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Extra info because I'm a dingus! Not sure if I mentioned that the Mac Pro is a 16 core model. Also I didn't know about the i9's being an extra toasty cinnamon bun compared to other CPU's ie i7's but I do have a Windows gaming i7 3060 laptop and it gets hot just loading mp3's from an external drive haha. Hot laptops are a normal thing but it's why the effort from the fanless Air blew me away (rare double pun), 30C video renders even on Apple software is outstanding. Also I should have aired my gripes with Windows instead of just complaining: I always hated getting ads in the start bar especially since I paid for my Windows copy. I had no control over updates which includes turning on and off the machine which stunk for work. After updates my preferences would often change opting me into sharing data again, annoying. SO MANY POP UPS. I'M PLAYING A GAME WINDOWS. Audio devices don't talk as well, Mac it's plug and play but Windows often needs a little bit of fiddling. As a muso I use a lot of them! No Microsoft, I don't want Office 365! Oh please stop pushing it on me! Maybe Windows 11 fixes all this but MacOS is working great for my musician/youtuber thing, I game on a Sega Dreamcast anyways (still Sega's current console, I'm up to date 👍). Sorry bout the Mac vid! Been driving my 16" idiot for 6 months and I had to share. Frank says nothing.
Windows 11 is mostly minor updates, but I've been using windows 10, and even though it needs some tinkering sometimes, I like it And you like your Mac book's And that's okay
Am still on windows 10, and it has been fine so far, I cant even upgrade to win 11 because of their weird requirements. When win 10 goes EOL (end of life), I will try switching to linux, because I hope gaming on linux will have matured more
Oh Dank, Windows 11 fixes so little. Yes, it is forwards in some ways (window management), but it has so many regressions, like the task bar. And it still has ads, everywhere. I am so glad I don't use Windows other than gaming. And even that I can get away with on linux.
Find me a liquid cooled laptop and then I could take my studio stuff with me,I have tried MacBooks and they have either got stolen or due to constantly traveling get left at a house I was staying at and have a ol’ mate call me saying what do you want to do with it I just run windows for gaming and because most laptops I can pick up cheaply but yes they run hot and my current little runabout laptop is a dell Inspiron she’s capable on full send can warm my car
Linux Distros has so much better than BOTH MacOS and Windows. Get something like Deepin if you really wanna use a MacOS like experience (i really don't understand why you would though. MacOS is ugly) KDE if you want the best Desktop experience.
It took the M1 to get me to upgrade from my old reliable and easily upgradeable Mid-2012 15" Macbook Pro and I couldn't be more happier. I can't wait to see what Apple comes up with in 2032 before my next purchase, lol.
You also have to keep in mind that because Apple now has total control over the chip architecture, they can make all of their software and their operating system super optimized for that exact architecture. That's why Final Cut exports so fast on the M1 chip. Intel has to make a processor just fast in general, whereas Apple can afford to make it fast for just their specific software.
Exactly! It Litteraly cheating, it like comparing an snapdragon and an intel, they are not optimized for the same stuff! But also the intel apple chooses isn't that good for portable pc, so i suspect they were a little biased so the change is more flashy
@@the_manchovie1795 The idea is more that the M1 chip is not only optimized for the machine, but also the *software on the machine.* Intel chips built for specific laptops don't mean anything if the software isn't even comparable.
@@ArceusShaymin The Asahi Linux team (who are adding support for the M1 hardware to Linux) have demonstrated that time and time again the M1 is stupid quick. Linux on the M1 was usable (with good battery life time) without any GPU drivers - it was all CPU rendering. Sure, some of the magic is optimisation, but that's not going to make a mobile, low power CPU faster than a Xeon that's two years old.
@@NRoach44 Hey, that's good to hear! Always nice to see the Linux guys applying the elbow grease. I was moreso alluding to the fact that Apple-engineered software which was designed with Apple chip architecture in mind will likely almost always beat out any similar software on an Intel or AMD chip, as per OP's specific mention of Final Cut rendering faster on the M1 and the comment I was replying to mentioning Intel chips built for Windows laptops being thrashed. Since Apple has control over the creation of both the software *and* hardware, they can create them to work best in tandem, whereas Intel chips are not made with specific suites of software in mind, and so attempt to be "generally good" at anything. That's not to say the M1 isn't good at non-Apple things, just that the initial benchmark comparison between it and an Intel chip can't really be "completely fair" given the circumstances. Though the tests have thoroughly proven the M1 as a good chip in its own right regardless, so comparisons really aren't necessary.
I got given a 14 inch M1 Pro at a new job I started back in September. Boy it felt like christmas came early, this thing is awesome! I've historically been a windows person, but boy does windows feel so clunky and awful now by comparison. There's a few of my colleagues in the office who still have the older intel based macs and I've had a look at them and they are so much worse. I've literally never heard the fans spin up in this thing, granted I don't really put it through its paces all that much but in 3 months of ownership I would have thought to have at least heard them once! Its crazy! I think I'll end up fighting them if they ask for it back!
Hell yeah, got the exact same. Love the form factor, so incredibly nice to sit on the couch or in bed with it, stays super cool as well! Mac OS felt pretty natural to me, i'm a linux guy and mainly use GNOME so the UI wasn't all that different for me and i still have the power of the terminal whenever i need it. Overall, great machine, absolutely beautiful too.
@@metalspoon69 100% agree, it's excellent. Mac OS is great, I had some experience with it as a few years back I bought a second hand 2015 MacBook Pro. That thing was in pretty good shape and still runs well but they've clearly improved Mac OS a fair bit since then, it has so many features that I love. The terminal is excellent, I've learned all about Unix with this job and I obviously have a lot more to learn about it but I love it. I don't think I could ever go back to windows for a work machine now, it'd have to be either Linux or MacOS. I use Fish shell and I've customised my terminal to give all the syntax highlighting really distinct colours and it has made adapting to using Unix for day to day tasks so much easier. It's also nice having a different operating system for work and a different operating system for gaming, it means I can really disconnect the two and I don't feel like I'm at work when I'm sat in front of my home desktop, it's super nice. Vice versa - I know when I'm sat down at my Mac that it's time to work. My last job used windows for everything and it'd get to the point where I'd get home, boot up my gaming rig and I'd type in my work password rather than my PC's password. I'm yet to do that since using the mac! 😂
Decided to splurge for the same model. It's not the top of the line 14" but compared to the old windows machines I was using this thing is 1000x better. I'll have to see how it handles if I start doing more video editing but considering it doesn't stutter when editing 4k like my old machines I'll take it.
