Don’t buy a MacBook Pro - MacBook Air M3

I'm going to say something controversial

it shouldn't be controversial but a

bunch of you in the comments are

probably going to say it is but if

you're in the market for a Macbook this

is probably the one you should buy this

is the new Macbook Air with fancy topof

thee line M3 processor and realistically

for most people this is more than you

need as with most Apple packaging simple

and sweet oh hey it's not plastic

anymore we've got typical propaganda

also still with the spacer though like

what is this look look at how much empty

space there is in there we've got wait

wo whoo wo there we go stickers thank

you I was worried for a second the day

that Apple stops including Apple

stickers in their packaging is the day

that um we know we have failed as a

society we've got charger brick also in

a glassing bag what is this this is a 30

W USBC power adapter and then the cute

little sleeved mag safe cable type c on

one end mag safe on the other I did get

confirmation for 20 bucks us you can

upgrade to a 70 W single port charger uh

or a dual Port 35 watt charger depending

on what you prefer I would go with the

70 wat because faster

charging on this side we've got the mag

safe charging port for the cable I

showed you earlier along with two USBC

ports these run at Thunderbolt 3 or USB

4 so 40 gig on those there is no

additional USBC ports on the other side

uh like some MacBook Pros uh and it is

going to be the same same configuration

if you have the 13 or 15in air we've got

a headphone jack here which I like to

see on the bottom feet for those that

are interested free of charge ooh I

forgot the M2 air was with the sexy

colors look at that same

iio that hey look same iio damn this is

some this is the same laptop but faster

I guess let me Crack him open hey look

same

laptop I can tell you already the moral

of this story is going to be to buy a

used M2 MacBook or a Reverb maybe or

apparently Walmart has M1 MacBook airs

for like 700 bucks as for on paper

they're not obviously the same laptop

the big thing you're getting here is the

new M3 chip now we've gone into the

details far more extensively in the

MacBook Pro M3 video but the main

differences are little bit better

efficiency really good performance as

before but even a little bit more better

we've got av1 d coding but not end

coding and uh right Hardware Ray tracing

if you game on your MacBook a or maybe

in in blender I don't know if it

supports it yet but that that could be a

use case and then other than that specs

wise you're looking at pretty much the

same laptop aside from the Wi-Fi 6E

support that they added as well so it'll

be fast on Wi-Fi if you also happen to

have a Wi-Fi 6E router and fast internet

that can take advantage of it oh I

almost forgot there is one more

important Hardware thing on the m2a air

you could have an external display but

only one on the M3 you can now have two

external displays but there isn't really

any hardware Improvement it's still a

single display controller so when you're

using two external displays you can't

use the laptop display that's because

they're mxing the normal laptop display

out through a display output and not

actually giving you an additional

display controller um it is technically

better than the M1 air in terms of

flexibility but not better in in terms

of supporting more displays it's the

same amount they're just giving you the

ability to use the laptop display output

on a separate monitor so it sucks it's

still technically like better than they

had before but but come on on a Windows

laptop you can have like four display

outputs if you want what you can't get

on a Windows laptop is this much

horsepower without the noise at least

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theory the keyboard and trackpad should

be the same but let's uh try them out

where is like a notepad app in here

notes my name is Jake and I think this

keyboard is pretty solid it feels really

similar but almost like maybe it's just

because this one is new like this

feels clicker this feels like a just

slightest bit mushier I don't know I

think it's just because it's used and

one is not hard to say trackpad feels

the same it's a nice big size for the

class of laptop everything there looks

the same and is still good we've got the

same display with the notch thought we

were past this thing Apple but all right

why not a dynamic Island H H it's the

same 13.6 in IPS display 2560 X 1664 500

nits brightness not high refresh rate

but a wide P3 color gam it let me do

some

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speaker they sound a little different am

