00:00I'm going to say something controversial
00:02it shouldn't be controversial but a
00:03bunch of you in the comments are
00:04probably going to say it is but if
00:06you're in the market for a Macbook this
00:08is probably the one you should buy this
00:10is the new Macbook Air with fancy topof
00:14thee line M3 processor and realistically
00:18for most people this is more than you
00:21need as with most Apple packaging simple
00:24and sweet oh hey it's not plastic
00:26anymore we've got typical propaganda
00:30also still with the spacer though like
00:32what is this look look at how much empty
00:34space there is in there we've got wait
00:37wo whoo wo there we go stickers thank
00:39you I was worried for a second the day
00:41that Apple stops including Apple
00:43stickers in their packaging is the day
00:44that um we know we have failed as a
00:47society we've got charger brick also in
00:50a glassing bag what is this this is a 30
00:52W USBC power adapter and then the cute
00:55little sleeved mag safe cable type c on
00:57one end mag safe on the other I did get
01:00confirmation for 20 bucks us you can
01:01upgrade to a 70 W single port charger uh
01:04or a dual Port 35 watt charger depending
01:07on what you prefer I would go with the
01:0970 wat because faster
01:12charging on this side we've got the mag
01:14safe charging port for the cable I
01:15showed you earlier along with two USBC
01:18ports these run at Thunderbolt 3 or USB
01:204 so 40 gig on those there is no
01:23additional USBC ports on the other side
01:26uh like some MacBook Pros uh and it is
01:29going to be the same same configuration
01:31if you have the 13 or 15in air we've got
01:33a headphone jack here which I like to
01:35see on the bottom feet for those that
01:38are interested free of charge ooh I
01:40forgot the M2 air was with the sexy
01:44colors look at that same
01:46iio that hey look same iio damn this is
01:51some this is the same laptop but faster
01:54I guess let me Crack him open hey look
01:58laptop I can tell you already the moral
02:01of this story is going to be to buy a
02:02used M2 MacBook or a Reverb maybe or
02:06apparently Walmart has M1 MacBook airs
02:08for like 700 bucks as for on paper
02:11they're not obviously the same laptop
02:14the big thing you're getting here is the
02:16new M3 chip now we've gone into the
02:18details far more extensively in the
02:20MacBook Pro M3 video but the main
02:22differences are little bit better
02:24efficiency really good performance as
02:26before but even a little bit more better
02:28we've got av1 d coding but not end
02:30coding and uh right Hardware Ray tracing
02:34if you game on your MacBook a or maybe
02:37in in blender I don't know if it
02:39supports it yet but that that could be a
02:41use case and then other than that specs
02:43wise you're looking at pretty much the
02:45same laptop aside from the Wi-Fi 6E
02:48support that they added as well so it'll
02:49be fast on Wi-Fi if you also happen to
02:52have a Wi-Fi 6E router and fast internet
02:54that can take advantage of it oh I
02:56almost forgot there is one more
02:57important Hardware thing on the m2a air
03:00you could have an external display but
03:02only one on the M3 you can now have two
03:05external displays but there isn't really
03:07any hardware Improvement it's still a
03:09single display controller so when you're
03:11using two external displays you can't
03:14use the laptop display that's because
03:16they're mxing the normal laptop display
03:19out through a display output and not
03:21actually giving you an additional
03:22display controller um it is technically
03:26better than the M1 air in terms of
03:28flexibility but not better in in terms
03:30of supporting more displays it's the
03:32same amount they're just giving you the
03:33ability to use the laptop display output
03:36on a separate monitor so it sucks it's
03:40still technically like better than they
03:42had before but but come on on a Windows
03:44laptop you can have like four display
03:46outputs if you want what you can't get
03:48on a Windows laptop is this much
03:49horsepower without the noise at least
03:52that's what I'm expecting unlike you who
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04:33theory the keyboard and trackpad should
