I wasted $1,000 on old junk at the Apple Store!

apple is often considered Cutting Edge ahead of the game but I just got back from my local Apple Store with a $1,000 charge applied to my credit card and everything that I bought is ancient and crappy and bizarre why did they still sell some of this stuff let me show you what I got and what better place to start than with one of the oldest things that Apple still sells in the Apple Store the USB superdrive so in 2008 Apple launched the original MacBook Air it had this grandiose unveiling that you probably remember Steve shops pulled it from a manila envelope it was an incredible demo and frankly a bit ahead of its time I mean the MacBook Air was kind of largely a failure until the 2010 redesign part of that was thermals part of that was the generalized form factor but a big part of it was that in order to fit it inside that amazingly small envelope they had to ditch the disc drive which in 2008 was still a pretty bold move so Apple needed some way to offer some sort of CD or dvd support now somewhat futuristic and what they talked about at the keynote was something still available in Mac OS 10 today remote disc which allowed you to use a separate Mac or PC's disc drive and then access the contents of the disc remotely over the network via Wi-Fi on your MacBook a it was kind of cool but the reality is people that were working with lots of discs just opted to use Apple's USB superdrive instead this thing oh this thing has been in its package Lan so long I just ripped the tab clean off this is actually quite a throwback I mean look at the gray Apple logo and all of this old stuff they've still got plastic on this which is not been a thing in apple packaging for quite some time now look at this you even have like a textured pole tab that's crazy so there we go launched at $79 and this thing is still $79 it has been unchanged literally since 2008 it's made out of aluminum looks very very handsome but other than that I mean there's not much to it there's a uh little rubber pad here on the bottom so that it doesn't slip around it's of course slot loading rather than tray loading and wow look at this there's a usba a port in general but it's got this wrapped connector that doesn't want to come off okay there you go you see the single usba a port was and continues to be a problem you see with pretty much every external disc drive that has shipped before and since this thing it shipped with two usba headers because the power draw required to spin up a disc and then power moving laser typically draws more than the 5 Watts which is typically the maximum supported but since Apple makes both the computer and the drive they can do some power management magic to make this thing work and allow the drive to draw more and well it kind of worked I mean famously this thing did not work with hubs and docks and displays because it broke typical Convention of USB Behavior but it always worked plugged directly into a Mac until Apple forgot about it on my Mac Studios usba a port a brand new computer from Apple that's supposed to handle presumably an accessory still sold in the Apple Store it errors out saying that it has insufficient power to calibrate the laser and then when I go in Mac OS 10 to dismiss that dialogue window it just blanks out entirely I figured that these issues were probably just Macos itself having issues burning all recordable media because honestly who doing that nowadays but no because I went to Best Buy bought some cheap old Blu-ray Drive and it works perfectly without any software or drivers better than Apple's own Super drive that's slow and doesn't support Blu-ray yada y this thing hasn't been a good value for years and now that it doesn't support Blu-ray and it's legitimately broken on most Apple silicon Macs it's time to just kill it Apple get rid of it this is literally the oldest skew that they carry in the Apple Store 16 years without an update and it shows it's piece of crap this next one is literally insane I've been doing YouTube for 15 years okay but I took a 2-year break living overseas away from technology and when I returned I spent some cold Hard Cash that my YouTube channel had earned in my absence to buy a wait for it 2013 Mac Pro what a mistake uh the trash can hasn't been available for sale for 7 years now parts and accessories for the trash can haven't been available for 6 years and yet still today you can buy this in stores the Mac Pro security lock adapter look at this thing this thing is so old the plastic has yellowed there's no sunlight in Apple Stores so this thing has just been slowly wilting away on a shelf and I'm going to open it now it's $49 and I seriously don't know if I can open this it's like oh my goodness it's like welded shut there we go there it is $50 for this little chunk of metal it's got a pull tab oh yeah there we go and there it is this little nugget what is this and how does this work well let me show you this is my 2013 trash can Mac Pro one of the cool design elements that you might not remember is that you could slide this lock over and unveil the computer you could open it up that's obviously a problem if you're a school or a business that wants to prevent people from a fiddling with the machine or B stealing it all together and so this thing is literally a security lock I've never used one of these so I don't know how it works there you go maybe oh that's kind of sketchy oh that sound oh that sounds bad okay you slide that into the fan Inlet oh oh this doesn't sound like I should be oh I didn't lock it down all the way it's not H oh there we go oh my gosh oh my goodness that is difficult to do okay it's on and then what you would do is take a Kensington compatible lock you just