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00:00All right, so Apple just announced two new MacBook Pros, a 14-inch and a 16-inch, and
00:09both of these have been redesigned for this year.
00:11There's new tech, new features in them, but before we talk about the hardware features
00:14of the actual laptops themselves, I want to talk about the chips because these are on
00:18a whole new level.
00:19So both of these laptops are running the next step or the next iteration of Apple Silicon.
00:25So you can configure them with the M1 Pro, which is like a beefed up version of M1, so
00:28it's got a more powerful CPU, more powerful GPU, and up to 32 gigs of RAM, but there's
00:33also the top-end configuration, the M1 Max.
00:36This is the king with the top-of-the-line GPU performance and up to 64 gigs of RAM.
00:40But the thing that's most impressive about these chips, these M1 Pro and M1 Max chips,
00:46is how powerful Apple claims these chips to be for how little energy they seem to consume.
00:50See, M1, like the original M1, was really good, and at the time, it was very obvious
00:55as to how energy efficient it was compared to the competition, right?
00:59And it was really good at CPU performance.
01:01But it wasn't amazing in the graphics department.
01:03It was decent, but there was stuff that was clearly more capable.
01:07And at the time, I thought it would be very difficult for Apple to come out with some
01:11kind of follow-up to M1 that could compete with the market leaders, like Nvidia and AMD.
01:17They are making laptop GPUs that are absolutely incredible, like they push out really powerful
01:23graphical performance.
01:24But then they show this chart, and they have the M1 Max running at around 55, maybe 58
01:29watts, and it's doing work.
01:30It's looking good.
01:31And then they show an equivalent Windows laptop.
01:34And you can tell that the Windows laptop is using more energy to perform slightly less.
01:40The thing is, though, I'm familiar with that laptop.
01:43That's this thing right here.
01:44It's the Razer Blade from this year, 11th-gen CPU from Intel, but it's running an RTX 3080
01:51from Nvidia, their top-of-the-line flagship GPU.
01:54So this is a GPU that can run at various wattages, and depending on what the manufacturer
01:59wants to do with the chip, like this one here, the Razer Blade, is running it at 105 watts.
02:05It's a pretty good implementation of it, but if you really step it up, you can put it into
02:10a much bigger chassis and run the same GPU at a much higher wattage.
02:15So in here, it's a 3080 running at 165 watts.
02:18This is the MSI GE76, which they also showed in the graph.
02:23If you look at that chart, the M1 Max is in between the performance of these two laptops.
02:30And as someone who's very familiar with these laptops, I've done reviews on both of them,
02:34I understand how powerful these things are.
02:37They're really good.
02:39They're some of the best that Windows laptops have to offer right now.
02:43This one on the bottom is the best.
02:45I labeled my video on this, my review of it, the fastest, because it is the fastest.
02:49But to see M1X come in between these at 55 watts is incredible.
02:57It makes me look at these products in a completely different light.
03:00Because if those charts are true, and Tim Cook is saying no cap, this is a game-changing
03:04moment for high-performance laptops, right?
03:07Because the M1 Max can deliver performance like this, but it's way more energy efficient,
03:12so your batteries last longer, and your fans aren't spinning as loud because it doesn't
03:16have to vent off as much heat, and your thermal systems are lighter, because it's easier
03:19to cool, and you can power the whole system without even being plugged in, right?
03:23You're just getting full performance on battery.
03:26It's just a better product.
03:27M1 Max, M1 Pro are just empirically better products than this stuff, if those charts
03:33aren't lies.
03:34But I kind of hope they are lies, otherwise Windows laptops just won't be the same to
03:37me anymore.
03:38Now, on top of performance, there's a whole bunch of new external hardware features.
03:41So in terms of ports, there's three USB-C, an HDMI, an SD card slot, and the return
03:46of MagSafe.
03:47I've always been a fan of this tech, but this time around, the cable that runs from
03:51the brick to the laptop itself, like that MagSafe magnetic component, that's detachable.
03:57So if a dog chews through your cable, or something happens to the cable, or something happens
04:01to the MagSafe head, you can just replace the cable instead of the whole charger.