I got the 16-inch model with the M1 Max about a month ago and I am absolutely chuffed with it so far. Even now, I am still mightily impressed at the fact that this stinking laptop is able to edit all my stuff for my photography projects and even some video files, at a speed that makes my high-performance desktop PC blush, **all while it's on battery**. That battery also lasts stinking long. I actually also own a Windows 11 ultrabook that I use as a daily machine due to its small size and light weight. This big-chungus beast lasts longer on a charge **doing heavy edit-work** than my ultrabook, which I had to peg its processor back quite a bit to get 4-5 hours on a charge doing nothing more than web-browsing. Like everything though, its got flaws. The notch doesn't bother me, but it's still a visual goof, the caps-lock delay on the keyboard trips me up so many times that I wished they'd just make it easy to tweak the behavior, and having the SSD be permanently soldered to the board is still a personal pet-peeve of mine (I work off an external SSD, so storage capacity itself isn't really an issue). But taken as a whole, this is legitimately the best notebook that I have used and owned, by far. Just the fact that it is not only stinking fast and mostly quiet, but it does this without needing a charger (and lasts for a long while doing so) basically sealed it for me, despite knowing that there are other laptops out there which are probably a bit quicker. That and Windows 11 is not exactly where it should be, especially when Modern Standby continues to cook laptops in bags...
Most people don't hate Apple - they hate the overhyping of everything they make. M1 has from the start been the first thing Apple chucked out in a while that deserves all the hype.
I think what you mean is most people don't hate Apple's *products*. While the hype thing is true, many also hate their self-flagellating marketing. Not to mention their track record of anti-consumer practises...
The Apple Watch revolutionised the smartwatch market and the AirPods basically created a whole new segment of earphones. I think Apple deserves all the hype.
Honestly the only reason I dislike apple is repairability. Even on this cheap 14'' ultrabook I have, I can swap the SSD, have place for another and add RAM. From what I have seen on the internet, once you get a macbook, you can't upgrade it, and can't fix it without having a soldering station or paying Apple to repair it for you. Lots of respect for the M1 chip though, I'm really impressed by that. If I could have the same upgradability as on windows, I would definitely be on Mac. I could kind of get around not being able to play games too much.
I can relate. I bought a 2020 Intel MacBook Air… with 3 chrome tabs and a zoom call, the laptop was at 100°C. With my base M1 MacBook Air, it can edit 4k without getting hot…. M1 chips are bonkers!
Agreed! I've been through a bunch of Windows laptops that either broke on me or were crazy hot. Then I got my M1 Air base model, and goddamn It's magic.
Yeah cause M1 chips have DEDICATED ASICs for video editing and rendering. Intel Macs never had that outside of the 2020 Mac Pro which could get that as a PCIe card.
@@Photo0021 which laptop manufacturers were you buying from? because most are quite trash. ironically alienwere makes fairly good laptops that can run high end shit.
Holy shit, people still wanting to make serious work with laptops and paying serious buckeroos while they're at it No wonder all of the community is trash
I was stunned when I upgraded from my 2015 model. Initially bought my mother an M1 Air to replace her ageing laptop, and I waited for the M1 Pro/Max models because I wanted the big screen. I no longer need a tray between me and the laptop’s ass to watch youtube videos. I don’t need a charger with me at all times (I can be a pretentious coffee-slurping failed writer in a coffee shop for hours now) and being able to waste a few hours building houses in The Sims 4 without being warned to plug it in or feeling it burn my legs was a damn novelty (playing above 1080p and the fans barely made themselves known). This is the first laptop from Apple in a while where I was counting the days until I could pick it up from the store.
yeah I have a 2015 model and its fine but it is so fucking loud I can hear it through my headphones all the time. it also doesnt let me use chrome without heating up. I am probably going to get a new one before I go to college next august bc I dont know if this one is gonna cut it honestly. I cant play any games, and it basically wants to kill itself when I plug it into a monitor or even open excel for my schoolwork
You just eloquently described my experience with going all out on the 2019 16” i9. The one time I splurge on the faster spec instead of the base model and it bit me in the ass so hard. The part where you get reunited with MagSafe, HDMI, and headphone jack almost had me in tears. Thanks this is the only tech channel i will ever watch again.
I used to take a lot of screenshots/screen recording for my job and I gotta say, quickly being able to adjust what you wanted to do and where to save them all from the touchbar was glorious. An adaptive row is useful, but some things just work better with buttons (esc for example)
Yeah, I can get behind that. Then again when Apple made that thing they were in full no legacy support or compromise mode to the point of absurdity so no chance in them leaving the function row alone.
That is the crazy thing to me. I have a lot of hardware, and unlike Dankpods I don't use final cut, so I'm not locked to apple and although I do have a beefy desktop I use an old Thinkpad X as my mobile machine. But I know for a fact my next laptop is not going to be x86. We still have to see what AMD and Intel are able to do to compete with the M1 on power, they made improvements, but nothing revolutionary yet - So I hope they make some arm or risc type chip for power efficiency, and that Linux sort its battery issues out.
No joke man. Honest to gosh, I charge my M1 Pro laptop from a 5v, 500mA USB charger. It takes _a while_ to charge, and only really works if it's sleeping. But the fact that it's even possible is just insane.
@@nickwallette6201 right! I mostly do the same. My 12” razer got like 5-6 hours of use max and I always had to bring a charger strong enough to even get it to charge. Having the option to use a phone charger is unreal
@@prgnify dude, try parsec out! I daily drive thinkpad x240 and if I need some power or some gaming I'm streaming from my home pc. this parsec is awesome, zero latency.
What's also really cool is that there are already people developing Linux for the M1 nuggets, the lack of Linux made them a total no-go for me, but you can run (slow, but working) Linux on them already and the GPU drivers are being written right now. The M1 is really cool, and that's coming from a passionate Apple hater lol
Seen a lot of people using the volume slider like that on a Touch Bar but all you need to do is hold your finger on the volume icon and swipe left and right, it’s legit a lot quicker when you’re using it properly
"Windows is terrible and Adobe is worse" I could not agree more. Premiere crashes even while playing the video sometimes, nevermind when moving clips in the timeline around. I havve Ctrl+S PTSD, and press it every edit I make.
