0.95 inches this is our thinnest macbook pro ever it weighs just 4.46 pounds under four
and a half pounds it is the lightest pro notebook that we have ever made.
Almost every year apple reveals a product what is always thinner or lighter than its last previous
product that they have made and apple keep on doing this every time they refresh a product
now a lot of you are wondering why do apple keep on doing this with all of their products why
don't we actually get thicker products instead well today I want to reveal the reason why,
So as I look at my desk right here i've got an old mac mini and i've got a newer mac mini and
straight away you can tell bobby even on this video here that this definitely is older mac
mini is thicker but you know the funny thing is if i actually put it on top of the other one here and
sort of tilt it towards you you actually see that the actual one underneath the new one is actually
a bit more bigger in size but not as thick but the design is much more sleeker and i can tell
you this right now if i pick this one up if i can even pick it up yeah that one is far lighter than
this one here and yet there's still like plastic bits on here and most of this is made out of like
a unibody metal but why did apple keep on doing this why do we keep on getting to lighter products
thinner products all the time well the main reason behind this is back to steve jobs
and if we go back to say 2008 this is when the first time we actually saw apple kind of going
down this trend of for going for lighter and for also thinner products that we've got right
now
this is it
let me take it out here this is the new macbook air and you can get a feel for how thin it is
so a big yet small product that came out in 2008 was the macbook air and steve jobs just yanked it
out of this kind of paper envelope and it wowed all of us in what it can do it was a full-blown
macbook all inside this super thin design and it hadn't been seen like this even steve jobs
was teasing at the competition it was nowhere near this and the apple were the first to do this put
you know an intel core 2 duo inside at the time was a state-of-the-art processor inside a macbook
and also at the same time as well deliver us five hours of battery time now looking back five
hours of battery time is not a lot in 2021 but at that time it was kind of almost the gold standard
you know the top line kind of laptops at that time were pushing maybe six maybe seven hours but yeah
here comes apple with a super thin 13-inch macbook what could do five hours battery and it was a
super light machine the trend continued on in 2010 where apple brought up the new redesigned macbook
air and yet this one had a seven hours battery life and was even thinner again and then in 2018
we got even a newer macbook air and this time at 12 hours battery life yet it was about the same
thickness as the 2010 macbook air and also had a brand new screen put inside it that of course was
the retina display what was a higher resolution than the display that was in the previous macbook
air then also that processor inside it was an i5 processor now we had had i5 and i7 processors in
previous macbook airs before that from about 2011 onwards but the point was compared to the 2010
model to the 2018 model you know the process was about five times more powerful than that original
one back in 2010 what was absolutely unbelievable now i want to take note of that 12 hour battery
life now 12 hours battery life today in 2021 it's pretty good to be deadly on this you know if i had
a macbook and i can get 12 hours out of it in one day you know i just have to charge up every night
and then basically use it throughout most of the day for all my kind of everyday tasks and this
is what's something apple have been wanting to achieve what they want to achieve is a device that
can kind of give you the expected kind of range of battery life to do all the tasks you need to
achieve in a day but at the same time as well kind of not notice the device is there or it's
hanging around with you now obviously it stands out like a sore thumb right in front of you on
your desk if you are using it for example but what i mean is is that when you stick it in your bag
that it's really really light that you don't actually know that the macbook is in your bag
the software on mac os has been made in such a way that for any task that you wish to do
can just easily be done on the macbook air tasks like emails tasks like browsing the web
tasks like paying your bills online for example you get the idea here
you can do it all with such a light device and this is what apple have been aiming towards
steve jobs many many years ago said he wanted to make devices
that kind of intertwined technology and humanity together combining hardware and software together
he wanted the ability like i said earlier a device where you kind of didn't know it was there but you
did know it was there i know that's quite a hard thing to kind of imagine and grasp because because
if it's there you can see it but what he wants you to think was that if you put say a macbook air in
your bag he didn't want you to think that oh i've got to carry around that map of air in my bag it's
so heavy i've got to have it on me because it's going to i'm going to need it later on in the day
i think you're getting the idea he wanted you to have a device that basically was seamless it
didn't feel like it was a burden on you to carry around and it could do everything that you needed
it to do and basically this is kind of intertwined into all of apple's products it's all in the dna
of all of their products that they create they want to make them simple they want to make them
powerful and they want to make them light but a big question is is why do they keep on getting
lighter and why do they keep on getting thinner well the simple answer is is because they can
and take a look at this for an example look at this iphone 6s versus this iphone 12 here
if we did a battery drain test what's been done here on this youtube video you can see that the
iphone 12 battery life is 40 percent better than what is in the iphone 6s what came out in 2015.
also the iphone 12 is also lighter and also it is bigger also it does have a bigger screen but yet
it's far more powerful than the iphone 6s in fact it's around about four times more powerful yeah
we're getting about 40 percent more power out of it than we did with the 6s and it
is a thinner device if we also opened up an iphone 12 and also the iphone 6s
you will notice that the iphone 12 main board or the logic board is far smaller in comparison
to the one in the iphone 6s for example and the main reason is because components have got smaller
like the chipset for example the a12 is far more smaller than the one that was put inside the 6s
also other bits and pieces have got smallers like transistors and other bits but because
of this we can now put bigger batteries inside phones like the iphone 12 for example
and this then gives us better battery life to what we got with the iphone 6s yet apple has still
actually made the design of the iphone 12 even thinner and we can still use it for everyday tasks
now i know a lot of you do complain about iphones and the battery life is awful but you've got to
remember where we've come from guys remember if i've just done this comparison of the iphone 6s
to the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 gives you a far better battery life than the iphone 6s
you know what is the iphone 15 or 16 going to do compared to the iphone 12
it's going to give us even better battery life because chips are getting more efficient
everything's getting smaller and that means we put bigger batteries into these larger screen devices
and that is going to be absolutely awesome for the future so in conclusion will apple keep on making
their devices thinner and will they make them lighter well to be deadly honest they probably
will as they go further into the future and the main reason behind this is because things are just
getting smaller chips are getting more efficient and at the end of the day if apple didn't set
the marker out there to make devices thinner the competition would be able to catch up with them
or for example let's put the other way around if the competition is ahead of them apple needs
to catch up with them so the only way we can do this is keep on making our devices thinner and
lighter as we go forwards and also make all our chipsets and bits and pieces like our displays
much more efficient as we also go forwards as well in time well guys it's time to wrap up this video
and i hope this video has kind of helped with the reason why apple make their devices thin and also
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