Windows doesn't have an answer - M2 MacBook Pro 14" and 16" 

touch grass

There's no point in correcting them, they don't care about doing research for Apple specs, they just go by faulty memory every time, especially Alex

And it looks amazing with that 3rd party software (vivid app I think)...

@@klatchabobby They pinned my comment so🤷

@@glocksoup555 I wish I could. Too much snow covering up everything where I am in Canada right now :(

This mistake was infuriating to watch.

​@@andrewcooksey9390 "AN OPERATING SYSTEM DOESNT EVEN HAVE AN ANSWER FOR A HARDWARE PRODUCT"

You would think Apple would put a 4K camera for what you pay this garbage. Somethings really infuriate me about Apple products. And other times I wonder why can't other OEMs spend a bit more money to get their own products on par.

@@TedTabaka Try to fit a 4K sensor in there lmao

@@TedTabaka The XPS 15 and the HP Dragonfly in this video are both more expensive than the Macbook though and neither give you a 4K webcam. As far as I know, no one really gives you a webcam above 1080p. The Dragonfly gives you a 1440p, but very few laptops have high resolution.

Same feeling , I have an i5 13600k with ddr5 and recently bought macbook pro m2 2023 14". This machine is a beast for a laptop . Build times are even close to i513600k ! For example i5 13600k would complete a build in 20 seconds while the macbook pro in 27 seconds,its amazing!

Yeah well, it works for you, the other 99.999999999999% of the people doesn't have "workloads" and don't need a totally useless OS

@@rafars2246 you're right mate, content creation is a real dying industry. Not many people really need the processing power to handle photo and video needs 🤷‍♂️

@@Flamamacue Processing power is always good to have regardless, but mac os is mostly useless, simply for the lack of support, lack of programs, lack of customers. I couldn't even watch a freaking movie the way I want to in mac os. Can't even be used properly on a tv or monitor that is not apple. That's how useless it is. It is a joke when people try to justify mac os based on Final Cut Pro or whatever else who 10 of a million people use...

@@rafars2246 my guy maybe you haven't actually tried to use it in a while? I've always hated how locked down Apple is, but I can use all the same programs & accessories I use on my windows machine with no issue.

Then don’t put the notch 👍🏼

@@Jst4vdeos yes, but they probably had their sights so set on having FaceID that when they had to ditch it they couldn’t revise the design of the computer in time for production. This is still the same chassis as the M1 Pro / Max models so they probably ordered several hundred thousand (or more) and are going through stock.

I agree, Touch ID is perfectly fine, but Face ID would be much better. I also agree that if Face ID simply couldn’t’ t work because of depth issues then they should’ve just made the screen a little bit thicker. Regardless, if they couldn’t include Face ID for whatever reason it is simply indefensible to still include a massive and useless notch.

@@Jst4vdeosthen don’t buy the laptop 👍. Nobody cares except you apparently

Is that really an excuse though? What’s the reasoning behind not just adding the few millimeters needed to the display for housing the FaceID sensors?

came to say this too; the only change is the image signal processing unit, which makes the M2 machines provide a 'cleaner' image through the webcam. 16:28

Neither is it shit-tier ALEX

I tend to agree. My MBA is my travel computer. It's light, battery last forever and can do almost everything I want to do. But, it is lacking when it comes to AAA games. You can play some stuff that's fun from Apple's Arcade, but it's not quite the same. However, when I'm traveling gaming is not my number 1 priority, even when vacationing.

I agree but the external display support is trash. My G27Q looks blurrier on MB than on a PC. Also, the muscle memory is real, and I still use a Windows PC for gaming.

@@Gubers people who don't want to own a macbook are those who generally hate apple, including me. it doesn't matter if the product is good when the entire laptop gets trashed just because the ssd got any voltage higher than 12 volts. and you cant even replace the damn ssd. i don't want to hate on anyone who enjoys using a macbook, but i just don't see them as a viable option if you can't repair the laptop yourself.

I have M1 MBA. Its the best laptop i have ever had and best value around, atm. And i have been solely a Windows user for 30 years. If you dont wanna play games and dont wanna spend a fortune, get an M1 Macbook Air. Amazing machine.

Gaming is why i still i use PC as my daily driver but if apple takes that seriously i would switch to macbooks.

