Apple M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14 vs 16 - Is it Worth Your Money?

this is the beauty though we have ports are back ports are back [Music] yeah and then on this side the magic happens full size hdmi no dongle no dongle no dongle and an sd card slot yeah yeah on a macbook pro that's what a macbook pro is no dongle look how apple does it with the chime straight away look how apple does it look at that hold this enter you walk past and you knock into it yes let's get the big display out couple more pixels 16 inch boots up on the chime as well it was when you found out you could make mistakes that you knew you were onto something so i have the new uh macbooks yeah the ones everybody's talking about m1 pro max i don't have the max models not yet i have the pro models that's all right who needs a 7 000 laptop i don't know probably no one uh these are a huge improvement i'm just kidding by the way if you get the max i'll probably get the max model eventually it's just you definitely need to be making money using those laptops to have any chance of justifying those improvements in performance the regular m1 stuff is already incredible but these the cost of performance ratio i think we have the entry level 14 and the entry level 16 and kirk can't wait to get inside one of these and start chopping something up [Music] i like the fact that we have a new form factor i like the fact that we have new ports let's take these over to the table and see what they're all about number two it's like we're in a video game and each step has another clue love mankind trust the majority and never owe anyone these are willy doo's fortune cookies from tnt and there's some there's some of my favorite fortunes i've ever seen a lot of them are complex there's like some good samaritan one that screwed me up i thought about it for the whole day the 14 is what i'm most excited about because now you're getting the graphics performance that the pro model has always stood for but in something that's way lighter it's like three and a half pounds compared to the typical four and a half so look at that 14 inch model 16-inch model 16 gigs unified memory 1 tb storage this one is 16 gigs unified memory 5 12 gb storage and funny enough for for some reason we got the greater storage in the 14 inch but otherwise i think they're basically the same right 10 core cpu 16 core gpu yeah so let's do the 14 first since for me this is the interesting form factor for a macbook pro no we don't yes we do and there is something special always about a macbook pro unboxing experience apple knows how to do this just the right amount of tension on the lid they tried to hide the notch on the front with this really dark background i would i would have done the same this is the space gray model it's also available in a silver and now it's very dense it doesn't feel as light as they say it as it is on paper the apple logo is huge as well that's an immediate takeaway it is super cold to the touch space gray loom yeah that is a big apple logo they are doubling down it's got this kind of like slab look to it now very flat edges you know i like this actually i think i'm gonna beat a 14 inch guy this generation this time around this is the beauty though we have ports are back ports are back [Music] yeah magsafe is back for charging for faster charging two thunderbolt ports usb type c capable obviously we have some analog audio for your headphones and then on this side the magic happens full size hdmi no dongle no dongle no dongle another type c thunderbolt connector and then of course is this a thunderbolt three thunderbolts on here or is one of them just a regular type-c three thunderbolt four ports lovely so both sides versatility where you set up your peripherals no dongle and an sd card slot yeah yeah on a macbook pro that's what a macbook pro is it has feet on it too look at that for cooling nice little rubber feet and a fairly nice size here so it's going to sit off the desk a little bit that is an alteration that's a change it also says map on the bottom look at that chopped in there sick no dongle a little bit of paperwork probably including apple stickers because i saw people posting about them in black by the way is there a clean way to do it 96 watts simple power brick type c connector still got the removable nub if you want to use or buy an extension for that also in the package your type c on one end to your magsafe on the other and it's a braided style of cable and this is the magic right here of magsafe look at that hold this end kirk you walk past and you knock into it yes laptop saved such an amazing innovation and it should have never gone anywhere and now it's back i mean this is really it's all the things that were missing from previous generations of macbook pros and then now they're here it's mag safe it's sd it's hdmi it's like exactly what that fortune you just read at the top that's what it was when you found out you could make mistakes that you knew you were onto something i didn't plan it that way you know [Music] the unboxing experience is going to be identical just bigger space gray once again and i'm hearing some pretty spectacular things about the display that's in this model i'm also personally excited because you can drive so many displays off one of these units oh dongle and that's going to be key for me because i use a multi-display setup and i would love to have one of these powering all