@@fylezrancher5609 yeah same here, haven't had any problems with premiere or photoshop, same thing with windows (except that one time they uninstalled my gpu drivers)
@@ryandickson6761 correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the media engine decodes all codecs, as Asahi Linux can't playback youtube videos as codec acceleration is not implemented yet
The old i9 laptops have a *massive* asterisk next to their claims of having the most powerful laptop processor of the era: While the i9 in there might theoretically be a speed demon, it's being strangled to death by that horrendously inadequate cooling system. I'm curious to see how the M1 and i9 models would compare if you took them into a walk-in freezer and set them on blocks of ice.
Yep, it's unfair to say the fans on the i9 are screaming since apple did such a poor job of cooling it (as always). I wouldn't be surprised if they did it specifically to make the m1 seem impressive in comparison
Pretty sure dave2d already tested that by putting it in his freezer, I think M1 still beats it but the i9 perfoms soooo much better with actual cooling. It's almost like actually having good contact with the CPU cooler helps the CPU stay cool.
Me too! Out of curiosity only. Though then it could be useful to a niche market of northern Canadians that want to edit 4K videos while sitting on their porch.
@@TheTomco11 I heard rumors saying that Apple were working on switching to ARM for about 5 years, which alignes to the timeframe when macbooks started sucking. What's also interesting is that, if you didn't know, Intel works with partners (e.i. Apple, Dell, HP, whatever) to implement features that they want (I believe the reason why Intel improved their iGPUs was because Apple really wanted it for example), but in 2017, because of lack of competition, and other unfourtunate events, Intel was stagnating, and couldn't make chips up to Apple's demand, yet Apple still decided to bang on their drum, and as a result you get these laptops with awful thermals (especially Macbook and later Macbook Air, which didn't even have a fan), just because Apple were stubborn on their design, while Intel couldn't/wouldn't provide chips that would be adequate for that configuration.
Oh man, this is such a precarious vid for me…I got a macbook pro a couple years back ‘cause I was just going off to college and my folks agreed that I could use one. That, and I wanted a machine that could handle all the drawing and occasional animations and screencap speedpaints I do (the old mac mini did NOT like downloading and rendering hours of footage), so we decided to invest in a higher-end pro and OH BOY, this lad can do it, but just like you said, it gets super hot, and I do have fans so it just sounds like it’s tryin to achieve takeoff when it gets stressed out. Even had it get into some weird overdrive where it heats up and the fans go crazy when I’m not even using it more than once. That M1 sounds soooo tempting…
I recently got an M2 Air and it's great, compared to my older Thinkpad it's 2.5x as fast while being completely silent. Yesterday I accidentally started a screen recording. Today I noticed because of the icon on the status bar, it recorded the screen for 17 hours straight and didn't get warm or slow down at all. I don't do video stuff, but for software development it's a really smooth system.
I'm mainly a PC guy because that's what's best for my needs currently but I have no loyalty to any company and I'm happy that Apple has knocked it out of the park with these M1 chips because now Intel and AMD (and NVidia to some degree) are actually putting some effort into their next gen CPUs. Competition is good for innovation. If the GPU in the M chips keeps improving as much as it has between the M1 and M2 I might actually consider getting an M3 Mac.
I'm a photographer and I used to do all my work on an iPad pro (first the 2015 1st Gen, then the 2020 model), and finally got my first own laptop, the m1 macbook pro, 16 inch. I now live in a cardboard box and survive on stale bread because I have no more money, but damn, it was worth it. I'm glad I waited until this came out. Great video as always!
I did the opposite and had old intel MacBook Pro and since have switched to an M1 iPad Pro for my photo editing. The fan noise on the old laptop was unbearable and it would slow down quickly when doing more than a couple tasks. Blown away at the performance on M1 iPad. Would like to upgrade my computer too but I find myself using it less and less to a point that I’m wondering if i even really need it. There are still a few features missing from iPad but it is my go to 95% of the time now.
i own a mac mini 2018 and is enuff for me but im angry because it would be cool have it...this video is stupid, dunno because i open it always for mistake plus his voice his frustrating
The M1 has hardware bits specifically designed for things like video editing. Kind of like how back in the day old game systems had special hardware to move tiles around the screen so they could scroll smoothly when PC's couldn't even with more powerful hardware. The Xeon is a more generally powerful chip, but specific programs can be built to utilize the special hardware of the M1 to basically cheat extra performance. I'm not saying this as a knock against them, it's a goddamn brilliant return to form for specialized chips. There's a reason it was so effective in the 80's and there's a reason it's so effective now. Who cares if the NES can't do spreadsheets that well, it's built for goddamn Mario. Who cares if the M1 doesn't have the legacy support of x86 or a full CISC instruction set? It's designed for creators and it's a beast of an editor (and a solid performer on graphics too especially for its power draw)
I always feel weary when people use video renders as the benchmark for these chips since they have dedicated hardware to pump up that category, but then again if it does what people use it for in the real world then it works, doesn’t matter why it works at the end of the day
i really hope apple applies similar principles to more diverse fields like 3d rendering and audio work and builds in some co-processors for those types of things too lol
I mean. You're flat out wrong. Your conclusion is complete bullshit. x86 also has hardware encode and decode. And has for at least 10 years. And they keep adding hardware encode support for newer codecs.
Also not a knock against apple, "influencers" are also often video creators so the product markets itself. But there are also many types of "creators" and m1 certainly doesn't tailor to all, or even most, of them. Are you going to make your bloated electron apps or docker clusters on a mac that charges you up the nose for memory? Are you going to use develop android apps when last I checked emulators don't work and android studio barely does? Do you intend to roll the dice on whether you can get your Ansys suite running via emulation? Apparently it's even a pain to get openFOAM working (which I argue isn't a real alternative to fluent anyways. If you have to open your choice of cpp ide or editor, it's a different type of software. Alternatively I argue gcc is an alternative for openFOAM as well as literally every other piece of software). What about Solidworks? What about whatever 3d printing software people tend to use? Sure there are solutions; you can just pay up, embrace the ecosystem and develop solely for ios (or plug an actual android phone in), change your entire workflow etc; but are those good solutions? Afaik macs are, and have always been, great for video and music creators (+ whatever I missed) specifically. Saying they are for "creators" without qualifier is imo already buying into the marketing.
Your vids are the best. To the point, no grey areas. The giggle factor is through the roof. If I'm feeling a bit down, you bet I pop one of your vids on. More power to you brother.
