- This one hasn't been easy
to sequester myself from. Every time I know I'm gonna
be doing a short circuit for a really hot product, I go out of my way to learn as little about it as possible. But obviously, there are things that I know about the M1 Max already, like the fact that it has
absolutely taken the world by storm with its performance. So, this is the 14-inch version of the new MacBook Pro with
their M1 Max processor inside. And immediately, I absolutely love what they've done with
the shape of the machine. That might not seem like
an important detail, but for the longest time Apple was making computers
that were kind of sharp. You know? Like Andy, do you know
what I'm talking about? Like, they were kind of
uncomfortable to hold. But man, that is totally not a thing here, with an exception, actually. The hinge at the back, where it's opened up for
ventilation is a little (hinge scraping) Like you hear that? - [Andy] Yeah. - It's something you can hear
in addition to just feeling. Every other surface of it, though, just feels really great, actually. - [Andy] I think it's harder
to pick up from the desk. - Harder to pick up from the desk? - [Andy] Cause you have to
really squeeze in your finger. - Hmm. Yeah, I see what you mean. I think it's minor, as long
as you've got two hands, you shouldn't have too
much trouble picking it up, but it's got a lot of heft to it too. I mean, that makes sense. So the 16-inch version has
a 100 watt hour battery, while the 14-inch version
has a 70 watt hour battery. Those are extremely hefty considering the size of these machines. And especially considering
that Apple went and put one of the most efficient
processors on the market into these machines, right? So Apple has a long and
proud history of building extremely efficient
processors in their phones and then putting weak sauce
batteries in their phones, when they could be putting ones that are three times the capacity because
they simply don't need to. But here they went, "You
know what? Full ham." We're going efficient processor and we're going to put a giant battery. So the 16-inch is actually at the limit of what you are allowed to put in a device that can be carried on to
an airplane, 100 watt hours. As usual, I need to disclose that I'm invested in Framework Inc. They make laptops, nothing like this one, but they definitely do make laptops. Oh okay. This is cool. One of the big things that
the Internet's wondering about with the M1 Max is, "Hey, they've got all of this GPU power, right? They've got this 32 core
GPU, whatever that means, but how does that actually
compare to the kind of GPU that you might find in a PC laptop? I mean, apple made comparisons to
NVIDIA's RTX 3080 mobile, and depending on the application. So for some productivity applications, that has actually not looked that crazy, but then if you've got all that power, what about gaming? So we've actually preloaded
this machine with Deus ex mankind divided, which I'm going to fire
up in a minute here, but first I just want to, I just want to tinker
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apple could do a better job of, it doesn't happen that often. But there are times when I
find myself wanting to open up the hinge of my laptop a little
bit more than this. I mean, this even goes back to when
I was still in university and sometimes I would walk around
on campus with wireless B, wireless B, Andy. Eleven megabit per second. And I would actually have my
machine completely opened up 180 degrees. And I'd be like, tapping tapping on something
while I'm walking around from one place to another. Remember this is before like
touchscreen smartphones. So like, okay, maybe it's
not part of your life, but it is something that
I still find myself doing once in a while. The polling rate on their track pad, I would say is, it could be
better for a 120 Hertz display. You can see there's some
irregularity in the gaps between cursor movements, but it's good. It's not bad. - (Andy) Can you game on it? - Can you game on a track pad? I wouldn't try to game on
a track pad. That's really, that's really not the point. Now, obviously the most controversial
thing about the new M1 Max and M1 pro Mac books is the notch. I've seen arguments both ways. I've seen arguments that it
matters a lot because you might have a whole bunch of stuff
lined up in whatever apple calls this and they can actually
end up hidden by the notch. And you can actually see that
instead of taking the approach that they have with the iPhone, where that part of the
screen simply doesn't exist, they've actually made
it. So it does exist. Like you could move your mouse
quite substantially on this Phantom portion of the screen back here. And this is a trend that apple
is not the only one to be responsible for. So Microsoft, in their
most recent surface device, actually has rounded corners. And you can end up hiding
the cursor behind it. Personally, I'm not a fan. I, I wish there was another way, but I also recognize the validity