04:34be the same but let's uh try them out
04:37where is like a notepad app in here
04:39notes my name is Jake and I think this
04:43keyboard is pretty solid it feels really
04:47similar but almost like maybe it's just
04:50because this one is new like this
04:53feels clicker this feels like a just
04:56slightest bit mushier I don't know I
04:59think it's just because it's used and
05:01one is not hard to say trackpad feels
05:04the same it's a nice big size for the
05:06class of laptop everything there looks
05:09the same and is still good we've got the
05:12same display with the notch thought we
05:14were past this thing Apple but all right
05:17why not a dynamic Island H H it's the
05:20same 13.6 in IPS display 2560 X 1664 500
05:26nits brightness not high refresh rate
05:28but a wide P3 color gam it let me do
05:40speaker they sound a little different am
05:43I crazy come here Belle it's okay like
05:46don't get me wrong it is very similar
05:49but like ever so slightly just the
05:51tiniest bit different and it almost just
05:54sounds more distorted on the
06:02yeah actually it is I did notice on the
06:05specs page on the M2 they listed Wide
06:08Stereo Sound and said the M2 sounds
06:10better and they don't list it on this
06:12one I don't know that it's better it
06:14it's it's like so close that you're not
06:18really going to be able to tell the
06:20difference aside from if you were doing
06:21this the one thing I will say you are
06:23losing out compared to a MacBook Pro is
06:26MacBook Pro speakers are obviously a
06:28little bit better the these are still
06:30solid for I mean where even where did
06:32the speakers come from they fire the
06:34speaker out of like here so it it like
06:37bounces at you it's a good design it
06:40works I mean it sounds pretty solid like
06:42and it has sounded pretty solid on this
06:44one too as usual the display is pretty
06:46close to as they specify it seems like
06:48it's a tiny bit brighter uh color
06:50tracking is very accurate that being
06:52said Apple's not really in the position
06:55they once were where they just led the
06:58class Windows laptops are starting to
07:00catch up and in some cases even surpass
07:02Apple but you do at least know that
07:05you're going to get a fairly color
07:06accurate display buying an Apple laptop
07:08not to mention that Mac OS does a really
07:11good job of color management it doesn't
07:13have HDR like the MacBook Pros because
07:15there's no local dimming uh and it's
07:17only 60 HZ which probably doesn't matter
07:20to you realistically it does look nice
07:23on the eyes though well let's talk
07:25performance then what do we got here in
07:27games it is a bit faster you can and
07:30will get slightly more frames than your
07:32friend with a MacBook Air M2 you won't
07:34get more frames than your friend with a
07:35MacBook Pro M3 that's for sure but it
07:38also has two extra GPU cores on that M3
07:40chip and a cooling fan which is going to
07:42make a big difference if you plan on
07:43gaming for more than 45 seconds you are
07:46going to run into a situation where you
07:47will thermal throttle similar to all the
07:49previous mbased MacBook airs if you
07:51think about it in your day-to-day your
07:53web browsing you're never going to
07:54notice that however gaming extended
07:57workloads it does make a difference
07:59there are ways to get around it you know
08:01you could get a a laptop cooling pad or
08:03when you're editing in Premiere and
08:04close the lid and have your two monitors
08:06now haha screw you MacBook Air M2 dude
08:09but it is still worth mentioning that
08:11being said it does also mean that this
08:14machine is silent now don't get me wrong
08:16I would probably use a Windows laptop if
08:18the battery life didn't suck and you
08:21know a couple other things but God damn
08:24Apple really has the leg up when it
08:25comes to that here let's look at the
08:27battery life the efficiency is better so
08:30you are getting even better battery life
08:32in a stress test interestingly the
08:35MacBook Air M3 actually scored better in
08:38the stress test and that's probably
08:40because it's thermal throttling so it's
08:42drawing less power it's not a huge
08:45difference but I guess if you consider
08:47the larger battery it's pretty