stick it in there you twist it to lock it into place and then nobody can open the machine anymore cuz it's locked into place and uh then you could also tie it down to a desk or a table so that nobody would steal it why why does this still a even exist and B being actively sold in stores it doesn't the metal doesn't even match like this is like aluminum and they kind of tried to make it like a little space gray but it doesn't match the beautiful Darth Vader look of the trash can why what is this apple doesn't make a toothbrush but if they did it' be this this is the liveen wave today's sponsor and look at this packaging uh needless to say I think heavy inspiration has been borrowed from Apple and that's not even just in the packaging which look at this these pole tabs it's identical this is so premium the box is beautiful let's pull the lid off oh yeah look look at this this is like this is Johnny IV he made this look at that beautiful recycled Packaging it literally is there's a symbol right there okay I I mean look at this I have to admit I already unboxed one of these two months ago I've been using this toothbrush for a while now but doing this again just makes me giggle like I'm surprised there's not stickers in here this is exactly the same and look at this this is where your toothbrush heads are located that is beautiful and premium and recycled and look at this this cable packaging not only is this cable packaging literally like exactly the same as look at this um okay they used adhesive there which Apple wouldn't do that but the cable braiding is like identical and the connector this looks like mag safe like literally the same look at [Laughter] this okay so as mentioned I've been using this toothbrush for a couple of months and it has replaced my very expensive Sonic Air not only does it ultrasonically vibrate equally if not a little bit harder which basically no ultrasonic toothbrushes on the market do that's why I've stuck with the Phillips so long but it also oscillates check this out up to 60° I push the power button it vibrates but also oscillates which means you don't have to move it up and down these bristles are soft tapered they're very easy on your your gums and this button is amazing so I have mine this one is mine it's um it's been dropped a couple times so it's seen better days but it's got this pressure sensitive button not capacitive pressure sensitive and when I say not capacitive that means that when your fingers are wet it'll still work like that's metal check this out I don't know how they do it cuz this thing is completely unibody there's no gaps no holes and that's one of my favorite features there's no moo on most toothbrushes you know this little Gap here and you get all that nasty little crusty so gross and you have to pull the head off and clean no this thing is tapered such that water gets in there and it just completely pulls it away I haven't cleaned this base forever I love it okay there is an iPhone app on this thing that lets you choose the intensity of the cleaning modes and what cleaning mode you'd like to select there are three that are pre-programmable and most importantly these heads are not a scam unlike other toothbrushes on the market you get three of these for just 10 bucks and if you want six of them you can get them for as little as 17 it's $79 for the ABS version um this thing is a great value the performance of this I think is equal to the nicest Sonicare brushes on the market the battery again I haven't charged this I mean it's low now but I haven't charged this in over 2 months and when you need to you just plug it in Via mag saave for 2 hours and you're good to go for many many months more it comes in plastic it comes in alum and it comes in of course stainless steel for $99 it is incredible value it is a beautiful toothbrush and it literally makes Johnny IV weep this is probably my favorite accessory sold in stores because basically only three iPad Pro skes ever supported it this is the lightning to USB 3 camera adapter apple and Camera adapters have been a thing for like a very long time actually going back to the dawn of the iPod okay this thing is cool the idea was that you could plug in cameras and other USB accessories that would ingest data into the photos app um originally it was a kind of usb2 very small looking dongle I think I have some one somewhere I'll put it if I can find it they actually still sell the original adapter today and they sell the similar SD card adapter you take your camera you plug it in ingest the photos in your photos app or into your iPod and you're done but when the iPad had pro- shipped in 2016 and the files app in 2017 it was clear that more speed more power and more compatibility was needed so this thing was released and despite being named camera adapter that's selling it short it can do a lot more first of all there is lightning power in that doesn't just charge your iOS device but also supplies power for devices plugged into it for stuff like USB mics and audio interfaces and when you are transferring literal files be them from like an SD card or a USB drive or from your camera itself you can do so with usb3 speeds thanks to the high-speed controller found on the a9x and a10x Fusion S so's uh lightning being restricted to USB 2 was often cited as the reason that Apple moved to USBC on the iPhone but this proves that wrong years and years prior USB 3 existed for lightning so long story short I suspect that when the iPhone 16 gets the iPhone 15 Pros a17 s so that USB 3 will come with it but that s SOC is named the A7 Pro will they put the a17 pro with the usb3 controller on the regular iPhone maybe not but if it doesn't I am totally going to rail Apple for it because they've had usb3 on iOS