of the arguments that go, well look, other than
the area with the notch. This is a 16 by 10 display, which basically everyone in
the know agrees is the ideal aspect ratio for consuming
computer content. It's not that far off 16 by nine, which is what a lot of your TV
shows and YouTube videos are going to be rendered out at. But it gives you that extra
little bit of vertical for scrolling documents. You know, whether you're reading something
on Reddit or whatever the case may be, and you want another couple
of tracks in your timeline for Adobe premier or final cut, it really does make a big difference. Something apple has done
a really good job of here, actually better than the
iPhone, now that I look at, it is matching the blackness of the display being off to the
blackness of the blank part, where there is no display. And that's a minor thing, but it is something that I
notice on their other devices, like on the iPhone, you can clearly see where the notch is, like without a lot of
effort, you see that? On here, it's a lot harder to pick up. And it's those little things
that contribute to the distraction of features like this. Now I'm not going to sit down
with this device for long enough to draw a final conclusion
about how distracting the notch is going to be. Fundamentally, I oppose
bites out of displays, but I'm not going to say that
I wouldn't be able to get used to it because I'm just not
spending enough time with it right now. I want to
fire up some HDR content. Wow. That's actually, that's
really impressive right there. Like I've been saying about
the last couple of generations of phone displays, unless you've got like a
multi thousand dollar TV, this is probably going to be
the best screen in your house, which is kind of mind
blowing to think about, even though Microsoft has
managed to achieve some level of HDR in mobile, this is clearly on an
entirely different level. What's the peak brightness of this thing? - (Andy) 16. - 1600 minutes. I mean, content like this, I'm not even going to be
benefiting from that, that Maximum. That's freaking awesome,
especially when you consider the kind of battery life that apple is boasting for this
machines, like what did they say, 14 hours of web browsing
on a single battery? That 14 hour quote is
for the 16 inch version. And they quote 21 hours of
content consumption on apple TV while the 14 inch version is
still pretty darn impressive. It's 17 hours of apple TV
and 11 hours of web browsing. I haven't actually tried
the new keyboard yet. It's got a bit of a clang to it. Okay. I definitely have some thoughts, in terms of deck stiffness, outstanding. Any of the flex that you're
seeing right now is probably due to the three and a half
millimeter thick desk pad that's sitting under this device, as opposed to any kind
of lack of stiffness of the chassis here, by
the way, LTT store.com. I find the bottoming
out a little bit mushy, and I still find that these
super short travel keyboards are in my opinion, really great
for bursty type things. So like sending IMS, which obviously you'll be
able to do because, you know, Imessaged integration on
the Mac or whatever else, but I have a hard time kind
of sustaining speed on them compared to something with
a bit of a longer travel. But from most people who
aren't spoiled by a hundred to $200, you know, just talking
mechanical keyboards, this is going to be the
best keyboard in the house. You know what I mean? - (Andy) And no touch bar! - Yeah, no touch bar, I mean, honestly, because I never actually tried
to daily drive the touch bar. I don't have the same kind of
anger about the touch bar that I think a lot of people do. I've reserved my anger at
Apple's unnecessary nonsense for things like the lack of
integration of face ID. If you're going to have
a gigantic notch there, or the fact that apple
still refuses to put a touchscreen on the Mac, because they simply have
decided that people don't want those things. That that's the ultimately, the reason they provided
for sticking with touch ID apparently, was because
touch ID is like better. Cause you're hands are on the keyboard. No, it's not better. As someone who has daily
driven windows hello, I can tell you, unequivocally,
that it is not better to have to touch the keyboard in any way. Now I do understand the challenges. You might look at something
like a phone and go, well, if they could put face ID to
boom and surely they can put face ID in here, but
it's a thickness issue. So the camera element for face
ID is actually quite thick. It's a lot of the thickness
of the iPhone and they just don't have enough space in
the top of the clam shell. Now I'm sure that these are
problems that apple could solve because they're very smart people. They could put something
like the dot projector under somewhere else or something. I'm sure they could figure it out, but they didn't. And now
