- Hey guys, it's Justine
and today, I have something very special.
This past WWDC, I think was probably the biggest one
that they've ever had, they packed so much into it.
And inside of this box,
we have the brand new 15 inch MacBook Air
and I could not be more excited.
And I definitely did not expect to be unboxing something
this soon after the event.
So, let's get into it.
(upbeat music)
That's right, our darling baby, 13 inch MacBook Air,
now has a big brother or sister.
The 15 inch MacBook Air comes stock with the M2 chip,
an upgraded speaker system, 18 hour battery life,
while retaining the silent fanless system
of its smaller counterpart.
(box ripping)
I got the starlight one.
It's always a mystery of what color
are you gonna get for your review version.
Now, in the 13 inch for the previous one,
I got the new midnight color, and this is the starlight.
I did get to see all four colors at WWDC.
And not gonna lie, the starlight is absolutely beautiful.
I kind of wish that the MacBook Pros came in this color,
because I 100% would've definitely got
the starlight MacBook Pro.
(tape peeling)
Oh, I'm so excited.
This is really the only 15 inch MacBook
in the entire Apple ecosystem right now,
because they've got a 13, a 14, and a 16.
There's no middle ground, this is it.
Wow, it's definitely heavier than the 13.
And the 13 is so small.
The starlight is so pretty.
Oh my goodness.
I'm gonna go from having the 14 inch MacBook Pro
to now being a 15 inch MacBook Air user.
Why am I like I am?
I don't know.
Should I open it?
I should open it.
It's probably gonna turn on automatically.
(Justine gasps)
(electronic bell rings)
Beautiful.
That sound, that is music to my ears.
Oh, you're so beautiful.
It's so weird looking at it,
because I'm so used to the MacBook Pros
where they have speakers either on the side
or here on the top, but it's just a very seamless design.
Having gone from the 16 inch, then to the 14,
and now to the 15, this is a perfect size.
I mean, I remember when we had the 15 inch MacBooks
and we were like, "Oh, we need to have bigger."
And then we got the 16 and then we're like,
"Oh, I want...
It's too big.
"Now, I need a 14."
What?
Wow, it looks so good.
Let's see what else is in the box.
I mean, I know what else is in the box.
There's gonna be a MagSafe adapter,
and there's two options now,
you can get the dual USB-C charger or a 70 watt charger.
I was fully expecting to see the larger one.
So that was a genuine shock
that this is what we have.
Look, it's a little baby.
It's so small.
This might be one of my favorite accessories of all time.
This dual charger, I have several of these,
this is incredible.
And I like that they give you the option
to either choose between this
or a larger fast charge option,
which if this was me getting this for myself,
I would probably get the fast charge.
But this is super small, portable, compact.
Love it.
And then it also comes with a color matched
starlight MagSafe cable.
Look at her, she's beautiful.
It's not white.
It is a very light starlight.
I mean, this is pretty great that this is the charger.
Like look how small this is.
You're not gonna be getting the super fast charge,
but this is still pretty awesome.
Bigger computer, smaller charger.
Let's look at the stickers.
We have to.
They're starlight.
Oh, they've got like a new paper backing now.
Those are nice.
So here they are both next to each other.
Now just like the 13 inch,
this new 15 inch comes in four colors,
a silver, space gray, midnight, and the starlight.
Now the one that I have here, again,
is the beautiful starlight color.
And this has 16 gigs of memory
with a one terabyte hard drive.
And when I was editing off of this 13 inch for this review,
this one only had 512.
And if there's anything that I can definitely recommend
if you're gonna upgrade
is you might wanna get a little bit more storage.
Yes, you can always use an external drive,
but if you are a video editor
and you can go to the one terabyte, highly recommend.
Now obviously, the biggest upgrade with this new MacBook Air
is the larger display.
It's 15.3 inches from corner to corner.
And even though the black borders
and notch are technically the same thickness as the 13 inch,
they seem so much smaller now,
because of that larger screen size.
And while it is a half pound heavier
than the 13 inch version,
it's pretty much the exact same height
coming in at 0.45 inches.
