so it's been three days since the m2 macbook pro came out and we have done a
ton of tests and comparisons and put out multiple videos in this one i want to
give you guys a short video about the good the bad and the outright ugly about
this laptop and my perspective for real world use with this laptop instead of
just benchmarks now the first thing for a positive that i want to talk about is
the webcam now a lot of people have really hated on apple for sticking with
the 720p webcam and i agree they should have put a 1080p in but it does look
better now the weird thing is is that it's only better because of software
they tweaked the algorithm for the noise reduction they added better contrast or
else that's what it looks like now with that the 14 inch and 16 inch and even
the upcoming m2 macbook air are still going to look more detailed sharper less
noise but at least they've done the software
fix which they should do to the previous ones to make it look a little bit better
now the second thing that i noticed is the speakers now in my comparison
against the m1 macbook pro i said that they sound about the same i couldn't
hear much of a difference but then some of you guys called it out and said that
no in fact the m1 has better dynamics it sounds better and the truth is when we
were listening i told him that i thought that the bass was better on the m1 and
it sounded slightly louder it just didn't make sense why that would happen
and because i was unsure i was just leaving it up to you guys but you guys
spoke and with that when we monitored in final cut it did show about a two
decibels louder kind of volume on the m1 model so i don't know why the m2 doesn't
sound as good the m1 already was the worst sounding macbook out of the full
lineup so that is definitely unfortunate now the next thing is the fan
now this thing when you're using it day to day
it almost seems like a macbook air that is fanless
you don't hear it unless you're doing heavy rendering for a very long time and
i'm not talking about running a couple runs of cinebench it still is silent
apple let this thing heat up the most we recorded is 104 on screen but actually
hit 105
and they didn't care the fans only barely started to ram up ramp up there
so they're treating it more like a macbook air instead of a pro whereas the
m1 pro even though it uses less power and less wattage and has less heat the
fans actually ramp up quicker now that is a positive if you don't want to hear
the fans day to day if you have a previous intel model and you're annoyed
of it well this is going to be way better it's a great experience not
hearing that fan but for those of you guys that are concerned about the high
heat that the chip gets and how hot it gets
well you could download tg fan pro and you can change the settings yourself to
have it spin up a little bit earlier yeah you don't have to make it be crazy
loud but at least spin up if it's hitting 100 degrees now one thing i
really wish this thing had was fast charging we've been testing these things
running down the batteries and it takes forever to charge it up closer to three
hours whereas the rest of the lineup now as far as charging 50
in just 30 minutes and so that when you do have to charge that is an
inconvenience but flipping over to the battery life it is
incredible for light uses better than the m1 macbook pro which is
already amazing now dave lee actually did some very in-depth testing he has
this chart so i'm not going to make my own i'll show you his thank you dave and
this thing for light uses is shockingly good and it works really good because it
has the larger more powerful efficiency cores that apple updated so it doesn't
have to use the performance cores as much but on the flip side if you are
going to start pushing it that is when the battery life does get worse than it
was before because it is using roughly 33 percent more power in order to gain
about 13 more performance on the cpu and then the graphics also uses more power
as well and of course we already mentioned ssds in multiple videos we
made a video specifically about that performance
and this is just something that is very sad that this is happening now i know
apple needs to make money maybe there's not enough chip supply and so they're
trying to do a single chip instead of two but it's just weird having a product
that came out a year and a half later that is an expensive product with the
pro name on it but the ssd is half the speed compared to before now we already
mentioned that what i didn't mention is slc caching now when you're transferring
a large file most of these ssds they will actually slow down after a
certain amount is written and what i found is that with the
256 gig model on the m2 it actually slows down earlier so about 40 45 gigs
and then it slows down from about 1 300 megabytes per second
all the way down to about an average of 200 250 now the m1 also the base model
256 gig it will actually record right at uh 1900 from my external ssd and it also
does slow down takes a little bit longer but then when it slows down it's still
riding over 400 so i actually transferred a big file which is our test
folder with a bunch of different benchmarks the m2 took 5 minutes and 34
seconds while the m1 took 2 minutes and 55 seconds and keep in mind it actually
would have been quite a bit faster if we had a faster external ssd this one is
just our favorite because it's universal it's a great price
so that is unfortunate because not only will it slow down even more with the soc
cash but also if you guys didn't see our ssd test video with real world tests
when you're opening up professional applications a bunch of tabs it is less
responsive than the macbook and i wanted to do that test just to see
um was i right was this actually less
snappy and in fact it is and professional uses also slow down if
you're loading up the same amount of tabs and applications on the m1 versus
m2 the m2 gets slower which is insane and that just brings me to you know my
kind of thoughts on this machine it should not be called pro in 2022
now if this came out at the time that m1 did it still have been a great update
compared to the intel model but we're taking one step back the ssds can't keep
up with most of these thunderbolt drives now the whole system slows down if you
open up multiple applications so if you do want to have a laptop for
light simple tasks you're going to get insane battery life
it's going to work well but that means it's not a pro machine so
that is just the weird thing about it now we're gonna do some more testing
we're gonna look at video editing um some more in-depth stuff so make sure
you guys are gonna watch that if you guys want more info
but for your guys's questions people are asking should i jump to the 16 gig model
or 512 because we're now not recommending the base model because the
ssds are slow and the whole system slows down
well it depends on how much uh space you need for example if you don't use more
than 256 gig like i do jump up to 16 gig if you want to have more space well then
that speed is gonna kick back up to the level of the m1 at the base even though
you have to spend 200 bucks more and that makes it a much more responsive
system when you're using it so i would uh i would end up
getting more storage if you feel like you might need it but if not kick up the
ram and then the hard thing is if you kick both up well at that point you're
not far off from the 14 inch which is our next comparison and you can buy one
of those for 200 bucks off right now on amazon so 100 bucks more than the m2
that is crazy i will link that down below now about the m2 macbook air
they're asking will the m2 macbook air ssds
we will see i sure hope not but i think if apple is doing this to their pro
machine i would expect the m2 macbook air to also get slower
compared to the previous generation and the last question we're getting is
should you just buy an m1 refurbished or used or a discount compared to getting
the m2 model well if you're getting a good price on it i think yes especially
if you want to get the base model because
you are going to have a snappy system
when you open up a bunch of tabs or programs it's still going to stay
quicker than if you would have had an m2 at that base configuration
and even though the cpu is faster on the m2 it's not a huge difference you're
still going to be very happy with the m1 and then if you don't use the graphics
you're not constantly pushing it that part will matter to you at all so if
you're getting a nice discount and of course amazon has great deals they're
clearing these out now i think you'll be happy with it or the m1 macbook air
which was our favorite laptop or until the m21 comes out so there you guys go
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