man i was like why is this so poor here we have
the bigger battery well of course we have the much higher resolution displays
that are much brighter we're supporting pro motion there we have much more
performance with the cpu and the graphics and because this is a 10 core
chip apple uh they got rid of two of the
efficiency cores so instead of four efficiency cores and four performance
cores with the m1 we now have two efficiency cores and six performance
cores for the non-binned model so there you guys go those are 12 things that
apple did not mention at their event of course we are making that buyer's guide
telling you guys which mistakes you should not make when you're ordering and
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