Apple Noob Tries Gaming On A MacBook Pro...

for today's video i did some gaming on this little  macbook here and it was actually the first time   i've ever gamed on a macbook and yeah it was it  was quite the experience i can't click on apply this is the first ever macbook pro on  the channel and uh just having it in   the office makes me feel like i need to start  drinking pumpkin frappuccino lattes or whatever   i'm sorry macbook i'm just lashing out  at you because i'm intimidated by you oh that was quite disappointing i  was expecting the whole thing to just   unravel with that one little tug that does not smell like a new electronic device  i think apple puts like a scent in these boxes   smells quite nice it's very like neutral clean  smelling wow that's thin but has a nice reassuring   weight to it and then in here it says designed  by apple in california which i find is a little   bit of a weird thing to brag about anyway let's  see what kind of documentation we get in here   you get some gray macbook stickers so that  you can flex that you have a macbook even   if you don't have it on you and then we have  our white charge cable with our charge brick that was what i was expecting the laptop packaging  to do that is very satisfying i like that a lot   and then we have our little brick which i touched  half a time and it's already gross so that is the   problem with having stuff or white like this is  if you have even a little bit of finger cheese   on your hands it's gonna transfer and then this  is the 67 watt one which is a weirdly specific   wattage and then other than that that's that's it  that's all we get with it okay let's have a closer   look at the macbook now the little macbook in  question is the m2 13-inch macbook pro which the   internet seems to think is one of the dumber apple  products at the moment which i don't know i feel   like the 600 luggage tag begs deliver but anyway  uh i didn't pay for this little macbook it was   actually sent over by micro center who apparently  also stocks apple stuff micro center really does   have an awesome selection of electronics and  thank you again for sending over this macbook   now i was immediately impressed by the build  quality of the neutral clean smelling macbook   but i had a couple of concerns wait a minute  so you're telling me you have to use half of   its i o to charge the thing you can't touch  a button on it without the thing turning   on i just want to demonstrate the keyboard  without switching you on turn off come off no there we have our fully unsheathed macbook pro  that is such a nice looking little laptop but   you know the problem with the nice-lookingness  of it is i don't really want to touch it with   my gross manhands because i know it'll just  immediately ruin it actually on the note of   immediately ruining it let's try and open it up  and have a look inside and after taking a while   to figure out that macbooks use pentalobe  screws i ran into a bit of a roadblock   six screws and then do we just lift it off oh i  actually have an idea i'm gonna use this thing does it work oh yeah that please tell me that  was the tool that cracked and not the laptop   okay so i just looked at the ifixit video and  you do need to use this little thing you kind of   pop it on there and then use  one of these bad boys in in here   oh oh i fix it you are very smart but despite  ifixit's genius it still felt rough this really   feels like i'm taking a knife to a baby seal's  face ah please just come off there we go yay   but there was one thing left for me to discover  the hinge there's something here keeping it down you should be able to there oh oh  there we go oh there we go very nice   wow it's open oh it doesn't look like i damaged  anything oh one first impression those are some   sexy laptop insides although there's not much  of a cooling solution here but it makes sense   considering that the m2 chip in here can actually  run passively like it does in the macbook air   so this may actually be an overkill cooling  solution for it which is very promising in terms   of thermals and noise while gaming other than that  though the ram and the ssd are soldered down which   really sucks especially considering that this only  comes with eight gigs of ram and you can't upgrade   it after the fact in fact the only way you can do  anything about the storage and memory in here is   by letting apple bend you over a table when you're  actually ordering the device so upgradeability   is just not a thing on this laptop at all which  you know it's an it's an apple device obviously   but it's still really disappointing to see uh  anyway with that let's try gaming on the thing okay there goes half our ports nice hello that  is a pretty laptop as i was setting up the little   macbook i was really flexing my apple knowledge  let's go up here and get some more about this mac   information it's about as far as my navigating mac  os knowledge goes the news app has the same icon   as dota for some reason that's really weird  the keyboard of the little macbook is fine   it does feel like it has more key travel than it  looks like there's space for so i guess that's   impressive in terms of the track pad i like the  size of it although even on the firmest settings   i feel like it registers clicks too easily and  doesn't give you enough haptic feedback which   means it's easy to accidentally click when you  don't mean to the aggressive lack of ports on   the little dongle book is definitely an issue  which means the little occasions usb hub from   the last video already saves the day oh wait i was  supposed to be talking about gaming well while i   was struggling to install steam on the macbook  i decided to have a quick look at the apple app   store's game selection which aside from a whole  bunch of phone games was barren wow you know a   game selection's bad when the only two games  in there that get you excited are more than 10   years old oh wait there's disco elysian that's  cool oh we also have psychonauts too apple use   spoilers and once steam was installed it didn't  get a whole lot better even most of the games   without that little circle of death next to them  don't seem to work and despite steam constantly   trying to convince me to just use a pc instead i  eventually found some games that worked kind of cs   go has launched but it's defaulted into windowed  mode that shouldn't be much of a problem right i can't click on apply i can't apply the  settings because i can't figure out how to resize   the windows so that i can get to the button to  click on it there is no way that's gonna work but   let's give it a try holy crap it's actually  worked what and after that stroke