Yeah, got a chuckle out of that.

My company got me an M2 24gb ram MacBook Air for Fullstack development and it really does suit all of my needs. This notebook is just amazing and I would definitely buy one for personal use if I needed it

Your statement was a better review then this video.. I think my issue is the "use case" I do not do music, video, and I do linux and VM's and some coding and when moving important files across terrabytes of folders, accidently dropping one (I am a huge fan of the old right and left click buttons and sometimes would work remote in my car during a emergency say at a hospital parking lot,,, remoted into a corp vpn, doing emergency work to keep a system up... but the use cases for macs never seem serious to me? I to own a few,,,macbooks, I loathe them but keep them in case I need to do data recovery from a mac or test mac components,,, the trackpad which some say is qreat,,, I do not find accurate enough, I have in the past tried to build a multi boot all in one machine to carry, to help me work on macs, pc's, and different generations thereof,, (hackintosh laptop, or mac running windows) and done both... but the best form for me,,, was a dell precision I modded with 12tb of HDD and a tb of ssd,,, with 32 gig ram,,, big ultra heavy portable workstation,,, could slide huge images on it, and toy with them entire computer drives to VM server images,,, battery life? maybe 1 hour 45 mins (in car I own inverters, and plug in) thanks though your use case makes broader sense to me...

@@jstavene Use a modern mac. Use two fingers for right click. The entire software engineering industry has adopted macs (most software conventions are filled with mac users). battery life is amazing. APFS for big files is unparalleled for speed, compared to window's aging NTFS Use a NAS for big files, no real reason to be carrying 12tb worth of images at all times. 2tb is plenty for many many images.

@@htko89 your wrong, why buy something that I can not expand? then need to use 2 fingers when 1 will work? and no software engineers I know ,,not 1 use macs (what software ,,most from games to business use windows, ) (maybe music or video,,,and even that has been changing with linux gaining and more people like tearing open the machine and hot rodding them? and battery, if your a power user and using battery,, your not a power user... and serious compiling,,,or data parsing you plug in... only some douche thinks to do anything serious on battery is a thing.. maybe tech support I did on battery in a pinch but just no.. and already I do have have nas but for transport, you do not carry a 2u 19 inch rack or 4u rack unit with... (we are talking serious work?) sorry macboy,,, use it if it works for you but nope I will go bigger, better (I like being able to swap in multiple drives, and do godlike things... macs are neutered and pathetic, just not built to be modified... last time I tried to mod a mac, ssd's, faster ram, that was all that could be done!!! and the bugger started getting warm!! 2-4k in junk,,, I can afford a "modern mac" but they lack so much... multiple ssd's, even support for old hdd's, heck swapable cards for multiple things like wifi or cell connection, some businesses require smartcard authentication,,, what mac and a dongle? piss on macs,,, these are not business usable for me or most I know. (I was a big fan of thinkpads, panasonic toughbooks, and Dell Precision Series, Dell 7330's were good,,, HP ProBooks, but mac,,, anyone who used any or some of these ,,,,is not likely using a mac (you might have "tried" or "used" 1,, and had bad experience,,, but if you had to keep these going, mod them, upgrade and update them, and had to depend on a machine for the entire payroll of your colleagues or tax W2's or the company invenotory system or a huge quickbooks system, or heck even a bio timecard clock interface testing... or Welding Robots control interface or Offline programming,,, for Robots, IGM, to Motoman ,,these are all windows, industrial heck some run (IGM) on windows embedded.. neah macs not business grade for most busiensses...

@@jstavene you use two fingers for right click already on a mouse

They have even mentioned that option in the dedicated Windows Modern Standby video.

@@XeZrunneryeah it’s odd that they didn’t mention the fix in this.

I have also noticed this problem with wake for network access off, if I leave certain applications running before closing the laptop. I looked at activity monitor and VS Code was the culprit.

@@XeZrunner Which is odd because I can't imagine Alex wasn't involved in that video given how much he's been (rightfully) complaining about it.

@@StudioGallifrey yes, that’s probably the cause. Apps not respecting the battery setting. OS should just block network access for everything.