those monitors it can do up to three 6k displays and another 4k display off of a laptop let's see portability check god it doesn't feel as huge as one pound it's just a little bit more dense feeling anyway let's check out this giant power brick look at this big boy right here 140 watts [Music] that is a monster 96 140. you know what it's a lot of watts for not a much bigger unit okay 14 inch model crack it open nice matte black look how apple does it with the chime straight away look how apple does it nice matte black chiclet style no touch bar necessary anymore another area they're like yeah you didn't like it that much all right we're done notch up top no face id though all right a little strange for me this is a great little portable performer here as far as i can tell so it's a half pound heavier than the current 13 inch model it's not that substantial when you consider the extra horsepower hiding underneath the hood let's get the big display out couple more pixels 16 inch boots up on the chime as well also a nice look oh here's another area that we should probably mention and it may not have been obvious at first trackpad tremendously uh increased and the speaker areas appear to be much larger on the 16-inch model compared to the 14. does it mean it's louder probably probably sounds a bit better and the other thing when it comes to screen to body ratio as i turn these both around is you will notice that the notch is the same size but it's going to take up a bigger portion of a 14 inch display than it is a 16 inch display so you're going to get more screen for your money over here the display just at first glance it looks incredible apparently as well this thing is showing less of that bloom characteristic that the ipads were showing recently so that's i mean it's just it's a very nice display keyboard quick brown fox it's uh it's a very small amount of key travel the main language press the return key just let me type what was it doing there italian english is the main language press the return key you got it i can type quick on these because i'm just used to them over the years it's a very low key travel but it's kind of it's quiet too it's quieter than certain previous generations so if you're into the privacy aspect or you like to work late and there's people sleeping and you're trying to be discreet that keyboard is certainly going to achieve that i also think it's going to look good for a long period of time because it's black and so it's not going to show probably hopefully as much wear all right so the key with these things it's all about performance right it's all about that apple chip inside this is the movement for the pro series away the true pro series away from intel for the very first time and so far the initial feedback is i'm going to use the word tremendous again one more time i mean these devices anyone can use them but it's targeted at people who can really take advantage of this increased prowess and kirk claims to be one of those people we produce a fair number of videos around here and sometimes we use laptops sometimes we use desktops sometimes we use davinci sometimes we use final cut but we thought for this video what would be a good idea is to actually get a timeline together and see what kind of performance improvements we see with high resolution video and see what the findings are if these things are worthwhile and just how much it can improve a particular individual or company's workflow if it's time to upgrade seems like it might be this episode is sponsored by cleanmymac your mac as good as new cleanmymac 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because i really wanted to use the hdmi port because i think we've all been missing it for a long time hdmi into this lg ultra gear monitor so the way i'm going to use it is the macbook pro as my main video out because this screen is absolutely minty fresh like it is crisp it is resolutiony it is really really smooth i'm gonna do all my timeline and browser and editing stuff over here i'm also gonna edit with the speakers from the macbook pro because i listened to a little bit of it when i was doing some music selection and they sound pretty dialed up pretty tuned in and dialed up so i'm gonna just edit like that and then see after i'm done put the headphones on and like sort of test it in my usual workflow to see how the audio sounds right now i have camera angles and all the footage and some music selected from the unboxings from yesterday so we have two angles we have the main angle and the side angle i'm going to throw this together in a in a multi-cam and that's going to be two h.264 clips they're not transcoded they're not nothing it's straight out of the a1s the sony a1s and this is a little bit of a gritty codec like it's pretty it's pretty rough sometimes on some system so i'll see how it scrubs i don't really care about export time like i will take a buttery smooth timeline experience scrubbing experience over like a twice as fast export time i don't know why everyone is so like pervy about the export times where you're gonna save the most time is if you got a buttery smooth time some of my favorite then you're saving time so that's really what i'm looking forward to i mean right now i just scrubbed it a bit you can see it's pretty buttery so it's pretty quick it's pretty responsive so yeah we'll see how it goes so i'm just gonna get at this edit [Music] [Music] something [Music] i'm