Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and i've been using the m1 macbook pro over the past
month and i've been using it most of the time as my full-time editing computer so every video
you've seen with the exception of a couple have been edited completely on this m1 macbook pro
as well as all of the thumbnails for the video recording all the audio and everything else so
i've been using it a lot and i've been using it connected to a 6k pro display
xdr when i'm not mobile so if i'm in an office where i have my display and i'm using it while
it's connected to that display and it works just fine with that so i want to talk about what it's
like to use like i said i've been using it full time connected to an external display sometimes
editing without the display and i'll talk about what it's like not just editing but also for games
and more now the first thing is its overall design of course is very familiar
you have a headphone port on the right hand side but we're lacking two additional ports apparently
this will be in later models but that's probably my biggest complaint about this macbook at this
point is i could use some more ports we only have two on the left hand side so you have two
but you can expand them with a dock like you saw where i'm connecting it to the 6k monitor
i'm using an owc thunderbolt 3 dock and that works great for things like memory card readers
maybe ethernet and additional things like that of course you have this nice 13-inch form factor
and thankfully apple kept the scissor keyboard that they brought back that everyone likes so
it's got good key travel good feedback it's fairly quiet and when you're using it like this it's just
much better to use at least for me anyway compared to the previous sort of butterfly keyboard you
have that nice large track pad and a pretty nice display as well it's my it might be a little bit
small for me but for most people that like this size laptop it's going to be great it's nice and
vibrant it goes up nice and bright and it seems to work well there are brighter displays out there
and the bezels may be a little bit thick for some people but for me it doesn't really bother me and
like i said i'm using usually using an external display anyway now the overall price of this i
think is a good value for what you get compared to other macs and i'll talk about that in a moment
as far as speed so this particular mac is the top of the line 16 gigabyte of ram with two terabytes
of storage so it's the most expensive one you can get about twenty three hundred dollars or so
depending on how you spec it out now you don't necessarily need that extra two terabytes of
storage unless you're editing video then i would suggest get as much as you can get but for me it's
sort of necessary with editing video you could use an external drive maybe like a t7 drive
from samsung which i have here i usually offload footage to this so these are probably a cheaper
option and you can edit right through the thunderbolt port with these so if you wanted to
do that you could get the smaller storage option now i edit all my video on this and it's just
super fast in fact just using it regularly feels much faster than an intel mac for some reason so
if you're just opening different applications going through the responsiveness overall is just
crazy fast all the time so if you're using this for a disk speed test for example we'll just hit
start you're going to get two to three thousand megabits or megabytes per second rather just
using it normally so it's super fast there now i did run some geekbench scores just to show you
in this but this is just sort of a general idea of what it can do but for opencl it scored 19195
if we go to the single core versus multi-core we had 1738 and 7645 for multi-core so it's
pretty good so compared to an imac of this year it's quite a bit faster as far as that goes
and it doesn't make a lot of sense how fast this is so like i said i've been using it for editing
and when you go into something like final cut pro for example here's my airpods max video that i did
an unboxing of now the amazing thing is it plays this back in the best quality without any hiccups
whatsoever so maybe i hit space to play hit l that will sort of scrub through this faster and
it will jump and you'll see it's nice and smooth this is footage from an fx9 a sony fx9 here
and also a sony a7s3 is the top-down camera and h.265 is what it's playing back here
and then h.264 is what it's playing back on the fx9 so it's combining this footage and it's just
super smooth all the time my mac pro cannot do that it will not play this back smoothly and if
we go to show in viewer for example and show the angles at the same time and play it back
you'll see it's still playing it back smoothly now it's starting to hiccup a little bit here
but my mac pro does the exact same thing and i cannot play this back smoothly using a mac pro
if i play it back in real time it's fine if i try to go faster it will sort of start to hiccup it's
the only time i could get it to do that and when i was exporting a video i exported a video the exact
same video this video and i had it rendered out to about 2 minutes and 19 seconds on both the mac pro
and this macbook pro the mac pro finished it in 7 minutes and 46 seconds when i exported the video
the m1 macbook pro finished it in 45 seconds longer 8 minutes and 31 seconds so this plays
it back smoother and exports a little bit slower but this costs twenty three hundred dollars the
mac pro is over fifteen thousand dollars so this is basically like a portable mac pro that's of
a much higher value in when you compare it to things like that now not everyone's going to be
editing video of course but things that are built in such as documents or pages or word
any of that's going to be super fast no issues there but when you're playing games you might be
surprised that it actually runs pretty smoothly so maybe i go into something like steam for
example and i want to play planet coaster which is fairly intensive we'll go ahead and go down here
hit play we'll wait for it to launch and the impressive thing is this is using rosetta 2
to actually play this so in order to play this it actually has to convert from i-86 type footage
to this m1 mac footage seamlessly and it does that when it installs it sort of puts all the libraries
necessary to convert it and it's surprising that this will play it without a problem so we'll wait
for it to load and i'll show you what i mean now this is running at 60 hertz so the game's
running at 60 hertz that's what the display is capable of anyway i've got full resolution
2352 by 1470 and i have most settings set to high so i don't have everything on but
