Sorry Apple But My 8GB RAM Was NOT Enough

hi I'm Sam Tucker and in 2021 I bought the entrylevel M1 MacBook Air but it turned out sometimes my apps like Final Cut asked for a little bit more like 85 GB of RAM far out I can't afford that much well anyway today it's time to upgrade and when it comes to Apple you might as well spend big because well I don't think they let you spend small and here she is my all new 16 GB 16in MacBook chunk with an M2 processor on special and well will I notice a difference for the money I spent I certainly hope so okay so first off why was 8 GB not enough well as you may have heard Apple says that 8 GB of RAM on the M series Max is as good as 16 GB on other systems and to that I say they're kind of right I mean this might not be too popular to say but really I found that 8 GB was not only enough to do web browsing word processing and editing photos but it's still really good for video editing too I mean every video on the channel since I did that unboxing back in April 2021 has been edited on that M1 a and really it performed great for green screen videos music videos even on the rare outside videos but there were a couple of instances when it did start to struggle like halfway through editing large multicam videos like the honest unboxing series I do and another one was some videos with interesting effects like this face tracking one anyway at that point it does start to complain and ask me for more RAM than humanly possible it also doesn't help that this is the base model with only 256 GB of storage and if you fill that up it can't use the SSD to help with that r H swapping thing it does and it slows down even further so rather than just quitting Final Cut and reopening it again which does fix the problem instead I decided to spend a million dollar on this bad boy but why get the MacBook chunk so getting more RAM was a given but I also really wanted that bigger display that just turned off thanks Mac I haven't regretted it just yet because I missed the 15 in of my old 2012 MacBook screen you know I used to edit a lot of videos on that screen alone or at least my cat's butt did and you know when I had to go to Serbia for a few weeks due to Visa issues I lugged a big 27in monitor with me and that was a pain in the butt and so I went with the bigger 16in to have maximum display and I went pro instead of the 15-in air because I wanted that sweet SD card slot for the ultimate portable desktop experience so that I can edit while traveling like when I visit a Australia again or maybe on location at an event and in the past couple of years I've done neither of those things but now I'm ready I can do those things if I wanted to and had any money left over yeah so since I pretty much edit everything at home anyway I did consider at one point getting something like a Mac Studio but I still can get that desktop experience thanks to this video's sponsor I vankey that's right why put up with just six ports that your MacBook has when you could have 20 with the ivank key Fusion dock Max one yum with the fusion dock I can have the ultimate video editing setup like when I plug in the 2.5 GB ethernet so that I can download and upload my video clips fast I can plug in my USBC SSD with a fast 40 GB transfer speed to Ed it smoothly there's usba for my keyboard and customized hand hand keyboard thing that I use for all my final cut shortcuts optical audio SD card slots and the standout feature is the fusion docs quad display support the base M chip can support One external display the pro like in my MacBook can support two and if you got the max you can get up to four with up to 6K at 60 FPS and the funnest thing that I found is that to plug in the fusion dock you use this unique double Thunderbolt cable and that enables the doc's two Thunderbolt 4 chips to deliver five speeds to your computer without any lag do note it only works on Apple Computers it won't work with a PC and you will need an M series chip for this bad boy to work it won't work with the the old Intel laptop so you need the full power to get the full power like it works great on the new M3 series of MacBooks if you got one of those your lucky sausage so upgrade your MacBook to the ultimate desktop setup with the ivanky f Fusion doc Max one use the discount code and Link in the description to get an awesome deal righto so did I notice a difference with more RAM well I can confidently say not really at least in terms of Everyday Use and the video edits that I've done so far it seems about the same certainly not thousands of dollars better anyway one difference though is that I can now edit thumbnails while exporting the videos so that's worth it and opening up some bigger projects it doesn't seem like it's complaining so that's good but the main benefits that I did notice wasn't so much the bigger Ram but the bigger screen that made it easier to see and harder to fit in my bag and I like the bigger SSD that allows me to install all the roads in City skylines yeah everything's a little bit bigger and a little bit better well except the shift key what is it with you Europeans and your small shifts look at me stretching my pinky out like I play so what do I miss my money I miss having money oh well it still cost me more to ship the K ey over to Europe than this MacBook did so maybe I should have shipped him in this MacBook box because he seems to like that much more than my new computer so do I notice any difference not really do I regret my purchase only slightly but one thing I don't regret is this video sponsor ivanky check out the ivanky fusion doc Max one to your Mac to the next level let me know what computers you're using down in the comments below and until next time stay funky everyone same time signing off drunky drunky drunky drunky drunk subscribe to D everyone thanks for watching the video and if you're wondering why we went with uh an apple while we bat the Apple again well I've been playing around with uh with Linux and after a few hours I did get a video editing program to turn on doesn't quite work with video though it's a slide setback so we did go with something that just works for now but uh we may play around with Linux later subscribe to the channel for that one

Channel: SAMTIME

Views: 78,052

Keywords: 8gb, 16gb, RAM, 8 GB RAM, 16GB RAM, test, comparison, macbook pro, funny, 8gb vs 16 gb, samtime, sam tucker

Id: KO_Q1iCWiEQ

Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 26 2024