Apple can just say F you, adapt to my way of working. Microsoft can't because their main consumer base is not creators but enterprises. You can't force big companies and governments to recode their software or change virtualization methods because that costs a lot of money. That's why windows is way better at keeping old things working. Just look at 32bit software, Microsoft still supports it because it would be a pain for major corporations to change their software to 64 bits. Apple just said F you 32bit will not work anymore.
I got an M1 Air. Not a high-spec one, just replacing a 2012 Air. I expected it to spank the old Air. I did not expect it to spank my 2019 iMac. Blender render times are sickeningly close between the two despite the iMac costing nearly triple the price.
My 2012 MacBook Pro recently has been causing me serious problems when it comes to heating up, and honestly I just can’t use it anymore. So I have resorted to using my 2006 MacBook as a ‘portable’ (it weighs a ton) work computer until I can replace it. It runs snow leopard and isn’t good. The new M1 MacBooks look incredible, I’m definitely going to save up and buy one. It would be amazing to have a powerful laptop that I can use for work!
"Windows 8 is the worst." yeah... it's was/is bad. it almost seemed like was specifically designed for a tablet and someone went, "No...it'll be for EVERY computer."
It wasn't Vista or ME. Windows 8, at least 8.1 was good. It wasn't perfect but its a decent experience. Windows 10 and 11 uses so much Resources its a no brainer moving to Manjaro KDE.
The M1s are great but it is worth mentioning that Apple killed the performace of the Intel chips with their god awful design. I think the I7s outperformed the I9s because it could just about manage cooling.
I had a 2015 MBP with an i7. (Or was it i5? I actually don't remember.) It was awesome. Near M1 levels of battery life doing casual stuff, and the fan rarely ever turned on at all. I could go months without hearing it. I think it was a perfectly balanced laptop, and I loved it dearly.
Intel also deserves some of the blame here. They needed to push more and more Watts to keep up with AMD and MacBooks have never had good cooling solutions. If your chip is a power-hungry beast and it's gonna be crammed into the torture cage that is a MacBook, then it's not gonna be a very happy beast
Apple spec’d intel to be able to handle Apples cooling system, and intel promise they would be able to handle it, and they didn’t. It was then 4 more years of promises from intel until Apple finally had enough and build their own processor design.
@@cockatoo010 See but Intel’s processors were a pre-made component. Apple was buying them as-manufactured, so they *needed* to design around it, and just didn’t.
@@nickwallette6201 damn, I have a 2015 i5 MBA, and it _maybe_ lasts 3 hours on battery. Less than 100 cycles on the battery too. Wish I could get battery life like that.
Been uninterested in Macbooks for the trash specs for years, the M1 macbooks are the first ones that have really had me excited. looks like the new ryzen mobile processors might rival them though.
Intel and AMD already offer better chips than the M1, Intel offers a mobile 16 core now that pisses on the M1 like it's not even funny. It's ARM, people are acting like apple took the fire from the gods but all they did was make a very large high clock ARM chip not unlike a cellphone where as Intel and AMD are still full X86-64 compatible IE can do so much more.
@@minecraft13149 And 12900h will sound like a jet engine taking off under load or throttle down to the performance of a much worse i7 if it doesn't. Still, at least the competition from all 3 manufacturers of CPUs means we consumers have more good choices, and chances are the next gens will get even better as a direct result.
Just a little note, on the touchbar, you can HOLD the volume button and move your finger left or right to adjust the volume like that instead of pushing the button and then using the slider from there.
My issue with apple, minus the scummy business practices, is just the hyper closed off nature. Mate I want to do whatever the hell I want to with my tech I own, not be forcibly held back by the manufacturer because they have a "vision."
Well I have good news because the Mac isn't closed off. Hell it's their only device that isn't closed off. You're free to install whatever you want, and do whatever you want with it. Some people made OS mods for it to make it more Windows like, others homebrew apps to make it more Linux like. Hell, you can even install Linux distros to dualboot onto if you wanted, as there's a popular distro for the M1 chip called Asahi Linux in development.
In fairness, the Macbook i9's were really controversial at the time. They had insufficient cooling and thermal throttled a lot making the i9 chip pointless. You would have got the same performance from an i7 or i5. If you really want to see how well an i9 laptop can perform you would be better off getting a non-apple laptop. That said the new M1 chips are pretty cool and have a lot of potential
Imagine putting an i9 and high wattage GPU in really small heatsink while other Windows gaming laptops with the same specs are still getting thermal throttled even with larger heatsink and much better cooling solution
@@sihamhamda47 Yeah, I'm pretty sure an MSI laptop with an Intel Core i7 & an RTX 3050 could do better than a MacBook with an Intel Core i9 & an AMD Radeon 5500M. And from what I looked, that MSI laptop is way cheaper than that MacBook.
@@pabblo1 a better example would be a laptop with a 1650 Ti or 1660 Ti or a 1060 or 1070. Tbf Intel's skylake-based CPUs are nuggety today compared to Ryzen 5xxx and Alder Lake Intels
I was so happy when they put the M1 in the iPad Pro/Air(2022), but I wish they could utilize the ridiculous power that the chip offers! Sadly, the iPad is still being held back, not by hardware, but by software. It’s getting better with every update, but The whole process is taking too long. I really hope they add a good STL slicer to iPad one day.
If they didn't hold back on the software, then what's the point of getting a more expensive MacBook which performs the same as a cheaper iPad? If they did that, they'll lose sales on the MacBooks
@@lotfibenhammou916 Literally segment them by hardware then. Make it so that the iPads only get the processor of the previous gen and or give macbooks ultra by default. Its kinda stupid that they would decide hey lets shove the same SoC from our desktop/laptops into a damn tablet and just neuter the software because it would eat sales. Instead of them tiering it by well idk, battery life or something. as far as I know iPad M1's only get 8-9 hours of moderate usage while a macbook pro can cram out a whole day with relatively careful usage.
I convinced one of my former roommates to be an early adopter to the m1 imac way back in 2021 over the power/price/heat and most of all display. She was finishing her senior year of visual arts school and she literally thanked me every time she saw me 😂 Think about it, I basically bullied her into dropping 1500 bucks on a new computer when she said she was perfectly happy with her old one. And she couldnt have been happier
You can also just turn on regular control buttons instead of the control strip, it puts all the buttons in the same order as the Macs without touch bar. In keyboard settings.
Volume slider with the touchbar is way cool what you talking about. You can set any volume level with one click by tapping and holding, then dragging it. It’s awesome because you get that “””analog””” level of control you don’t get with volume buttons.
As a long time user of a 2018 MacBook Pro you can swipe left or right on the sound control button to lower or increase the volume without using the slider.
