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So I've been using the new MacBook Air

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over the past week now.

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I purposely bought the base model,

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primarily because that's the model

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that most people are going to buy.

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I wanted to see what it would be 
switching to this

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over my MacBook Pro,

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which is here,

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the M4 Max MacBook Pro.

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This MacBook Pro actually cost me $4,000--

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over $4,000.

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Yet this costs $1,000.

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This has the M4 Max chip in it

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and it also has a 36 GB of Unified Memory.

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Big jump there between the two.

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But I just wanted to see

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what the M4 MacBook Air would be like

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and whether it could handle

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most of my workload.

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Considering this MacBook Air 
is a fourth of the price,

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it has been very interesting.

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I also have the Silver version here,

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now that the Space Gray has gone,

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and there is no Space Black,

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I think the Silver looks best.

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And here's a shot comparing 
the Space Black,

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Space Gray, and Silver
for anyone interested.

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What is surprising with this MacBook Pro

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is that Apple have lowered the price.

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Now let me say that again,

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Apple have lowered the price

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of a product, of a new product,

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not something that Apple
are known for whatsoever.

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And not only have they lowered the price,

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they have also given you
more for the money.

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You now have a 16 GB
of Unified Memory compared

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to the 8 GB in previous models.

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The design itself is unchanged,

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which I think is a good thing.

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This form factor is the best.

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It's super thin, light,

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and feels great.

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It always surprises me

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how thin MacBook Airs are when I use them.

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It makes it ideal for travelling.

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Apple have completed nailed the design here.

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I also much prefer the 13 inch size

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over the 15 inch size,

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and that's purely down
to personal preference.

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I've always preferred smaller laptops.

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I think to myself it would be even better

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if we saw a 12 inch version.

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But hey, 13 inches, I think, is a great size.

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The 15 inch model is also $200 more.

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Now, I don't think it's worth $200 more.

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But it does also have two more GPU cores.

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And if you really want that 15 inch,

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maybe it might be worth it for you.

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Alongside this MacBook Air,

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I've also been using this new monitor from Asus,

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who are also sponsoring this video.

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When I first unboxed it,

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I was actually really impressed

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by the design of this thing.

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It's not like other monitors.

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You can tell Asus have spent time 
designing this monitor

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and it looks fantastic.

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The back in particular just looks amazing.

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It also comes with a great stand

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that offers a ton of movement.

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You have tilt, height,

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and rotating options.

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This is part of Asus' ProArt lineup.

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So they provide a bunch 
of colour accuracy test shots in the box

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to show that it's been thoroughly tested.

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They specifically compare it

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to other much higher-end production monitors,

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which can be in the five figure price range.

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This isn't meant to be compared
to cheap OLED monitors

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due to how it's tuned.

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It's designed for anyone who does content creation,

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whether you're a filmmaker, photographer,

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3D artist or a designer.

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If you want super top notch
colour accuracy,

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this is a monitor for it.

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It's a 31.5 inch QD-OLED monitor

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that's 4K in resolution,

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and it also does up to 240 Hz.

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And of course,

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viewing any content on it is sublime.

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OLEDs have always been amazing
in this area.

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It has Thunderbolt 4 built-in,

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so you can connect a MacBook 
with one cable

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and daisy chain
other thunderbolt accessories

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like another monitor.

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The Thunderbolt port also provides 
up to 96 watts of power.

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I was able to get 240 Hz 
right out of the box

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with the MacBook Air,

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and it is buttery smooth.

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It's perfect for anyone who's looking

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for a high-quality OLED monitor

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for their Mac,

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which also has amazing colour accuracy.

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So make sure to check it out.

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I'll leave a link to it, 
down in the description below.

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This MacBook Air also has the new M4 chip in it

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and as most people will know,

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the M-series of chips for Apple

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have just been a revelation.

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You get top notch performance

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for a lot less power and a lot less heat,

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so it's made

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for some very powerful chips

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that can go in very compact laptops.