devices since 2016 and they better not get rid of it okay this is the only thing on this list still designed for current generation products but I couldn't not talk about it I recently sold my 2019 Mac Pro like literally weeks ago which is a shame because I would like to show how these work because I could never justify or afford them but uh yeah that's right it's the Mac Pro Wheels you say can't afford them could just some wheels for some a computer how much could they cost 700 $700 $699 bucks these things cost so I'm expecting an amazing unboxing experience okay we've got this pouch we've got the documentation and check this out it's a QR code to learn how to install the Mac Pro Wheels that's certainly with a video uh they included two of them on accident well I mean I guess they're like $700 might as well give them two QR codes this is nice paper Maybe it could have been $698 if they didn't include that okay here they are you have this beautiful of course little cardboard insert here and there they are the Mac Pro Wheels I've never seen these in real life like at least not touched them let's pull one out oh my goodness it is difficult to State how heavy these things are this might be almost as heavy as the Apple Vision Pro which is really which is really heavy Let's uh where do you oh here we go we can unpeel this little cotton right here protecting the stainless steel that is found underneath wow that's very extra and then uh you've also got a little plastic nib here okay let's see how nice these are yeah these are super nice okay so this whole stainless steel and it is stainless steel like massive piece of metal is all one unibody structure so the only moving parts are this top part which spins so nicely is that friction based no there's roller bearings in there cuz of course there are and then each side has its own little rubber and it's a very hard rubber but yet it is grippy and soft um has its own wheel what this allows you to do is basically torque Vector to give you a super super tight turning radius look at this you probably could put a car on these wheels um it is amazing it is stupid I mean these have no business being this expensive uh it frankly should have just come with them I mean come on the Mac Pro's $6,000 what I would like to see is how easy or difficult it is to actually install them wow look at that you've got a little Chuck for a for a nice impact driver uh probably don't use that although I don't know maybe that's what it's designed for cuz it's got a little impact driver bit here and then there is of course um a little hex key on the other end that you would use to remove the feet from your Mac because this is a professional product Apple trusts you the end user to upgrade something that is found on the outside but you do have to access the actual screws from the inside and you might recall from my tear down it was actually pretty darn difficult to get access to those hex screws so I would be interested to see if these were actually very easy at all to swap out I would bet they were kind of a pain in the butt they offered to do it in store I believe for a while if you bought the kit from them H in any case these should not be sold in stores anywhere not because they're not still functional with the current generation 2023 Mac Pro they are but because that computer itself shouldn't be sold much less the wheels and $700 I mean come on that's just a disgrace even though now that I feel them it kind of makes sense okay now on to the most famous one one everybody will recognize yes it's the 30 pin dock connector cable that is still shockingly sold in Apple Stores I say shockingly because this cable is now two generations outdated pull tab oh yeah oh yeah nice okay this was used in every iPod save for select Shuffle models every iPhone and every iPad model until lightning debuted 12 years ago lightning is old which makes this thing ancient uh the iPhone 5 I guess technically was the one that switched over to lightning this connector is um sure old but actually really really interesting because the original iPod was only compatible with Mac and actually synced over firewire 400 a much faster protocol than the USB 1.1 that was found on Max in the early 2000s but firewire 400 was enormous it was inelegant and so the 30 pin cable came out in 2003 with the third generation iPod to support not just better uh charging and syncing but a bunch of different stuff so it retained firewire support um the third generation iPod actually came with both a USB and a FireWire based uh Cable in fact I think even the iPod mini did too that I unboxed with Austin Evans years ago although don't quote me on that H this thing was pretty cool because not only did it have fire wire but it also had a Serial interface for interacting with the iPod doc uh you could use a remote when the iPod was docked to hook it up to your stereo system and uh of course to handle the audio it had line in and line out support to go through the dock to your stereo system uh firewire support in general was actually retained until the fifth generation iPod video released which utilized new pins for composite and S video out support uh they also added this Authentication ship that only allowed authorized docs and cables from working with the iPod to receive video but of course within mere months that had been reverse engineered by third party accessories and circumvention okay a few small weird things were added to the remaining pins over the years like the iPod camera connector that I mentioned earlier which let you offload photos from your digital camera to iPod and then when the iPad came around in 2010 HDMI out was added to this amazing little connector but it did so with the help of some handry conversion