It’s kinda funny that they even made this mistake

@@vincenthoang6289 That's the idea for this channel, first look and unboxing without deep research beforehand, just the spec provided by the manufacturer, might want to watch to another channel if you want thorough exploration of the device

Shame guy wasn't half bad on camera but 720/1080 mistake sounds like amateur hour. not gonna sub if they cant even take 2 mins to read the box before making a video

That’s why you MUST let the Mac Address host, Jonathan Horst, do ALL the unboxings and reviews of Apple products and services.  Linus Media Group, please! Get your act together. 😤

this guy clearly not sharpest tool in the drawer

The 16” is even better

Gotta respect you for being consistent at least

Grow up

Agreed, there's literally no use case for touchscreens for my day to day workflow. Window management and everything else can be done more efficiently with keyboard shortcuts. Outside of drawing/signature applications, what else do you do with a touchscreen? And both of those, users will typically use a Wacom or just a dedicated tablet.

Great question. I never used a touch screen laptop but I probably wouldn’t use touch as I don’t like fingerprints/smudges on the screen. Also, I know that a fingerprint in the webcam sucks but why bother with it and reeeeally want touch screen? You would have hundreds of fingerprints and smudges all over the screen instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve seen people use it for CAD and 3D modeling stuff before but I can’t imagine why it would warrant a touchscreen MacBook given how powerful iPads are getting

There's my answer that I was looking for last few months and wasn't sure or I should invest more for touchscreen laptop....how come I never thought of it, that with touch there will be fingeprints all over the screen 🙃and I really don't like spots or smudges, they distract the work. Now there's just one dilemma left, 14 or 16 inch laptop :)

Yes, and in addition, Apple wants to keep the ppi the same (about 240) on both display sizes

Also Apple generally focuses on PPI rather than industry standard resolutions, especially for their screens. Both the 14 & 16" Macbook Pros' pixel densities are 254ppi.

it's more about keeping the ppi consistent on the models and having a perfect 200% scale.

@@giornikitop5373 yes thats also why ipads arent scaleable like android OS is for resolutions has to be a fixed set

Yes. But you can't legally buy a license for the ARM version of Windows to use in a VM due to Microsoft's exclusivity deal with Qualcomm. So while that might work personally, it's a no-go in a business environment.

@@gRocketOne correct, I’m just speaking from personal experience from a personal laptop. We just have to hope that deal with Qualcomm will end eventually if someone else decides to step into the windows on ARM race. Frankly I think it’s kinda lame there’s exclusivity. “PCs” used to be about running what you brought so what makes this different?

I have an M1 Max. I haven't tried Solidworks, but Parallels -> Windows ARM -> WoW64 actually gets better frame rates than Boot Camp on my final-generation 16" Intel mac laptop. These chips are ludicrously powerful.

Yeah, he got that wrong. I've used it myself on M1 MBA, and it works really well. Rossetta does a really great job.

@@batmanonabike3119 Rosetta2 does do a really great job, but interestingly Rosetta2 is *not* what you're seeing in Windows for ARM; it's WoW64 ("Windows on Windows", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64), the Intel emulator that Microsoft developed and uses on their own ARM PCs (and also the same subsystem that lets you run 32-bit Intel programs on 64-bit Intel architectures, although obviously it's different code), which is actually a *worse* emulator. In Ventura, Apple added the ability to run Rosetta2 in Linux VMs and it is definitely much faster than WoW64, but you can't use it in Windows to *directly* compare.

More realistic scenario it's you who is loaded with static when you touch your MacBook. It's winter after all: dry weather, sweaters, etc. Either that or your MB could be defective.

@@Glotttis nope, he is right. You feel a weird cribbling/vibration when you run a finger over the palmrest next to the touchpad when the MacBook is plugged in with a 2 prong adapter. I honestly thought at first that it was some haptic feedback shenanigans because it is right next to the touchpad, but you can feel it at the bezel above the keyboard as well. I think some non-MacBook unibody notebooks have this as well.

@@sakatan1985 i only experienced it when using my iPad Pro 12.9 M1. My M1 Pro 14’ does not have this issue.

most ppl aren't even using the charge brick at all

@@JohnSmith-pn2vl true, i used it once. I only charge it with a thunderbolt dock i stole, i mean lent from work

And if they did, they would cannibalize their iPad sales, as everyone will just by a MacBook instead of a ridiculously overpriced and oversized iPhone that they can't even fit into their pockets.