08:48noticeable when you're in 12 hours 12
08:51and 1/2 hours in an endurance test
08:53you're already into a situation where
08:55you can't even really complain about it
08:57like like let's be real here that's more
09:00than one and a half work days of
09:02consistently watching YouTube videos now
09:05let's talk productivity in blender uh we
09:07actually couldn't run our typical
09:09blender Barbershop test because it runs
09:12out of memory on these 8 gig models you
09:14actually just can't render that complex
09:16of a scene anymore so if you're planning
09:18on doing anything a little more serious
09:20like video editing regularly let's say
09:22or blender rendering or or whatever you
09:26might want to look at getting more RAM
09:29although the M3 chip does have a
09:31substantial leg up in blender uh they
09:34implemented that months ago already and
09:36so it's widely supported and we can see
09:38it in the numbers the M3 laptops
09:41absolutely Stomp the M2 air and
09:44presumably the pro although we didn't
09:46test that here uh in cine bench little
09:48bit of a performance Improvement kind of
09:51expected to see that in nukex which is a
09:53nearly hourong test depending on what
09:55laptop you have again the fan makes a
09:58huge difference not thermal throttling
10:00makes a huge difference in pett bench
10:02which is a lot shorter of a test sort of
10:06in Photoshop you can see you're getting
10:08pretty much the same performance and
10:10that's because any sort of high load is
10:12typically going to be for short bursts
10:14which the kind of thermal mass of the
10:17chassis of this laptop can absorb when
10:20you go into Premiere which is video
10:21editing where you're going to have a
10:22sustained load well now there's a big
10:25difference especially if you go to
10:26render like a 30 minute long video it'll
10:29go pretty fast and then it'll slow down
10:31and it's also somewhere where having
10:33extra Ram will definitely help you um it
10:36is still faster than the air M2 sure
10:38don't get me wrong but an M3 Pro it's a
10:44faster but overall I mean this is It's a
10:47fast laptop let let me do a Wi-Fi speed
10:49test hey look at this all right open
10:51Speed Test all right 500 500 that's not
10:53bad let me try speed test speed test and
10:55see if it's any different oh look at
10:57that upload speed let's go it faster
10:59than open Speed Test that's weird all
11:01right seems like we're getting around
11:03500 down 500 to 700 up depending on
11:06which service I use for whatever reason
11:09and then let's try WiFi
11:15500 600 it's not really looking that
11:18much better I'm going to be honest with
11:19you I mean 600 600 it is faster than the
11:225 gig Wi-Fi try the local open Speed
11:25Test see how that goes still about the
11:26same 600 down a little bit faster look
11:29the Wi-Fi on the laptop it's just it's
11:31pretty fast it's not the fastest I've
11:33ever seen but also I tried it on my
11:35phone and it wasn't faster so maybe the
11:38AP is just um I don't know having a day
11:41let's be honest this is a pretty
11:43iterative update do I like it yes it's
11:45still faster if you do blender yeah
11:47probably upgrade but if you do blender
11:49you should probably buy a pro as well uh
11:52it is 100 bucks cheaper than the M2 was
11:55at launch mind you when the M2 air
11:57launched uh we were in a little bit of
11:59of a different Global Supply Chain
12:00situation and that could maybe be a
12:02justification for it but as of right now
12:05it's $100 more than the M2 if all you do
12:09is web browsing and watching memes and
12:12YouTube videos and basic photo editing
12:16like buy an M2 you'd be kind of silly to
12:19buy this it's it's pretty much the same
12:22other than in the situations I laid out
12:26M1 you don't get the cool colors on the
12:28m and the M3 with the M1 but you can buy
12:31it at Walmart for 700 bucks which is 300
12:34bucks cheaper than the M2 to buy new and
12:37400 bucks cheaper than this one so yeah
12:40if you like this video hit the like
12:41button it's a it's a nice laptop I don't
12:44I don't have anything bad to say about
12:45it it's still realistically expensive in
12:47the grand scheme of things but not that
12:49expensive for what you're getting