circuitry inside the dongle because they were limited on pin count by the end of the 30 pin dock connector's life nearly all 30 pins had been assigned to something but the eight that were originally intended and assigned to firewire data and power remained unused for the vast majority of this connector's life 30 pin was not reversible right it plugged in one way and that was it but it was easy to insert and didn't come unplugged very easily because originally it had locking teeth um that you know you had to depress buttons to actually release that lasted all through the iPod era until the release of the iPhone in 2007 when this model uh came out it launched with a much thinner connector that just used friction based latches um it was again revised in 2010 and that's what's been done here because they had that old rounded style connector and then in 2010 they made it sharp because that's premium and so yeah this cable has probably been sitting in a box for more or less the better part of a decade pretty amazing I miss 30 pin do I want to use it now no but it was an amazing connector that served its purpose just like lightning and now I'm happy they're both dead and we' moved on to USBC where 3.0 speeds are what we get on every Apple wait crap let me be very clear Apple's Chargers they're not a good value and they're honestly not particularly good quality either they don't use Japanese Rubicon or United chemicon caps they just use regular capacitors you'd find in you know kind of Cheaper products there are better options out there but there is one charger from Apple that I kind of like it's this one the 35 wat dual USBC Port compact power adapter that's its official name it debuted alongside the M2 MacBook Air in 2022 it supports a USB PD 3.0 spec um which offers four fixed pdos um there are two power circuits it's actually pretty clever design two power circuits that connect in parallel if you have a single USBC device plugged in so it it can offer you the full 35 Watts but if you have split power it'll actually independently distribute power based on the specifications and the requirements of the device that you've plugged into it it's a nice charger but it's uh it's not Gallum nitride so it's not particularly small it's incredibly overpriced at $59 and it's only 35 Watts but it's a nice charger so then what on Earth is this this monstrosity well hold on Dual USBC Port 35W power adapter the specs would suggest that it's the same but that can't be right I mean hold on are they selling the same thing twice in the Apple Store yes they are this is the international version that works with different plug types now British people in particular go ad nauseum about how great their plugs are but they're wrong they're huge they're ugly and they're awful now Apple does sell a folding adapter in the UK that's basically the same design as this the compact but it's even bigger and it's only 20 watts at the same price $60 there's basically zero reason for this to exist at all in the United States all it does is allow you to remove this you know classic part you've seen on your laptop chargers and add an international adapter and in non-domestic markets so so in the UK in Europe in Australia they just sell this different piece attached to the charger they don't get the cool one that we have again the UK gets one kind of similar but it's only 20 watts there is no reason at all that in the United States you should be buying this one it's larger it's less convenient it's uglier it's heavier it's stupid I don't honestly know why they even sell it in the stores to begin with because like and I guess the argument could be like oh well we sld the travel adapters and so if you're traveling you can put that big ugly one from the UK on no just buy like a travel adapter and then just you know be done with it h don't buy either of these but if you do get the slim boy model and not this inferior sized plug monstrosity also can I just complain about price really quickly this thing is $59 which is insane for a 30 wat non- gallium nitride dual USB port adapter but now that I made friend fun of all my friends across the pond let me empathize really quickly with my my favorite United kingdomes um because their charger I believe is 79 Great British pounds which is like $90 for this thing with the different adapter why it's the same thing this is the same price for the UK version well maybe not because it's like there's a tiny little bit more metal but come on you're screwing over our friends Apple the iPod's white earbuds are as iconic as the iPod itself literally entire commercials were focused around these things the white cable going on the outside of your clothes up to your ears wearing these was a status symbol it meant you owned an iPod but the reality is that the iPod's classic round earbuds were actually pretty garbage well check it the first generation iPod shipped with some pretty great earbuds but quickly with second generation they were revised they still sounded good they were super uncomfortable but they they were fine and shipped all the way until the fifth generation iPods then they were ruined and sounded like total crap all throughout the early iPhone era until 2012 when these got released the earpods and these have been unchanged for basically 12 years oh that's interesting this is how you know it's old it's not a lid like all the modern accessories it slides oh yeah because of this cardboard insert nice remember when you used to get these with your iPhone in addition to a charger and a case and a dock and a belt clip and that was a different eror there we go it says earpods headphone plug they actually still carry these not just in lightning but they even made a new version for USBC these