Many thanks dank pods for clearly stating the vid isn't pro apple, Everyone is allowed to like apple it's just when they make others feel bad for not being in that ecosystem, that turns everyone away from them, but good on you
@@trayner The thing is, it's not like Mac's are on the whole repairable either. I'm not going to get into a big slapfight about whats better, but if you don't like Android what other choice do you have apart from iOS? I used to use android but jumped to iOS around the Nexus 6 and I've still got my Nexus 7 with Lineage OS installed. One reason why I switched was that Apple supports their phones for much longer than any Android device, even googles own pixel. Part of the reason is that Apple has full control over the hardware and software, but a lot of android devices are beholden to the people who make the drivers for the chipset/modem etc. Also different carrier versions of the same phone can have updates delayed for whatever random reason. Google has seen this also and that's why they've gone to their own Tensor chipset so hopefully they can provide updates to Pixels for longer. Thats just not a thing with iPhones and I know people complained that updates made phones slower but I pulled out my old 2016 SE a few days ago, updated it to the latest OS and it still runs fine. I'm not gonna say great because it feels slower than my 13 Pro but I feel like a 5 year old phone isn't gonna be as fast as a new one. It would have to take something massive to get me off iOS because I love the integration with Mac and iPad that works seamlessly. Meaning when I'm at home I don't really touch the phone. Right to repair stuff is shitty definitely and I hate their stupid handwaving program where they send you like 2 tonnes of equipment just to do a battery or we. Maybe just maybe in the future they might try and make a phone thats not assembled with like 9000 types of screws and everything glued together but I doubt it.
What the M1 hides is a forgotten wisdom from the tech world: Integrate Hardware and Software well and do it once. Now it is 80 different programs built by different teams for different problems bolted together by two guys in their grandmas garage fueled on kickfarter flex fund with optimization not even making the nice to have list.
Adobe newer programs (medium, and modeler) are pretty good as in they do what they propose without any frills or issues. Can’t way for them to fuck it up by adding everything without concern for optimization or coherence
You’re bringing back some seriously bad memories of my Intel 15” MacBook Pro. You nailed it, that thing made so much fan noise and generated so much heat and ripped through battery life just to hit a measly 2.5GHz… loving my M1 iPad Pro that replaced it
M1 MacBook Pro 13 is the first Mac I’ve ever had. It’s seriously a life changer. I’ve made so much more music and actually edited some videos for them all on the same little machine and it never stuttered. Love that thing.
Hopefully they start making ARM processors with PCIe lanes that you can put in desktop machines. I really hope ARM or even RISCV pick up more in the computer market
You know, when using the touchbar - if you simply hold and drag on the volume button, that will also change volume. No need for multiple clicks. Goes for most other functions too like display brightness.
I'm a PC guy, and I have an Intel 9700k right now, and I still love hearing how great the M1 chips are. Apple setting the bar so high can only benefit everyone.
Agreed. I don't think we'd have seen the RDNA2 graphics on APUs any time sooner without the awesome iGPU on the M1s. Also, Alder Lake U-series should be quite performant at like 18W so it looks like Intel is catching up as well.
@@DigitalJedi Arm still will definitely be the direction a lot of laptops will go towards IMO, the higher efficiency and Windows Support makes it great for ultrabooks and even small low cost machines, most chrome books are ARM now. Desktops will probably be dominated by x86 for a good while due to the raw power for games and compute tasks.
You should seriously consider getting a M1 Macbook Air to use as a laptop/daily driver. You'd love it. They're excellent companion devices for the PC gamer and cheap as hell
I do agree about the heat of laptops. I have a razor blade 15 laptop and would occasionally game, but now that I think of it my room would feel hot. I upgraded to a MacBook Pro 14 and just waiting on delivery. I’m excited to use as I’m new to Mac OS.
Same I have a rz15 and lors I had to stop using it for. While in summer cause it was killing me, as of now it bearable and in winter time it’s gonna be an amazing heater
@@OhWanya haha that’s nice. Did I really get my MacBook 4 months ago😅 anyways I think I wanna sell it now because while it’s absolutely beautiful and never had a hardware issue. I think macOS is too limited. I have a hacked switch and usually I play with files that can’t be used or open in macOS the same. I’m just wondering what windows laptop would be the equivalent of a MacBook Pro 14
Honestly I'm really happy for people in Apple's ecosystem, I'm glad they have a laptop that's really good. Even though I really hate Apple themselves with their shitty practices with Right to Repair and the insane markups they do for machines and even accessories. Though other companies are not all guilt free of doing similar things. I'll be sticking to windows if I get a laptop, but hey, I'm happy for you all who like Apple's ecosystem.
@@skyscall It will have to do a bang up job of emulating x86 or it will fall flat. Windows Store apps never took off, most applications by far are classic x86 applications.
I'm a PC gamer and have a pretty nice setup. But when it comes to laptops I always go with a Mac. The M1 is amazing and the battery life is insane. Heavy workflow and I still can easily squeeze 10-12 hours out of it.
My usage exactly. I have my gaming setup but my MacBook Air M1 is around to fulfill basic tasks. I'm getting upwards of 15 hours of battery life, which is awesome.
Yeah, as someone who doesn't like apple as a company, I have to say moving all their devices to ARM based processors along with unified memory was the smartest decision they made. The main take away for me between this video and the M1 MacBook Pros I deploy at work are that when the program you are running are optimized for ARM (apple application with some 3rd party support) they're amazing. Now Apple needs to fix the limitations on virtual machine support along with multiple monitors under HDMI.
Last year, I got an M1 Mac Mini as my new main computer and I never regretted the purchase ever since. That thing is so fast and can handle the most powerful apps on a desktop while still being very quiet. I was just blown away by how much this can handle.
i have an m1 macbook air and I don't think I could go back to a laptop with like 3-4 hours of battery life that gets up to 100c, even if it's nice for cold winter nights to point the vents at my face.
Chances of me getting an Apple machine are low, but damn if I haven't been tempted by the M1 Air. That's their most impressive machine to me. Yea, it's not the most powerful of the bunch, but it's all passive cooling. That's just insane, especially in a laptop
Same I can never switch out of Windows there's too many apps that I rely on that are only on Windows (mainly an audio converter for iPod music ironically)
Seriously, go get an M1 Macbook Air right now. You won't regret it. Even though it's the cheapest and has no fan, it's an absolute sleeping monster with how fast it is. I've seen so many hardcore Linux fanboys circles switch to Macs all because of that laptop. Also keep an eye out during Apple Events as the Macbook Air is expected to get a brand new sexy design later this year. If not, you can get the current model real cheap now.
