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