I crazy come here Belle it's okay like

don't get me wrong it is very similar

but like ever so slightly just the

tiniest bit different and it almost just

sounds more distorted on the

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left

yeah actually it is I did notice on the

specs page on the M2 they listed Wide

Stereo Sound and said the M2 sounds

better and they don't list it on this

one I don't know that it's better it

it's it's like so close that you're not

really going to be able to tell the

difference aside from if you were doing

this the one thing I will say you are

losing out compared to a MacBook Pro is

MacBook Pro speakers are obviously a

little bit better the these are still

solid for I mean where even where did

the speakers come from they fire the

speaker out of like here so it it like

bounces at you it's a good design it

works I mean it sounds pretty solid like

and it has sounded pretty solid on this

one too as usual the display is pretty

close to as they specify it seems like

it's a tiny bit brighter uh color

tracking is very accurate that being

said Apple's not really in the position

they once were where they just led the

class Windows laptops are starting to

catch up and in some cases even surpass

Apple but you do at least know that

you're going to get a fairly color

accurate display buying an Apple laptop

not to mention that Mac OS does a really

good job of color management it doesn't

have HDR like the MacBook Pros because

there's no local dimming uh and it's

only 60 HZ which probably doesn't matter

to you realistically it does look nice

on the eyes though well let's talk

performance then what do we got here in

games it is a bit faster you can and

will get slightly more frames than your

friend with a MacBook Air M2 you won't

get more frames than your friend with a

MacBook Pro M3 that's for sure but it

also has two extra GPU cores on that M3

chip and a cooling fan which is going to

make a big difference if you plan on

gaming for more than 45 seconds you are

going to run into a situation where you

will thermal throttle similar to all the

previous mbased MacBook airs if you

think about it in your day-to-day your

web browsing you're never going to

notice that however gaming extended

workloads it does make a difference

there are ways to get around it you know

you could get a a laptop cooling pad or

when you're editing in Premiere and

close the lid and have your two monitors

now haha screw you MacBook Air M2 dude

but it is still worth mentioning that

being said it does also mean that this

machine is silent now don't get me wrong

I would probably use a Windows laptop if

the battery life didn't suck and you

know a couple other things but God damn

Apple really has the leg up when it

comes to that here let's look at the

battery life the efficiency is better so

you are getting even better battery life

in a stress test interestingly the

MacBook Air M3 actually scored better in

the stress test and that's probably

because it's thermal throttling so it's

drawing less power it's not a huge

difference but I guess if you consider

the larger battery it's pretty

noticeable when you're in 12 hours 12

and 1/2 hours in an endurance test

you're already into a situation where

you can't even really complain about it

like like let's be real here that's more

than one and a half work days of

consistently watching YouTube videos now

let's talk productivity in blender uh we

actually couldn't run our typical

blender Barbershop test because it runs

out of memory on these 8 gig models you

actually just can't render that complex

of a scene anymore so if you're planning

on doing anything a little more serious

like video editing regularly let's say

or blender rendering or or whatever you

might want to look at getting more RAM

although the M3 chip does have a

substantial leg up in blender uh they

implemented that months ago already and

so it's widely supported and we can see

it in the numbers the M3 laptops

absolutely Stomp the M2 air and

presumably the pro although we didn't

test that here uh in cine bench little

bit of a performance Improvement kind of

expected to see that in nukex which is a

nearly hourong test depending on what

laptop you have again the fan makes a

huge difference not thermal throttling

makes a huge difference in pett bench

which is a lot shorter of a test sort of

in Photoshop you can see you're getting

pretty much the same performance and

that's because any sort of high load is

typically going to be for short bursts

which the kind of thermal mass of the

chassis of this laptop can absorb when

you go into Premiere which is video

editing where you're going to have a

sustained load well now there's a big

difference especially if you go to

render like a 30 minute long video it'll

go pretty fast and then it'll slow down

and it's also somewhere where having

extra Ram will definitely help you um it

is still faster than the air M2 sure

don't get me wrong but an M3 Pro it's a

lot

faster but overall I mean this is It's a

fast laptop let let me do a Wi-Fi speed

test hey look at this all right open

Speed Test all right 500 500 that's not

bad let me try speed test speed test and

see if it's any different oh look at

that upload speed let's go it faster

than open Speed Test that's weird all

right seems like we're getting around

500 down 500 to 700 up depending on

which service I use for whatever reason

and then let's try WiFi

6E

500 600 it's not really looking that

much better I'm going to be honest with

you I mean 600 600 it is faster than the

5 gig Wi-Fi try the local open Speed

Test see how that goes still about the

same 600 down a little bit faster look

the Wi-Fi on the laptop it's just it's

pretty fast it's not the fastest I've

ever seen but also I tried it on my

phone and it wasn't faster so maybe the

AP is just um I don't know having a day

let's be honest this is a pretty

iterative update do I like it yes it's

still faster if you do blender yeah

probably upgrade but if you do blender

you should probably buy a pro as well uh

it is 100 bucks cheaper than the M2 was

at launch mind you when the M2 air

launched uh we were in a little bit of

of a different Global Supply Chain

situation and that could maybe be a

justification for it but as of right now

it's $100 more than the M2 if all you do

is web browsing and watching memes and

YouTube videos and basic photo editing

like buy an M2 you'd be kind of silly to

buy this it's it's pretty much the same

other than in the situations I laid out

honestly buy an

M1 you don't get the cool colors on the

m and the M3 with the M1 but you can buy

it at Walmart for 700 bucks which is 300

bucks cheaper than the M2 to buy new and

400 bucks cheaper than this one so yeah

if you like this video hit the like

button it's a it's a nice laptop I don't

I don't have anything bad to say about

it it's still realistically expensive in

the grand scheme of things but not that

expensive for what you're getting