@@DrAnimePhD I won't, for various reasons. 1. I like to game. 2. I'm a DIY desktop person 3. I'm not a fan of MacOS 4. Also not a fan of Apple in general (I'm starting to like Microsoft less and less too, but I still like them more than Apple. I have been think of switching to Linux, but music stuff has prohibited me from doing so).
@@Cosmstack Linux is great depending on the use case, I used Ubuntu for several years when I was just using the computer for internet and other more casual things. As I started my career as a Graphic designer 8 years ago I got my first Mac and have been loving it. I did use a windows 10 PC at a job for 4 years but that thing was horrible I'm glad I'm back to using a Mac everyday for my job using the Adobe suite Macs are much more reliable.
@@Cosmstack You can have a Macbook as a companion device to your DIY gaming desktop. A lot of PC gamers and even Linux enthusiasts are doing that. And what is it about macOS you’re not a fan of?
I'm glad these M1 models live up to their performance because my mid-2012 with a 4 hour battery that weighs as much as a ingot is really starting to feel archaic.
Haha, 10 years is a good run, I think. The only Macs I own are the G4 Powerbook Aluminum and now a 2021 M1 MBP. The M1 stuff feels like the proper jump from the PPC days, where you get insane battery vs similar models (The Powerbook would get like 4 hours of battery life doing CPU video decoding even at 8-9 years old… I don’t think any of my other laptops from that time survived that long anymore, and heck, my x86 laptop at the time started to have build and battery issues…) But seriously, the build quality, the keyboard, the speed, the silence, the screen. It just finally comes together in a good package like the days of yore. Now if we could convince Apple to add more sane UI controls instead of relying on 3rd party apps…
those things are great. props for keeping it going so long. i had a "macbook of theseus" type situation going on with my late 2011 model where i had swapped out pretty much everything that could be unscrewed at least once. ended up with like 5 partially disassembled donor macbooks in my closet by the time it finally bit the big one in 2019. honestly the quad core i7 in those things holds up remarkably well considering how old it is. are you still on an ancient version of macos or did you manage to get it to take newer updates?
The M1s are a god send honestly, especially when they get their $200-$250 discount. I also had a 2012 that lasted me till 2018. Bought the $1,500 13 inch M1 MBP on sale last year and I have zero regrets. I can comfortably edit my photos, listen to music, and watch 4K videos and movies without the laptop even struggling lol.
@@CaliKiid714 The Retina Macbook I got had a sticker price of about $3,000, top of the line back then, even with independent graphics it still looks and runs pretty good but I had to replace a bloated battery and thermal paste...the magsafe charger is original but its so chewed up you'd be frightened to touch it.
The conspiracy theory is that Apple intentionally made Intel MacBooks progressively worse and worse (but not bad enough so that their audience would actually notice or care), so that the M1 variants seemed like massive upgrades (not that they aren't, they're great machines)
I doubt that. Apple was definitely planning to switch to their own silicon anyways, but Apple never made the MacBooks worse, at least intentionally. Apple just got too caught up in form over function, and didn't bother to change the design while Intel chips were getting more demanding, causing them to throttle and heat up a lot more.
From what I heard, it was more Intel kept promising more efficient chips, then failing to meet the deadline or spec, so each machine had to have corners cut to account for the heat and power consumption of the machine, whilst fitting Apple's vision for the design. (Thinner keyboard, bigger battery, more fans) ...granted Apple could have just went with the current design back then and made it significantly less jank, but this is Apple we're talking about.
The reality is simpler, Apple knew that Intel was in a hurry with its CPUs, and since its engineers are shit that do not know how to dissipate heat, they decided to make the leap to M1, more knowing that the M1 would be unupdatable in the long term to intel comparison Basically, Apple changed to M1 just to rip off their customers, because even the M1 is very poorly cooled.
As an animator, I fell in love with my M1 macbook pro I was provided at work so much that when I left that job, I had to get the M2 max. Expensive but I love using it as my main workstation. Got a whole setup with a dock, one cable and it becomes a desktop. So much better than the old intel macs. I still have my home built PC, I use it for gaming, data backup and rendering now.
Exactly, Apple has always focused super heavily on video and photo editing and have always wiped the floor with comparable PCs at that. Most Adobe stuff is also much better supported on Apple's stuff. So this is like, yeah it's amazing how efficient it is, but it's a single use casd.
Devs are working on it. Clip Studio Paint is on it, for example, and Adobe is reworking Photoshop for iOS. Biggest issue is the time it takes to rework these applications to work with iOS APIs and design guidelines. You don't want jank non-touch apps on it, nor apps using an 8 year old API that run like a potato.
It's easy - Windows for games, macOS for creative work (+ programming for Apple devices) and Linux for programming. That's what I've settled on during the years and I quite like this setup. There are cons and pros for all of the OSes in my opinion.
@@EddieTristes Yeah it is. I'd say even Linux is better at games than MacOS thanks to proton. But I will always prefer MacOS and iOS before any other OS when I do webdesign and wireframes.
Yeah but it sucks having to do that. Mobility ends up becoming a real issue. The macbooks are the only real portable option, so forget gaming if you invested in a good desktop pc and need to move around, and you need a good internet connection if you want to run linux on a server somewhere
@@ts47920535 Agreed. Luckily I don't travel much, usually only for meetings and such. I also don't play a lot of GPU demanding games so I can play on the move on my HP laptop. But having to switch devices sucks. And having to move files between them, especially my iPad and windows machines is sub optimal.
You don't need to tap and drag the slider to change volume or brightness on the touch bar, you can simply hold the volume / brightness icon then slide your finger.
he totally had me when he started telling the friggin hdmi port "we watched your funeral mate"... love australia for creating such entertaining personalities
really glad they’ve made them thicker, seriously considering a 16 inch mbpro. my 2019 15 inch i7 thermal throttles like you would not believe. In summer, even super basic projects are an issue.
I would take the plunge and buy one, I've been dailying the M1 MBA since November 2020 and its handled everything I've thrown at it, which varies from word documents to programming on VS.