Yeah, they got the storage up but at cost of changing the NAND from 128GB to 256GB. So less chips for more storage, but less parallelism.

Yeah the M2 non-Pro/Max Macs have 1 256GB NAND module for the 256GB configurations with r/w speeds of around ~1500MB/s. Since the high-end MBPs don't have a 256GB config they ship 2 256GB NAND modules for the entry level config with ~3000MB/s r/w speeds. The higher storage config MBPs are even faster, however, with 4 to 8 NAND modules and up to 7400MB/s of read speeds.

@@utubekullanicisi Wow, that's.... shameful. It's almost like they shouldn't even bother to put faster wifi on it because the drive won't be able to handle the download speeds either way.

@@pirojfmifhghek566 It's not shameful. Anyone buying 512gb of storage is most likely not doing any IO sensitive tasks. Not only that, 128gb nand modules are slowly becoming more difficult to get. 14" now has minimum 512gb, while 13" has 256gb.

@@pirojfmifhghek566 we have a chip shortage, the speed difference is not noticeable at all, and only on the base model. people who need more speed never go with the base storage. i find the solved it very well, better than soldout all the time

how much is the subscription?

Irrelevant

@@Techno4more I wouldn't say so. My MacBook gives me electroshocks while charging without being grounded.

@@Psychx_ then there is something wrong with your MacBook lol

thanks for the info. i did not know this before

@@Psychx_ I live on a ship which by its nature cannot be grounded and I never had any PC or laptop do that. There is definitely something wrong with your MacBook, charger or wall socket.

WTF are you talking about? To get the UI to scale, you simply need to increase the size of the text and the size of the UI elements (button decorations, window borders, margins etc). It has absolutely nothing to do with screen resolution. You can scale on your grandma's 60s TV just as well as you can scale on a modern 4k screen. My guess is that they were aiming at getting a 16:10 ratio, but they increased the vertical space by a few pixels accommodate the menu bar and notch. As to why they didn't go to 4k... maybe it was cheaper to have a slightly lower pixel density (which is still above 1440p).

Might be a warm take but I wish they wouldn't do that weird resolution thing, MacOS keeps wanting to run my 5120x1440 monitor at half resolution to make it crisper, when I really only want more screen real estate. Same on the laptop, I get some people don't want tiny text but I can't stand halving the screen space to make icons sharper

@@chibicitiberiu 1. Fractional scaling in macOS is appalling. That's why you want it to scale 1x or 2x perfectly. macOS is desinged to run perfectly at a very specific PPI. 2. Custom screen resolution is much more expensive because of the economy of scale.

@@chibicitiberiu macOS is weird when it comes to HiDPI scaling. It can go either 100% or 200% DPI. You can choose a setting that's about 150% or something, but that will actually render the screen at a higher-than-native resolution with 200% DPI and then downscale to fit the screen. It doesn't mean much for the weird resolutions though. Apple Silicon MBPs have 254ppi screens while all other Retina MacBooks are around ~225ppi. So they changed the previously standard-ish PPI but didn't fit to any standard-ish resolution, which is weird.

@@chibicitiberiu No he's right, macOS is set up for 2x scaling. The weird resolutions come from Apple wanting to keep their target of roughly 218ppi so UI elements are the same physical size no matter what Mac or Apple display you're using.

@@breaddough-vk8gf you can dual boot the beta

Well yess... sort of, except that would also only allow you to run the arm compiled programs, and all the ENG stuff that he can't get on mac he also can't get on windows arm. so yes he could do parallels, but he would be stuck in the same place just with a different operating system, but still the same problems. would be an interesting video anyway.

just read some of the other comments, apparently this is possible now, neat I learned something new then :)

This. I got a new charger for my previous MacBook Pro (2012, still a really awesome machine btw) which came with the extension. Now I can just use the extension that came with that adapter. PS: While I got mine second hand, it's quite interesting Apple still sells MagSafe 1 adapters to date

Yeah same, bought one for my 2016 MBP when it didn't come with one in the box, was going to sell it when I sold the 2016 MBP a few months ago but thank fuck I didn't. Came in handy when I got my new 14" M1 Pro MBP.

I have three of them, got them from an internship. They didn't need them anymore so I just asked. Have been using them for the last 7 years, to the point where I don't use the original adapter anymore at all.