of luck   first impressions were good that is the whole  thing right we're loading into a game and this   laptop doesn't sound like a jet engine about to  explode from the exertion of it like every gaming   laptop that is very promising but my excitement  evaporated pretty quickly keyboard no how do i   i don't want emojis why does that bring emojis  up okay that is not a thing crash how do i shift   now keyboard struggles aside we may be running  the game at 2560 by 1600 but for cs go at low   settings that is not a very good frame rate  and it feels quite input laggy also the display   isn't very good at motion rendering you can  see there's quite a bit of motion blur when   you look around even for a 60hz panel the motion  rendering is pretty rough so it may be quiet but   it's not running cs go very well let's quickly  try some dota that's not a great start i just   clicked on settings and it seems like the game  crashed oh no it just took super long never mind   now considering that we want to leave it at the  native resolution which is quite high i am going   to leave the settings a bit lower oh despite  the quite high frame rate it still feels really   input laggy and it's like a molasses-y feeling i  can still last hit but it's against the bot and   it just it doesn't feel very good so let's plug  an external display in and see if that fixes it whoa even plugging an external  monitor into it's kind of buggy   for some reason initially when i plugged it in  it wouldn't give me a 120 hertz refresh rate   through the aces dongle but then i plugged it into  a different dongle which gave me 120 hertz and   then when i switched back to the occasions it now  also gives me 120 hertz out so that's all weird i   don't know what the reason is for any of that and  then dota also decided to get in on the weirdness   so i'm getting music through the macbook but  no video over there and then on the display   i'm getting just the mouse okay let me just un  plug the display and then it breaks it there   okay so i've unplugged it from the other display  but now it looks like that okay let me try plug   the hdmi back in and then maybe that helps i found  so far with this macbook i've had to do everything   three times before anything's actually worked  so let's give it a try again we've just gotten   a mouse again okay that's that's very good after  that i tried to see if csgo is working hey well   cs go works with an external monitor wow that  is a lot better now it's quite unfair because   this is a high refresh rate gaming monitor  as opposed to the 60hz display in the macbook   and it's a lower resolution which means we  get a higher frame rate all of which will help   the input lag but still it just it feels so  much better go see if we can get dota running yay it's finally worked the way i fixed it was  by changing resolution from default for display   to scaled back to default for display and then  it was fine yeah it definitely feels a lot more   responsive it's not great but it's definitely  better than it was before and one thing that   i do really like about the little macbook is  it's been so quiet through all of this i've   basically not heard any fan noise from it which  is a huge improvement over any gaming laptop now just to compare more directly i did try  playing dota again on the macbook display with   a more comparable resolution and yeah it may  be retina sharp and have beautiful colors but   wow is it not good for gaming now i also tried  dirt but getting it to run on an external monitor   was the most annoying of any of the games when  you launch the game you have to do it without   the external monitor plugged in and then you have  to go into the settings once you're there you plug   the monitor in and then there's like a 30 chance  that the settings won't lock off and force you to   use some very low resolution default setting but  most of the time the settings locks you out so   then you have to restart the whole process again  and hope that this time the settings don't lock   you out and you have to do this every time you  want to play the game so you have to decide do   you want to display struggle or use the monitor  in the macbook that has the motion rendering and   input lag over 90's plasma television now i'm  just gonna stop myself there because it goes on   like that for a while and at this point we all  know that gaming on a macbook is like going to   a buffet where most of your favorite food is just  locked behind glass counters and the little bit of   food that you do have access to is several years  old and just keeps glitching through your plate   but quite frankly i don't mind that apple treats  non-mobile gaming like it's an std they may catch   if they're not careful because i don't want apple  anywhere near the games industry the one thing   that apple is good at above all else is finding  a way to charge unbelievable amounts for things   and then having people still buy them so they're  just gonna find a way to make gaming even more   expensive and it's not like game publishers  need any help milking their customers dry but   if apple starts buying game publishers  we may get apple exclusive games which   would mean we'd have to buy a 20 000 macbook  just to play league of legends or whatever   can you imagine what would happen if  apple buys a company like nintendo hey uh i just want to buy one of those new  nintendo designed in california switches please   the one that's made from brushed aluminium  so it's disgusting after the first time   you've touched it the base model for that is two  thousand dollars whoa that is way too much money   yeah but remember it smells neutral clean  from the box yeah i guess you got to pay   for that that makes sense oh by the way the  base model doesn't actually come with any   storage in it and you kind of need that for it  to work uh but luckily we have new neural ssds   and getting a 256 gig one only cost an extra  thousand two hundred dollars that is insane i'm   just gonna buy the base model and then i'll add  my own storage but you can't upgrade it yourself   because it uses the new neural ssds it's just an  oem samsung drive i can see it from here yeah but   it's got neural in it there is no way anybody's  gonna pay that amount for it um they all did you know what no thank you i don't want it  anymore okay well i guess you're not gonna   be able to play the new smash bros then look  at all these awesome screenshots without any   actual gameplay in it fine let me call my bank  oh yeah did you want to charge it with that you

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Length: 14min 22sec (862 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 13 2022