going to take some behind the scenes behind the scenes absolutely absolutely that'd be great hello hello that's really cool though it's crazy how you can capture the likeness like it looks like it's me but on a on a jacket [Music] so i won my went to my mom i'm like mom i'm gonna i'm gonna quit my job and film and she's like okay what you gonna do well i'm gonna do some youtube stuff and i'm gonna teach at the uh i'm gonna teach in the college on the side and she goes oh college professor wow my son's a professor wow [Music] yeah so that's that edit is done now up until this point that's right in the edit this will go the edit will actually be done once this part is done yeah that's right the part that people are watching right now yeah so it's very meta it's the whole that's all right no it's the whole i mean here's the thing about these uh laptops it's like yeah initially there's some design differences it's more squared off the apple logo is a little bit bigger there's some different options for sizes and some changes in that from that standpoint new ports but the real thing here is the chip like the real thing is because those other m1 laptops were good already and they're a lot cheaper so what's really happening here is trying to justify the extra expenditure to go for the pro model because if you i mean what is the base euro up over two grand yeah from the regular m1 i don't know if you did much editing on a regular app yeah i i cut the 8k iphone unboxing on the regular m1 imac exactly yeah and i mean it was chunky this one is just so smooth you don't even realize how fast it's going because it's just so smooth so you notice a a marked oh yeah performance improvement and you're you were using the uh m1 pro not max although my understanding here is that that's the the real difference there is mostly just around uh gpu so not a huge difference for probably your timeline specifically i don't know like you know i i initially wanted the the max the m1 max and now i'm like who needs that this thing is like this thing is going crazy this was no hang-ups this was like uh performance so not sorry for quality so it was not pro as it was from h.264 for max quality editing and the scrubbing was like instant and responsive even on that clip that i did uh 12 times speed it was flying like back and forth no lags no nothing so so that's really what this is about that's really what it's about is that i mean if you live on a timeline like i mean we can speak to it from the perspective that's known to us and we're like our point of view which is obviously in the editing realm when when you say i don't know who the other stuff is for i presume that individual knows which software they're going to use that is going to tax the gpu and take advantage of it for us it's like here's it because it's hard to figure out what the competition for this system is is it like a gaming laptop with a real gpu because this is an integrated gpu but it's not it's also very capable i think my main question and probably the question for people would be more around uh macbook pro m1 pro versus macbook pro m1 period the 13-inch that will's been using right yeah yeah and but if you've been editing on that imac or a mac mini or anything with the stock m1 outside of a small little difference to do with whatever cooling or then uh then you know you've had the experience you've had the the a b yep and you are buying you're buying the m1 pro for sure yeah yeah you i notice it right away i noticed it because i wasn't noticing the little hiccups that would normally happen like we're doing multicam 4k multicam all the time and like playing with speed ramps and stuff like that and on this pro it was so you know that saying slow is smooth smooth is fast that's how i feel about this it's so smooth that you're not even thinking about how fast it is because there's no hiccups to even alert you that it's it's it's slow did you get any opportunity to take advantage of these ports here were you feeling port happy yeah yeah it was awesome no no dongle no dongle at all and the hdmi it's like what 60 hertz it's only 60 hertz right but it works you don't need that unless you're gaming or what you were doing yeah but yeah it seems like a slam dunk so you're gonna you're gonna spend two grand as opposed to like i don't know 1300 or something you think if it works out the math works out as far as the improvement that you experienced on in this particular use case yeah for sure for sure what i'm curious about is is the max the m1 max who who does that maybe if you're doing like 3d render yeah i think a video editor could definitely use the max if you're gonna go 8k like if we're doing 8k definitely i would go for a max but but yeah um yeah i think just the feel of the laptop like i know you've been you've been carrying it around well yeah i can speak a little bit on that so i was playing with the 14 inch because i was curious about having a new form factor so i brought it home i showed the kids i carried it a little bit it definitely feels fatter than the old model just because of the shape on the sides and i guess to accommodate maybe they could have made a little thinner but you got to accommodate that hdmi port you can see the height of it's a little different and it has the feet on it now too the display is very nice i'm not used to the notch yet i don't know this is the type of stuff that i think can fade away over time it's no deal to me i