- Hey guys, it's Justine. Happy 2023
and what a way to start off the new year
with some Apple News.
Now, first off, we all figured
that there would be an M2 Pro and a M2 Max chip
that would be coming out at some point
following the same timeline as the M1.
So guess what? Here we are!
I'm gonna give you guys all the specs here in a second
but all I know is that the M1 Mac is so freaking powerful
that any upgrades to this at all
is just gonna be so hard to beat
and I don't even think that I can fully imagine
how powerful that's gonna be.
Like on this computer, fans have hardly ever turned on
over the past year
even doing super processor intensive things
and the battery life is beyond anything
that I could have ever hoped for in a laptop.
Full flights around the world,
this thing has been with me through it all.
Now, I've already had hands on
with the M2 chip in the MacBook Airs
so knowing how much stress testing
that I put that thing through,
my excitement to get a MacBook and a Mac mini
cannot be contained.
Like I'm kind of containing it right now
but like I don't want to.
So now we have two new chips,
the M2 Pro and the M2 Max that you can choose from
in the 14 and 16 inch MacBook configurations.
Now with the M2 Pro chip, it comes with a 10 or 23 core CPU
and a 16 or 19 core GPU.
You can have up to 32 gigs of low latency unified memory
and it has over 40 billion transistors
which is 20% more than in the M1.
Now in Photoshop, you'll have 40% faster image processing.
That was the M2 Pro, now onto the M2 Max.
This builds off of the power of the Pro.
It has up to a 38 core GPU,
double the unified memory bandwidth which is up to 96 gigs.
Now both the M2 Pro and the M2 Max chips
include a faster 16 core neural engine
and powerful media engine.
So for the MacBook Pros, we have a 16 inch or a 15 inch.
I am so beyond impressed with the power of the 14 inch
because it literally is just as powerful as a 16 inch
but in a much smaller form.
The 14 starts at $1,999 and a 16 inch starts at $2,499.
You can choose between two colors
the space gray and the silver, which I have here
and both sizes can be configured
with the M2 Pro or the M2 Max chips
and with up to eight terabytes of storage.
Now, much like the previous MacBooks from last year,
the design looks very similar.
I mean, they look basically exactly like this one.
They have the SD card slot,
they have three Thunderbolt 4 ports.
It has WIFI 6E and the HDMI output will support up to 8K.
Also, something that's really cool is the MagSafe charger.
It's actually color matched
to either the silver or space gray,
which I think is pretty neat.
You can get up to 18 hours of video playback
and 12 hours of wireless web browsing on the 14 inch
while the 16 has the longest battery life ever in a Mac
up to 22 hours of video playback
and 15 hours of wireless web browsing.
Both models have a magic keyboard
with full height function key row,
touch ID for unlocking and signing in and making purchases.
I really do love having touch ID
and now even having that on my full size keyboard
on my desktop,
it's just really something that I feel like
I can't live without anymore.
I just wish that my iPhone had it.
Too soon.
The Mac mini is also getting the M2 treatments.
Now you can get just the regular M2 chip
with a starting price of $599 or $799 with upgraded storage
or the M2 Pro starting at $1,299.
Honestly, getting an M2 Base Mac mini at $599
is really kind of hard to wrap my mind around
because that's a really great price.
Now of course, you are gonna need to buy a keyboard,
mouse and display to go with that
but if you already have those, then you're set.
You can choose from an 8, 10 or 12 core CPU
and a 10, 16, or 19 core GPU.
You can configure it to 8 to 32 terabytes of unified memory
and up to 8 terabytes of solid state storage.
Now, the Mac mini with the M2
can simultaneously support up to two displays,
while the M2 Pro can simultaneously support
up to three displays.
Depending upon which chip you go with
it has 2 or 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Both have USB-A ports, HDMI, WIFI 6E
and ethernet that could be configured up to 10 gigabit.
Now we've also got a new HomePod announcement.
There's the HomePod second gen.
Now after discontinuing this first gen HomePod,
I felt like my home just became
some sort of little history museum
with all my old HomePods just scattered about.
I love the HomePod so much.
I have them in almost every room of my home
and my office at this point.
So what's new with the second gen?
First off, the price, it is starting at $299
where the first gen was launched at $349.
It has the same S7 chip that is found in the Apple Watch
whereas the first gen had the A8 from the iPhone 6.
It has four built-in microphones
compared to the original having six,
but it still has support for far-field series,
so you can access it from a distance.
The power cable is also detachable, which is so nice
because you couldn't remove it on the old one.
The top has a larger backlit touch interface.
It's also lighter and a little shorter.
The first gen weighed 5.5 pounds and this is only 5.16.
It's also 0.2 inches shorter
but they did keep the same width.
It now supports Thread, which is a low power mesh network
that the first HomePod didn't have.
Now much like the HomePod Mini,
which is their newest one in the lineup,
this has a built-in U1 Ultra Band chip
that detects other U1 equipped devices.
So you'll be able to quickly do handoff with audio
and your phone calls.
It's also got a built-in sensor
that can detect temperature and humidity of the room.
Sound recognition also allows the HomePod
to securely listen for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.
Now I already know that I love the HomePod
so having a new upgrade to the one that I already love,
I'm pretty sure it will live up to the expectations.
But I will say I was kind of hoping
that they create something with a screen
along the lines of that,
kind of like how Amazon Alexa has their Echo devices.
So it will be interesting to see
if they ever do decide to go that routes.
I feel like if they would end up doing something like that,
it would probably be an entirely new product
instead of just building off of the HomePod,
like maybe Nopod, maybe just like home,
like an iHome, I don't know.
Anyway, I'm super hyped about the announcements.
It is kind of difficult sometimes covering these things
because cosmetically, all of these devices look very similar
to previous ones.
So sometimes when reviewing these it's hard
because it looks exactly the same.
So really the only way to show you the differences
is by showing the performance.
I'm already blown away
by what Apple has done with Apple silicon,
so I can't wait to get my hands
on one of the new MacBook Pro.
You guys know that I can't wait,
and of course I did end up specking out a full 16 inch
with the 96 gigs of RAM.
I mean, that is a freaking dream come true.
Like I mean my day-to-day things even just editing 8K video,
like that's, it's just wow.
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