The first thing that I noticed when I picked this up
is it was heavier than a 13 inch,
but this feels very similar to my 14 inch MacBook Pro.
So this is kind of falling somewhere in the middle there,
but it definitely doesn't feel as light as the 13 inch.
So if you are looking for something super light
and even more portable,
then maybe the 13 inch might be for you.
But this extra screen real estate and the enhanced speakers,
like there are so many upgrades to this.
And the fact that there isn't a 15 inch MacBook
in the lineup, the 16 inch might be too big,
but this is just a perfect fit
right in the middle between all of them.
Now, this 15 inch MacBook actually shares a lot
of the same specs as the 13 inch.
It has the M2 chip with an eight core CPU, a 10 core GPU,
and up to 24 gigs of unified memory.
And you can spec it out with two terabytes of storage.
Now they both support the same media codecs
including ProRes and ProRes RAW.
They do have the same 1080p FaceTime HD camera
and a three microphone array.
The other thing that's pretty interesting
is they have the same exact battery life.
You can get up to 18 hours on both of them.
Now you might be thinking, "Now wait a minute,
isn't this a bigger device?
Shouldn't it have a bigger battery?"
But the thing is this 15 inch
does actually have a larger capacity battery,
but because of the larger display, it's using more energy
so that extra battery life kind of gets canceled out.
Another factor that could be contributing
to the extra energy usage is the upgraded speakers.
The 15 inch MacBook Air now has a six speaker sound system
with force-canceling woofers.
And obviously it supports Dolby Atmos with spatial audio.
'Cause I'm definitely excited to test that out
and compare it to the 13 inch.
(upbeat music)
So I just sat down at the park to do a little editing
and this was my first test.
Now obviously I've used the 13 inch MacBook Air.
Now using the 15,
I kind of forgot how fast it is,
because I've just been using my MacBook Pro
for so long now and I'm beyond impressed.
I just dropped in all of those 4K clips that we just shot
of the unboxing and it was so incredibly smooth.
I'm editing in a multi-cam timeline right now
and I'm quickly switching back and forth
between these clips and I'm even running in better quality
and there hasn't been a stutter yet.
Am I switching to a MacBook Air now?
I don't know, maybe.
So I've been editing on the MacBook Air 15 inch
and my conclusion is this unfortunately
doesn't feel like a MacBook Air because it is so powerful
and just the display is so vibrant.
The Pro and Air category has now, I feel,
like kind of merging together.
The only thing that sets this apart from the Pros,
I feel like, is the fact that it doesn't have the speakers
on the front and it's so thin.
Obviously, you are gonna be getting more power
with the Pros,
but for pretty much my everyday simple editing,
and when I say simple, I'm editing with 4K and 8K footage
and it still is handling it like a pro.
It's making me so confused on what to even recommend
to people anymore because this is so impressive.
I just can't even.
So the first thing I wanna show you
is my timeline that I've been working on with this video.
This is all 4K.
This is actually a multi-cam timeline
so I can cruise in here.
We've got both of our frames there.
This makes it super fun and easy when I'm editing.
I can just go through and select
if I want my first angle or my second angle.
Look at that, everything super smooth.
It's running so great.
Now another thing that I have
is I've got a bunch of 8K ProRes footage.
So I just kinda wanna throw this to an 8K timeline
and see how it performs.
So all of these clips are 8K ProRes.
Let's just toss it into this timeline, see how it runs.
I mean, zero stuttering, it's running perfectly smooth.
Wow.
All right, well I'm shook.
Like does this mean that I could get away
with working on just a MacBook Air?
I definitely would have to completely spec out
the solid state drive,
because I don't think I could survive with one terabyte.
Like I already filled it up
and I've barely got all of the footage
for this entire project on here.
Two 8K clips stacked on top of each other.
Let's throw another one.
See how that looks.
I mean, it's running.
It's running great.
Smooth, no stuttering, nothing.
Hmm, okay, looking good to me.
So now I wanna test out something else.
How about a little bit of Lightroom?