I got the 16" M1P MBP myself as a lifelong windows user. I mean, it bloody hurt buying it at just a hair over 4000 kangaroo coins (aussie dollars), but at the same time, it's honestly the best machine i've worked on in a while. The battery life alone is nuts. Editing performance if you use ProRes beggars belief, and with H.264 it's more performant than its Intel predecessors. I mean, I rock an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X/GTX1080ti as my previous daily driver, which chews a solid 600W at full tilt, and this laptop _smashes it_ for video editing and rendering whilst chewing a tenth of that.
I got the M1 Air the month it launched as soon as reviews started dropping and it still has the aura of being brand new in actually every way, it far outlasts any laptop my friends have in terms of battery while being able to keep up with most things in its price range in terms of performance while having amazing quality. Thank you for mentioning this, although it took a while.
My issue with Mac is more the lack of options when you have to look into issues and fix things. At work we have to use iMacs, because we use a software that only exists for Mac. So many times something broke and there was nothing we could do. Was it the RAM? Was it the CPU? Who knows? One time the OS died on us. The whole OS. Could I just write a new install on the machine? Of course not. And don't get me started on the issues when software doesn't work. When it crashes without an error log. It's absolutely awful to work with.
Agreed 100%, BS like this is why I like boring normal PC's I can fix when something goes wrong that normally don't cost, and arm, and a leg. Far as the OS, Windows is just as annoying with Windows 10 being the last straw for me, which is why I moved to Linux full time, and I now use Solus Linux as my default distro.
Business users don't care about repairability. If you're on a proper SLA with Apple (or any other vendor like IBM), they'll just give you a new machine. Likewise, reinstalling MacOS is trivial. You would've been back up and running in about two hours.
Main reason I find MacOS painful to work with is I just know the internals of Windows and Linux a lot better, and they're both also a lot more googleable/stackoverflowable when something breaks. I've had enough Macs over the years to have run into "take it to the genius bar" as the preferred "solution" to a problem several times, and only after spending hours digging through forum threads on related issues did I find the actual, often fairly simple, solution.
@@marcogenovesi8570 No that's called being lazy, you can use another computer, tablet, phone, etc.. and Google the model of computer you are having trouble with if it's not working at all, and usually find the answer, and Windows has become a nightmare of an OS, with no hope of saving it IMHO unless it goes full open source.
I always had Windows laptops. Now, at 25, I got my first MacBook. A M1 MacBook Air. And honestly, I never want to go back. Its the perfect laptop for pretty much everything except gaming.
I was never an Apple fan (quite the opposite) but I was THRILLED when I heard they were moving Macs to Arm. Its an excellent choice, the efficiency difference is very real and hopefully it drives more arm support.
Honestly there's nothing preventing the industry to switch to ARM except lack of good chips, which is tied to lack of Windows because Windows equals people.
@@supermaster2012 I am aware but they never pushed the transition. To do that you'd need an actual proper working translation layer, like Apple has Rosetta. The Microsoft's one is still not great and the offering of native ARM apps isn't either.
@@Astra3yt the entirety of the UWP library works on ARM, so does WSL and WSA and all 32-bit win32 apps, which encompass the vast majority of the Windows library. There is no demand for ARM in the enterprise environment, which is Microsoft's target demographic. For context, the amount of workgroup devices is miniscule compared to the amount of domain joined devices.
I remember a 2017 macbook pro that I got for school that always got hot while trying to play certain games or edit videos, but then I got a basic M1 air and it felt so much faster than the 2017 pro and rarely gets hot. I was blown away by the M1's power.
I’ve got an M2 max at my job - the newest, not the 2021 with the 2016 body - and it just leaves me speechless on every big chore. It eats up everything AND does it on a battery the whole effing day. It truly is amazing. Only sad thing is that Windows 11 on Virtualbox doesn’t work yet so you have to subscribe to Parallels to work with Windows software. Some pieces of software will not even work, but 85% of Windows software does.
The M1 Max on my Mac Studio is a freaking MONSTER! I could have 20 Kontakt instruments running in Pro Tools at the same time and I’d STILL never hear the fan! What a beast!
While the M1 CPUs are definitely impressive for content creation (partly because of HW acceleration), I see a big problem with Macs using these CPUs - non-removable SSDs. I totally get why RAM is being soldered to the motherboard these days, in my opinion it's not that problematic, because RAM is hella durable. I've never in my life seen RAM fail, even on 15+ years old PCs. But soldering SSDs is very bad, because the SSD WILL fail, and when it does, your laptop is done. Combine this with swapping (especially Macbooks with 8 gigs of RAM swap a lot, although from what I've read, it has been somewhat fixed), and you may have your SSD fail quite soon. And I've seen a lot of SSD failures, some even after 1 year (in many devices, not just Apple ones). I just don't understand why would they make this when we have tiny M.2 drives, which would definitely fit inside these laptops (for example an M.2 2230 is literally finger sized). These anti-consumer practices honestly kill all my respect of Apple devices and M1 CPU whatsoever. I recently bought a mid tier Acer laptop and immediately took it apart (as I do with all the electronics that I buy) and the SSD can be swapped by anyone able to hold a screwdriver in matter of minutes. Hell, they even instruct you how to do it in the manual! Combine this with ridiculous price tags for increased storage with these Macbooks (500$ for 1 TB extra where I live) and I would rather have laptop with slower and more power hungry CISC CPU from Intel or AMD from some other manufacturers, because I can at least change components in these laptops when I need to.
Exactly. I am happy for Danks if he is enjoying his purchases cuz who am I to judge in the end but stating stuff like "ohhh try and see anything that compares to this laptop" when it runs greater risk of failure with no recourse is just asking for trouble if you ask me (see his experiences with the Air Pod Max where Apple products have failed him). While I am not an Apple fan and it would be easy to go "haha no gaming", I really do respect the older macbooks that can be repaired and upgraded and last for much longer thanks to Apple's streamlined OS. Taking the upgradability/reparability from the consumers does not outweigh the performance you can get out of the new fancy chip here and now. Because more than anything I feel like the Macbooks have lost more than it has gained in the long run.
Yeah, the new MacBooks are not made to sustain one's ever-changing need for technology. I have the 2021 MacBook Pro and it's impossible for me to upgrade my storage, which means that I have to resort to external SSDs and just constant data management. It's fine for now, but this is just inconvenient and not sustainable in the long run. But for Apple that inconvenience is ultimately benefitting their pockets and contributing to unnecessary electronic waste, which is why now I refuse to give them money unless I absolutely need to.