things have been around the block and uh well the shape will look familiar because it's basically the same as the original airpods in fact it's similar to the third generation airpods that I still have and use occasionally the inline mic was said to have been amazing and it makes sense it's pretty close to your mouth and uh it in many respects Probably sounds better than the airpods here here's a comparison test against modern airpod microphones okay the wired earpods mic does rustle against my beard but when I hold it like this well this is what it sounds like and this is what the microphone sounds like coming from the third generation airpods holy crap honestly pretty good they also have an inline volume control which is fantastic this was absent in the first generation airpods and the second generation and the third generation and the airpods pro it didn't come back until the airpods Pro 2 and uh it's nice to have here now as for the sound they sound fine they actually sound pretty close to the regular airpods when released they were pretty great given that they were included free with an iPhone or an iPod and even at $19 they they're really not bad at all but they're still $19 which is good but you can get some absolutely amazing chaii for almost nothing these are the tangu one a that are basically the same price as these earpods and just absolutely blow them out of the water so do these things hold up today not really but jenzy and whatever are wearing these cuz that's cool or something to not have wireless headphones I I don't know but given that the USBC version came out it doesn't look like Apple's getting rid of them anytime soon even though I think that they should it's raining really hard how electric how magnetic mag safe 3's returned to the first Apple silicon Mac Pro was great but Apple still sells an adapter released 12 years ago in stores today to convert mag safe one to mag safe 2 the truth is mag safe kind of had a rocky start mag Safe 1 used a ttype connector just like mag safe 3 does but there were tons of frame issues that resulted from overheated connectors how did this happen you ask well let's open this box and find out oh there's no explanation so let me just tell you these Poco pins aren't just constantly supplying tons of DC power that would be very dangerous all versions of Max safe are basically the same they're all five pin these first and second pins have continuity with their mirror pins which makes the connector reversible so the outside pins are the ground the middle pins are the VCC power and then the central pin which is smaller than the others is a one wire serial protocol this connector is always providing a very low current low voltage signal at all times through these power pins it's low enough that when you touch it you don't feel anything but it's there and when it finally makes contact with a Mac the Mac provides a resistive load pulling just enough power for just long enough that after 1 second the charger flips a switch and the 16-bit microprocessor switches to full voltage on the power rails it also sends over a charger ID to the Mac with like has a serial number or class ID a couple of other data strings and when the Mac decides that it's happy with the Charger and when it decides the charger is safe it switches on its own power input circuit and pulls the full load from the charger and then the charger switches that little green light to Orange using that same controller found in the connector okay some of the original chargers didn't have tight enough tolerances on the Pogo pins to make good contact before pulling the whole load on the machine so that would either fault out and just not work sometimes with some spicy smoke or they would slowly Arc inside until they literally burned up the connector and the laptop end not good these issues weren't widespread but they existed and apple pretty quickly redesigned the whole magsafe connector to use an l- style connector instead uh it blocked some of your ports when it was in One Direction but it did help seat against the magnetic mating surface better and there wasn't as much leverage that would pull that connector loose maxafe in its redesign form worked great for years and it was integrated into the cinema and Thunderbolt displays as well as other accessories but in 2012 magsafe was redesigned to this mag safe 2 to accommodate the thinner retina MacBooks electrically this is all still the same but Apple didn't want to break compatibility with the displays and accessories that they were still actively selling so they made this a $10 adapter to convert Max Safe 1 to Max safe 2 this is completely passive it's just a magnet sandwich with some pins in the middle it's pretty cool that they didn't break compatibility with first gen Chargers but they also never made an adapter going in the other direction so Apple Stores today still sell mag safe 2 and mag Safe 1 Chargers compatible with MacBooks going all the way back to 2006 pretty wild and well that's it uh feels like I kind of wasted $1,000 look it's not the worst thing in the world that these things are still sold in stores it's better to have more things than you need than not enough at the same time there are some things that I would very much like the Apple Stores to have that they don't and these things leave me questioning if Apple's really reconsidered their product portfolio in store for a few years now well thank you so much for watching please get subscribed let me know what your favorite Apple accessory has been in the past be it in store or not most importantly and as always stay snazzy

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Length: 31min 23sec (1883 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 05 2024