would just say the weird thing about the notch is you have a notch on your phone which has a ton of tech in it right like the the uh dot projection ir front facing camera is for face id you have a notch here that seems like it's preparing for face id but then it's a camera and you're like but there's so much room there so it's it's a little bit confusing from that standby and also the software will put certain information behind it yeah if you have a enough stuff happening in the top bar there i heard davinci resolve puts windows behind the notch and then you can't like yeah no no the software part has to get figured out but i'm never really gonna complain about more screen versus less but we're a weird uh situation where i almost never use the front-facing camera yeah but you can imagine though in the productivity world in the the variety of jobs that people have they can use that camera a lot and it's another area where there's been finally an improvement they go up to 1080p so people are like okay great this is what i needed but for me you could get rid of it completely i never use it yeah same same but i don't mind it but but i'm with you i was holding the iphone notch up to the screen and i'm like how did they know how could they not fit like how could they not save a face id for the next version or whatever yeah i guess so touch id it's annoying but the other adjustments are to black uh the black keyboard fully black oh the keyboard is so because i've been using the um macbook pro with the touch bar previous to the m1 intel and it's yeah the intel and it's got the butterfly keyboard and so i've been using this keyboard a little bit to edit and it's i it's so much better it's so much better it's a little quieter has more of a thud to it more confidence type yeah i mean it's just an improvement pretty much all the way around if you're willing to spend the money one thing i think i'll say in closing though is if you can't if you're not going to be living on a timeline if you're not going to be inside of content creation or some other way in which you're going to tax this system that the regular m1 stuff is still incredibly capable at a much more approachable price and i think it's probably still going to be the better choice for most people uh as far as usd is concerned macbook air starts at 9.99 you could have two of them yeah instead of one of the base models for this so unless you can uh you have ambition or plans to go this direction and really utilize those extra features or you feel starved for ports yeah right which is quite possible as well it might be worth it just to do the ports because think about how much dongle money there's a thousand dollars worth of ports yeah it's got some serious dongle money happening i want to get will's take because i have he said something controversial to me earlier in respect to the keyboard which is that he prefers the butterfly keyboard go ahead well yeah i've always been a big fan big big butterfly guy i like the tactile thump to it and um it's it's kind of clicky i don't know it just feels a little bit more satisfying than the chicklet not i mean it hasn't had its issues though for sure yeah durability wise even now like i still get uh dust stuck in it we're gonna have to like jiggle it out the membrane doesn't really work at all yeah but i still appreciate the butterfly switches you were telling me you were really happy to have magsafe back though yes yeah yeah it's uh it's good times i've always had fond memories of it well it's a good place it just clicks right in there he has a framed photo on his wall in his old mag safe adapter fond memories a nice smile anyway you have the device right there didn't kirk pass it to you yeah yeah it's right here so what's going on will you want one of these or what uh yeah can i get the max right the 14 i have it at my house right now but which form factor do you prefer uh i edit on it so 16 inch you like the 16 and you i see initially i wanted the 14 and i was kind of salty that you snapped it but then i think you got me with the because you're like it's a bigger screen so i use it as the video output it's a bigger nice screen yeah any led and i think i'm sold on that aspect of it the size of the screen kind of bumped me up to the 16. it might be the nicest monitor you have it is 100 you know yeah unless you're you have some sort of expensive stuff hooked up to it uh what can i say yeah it's an improvement it has everything that everybody was asking for it is expensive we need to be clear you don't you definitely don't need one of these to make youtube videos no you don't need one of these no uh and you definitely don't need a maximum specification even though you might get that impression if you are on twitter watching people's receipts they'll be like that's what i need uh but in most cases i feel like you can get something you can get a lot done with the base model and it might be the best value for money amazing what apple's doing with their chips i i don't know man they just made so much progress in such a short period of time and now uh it's like intel never existed sun said even popeye didn't eat his spinach until he had to well that's a thinker right there yeah no it's right it's true it's true you

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Length: 28min 33sec (1713 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 31 2021

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