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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. When Apple announced the iPad Pro, they made some pretty
00:06big claims. They said it was faster than like 92% of portable PCs, it had the power of an
00:11Xbox One S in this super thin package, and I remember thinking, there's no way, right?
00:16But we've seen the benchmarks, it's legit. The A12X processor in here is something special.
00:21The multicore performance on this thing is crazy. Like, we've seen 8-core CPUs in Apple
00:25products before, but this is the first one that could run with all 8 cores active at
00:29once. But with this performance, it isn't just speed and all that stuff. This is supposed
00:35to be Apple's vision of what the future of computing will be like. Just the way that
00:41people should be using portable computers in the future. And that vision has kind of
00:45two components, software and hardware. So we've talked about the software before. It
00:49feels a little bit underbaked, and we're going to get newer versions of software, right?
00:53We're going to get more versions of iOS 12, we're going to get iOS 13, 14. The software
00:57is going to get better. And we're going to see more and more applications come onto this
01:00device. So we're supposed to see full-blown Adobe Photoshop running on the iPad Pro. Like,
01:04not some iOS gimped version, but full-blown, full-fat, thick boy, Adobe Photoshop running
01:11on an ARM processor, which is crazy. So, the hard one here is an ARM processor. This is
01:16a chip that's designed by Apple, custom designed in-house for this machine, and it's made by
01:21TSMC, but it's built specifically for the iPad Pro, the A12X. The chips in here, the
01:27MacBook Pros, are not custom chips. These are made by Intel. You can see these chips
01:31in other laptops out there. But the reason why the iPad Pro has such crazy performance
01:36is because Apple made this chip specifically for this device, so it's just incredibly efficient.
01:41Now, we know about the performance on this thing, right? It's very powerful, but the
01:45performance has kind of always been there. Like, if you look at the iPad Pro from last
01:49year, or the year before that, and you run the apps that people are going bananas about
01:52right now, like video editing and stuff, like, the iPad Pro has always been capable of pushing
01:56out really good performance on their devices. It's nothing new, but the form factor is not
02:02ideal. It doesn't matter how you spin it, most people would prefer using a regular fold-open
02:06clamshell laptop instead of a tablet when it comes to doing work. I mean, if you're
02:10an illustrator and using the pencil and you're using the, like, the drawing capabilities,
02:14obviously this is great, but for the majority of people, clamshell laptop design wins over
02:192-in-1 fold-open hybrid device design. That's just the nature of the world, because if it
02:24wasn't that case, then everyone would be using 2-in-1s instead of laptops.
02:27Now, for years, there have been rumors of Apple designing MacBook Pros with the ARM
02:32processors that are inside here, which sounds really cool on paper, but there's one really
02:36big issue. Professional applications are not compiled to run on ARM processors. They run
02:42on an x86 platform, which is Intel, so the MacBook Pros, I think, are going to stay on
02:46Intel chips for quite a while. There's just Thunderbolt 3, users are installing Windows
02:50on these devices. To remove x86 and Intel from these devices just doesn't make sense.
02:56What does make sense is a new device. The 12-inch MacBook looks ripe for a do-over,
03:01and I think they're going to replace that with their new ARM-based laptop. It's a design
03:04that people are familiar with, it's a form factor that people love, it's going to be
03:08a hit, and here's the best part about it. Cost. So, when it comes to Intel's devices,
03:13these are expensive chips. Intel charges a few hundred dollars for their cheapest and
03:18slowest MacBook Pro chip, and for the Core i9, it's like $500 or $600. And the cost of
03:22those chips makes these MacBook Pros more expensive. If you have ARM-based laptops,
03:27it's designed by Apple in-house, it's built by TSMC, these are going to be a lot cheaper,
03:32and this is going to run into that realm where you can get a device, like a 12-inch laptop
03:35that's $700, maybe $800, which would be amazing. And you have such good integration with hardware
03:41and software. You get really well-built stuff that's just super efficient. Like, look at
03:45the iPhone. This is a device that has less RAM, smaller batteries than a lot of Android
03:50flagships out there, and yet it still has amazing performance and really good battery
03:54life. This is what you get when you have really good hardware and software integration. Custom
03:59stuff. The only issue that I really see with this, and you know this is going to happen
04:04down the line, but when this happens, this is going to be very difficult to get out of.
04:09All of the Apple ecosystem right now, if you get into a MacBook Pro, you can leave, right?
04:14Your apps are probably on Windows as well. If you do this, if Apple builds this, and
04:19they have really good apps, and they probably will, once you get into this Apple ecosystem,
04:23and it may be cheaper to get in then, it is going to be very difficult to get out. Very
04:28difficult. And, well, Apple's probably going to love that. Okay, hope you guys enjoyed
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