they're just making excuses. Oh yeah, megs. I haven't even talked about ports. How did we make it this far
without talking about ports? I don't have a ton to say because
there's really no room for an opinion on this, apple
adding more ports to their professional device is
objectively an improvement. Meg safe, welcome back
thunder bolt, heck yeah. Three and a half millimeter Jack, which is apparently suitable
even for high impedance or more difficult to drive
headphones. Hey, thanks. Absolutely makes sense for
something like this. HDMI the only thing missing to me
is I would've actually rather had a single USB type A, rather than this third type C, but I've also seen opinions to
the contrary where people are saying, well, look, I've already invested in the
dongle ecosystem because I've been stuck with it. I don't
want to throw it all my dongles. Let's not go back. Let's
not go back in time, but I don't think USB A
is going back in time. I don't think it's going
anywhere for a lot of devices. SD card though. Welcome. Welcome back. Welcome back. SD card. I had said on the
land show, I said the SD card, maybe not as big of a deal as
it used to be now that so much camera media is not SD, but
people brought up to me then. Okay, well, you know, what about drone enthusiasts
or brass pie enthusiasts or all these other developers? Like all these other people
that might need to use an SD card. It's definitely a thing
that professionals beyond just cinematographers are going
to benefit from. And Hey, I read you guys loud and clear. I have high expectations
for the speakers on this. It is amazing how much bass
they tack into these, like, tiny little speakers. Isn't it? And it's actually punchy.
Like it doesn't suck. Sorry, I can't hear you Andy, busy, like DJing on my Mac pro
dog, just listening to them. I can pretty much guarantee
you're going to get a nicer profile on a hard surface. That's impressive between
Microsoft, Dell and apple. The bar is so high now for laptop audio, that, if you're not
putting a ton of work into software tuning your speakers, you are just not going to
be able to be competitive. It's that simple. Sarah did up these little short circuit banana for scale plushy. So if you were wondering
how big the laptop is, here's your, here's your banana, here's your banana for scale. They're a touch bigger
than a normal banana. We actually need a banana
for scale for the banana, but it was just a limitation of how, how skinny you can make them. Yeah, the length is about right.
The length is about right, but it's, it's girthier. And as we all know, that's the
most important thing anyway. So you guys can check
these out at lttstore.com. Thanks Jono. We've got
different colors too. We're going to get to gaming really soon, but there's a couple of other
things I wanted to talk about. Apple has thrown their pro
moniker on a lot of products, I feel like, over the years,
that have not necessarily deserved to be called
pro, but in this case, the upgrades over the
regular M1 Mac book are just, they're also pro focused.
So instead of being limited, in terms of how many
displays you can connect, with the Max version of
the processor ForMax, you can have up to three
6k, 60 Hertz displays. So those are going to
connect to your Thunderbolt, four ports and an additional
4k HTMI display. And again, that's going to be 4k 60
Hertz because this is an HDMI 2.0 rather than 2.1 port, but
still, four external displays, like this thing is actually
mobile battlestation capable, as opposed to just being a laptop, that's like a little better. So it's pro, I didn't even
mention the core count. 10 core CPU up to 64 gigs of Ram. I believe they can do up to
like eight terabytes of storage these days. Now let's play
some fidget games, shall we? datasets, mankind
divided, running at ultra, on a low on a Mac. What? Okay. This frame rate is not great, but ultra at this kind of
resolution on a mobile device is also not reasonable. Let's turn it down to
something not stupid. I don't want the low frame
rate at ultra to undermine how impressive it was that it was
even running it that well, this is a demanding game.
Oh, hi there, buddy. Okay. Oh, there, they're
there too, and I'm dead. Thank you too, I was about
to say the fan kicked in. It's still like pretty quiet, but it also, hasn't been under this kind
of load for an extended period of time here yet. Let's give
it some time to ramp up. Oh no, please don't kill me. Fans going now, but it's
a whoosh, not a nee, okay, do I have melee, melee? It's running a little choppy. Okay, I have three rounds left. Still, got them. Man, this display, even though
this is not an HDR game, looks so good. But this isn't the full review though. This is short circuit, gets
subscribed for more quick unboxings, like this one. Full review is coming on LTT, Anthony's been working on
it for quite some time, and we're going to have a
bunch of followup content. We actually bought every
configuration of the new M1 Mac pros and M1 Max Macs.