04:05But there is one thing I noticed.
04:07So both the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros can be configured with that top-end M1 Max
04:13chip, right?
04:14You get a 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU if you want.
04:16But I noticed that on the 14-inch device, if you equip it with that top-end CPU and
04:22GPU, you only get a 96-watt adapter.
04:26But on the 16-inch device, if you get that same top-end GPU, you get a 140-watt adapter.
04:31Now, the difference is 44 watts.
04:36That's significant.
04:37That's almost a 50% bump-up in AC adapter wattage to supply what is seemingly the same
04:43hardware on the inside, right?
04:44Now, I understand the 16-inch device has a bigger screen, and it's got a bigger battery,
04:48so maybe they're pumping more wattage to the battery for the fast charge.
04:51But like a 50% bump-up in wattage doesn't really add up to just those, you know, screen
04:57and battery size.
04:58I think, if I had to guess, that the 16-inch device is going to be running higher wattage
05:03for its components.
05:04And because it's a bigger system, right, it's got more capable thermal system, there's more
05:08surface area, there's more powerful fans maybe, I think that the 16-inch devices will run
05:13their same components better than their 14-inch counterpart, assuming that they're the exact
05:18same components on the inside.
05:19This is just a guess, this is based on just a wattage of an AC adapter, but it just makes
05:23sense to me.
05:24The displays are also very interesting.
05:26These are MacBook displays, they're going to have great colors, good brightness, and
05:29it's got ProMotion tech this year, so it can go up to 120 Hz with adaptive refresh.
05:33But they have a notch, and it's definitely strange-looking.
05:37It doesn't support Face ID for unlocking, it just houses ambient sensors and a normal
05:41webcam.
05:42It's seemingly a high-end webcam with 1080p and good image signal processing, but it's
05:47just a webcam.
05:48But around that webcam is extra screen.
05:51And the way they've done it, from what it looks like, they have like a regular 16x10
05:55aspect ratio screen.
05:56It's like the regular viewing area.
05:58But then they've extended vertically that screen into the sides of the webcam.
06:02Now personally, I don't love the look of that notch.
06:05It's in a fairly tame spot, like it's not obtrusive or anything, but it's just weird,
06:08it's unconventional.
06:10Now the good thing is that it's seemingly only for the macOS menu bar.
06:13Like your apps never go up there, your content never goes up there.
06:16It's just exclusively what seems to be for the macOS menu, but it's just so different
06:22that when you first see it and you first interact with it, it's just, I can only imagine it being
06:26strange.
06:27But I also wonder, like, how does your cursor interact with that notch?
06:30Like does it go through the notch, or do you have to maneuver the cursor around it to
06:35get to the other side?
06:36I have so many questions.
06:37But the fact that it doesn't support Face ID was also a little bit surprising.
06:40Like maybe the panel isn't thick enough to support a Face ID cam, who knows, maybe it's
06:45for like future iterations of this device.
06:47It's just weird that this device has a notch with no Face ID.
06:51The keyboard has a slightly different look to it, like it's got a black anodized segment
06:57where the metal has been milled out, like that well the keyboard sits in is this dark
07:01black anodized segment.
07:03You also have the big MacBook trackpad, improved speakers, improved mics.
07:06But there's also the battery.
07:08So Apple claims a 21 hour battery life on the M1 Max and M1 Pro, which is incredible.
07:15That's what video playback I think for web usage is like 14 hours, but those numbers
07:19are just unheard of in this category.
07:23Like when you look at Windows laptops, and I reviewed a couple of them on this channel,
07:26you just don't get that.
07:28You truly do not even get close to those numbers.
07:30Like in this realm, five, maybe six hours of regular use is considered average.
07:39If you're hitting seven or eight, that's amazing, right?
07:43Fourteen, what are we doing here?
07:46I need to test that out.
07:47Okay.
07:48Initial impressions, very impressed, but I am concerned about those GPU charts.
07:53They just seem too good to be true.
07:54They really do, but I'll be testing it in my full review.
07:57Okay.
07:58Hope you guys enjoyed this video.
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08:00And I'll see you guys next time.