Well, yes, I agree that non-replaceable SSDs is an absolutely annoying thing, Storage is not a limiting factor (for me at least) as you can get Thunderbolt 4 external SSD enclosures these days that directly connect to the PCIe Bus akin to sticking an M.2 in a slot. Yes this does mean you have a dongle sticking out of your laptop, but generally speaking it's always good practice to keep your OS and your mission-critical data _seperated_ anyway, even in a PC. I keep all my data on NAS-Grade HDDs, and my _really_ important data that I need backups of in cloud storage, inside password-protected folders.
I needed a new laptop for my university classes, so I did the classic "find an old t430, slap some new parts in it, and run linux" strategy. I adore the thing
I’m now in the same mindset with windows 11 as you were with windows 8. It’s just multiple steps back. I was in the market for a new laptop, so I bit the bullet and get my first MacBook. I love it and macOS is now my daily driver. I just use windows to play games now.
To be honest, Windows 8 fucking sucked. No doubt about it, worst thing they ever made. But Windows 11 feels like such a breath of fresh air to me, it feels like they managed to step a bit closer to Apple with this one, I love it
hm, i have yet to have any glaring issues with windows 11. honestly i find some things to be more intuitive than windows 10. but i suppose i dont have much experience on either
1:48 adjusting volume or brightness via Touch Bar did not require 2 presses, just touch and hold the icon and then slide the finger, it works even when you are not holding the slider directly
I bought a M1 air since day one, and it’s still kicking ass never slow down on what ever I do on it, only have to run back to windows machine for gaming and some windows specific software.
Lifelong PC user here too, got the most basic M1 Air earlier this year for iOS app development purposes, and it just blew my mind. It's not perfect of course, but it makes all comparable Windows laptops look like freaking dinosaurs. I actually do have a decent HP Zbook mobile workstation, but I'd much rather use the Air when out and about, no worries about battery life, no worries about blocking air vents when using in bed... But I really should have gotten the 16GB RAM model, that's kind of the real limitations to using it as my only machine, I need to run several large apps at the same time (Android Studio, Visual Studio, Photoshop, etc) and it struggles...
I'm a PC enthusiast so I was never able to recommend anyone buy an imac or macbook cause of how overpriced they were. The M1 macbooks are legitimately good value compared to other laptops, and on launch, compared to desktops. Now us gamers can say we can beat a laptop that isn't even competing for performance that also consumes a good 80-90% less power for the same price 😎
If Apple got their head out of their ass and fully supported Vulkan through Metal, Valve could port Proton to MacOS and the M1 machines would be decent little gaming computers.
@@vanilla4064 Hello! And I agree MoltenVK helps, but it still doesn’t support the full API and my understanding is that Valve would have to create a custom version of Vulkan/MoltenVK to be able to hack together the missing components for Metal. And even if they decided to dedicated the time into the project, it would likely be endless bug fixing and challenging to maintain with changes on Apple’s end.
@@l4ndst4nder That's very true; sadly I don't think Valve will ever due to the highly probable diminishing returns on supporting mac. It's still much better than nothing though (not in regards to Proton which is amazing that they've gotten so far with it).
I always dreamed of getting a mac since we got to use them occasionally at school, and compared to my home computer it was like it was from a century in the future. Never had the money though, and as I got older I realised that they aren't really all they are cracked up to be. Recently though I have been hearing good news like this about them which is reigniting that dream. I would love to start creating something but whenever I try in windows the learning curve for the programs is just too steep and I get burnt out because it feels like an endless task for a mediocre outcome that will be an embarrassment to show anyone. From my limited experience with mac programs, it seems much more intuitive and visual instead of tiny symbols and walls of text and nonsensical errors.
As someone about to graduate high school, having Macs back in pre-3rd grade was so nice. Always seemed smooth and quality based vs the cheap feeling and sketchy HP computers. Unfortunately we only used them predominately for our tech class, and then the other schools didn’t really have them, and if they did I never had that specific teacher. We ended up getting a 13” 2013 Air, and that was ok but I didn’t really use it until about 2019, and it just felt old, dated, and not too great. I just upgraded to a 2020 13” Pro, and that thing is amazing. Not a fan of the Touch Bar, but the M1 chip in there does wonders. It’s made me want to look for a used iMac with a used Mac Pro as a home computer now, but unsure if the MacBook would be faster anyways…
@@liamsz it’s not the base. It’s the 13”, but it has the 8GB of ‘memory’ and 512GB of storage. But the iMac Pro would be a early 2010ish year (which I can obviously upgrade the internals if needed).
Well, in a way they were in the 2000s, they had the first *animated* compositor a half a decade before experimental efforts in Linux popped up and before a pre-reset prototype of DWM would function and then Compiz and Vista. And PowerPC was badass too. What ruined it was that Steve Jobs died and Tim Apple devolved into the meme version of Apple that people joked about during the golden age. Stuff like the one key macbook became an almost legit possibility, Apple remembered thin good and went head first with no sense of vision. Boneheaded things like headphone jacks being removed and i9s being poorly cooled and donglefest were thanks to Apple not having a damn clue Jobs actually wanted and just remembering he liked thin and pretty and memed it up to 11, and thus Macs became shit. Ironically a fatter MB Pro with magsafe and so on feels far more Jobsian than any touchbar butterfly pile of crap.
Agree 100%, but to be fair Apple did Intel really dirty by making those laptops extremely thin and giving no chance whatsoever for the CPU to cool down. Now, the M1 will destroy the intel chip regardless but at the very least they could've made the Intel machines run much cooler.
They were probably expecting the chips to come out in late 2018/ mid 2019, so they redesigned the MacBooks for the m1 chip, it’s obvious that those designs were made with the m1 chip in mind. But they really handicapped the intel chips though, and made some really stupid thermal decisions to probably make the chips look bad
Having now owned an M1 Pro chipped MacBook Pro, I can agree. This new M1 chip is truly insane. It's really limited to the speed of your internet if you're doing something online but even loading Photoshop on a beefy windows tower PC took an age. This thing does it in at most half the time and it's not even the fastest chip available. I'm able to do most things like writing papers, streaming music/videos, sending emails, doing research, AND running specialized homework programs while barely getting warm on the couch or my bed or wherever I have wifi access. The only other laptop I had for personal use was this ancient HP nugget with a built in dvd drive. I remember using that thing back in 2012. Obviously this smashes what that used to do (the SSD didn't want to be an SSD anymore many years ago) but the fact that it really never gets hot to the point where it could burn you is really something. They're really expensive but if you can swing the cost, it's an amazing tool to get any job you need it to. I can't recommend it enough.