Still using mine from my 2008 Macbook unibody.

@@haphazard1342 haha yep I think I still one from my 2006 Power Book. I probably have 5 by now since I'm on my 6th Apple laptop.

Question: do you Parallels-users use a 14-inch or 16-inch for Parallels and why ? I am still doubting about size…

@@donald868014 inch all the way. The screen is big enough for me, it is cheaper and considerably lighter

VMware Fusion does too.

there are many alternatives like utm

Well, If you work in "a lot of apps that do not work on Mac" , up to the point that you are going to pay a lot for a Mac plus a Windows emulator that doesn't even perform anywhere close to a cheap Windows laptop with a modest Nvidia chip... then you don't buy a Mac. You buy a Windows laptop.

@@javiej actually windows on parallels works very well, especially with the pro version. I did not try solid works but for gaming, i got constant 60 fps on high settings on multiple games including triple A titles

@@hamzaahmad3504 it's not even close to a replacement for boot camp although apparently thats more of microsoft's fault

Along with Wifi 6E. I can’t think of a reason other than the fact that they wanted to sprinkle a couple more changes than just the SOC, so they held out for the M1

because the majority of people using Macbooks don't need it, and would therefore be unnecessary.

Yeah and it was only 4 years late

Not really needed. M1 development cycle was likely a lot longer given it was gen 1.

gotta leave something to upgrade

Yep! The improved image quality of the M2 Pro/Max gen's FaceTime camera comes from the new ISP of the new chips.

Click the green traffic light button on the top left of most windows to run full screen at the standard resolution. ie: no visible notch or menu bar, except by mousing over it.

he said the webcam was 1080

@@guybrush3000 No he doesn't. The M1 Pro also have 1080p.

@@marcel151 oh u didnt say m1

​@@guybrush3000 The M1 Macs (Air, 13" Pro) don't have 1080p webcams. You get 1080p starting from the M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pros (14", 16").

@@marcel151 ok… u didn’t say u were referring to m1 pro then. jeeze. u got some kinda issue?

Yeah I wish they had been more clear about that. Kind of disingenuous. He did say it's not a really fair comparison, but then still shat all over apple over a bad comparison?

@@stevenwebbmusic They mentioned the chip layout later but should have been in the ssd test.

that's probably the one most people will buy, and it's just not acceptable for a device this expensive

@@Xello99 Its never a good idea to buy a base model of anything, also 512gb is hardly big enough for a smartphone let alone a computer. The price isnt really that high imo especially compared to other tech like phones being 1500 or a watch being up to 800.

did anyone find out why they did this? It is scummy I agree but I don't understand why it happened randomly like that

Yes, and the 16” is even better

Professional users would be able to tell, but they almost certainly not buying any config with less than 1TB, which are the models that have that "issue" anyways.

@@dangelo2728 professional user here. My personal MBP has 512GB of storage 😂❤ Though I still might agree with ya lol honestly most people I know don’t tend to grab things with less than 1TB

that was really shitty thing for apple to do, to be fair.

@@pareshpadhi2454 I agree that it sucks, but given that they used to advertise read/write speeds of the SSDs on M1 Macs across the board, and don’t do the same with the M2, I suspect it is mostly to do with supply chain constraints above all else. They either can’t get enough 128gb or 256gb modules for the base models to have speedy 256 like before or 512gb SSDs like what is possible. The fact they they used to brag about it before and can’t now leads me to believe this is the most likely scenario.

A dual module configuration would still be better for IOPS than the chosen configuration even if it's "good enough" - "good enough" shouldn't be the standard for an ultra premium priced device like this.

Weird like magnetized? You can reproduce this by putting the charger in a regular extender with multiple sockets (but it has to be turned off I believe)

@@AzVfL it felt as if finger was skipping across the surface instead of sliding over it, for some reason, and its super hard to describe lol

Yes! I have this too on my mid 2012 MBP hahaha it's a crazy feeling, I feel it's just current going through which could be a health issue tbh 😅 because the aluminum was like "corroding" where my palm would rest, I feel it has to do with that

@@AzVfL It's aluminium, so no magnetism. Also this is a result of the crazily crap North American Type A plugs.