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This specifically has the base tier M4 chip,

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which has a 10-core CPU and a 8-core GPU.

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I've been using this machine

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just like how I'd use my MacBook Pro.

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I've not hidden anything away from it.

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And let me tell you,

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I have been a lot more impressed

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than I thought I would be.

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I wasn't expecting this

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to be nearly as good

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as my MacBook Pro

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when it comes to a lot of things.

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It handles all of the standard stuff

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extremely well as you'd expect.

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I've been working away at apps like Figma

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for all of my design work,

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and I feel like this is quite basic now.

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I think most people are going to be fine

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using something like Figma,

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especially if you have heavy Figma files,

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now that you have the upgraded

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Unified Memory of 16 GB,

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if you have a heavy Figma files

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with lots of different screens,

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you shouldn't have an issue.

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Lightroom editing as well has been no issues.

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I've been editing photos
very, very fast and snappy.

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Being able to go through my library quickly,

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copy and paste edits and stuff.

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It's been very, very smooth.

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So here I am editing a video,

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this is for my sort of favourite Mac apps,

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Mac apps I can't live without.

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I have two clips here,

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I have a screen recording

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and I have the A-roll of myself.

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So if we hover over, we can see,

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A-roll of myself.

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And I also have

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the screen recording.

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And I've got them set up

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as a multicam clip,

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so that I can switch between the two,

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so that when I'm demoing the app,

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you can see me in the corner.

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And obviously, I'm taking up...

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I had the screen recording 
sort of main focus of the screen.

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When I, for example--

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Let's have a look at this one.

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So right now I have a set it to

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Better Performance.

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And with Better Performance,

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it does play

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fairly smoothly.

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It can jitter sometimes.

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It's okay right now,

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but that's at Better Performance.

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If I go to Better Quality,

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and I start playing...

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it seems to be doing fine right now.

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But what would happen is--

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It's not showing right now,

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I think it's because Final Cut Pro

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has done the background rendering.

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If you're in the middle of an edit

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and you have two clips like this,

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two heavy clips,

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because I'm using 10-bit S-log footage,

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quite heavy footage,

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which is also compressed.

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Thankfully, the Mac has,

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the Media Engines and whatever else,

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but it isn't Air.

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It's not Pro,

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so it doesn't have as many Media Engines.

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For doing edits like this,

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it works.

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It's not perfect,

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there are sometimes dropped frames.

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It can be a bit slow

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when it comes to playback.

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I mean, right now, though,

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it's running smoothly.

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I think, like I said,

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it's because it's done

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a lot of background rendering.

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I'm editing this video right now

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and there's a lot going on.

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This is actually one of my more complex videos.

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My review videos 
are technically a bit easier,

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but for stuff like this,

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we have multicams,

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you have different cameras

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and you're going in and out

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with effects and you have overlays,

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where you have two clips

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on top of each other.

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It has to show both the clips,

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which means it's playing 
both clips at the same time.

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It can be a bit heavier on the chip,

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but it works.

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I think if you're someone

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who's interested 
in doing basic video editing.

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Maybe you're shooting 
stuff with an iPhone

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or a sort of Insta360 or whatever it is,

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one of those handheld gimbal cameras.

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You are not gonna have any issues here

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with the M4 chip.

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You will not have any issues whatsoever.

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And that's what's so impressive to me.

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The only downside with a chip like this,

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which is completely to be expected, by the way,

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is when it comes to rendering video

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in something like Final Cut Pro.

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When I was rendering videos

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the sort of same videos

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that I would edit on my MacBook Pro,

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the render times would be double,

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sometimes triple the time.

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So that can really add on a lot of time,

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if you're rendering a lot of videos.

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Especially for someone like me,

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where I'm rendering multiple videos a week,

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I'm sometimes having to re-render things

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because I'm having to go back 
and edit something.

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I'm sometimes having to render videos

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for clients and stuff very quickly as well.

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Time for me is very, very valuable.

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So that's really one of the downsides 
of the M4 chip.