most settings are set to high and i just kind of bumped this up to custom but if i hit ok you'll
see how smooth this is and this is not really something i would necessarily recommend to buy
to play a game but you'll see there was a slight hiccup when i began to move
now it's nice and smooth if i want to zoom in or zoom out i can do that move around and
it's not perfect but you can see here's a little bit of a line in the game so it's not perfect but
it is nice and smooth for the most part and very playable and this is being translated
through rosetta 2 so that you can actually play it that's the impressive thing about it
and this is probably the only time i've actually seen the mac get warm so yes you're not going to
have blazing fast frame rates you've got 60 hertz displays anyway but it's definitely playable for
most games if they're supported on mac and you can just translate those through rosetta which is very
impressive so if i close out of this for example just hit ok it does take a while to load the game
this is one of the few things that will actually make the macbook warm in my use of it so
it starts to get a little bit warm sometimes the fan will kick in and sometimes the bottom will
get warm right now it's just barely warm on the bottom so the thermals are managed very well in
this laptop it's a little warm right here and the only time i've got it warm when it was editing is
when it was connected to that external display so the 6k resolution was really pushing the graphics
chip on here and that's when it started to get warm and as you can see when it's connected in
closed clam shell mode where the display is closed but it's using an external display it's getting
quite warm you can see that with a clear thermal camera that the bottom gets warm and also the top
and you can actually see where the exhaust vent is pushing out air so it definitely will get warm but
it's nothing like max of the past it doesn't have ever thermal throttle on me and it just
sort of pushes through this footage no problem now using this for anything other than final cut or
a game for example it's going to sort of blaze through any of that footage so for example
you're using it for maybe i guess final cut pro we'll open safari if we go to apple.com
you can have all of these things open news the app store settings you'll see how fast everything just
sort of pops open so if we go over to we'll open this app again everything's just instant
on here and that's where it's really amazing it just feels so fast all the time and that's
what makes me go back from my mac pro to this it just seems like it's super fast all the time so
that's great about it it's got great microphones and let me have you hear the speakers and then
we'll take a look at the microphone but if i go to a comparison i did where i edited down here
i'll jump to the section with music we'll go over here and i'll play back some of
the music for you so we'll turn up the speakers here and i'll move my microphone
so hopefully that gives you an idea of what it's like to use the macbook with its speakers
but let's take a look at the microphone because the microphone's quite good on here it has studio
mics as well now let me switch over to the microphone on the macbook pro and now i'm
recording with the macbook pro now the audio from it is quite impressive when you're just using it
to record audio maybe you need to voice something over it will work great for that but this camera
is probably the lowest possible quality camera you could put in this laptop i think for what it
is it should be a better camera and i think we'll see that in the future but they do use the neural
engine on the new chipset in here to help out with that so it's better than before but it still needs
an upgrade as well so let's go ahead and close out of that so we'll save that and what i'll
do is i'll just export this we'll export it to 720p so you could see it earlier at this point so
720p webcam you'll see it's saving this will take a moment so i'll just minimize it here takes just
a second to save that we're good to go i can close quicktime player so we'll delete this now
and we're good to go it's super fast to use for everything and of course the last thing is battery
life battery life is amazing on this macbook pro so battery right now is at 74 i've edited a full
15 to 20 minute comparison using this from 100 and wasn't even down to 50 after i exported the video
that's something i can't do on a 16 inch macbook pro for example it just won't handle that maybe
two or three hours max on that 16 inch macbook pro apple says you'll get 20 hours of video playback
this easily lasts me two days i don't know about 20 hours for what i'm doing but at least
six so you can see this is usage and i plug it in a lot but screen on usage some days i use
it a couple hours and i don't plug it in often unless it's plugged into that external display
it's just incredible how long this battery lasts so yes you're going to get through a
couple days if you go to work and you're working an eight-hour day even a 10-hour day you're going
to get at least a day and a half of use out of it or two days depending on how often you're
using it if you leave it on and you're not at full brightness all day long it will work just fine so
it's amazing how long the battery lasts it's not a bigger battery it's just got the m1 chipset
which is more more similar to what we have in the iphone so it just lasts a lot longer so
the only thing i don't like about this is i would like a bigger display i don't really care about
the touch bar and i would like some extra ports otherwise it's the perfect travel laptop and i'll
use it to travel even if they come out with a bigger one i'll probably use this one to travel
and edit videos with when we're back to actually traveling and going to different events so when
that time comes i'll probably use this unless apple has something that's much better at that
point but right now this is in my opinion a portable mac pro so this does all the tasks
i need of the mac pro it's quiet it's only ever spun up the fans twice once playing that game once
exporting video and only when it's connected to that external display does it spin up the
fan otherwise it doesn't when you're exporting video so it's incredibly quiet it works great
it has amazing battery life and i highly recommend it but let me know what you think of it in the
comments below if there's anything else you'd like to know about the m1 macbook pro let me
know in the comments and i'll try and answer those at least for the first hour after the video now if
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