What is going on, everybody, Mike, here.
Welcome back to Tech 24-7 TV.
Now, if you were anything like me, you probably already
own maybe an M1 13 inch MacBook Pro, maybe a Mac Mini
and you've watched Apple's unleashed event where they
talked about these brand new 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros,
which are honestly quite amazing.
And you're wondering to yourself,
should you upgrade.
Well, you are in the right place because in
today's video, I want to tell you why I'm upgrading to the 16
inch MacBook Pro.
What are the Real-World benefits that I expect to see
from this and which model I ordered.
Let's get started.
Now, whether you are coming from a 13 inch MacBook Pro that
was released last year, maybe even the 2019
MacBook Pro, the first tangible benefit that you should expect
to see is that you are getting an iPad like battery life
without necessarily always having to be connected
to the charger.
There's a lot of improvements that Apple made here with the
new M1 Pro and M1 Max, but not just from
a hardware perspective.
There are also enhancements or optimizations that are in Mac
OS Monterrey that will also benefit these devices.
I mean, you're able to get 21 hours of battery life on the 16
inch MacBook Pro, 14 hours of wireless web surfing.
That in addition to the three Thunderbolt ports, which we'll
talk about in just a moment.
You're also getting the ability to MagSafe charge the 16 inch
to 50 percent in 30 minutes with the 140 watt power adapter
that comes inside the box, which 140 watts.
That's kind of ridiculous.
If you think about that,
I think it's the biggest power adapter ever released
for a laptop.
Now, with that in mind, you should really expect to be
able to work on your laptop, have it be power efficient
doing tasks that were, I think,
previously computationally unheard of at the power
consumption levels that we should see on the MacBook Pro.
Well, my 13 inch MacBook Pro, which I have been a
strong advocate for.
If you were thinking about someone buying a computer,
this is a very powerful machine.
And these optimizations, including the faster RAM,
the faster switching fabric.
Those things are all going to play in a huge part with why
you're able to get that ridiculous like iPad
like battery life.
Now, the second tangible benefit that you're going to
see here is that the display is nearly pixel perfect.
Now I'm going to reference here the 16 inch MacBook Pro because
spoiler alert, that's the one I'm ordering.
The 16 inch MacBook Pro has a display resolution of 3456 at
2234, which it seems like a kind of a weird number,
that's because it's 16 by 10.
Now what that means is that this should be able to run at a
native two times resolution without having so
having display scaling.
Now this is very exciting because it should lead to
better UI representation when you're using this Mac because
the display runs at a 2x retina resolution.
We're here on the current MacBook Pros.
They are doing display scaling and it's like 2.1 or 2.5x.
It's not necessarily giving you as crisp of pixels that you
would get when something is running at exactly the two
times native resolution.
Now that in addition to the laptop coming with the Pro
Display XDR, which is going to give you one thousand nits of
sustained brightness, 1600 nits of peak brightness for
HDR workflows, giving you a billion colors in terms of
representation and supporting P3 color gamut.
.In addition, True Tone now true tone.
I'm not a fan of.
I actually don't use it on any of my laptops, no matter what
time of day I'm using it.
I actually don't think that people have really even
use True Tone.
If you do, let me know down the comments below.
Now, when you take the display resolution with the Pro
Display XDR, in addition to now, it's supporting
adaptive refresh rate.
That's also going to play into the fact that you're able to
dial in the way that you use this laptop for no matter
what you're doing.
Now, the next tangible benefit that you are going to see when
you upgrade to the 14 or the 16 inch is you are going to get
desktop like performance out of this notebook in
a clamshell design.
Which really, I think the power efficiency and thermal envelope
that you're going to see in this device are going to
blow your mind.
I know they're going to blow my mind when the device right next
week or if you want to see that, make sure
you are subscribed.
But in terms of what this is, Apple is essentially doubling
the bandwidth for the switching fabric that is used to
communicate between processor, the CPU and the
unified memory.
It's also giving you more robust GPU cores.
So instead of getting eight cores like you have on the M1,
13 inch MacBook Pro, you're getting 16.
Those cores are faster and then you have the ability to upgrade
the core count from 16 to 32 in the M1 Pro, as well as being
able to add 64 gigs of unified memory, which is kind
of ridiculous in an Apple computer.
As Apple mentioned on stage, this has never been
done before, and this should dramatically, like,
dramatically like mind blown, dramatically increase the way
that you work on your computer because of how fast it is going
to be based on this new structure.
Now, for me, when I'm using my MacBook Pro connected to my
computer here, I may be adding video,
or editing photos.
I very often run into these bottlenecks where the data just
can't be copied fast enough and the program ends up quitting.
That, to me, is super frustrating,
especially when I'm trying to do something on a timeline for
trying to make a video if I'm trying to work on a project.
It is very frustrating, and these new enhancements to
the M1 Pro and the M1 Max should alleviate that concern.