Not defending this bad behavior from Apple; however if you're interested, you can still the ground 3 prong cable . . . *cough* *cough* for $20😓

Question: do you Parallels-users use 14-inch or 16-inch for Parallels and why ? I am still doubting about size…

@@donald8680 I still have M1 13" and it works fine.

Agreed, these kinds of errors hurt the channels credibility

This is why they started Mac Address, but the content there seems to have dried up somewhat and Johnathon also looks to have had all the negative energy from the rest of the team rub off on him the more videos he does.

This and also the fact that they always seem to manage to whine about the lack of gaming prospects and then (in this case) ignore the two games that do work well on these machines.

alex is wrong fairly often for windows laptops too. the channel needs more robust fact checking in general.

like saying the oled display on the xps has better black levels in a brightly lit room with completely different picture and no mention of calibration whatsoever is just wrong. the mini leds actually turn off for true black on the macbook...if he showed a starfield test pattern or something he would be more believable, but even then that's contrast ratio/dimming capability, not black level. not to mention him being complely wrong about the brightness, it's like he didn't even read the tech specs for 20 seconds before shooting the video.

Yeah, using a touch screen on a laptop is actually annoying. Your screen gets smudgy.

yeah i don't get this at all, i don't want smudgey fingerprints all over my laptop screen when i have a trackpad to click with

He had to hold the lid with this left hand to press the screen with his right while the computer bounced around a bit. Not great ergonomics IMO. Also, where else would he put the camera? Does he want to open the lid with two hands, one on either side of the camera?

just use dongles, this was never an issue

@@JohnSmith-pn2vl false. Even using a TB to HDMI adapter the previous models were always limited to HDMI 2.0 speeds/capabilities. This is the first time this has been possible, and the first time every it has been possible to hook up an 8K display to a Mac

If 8k-60 or 4k-240 needed, there’re Type-C to HMDI 2.1 cables from various manufacturers. If a bit slower flavor of 2.1 is acceptable, you can trade speed for ports and PD: Ugreen Type-C USB 3.0 HDMI 2.1 8k-30hz 4k-120hz

USB accessories have a long history of messing with the ability of computers to stay asleep. You can use powercfg to hunt them down on Windows. There must be a mac equivalent.

The other thing I’ve noticed is it has the same issue as with windows…. You need to unplug the power brick before closing the lid because if you do it afterwards it thinks it’s still plugged in so it doesn’t fully sleep

I actually made that change from 2012 MB pro to M1 Pro and do use SolidWorks on Parallels and no issues so far

@@davax188 thanks for your reply. have you tried any big assembly so far? how about other software like ansys,catia etc?

@@garmice from experience Catia V5 R19 runs just fine with Parallels

@sahmir Lareum thanks for the reply but parallels with arm on M1 and M2 or with old intel versions?

@@garmice Yeah, no problems so far except with the solidworks online tool (which I think is an issue with my SW version) as per catia, a colleague of mine does use it on a M2 air, no problems so far. Ansys yet we haven't tried it

Even then it isn't windows quality per dollar

@@martinseal1987 Depends on your definition of quality I guess. Macs are never going to be a good deal, but if you try to buy a Windows laptop with the same build, screen and speaker quality, you are going to be saving that much money. I have a good Windows laptop and a 14" Macbook. If its something I can't run on the Mac, I use my Windows one. But if I could only afford one, I would chose the Mac for all its other benefits and its nice that if a game is optimized for them, it can be a good experience.

@@justinpritchard2633 yh I have both, my M1 is my work laptop and I swear by it, battery life, performance speaker screen etc and people could say the M1 isn't made for this task but it's disappointing that it can't handle a light amount of gaming

The app ecosystem around the new Mac OS is always going to be anemic. There's not much motivation for developers to port apps over to it if the app store takes such an absurd commission. That means fewer third party solutions and workarounds to esoteric problems. The industry ends up with fewer people well-versed in porting apps over. There are a ton of roadblocks and the incentives just aren't there, and it's mostly due to the greed of apple execs. They could rectify this situation and ease the transition better if they gave a damn.