Okay, so here's some photos from a shoot that I did
for my pink iJustine cables, which by the way,
if you haven't got one already, you need to,
you're missing out.
So I'm gonna find one of those photos.
I mean, I'm scrolling through here
and these are just loading in so fast,
like basically just like nothing.
I mean, this is not even flinching at editing any of this.
It's just working super smooth.
This makes me so excited for the future.
I mean, I know I'm living in the now,
but the fact that this is so powerful
and so small and thin, like what's next?
What is next?
I don't know.
Okay, and I'm gonna copy that to the next one.
I mean, that's just definitely not like a super great edit,
like I'm not proud of that.
So don't think, "Wow, Justine, is that your editing skills?"
No, it's not great.
But I did wanna show you how quickly
you can just copy and paste that on other images
and it's working almost instantly.
Okay, well we did that.
Now what about gaming?
Got a couple of games here.
Not gonna play NBA 2K23, because I am not good at it at all.
How about Hot Lava?
And the cool thing is I can sync up a controller to this.
You can connect an Xbox controller,
a PlayStation controller, or even an Nintendo Switch.
So we're gonna connect an Xbox controller
and it automatically pops up here super quick.
There it is.
Time to game.
Here we go. Let's go.
This game is actually really fun.
(energetic music)
Oh my gosh.
Okay, here.
We're in, we're in, we're in!
Oh, my body is burning.
Oh, this makes me so nervous.
Oh man, okay.
Here we go.
We got this.
No, well, we almost didn't.
Okay, so this is running pretty great.
I think we get the point.
Of course it's gonna run awesome.
Another thing is how quick and responsive things open up.
Let's just pop open a little Pixelmator Pro.
I'm new to this app, but I just started using it
when I saw that Apple does a bunch of demos with this.
So I'm gonna browse for a file
and I'm gonna show you guys how quickly
you can remove things from photos.
So you can do one of two things,
you can select it with the selection tool
and then you can go over here to the repair
and you can click repair selection.
And it instantly just removed that rock.
This is also pretty cool,
because you can just use the brush tool
and you can just brush over something and it's gone.
How about this?
Rock? Freaking gone.
Gone.
Gone, gone, gone.
Like, this is so impressive.
I need to start using this more.
Watching content is also pretty awesome
with these new six speakers.
So you really do get that Dolby Atmos feel,
like it's surround sound. - What defines you?
- What defines you? (somber music)
- The speakers
are really good. - I asked first.
- There's nothing I wouldn't do for my daughter.
- Ooh.
Like this is coming from...
- Mrs. Michaels?
Mr. Michaels asked me - You don't even see
- to give this to you. - any speakers.
- It's just like it's magic.
It's like, "Where are you even coming from?"
They sound really good.
So this does have a 1080p webcam.
And obviously, these devices
are gonna be used a lot for conference calls.
So let's test it out, shall we?
It's so crazy to see how far we've come,
because I used to use the iSight camera on my first MacBook.
That's what I was shooting my YouTube videos on.
So the fact that this is what we have now,
like I can just hit import
and I can actually use this FaceTime camera
right here in Final Cut and it's so fast.
Look at this, this looks so good.
Okay, I'm gonna import
I just hit import.
Okay, let's test this out.
Hi, I don't wanna move this,
because this camera back here right here is focusing on you.
So let's see how this looks and let's see how it sounds.
Let's bring that in and see how it sounds.
Hi, I don't wanna move this,
because this camera back here is focusing on you.
It looks so good.
So let's see how this looks and let's see how it sounds.
That is not a flattering angle.
Wow, okay, so I'm definitely super impressed.
And like I said at the beginning,
this doesn't feel like an Air,
it feels so much closer to a Pro
that it also makes me wonder like what are you gonna do
in the Pros to make them even better?
All I know is I feel like any Mac that you get at this point
with any of these silicon chips,
you're going to be so happy.
Well, thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
I would love to hear from you in the comments below
if you guys have any questions
about any of the new Apple devices, WWDC announcements,
I would love to hear them
and hopefully I can answer them for you.
I'm gonna go finish editing the video that you just watched.
Bye.