That in addition to having dedicated media and coders
for H.264, H.265, ProRes and the ability to include an
additional video encoder engine on the 16 inch MAX version,
as well as dedicated ProRes encode and decode engines.
Now, if I'm using terminology that is new to you, what this
simply means is that there is a separate subsystem on the logic
board or on the M1 Pro and the M1 Max that is dedicated to
Encoding and decoding video when you imported or exported
from your MacBook Pro.
When you have dedicated subsystems, it makes
the computer run more efficiently and it allows the
computer to do other tasks while it is encoding
or decoding this.
Now on the M1 Pro and the M1 Max, you are getting
dedicated H.264, H.265 and ProRes, and ProRes
raw encoder decoder.
But additionally you have two dedicated video encode engines
and two pro encode decode engines on the M1 Max.
And that's going to make your computer cut through that video
footage like a knife through butter because it's
can be ridiculous.
Apple's able to increase the switching fabric speed,
which is used to communicate between the CPU, the GPU and
the respective memory banks to give you somewhere between
either 200 gigabytes or up to 400 gigabytes on the M1 Max.
Which means is that when you are working with large amounts
of data, it should be literally effortless to go from the CPU
to GPU, and you should not notice it.
Now, for me, anytime I'm working in a project,
whether it's Final Cut, whether it's a logic, I often
run into these hiccups as I would like to call them,
where the computer is copying something and it ends up
quitting because it runs out of memory.
So this should completely alleviate that issue.
The next tangible benefit comes in the form of Mea Culpa from
Apple to people like you and me professionals who use these
devices on a daily basis.
Apple is essentially unwound four years, five years of bad
hardware design in a matter of 50 minutes, which is great
because everything that was wrong on the 2016 2018 2019
MacBook Pro is really gone.
When you transition to the 2016 MacBook Pro, Apple took away a
number of ports, including the HDMI port, including the SD
card reader, and gave us four Thunderbolt ports, which at
that time that was a little hard to swallow because many
people didn't have USB-C.
We were still stuck on USB-A and people did not
have Thunderbolt three.
It was nearly not as robust as it is today.
Now, in the course of that 50 minute presentation
from yesterday, they unwound all that and gave us everything
that we wanted.
Now, I really would have liked to have four Thunderbolt
four ports, but beggars can't be choosers.
I have three there, Thunderbolt four now as well,
which is going to be give some additional flexibility when
you're connecting to a dock like the OWC dock that I
have here, which if you're looking for one, I'll put a
link in the description above.
But this is going to enhance your workflow and give you a
little bit more flexibility, because now does the SD card
port return?
In addition to the USB 2.0 port, now I have an
additional Thunderbolt three port and a
MagSafe charging port.
As I mentioned that MagSafe charging port can charge your
MacBook Pro up to 50 percent in 30 minutes, which is again
ridiculous when you think about the amount of energy or power
that you just go through that.
And with the inclusion of these ports.
You have the ability to either a output your display on your
MacBook Pro simultaneously, to three 6K displays running at
60 hertz and you can additionally mirror your
display to a 4K 60 TV over HDMI.
Now, I really wish they would include an HDMI 2.1, but that
is something that they do not give it.
And I'm curious if it's going to be hardware keyboard,
but maybe locked or software disabled in the new
MacBook Pro.
We'll see that when it comes in next week.
And rounding out the fifth one, we're going to see
practical workflow enhancements to what you're doing on your
MacBook Pro, simply by just adding a few things at
which were, I think we take it for granted using iOS and
iPadOS devices for so long.
This is going to include a 1080p webcam, which is going to
support advanced imaging or processing from the M1 Pro
M1 Macs processor.
It's updated to 1080 MP.
It's no longer a potato cam.
I am always on conference calls.
I don't know about you.
Second, you have the support for high
impedance headphones now.
I myself do not use high impedance headphones
for my workflow.
But if you were professional, do some type
of audio mastering, audio mixing.
This is really going to benefit you because you no longer have
to worry about going from your Mac to a DAC.
You can plug your high impedance headphones directly
into your Mac, and it should work.
And there's the upgrade and microphone array that is on the
MacBook Pro to include better signal to noise ratio, which is
going to give you better mic performance or whether you're
talking to someone on a face time call.
Or maybe you're recording something for a voice note.
Whatever the case is, you're going to get better
performance and sound clear with less noise captured
in that recording.
Then you also have the ability for support.
Dolby Atmos.
The new speakers.
It's going to be an enjoyable experience now.
I, for one, am excited about the new MacBook Pros.
I was able to place an order.
I did get a 16 inch Max version with 32 gigs of RAM, so I'm
very much excited about doing some performance tests and
seeing just how dramatic the performance is going to be
increased and these devices in comparison to the 13 inch
MacBook Pro and maybe even my M1 Mac Mini, which I use
for streaming now.
Make sure you subscribe to that video will come
out next Tuesday.
My name is Mike.
This is tech 24-7 TV, folks.
I will talk to you guys next week.