@@pirojfmifhghek566 I don't know that I agree the issue is the App Store commission. I can't speak for most Mac users, but I very rarely ever buy anything through the App Store. Normally I will buy directly from a developers website, like with the Affinity suite, just like I would when buying software for Windows. The only reason I bought RE: Village on the App Store was because it was the only place it was available and that because Apple helped fund development. Not sure what the rates are between the App Store and Steam, but all distribution platforms take a cut, so I try to avoid them when possible. For games specifically, I would say the bigger hurdles are a smaller user base and that historically Apple products have used underpowered graphics hardware. I think the M series chips are changing the hardware limitations, only time will tell if it can grow a large enough user base to catch the eye of more game developers.

What specs did you go for and what type of work and workload do you use it for?

There’s absolutely no problem with carrying the 16”, it is not heavy at all.

Clearly. Not only did someone write it, they also recorded someone saying it, then did a graphic confirming it. That's all three stages of production that nobody corrected it during

I also like how he’s like, “they clearly look different”…. Um they look the same because they are 😂

Yeah, and they still look good. I don't know what he's talking about. My webcam looks alot better in zoom calls compared to alot of other people in the meetings.

This isn't the first time LTT has errors with actual specs and product info. Idk why this is still a thing when they keep claiming that they have gone through checks before uploading them

They should make a spray so we can keep it smelling like that all the time

More R&D has gone into the unboxing experience than actually giving users more storage. Granted I personally won’t need that much storage because I don’t game on one or do any video production things, but still at their price points I feel like I should have more storage.

@@MrDMIDOV I mean mac books aren’t really meant for use cases which require a ton of storage(not a defense of Apple, but it is true). Most mac book users are college kids using it to take notes, study, do online classes, and consume content. None of which requires much storage. Maybe there’s some use cases I’m not aware of, but I can’t think of anything where I would want/need a mac book, but also want/need a lot of storage.

@@charlesbrown4483 see where you lost me there is "most macbook users are college kids". 100% wrong there.

@@naveedmoein8054 No, actually not wrong.

yeah, it was 1080p

Nobody in the high end companies runs that software on roseta or parallels? Siemens autodesk dassault are not dorks to deploy for mac users when any decent engineer use linux or windows.

They've been producing them since the PowerBook G3 in 2001 and included with many many laptops since then. Just spend $5 on eBay or pick one up from a local secondhand electronics shop.

Through parallels?

I would not run any simulation or cad software through translation at all. But yes it runs okay via parallel. Still prefer x86_64 based machine over arm64 for any real work. No one in our race team is running to switch over to arm macs 🤣🤣

Question: do you Parallels-users use a 14-inch or 16-inch for Parallels and why ? I am still doubting about size…

@@donald8680 It makes absolutely no difference at all. Parallels is VM software to run Windows or Linux on a Mac. Pick your screen size based on what you're going to run inside Parallels.

Just get apple care and trade it in for a new one every three years

@@koalaunknown That "trade it in" philosophy won't work. My M1 Max? Trades in for literally $710 CAD is all they'll give for it. I paid $4,500

It's part of the issue, they created a problem and a convenient Apple only fix for an extra fee. even if I can fix a mac on my own and get around everything that annoys me, I'm not willing to pay for products that in the end I don't really own or that in a few years I'll have to throw out because they're considered old. I like upgrading and customizing my old stuff to fit my needs, I'm still using an old ThinkPad T420, if the display and battery life wasn't bad, I wouldn't be complaining even. I understand that my use case might be different than the average user.

@@__idan__ Exactly, the strength of a PC is to choose exactly what YOU want. That starts with the dozens of new models you can choose from, but it includes upgrading or repairing old machines. Apple can never match that.

Apple laptops have always been difficult to repair and modify. Now they are nearly impossible, but the CPU package integration provides unbeatable efficiency and low-energy performance. They really are very fast all-day machines. So now they have a possibly legitimate excuse!

I also noticed this. The microphone on the MacBook sounded so much more natural.

Question: do you Parallels-users use a 14-inch or 16-inch for Parallels and why ? I am still doubting about size…

@@donald8680 im using 14" although ive seen 16" working as well. personally i like a smaller laptop though.

Same here. You can run Windows 11 ARM64 inside VMWare just fine and IIRC this is actually the fastest way to run Windows 11 ARM64 (faster than any existing hardware). I don't know about graphics performance, it's probably not great but the CPU is so fast that CPU rendering is probably just fine for apps that don't need to do 3D rendering. Oh, and IIRC this is all free.