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But again,

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it wasn't really designed for that.

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So it's still an amazing chip

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for everything that it can do.

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If you're someone 
who's just getting started

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with content creation,

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maybe you're just making 
that odd video here and there,

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maybe you're doing some 3D rendering,
some 3D editing,

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whatever it might be, AI stuff.

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I think this is gonna be completely fine

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just to start out with,

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maybe down the line

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you can consider something like a Pro,

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but for how much this can do,

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the M4 chip can do,

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I've genuinely been very impressed.

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As expected, battery life is fantastic.

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Apple have really nailed the battery life

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when it comes to these laptops now.

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I don't think most people need to worry,

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unless they're doing 
super, super heavy stuff.

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Maybe you're spending 
the whole day video editing,

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then yeah, you might need to connect it

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to a charger.

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But for doing sort of admin work 
and stuff like that,

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web browsing, watching videos,

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it is going to last you
the whole day no problem.

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Now let's go through 
some downsize and improvements

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that I think could be made to the MacBook Air.

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First up is the connectivity.

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I wish it had an extra Thunderbolt port.

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So we have two Thunderbolt ports

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and the charger,

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which is nice,

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it's nice having the MagSafe charger.

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But we know, with the Mac Mini, for example,

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that you can have an extra Thunderbolt port

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with the base M4 chip.

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And the Mac Mini also has 
two extra USB-C ports,

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so that's five ports in total.

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It would have been nice to maybe see

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an extra Thunderbolt port on this side, specifically,

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because everything is on this side.

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I kind of feel like, it just makes it quite limiting

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when you're connecting stuff,

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because you gotta make sure

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they have enough length 
on the cable or whatever.

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It would have been nice

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to have another 
Thunderbolt port on this side

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or even a USB-C port.

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The display on this is, I think,

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actually, that's a disservice.

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I think actually it's better than okay.

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It's actually a really good display.

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However, it isn't an OLED, it isn't a Mini LED,

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it's just a standard LCD display.

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It would be nice to see Mini LED

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or LED at some point

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because they are getting cheaper

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and easier

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to sort of put in machines like this.

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So maybe in the future

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we get something like that.

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Also, you're limited to 60 Hz.

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Now the 60 Hz thing,

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that I feel like a lot of people 
do complain about.

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But I really do think 60 Hz

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for most people 
who are buying this machine,

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60 Hz, they probably don't even notice

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the difference between 60 Hz and 120 Hz.

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60 Hz is usually enough for them.

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So that I don't think is as important,

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it would just be nice 
to have Mini LED or OLED.

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And then finally, is the storage,

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you have 256 GB of storage

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with the base model.

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So because of that,

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I've been using it

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with an external SSD connected up to it,

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I'd say 80% of the time.

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I feel like I'm an edge case though,

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because obviously I'm editing

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lots of photos and videos off.

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I need a hard drive to edit off.

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It's just not gonna be enough storage.

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But that's not even the issue, I think.

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I think it'd be great

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upgrading it to 512 or 1 TB.

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The problem is the pricing for the upgrade.

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It's $200 each time.

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So to upgrade from 256 GB of storage

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to 512 GB of storage,

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where you're only adding

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256 GB of storage here,

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it's an extra $200.

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I think that is ridiculous.

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I think that is just so overpriced

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for what it is.

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I have it written down here, for $140,

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you can get a Samsung T7

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2 TB, external drive,

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for $140.

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To upgrade to 2 TB

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on the MacBook Air,

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it's going to cost you $800.

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How does that make any sense?

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The two biggest changes, though,

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and the two changes that I think make

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the most significant amount of difference

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is the M4 chip

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and that upgraded Unified Memory.

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Going from 8 GB to 16 GB of Unified Memory

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is going to make a world of a difference.

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It's made a world of a difference for me.

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When I've been using apps,

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when I've had so many different apps open

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on this machine,

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when I've had Final Cut Pro, Lightroom,

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Arc, Slack, Notion,

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all open at the same time.

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I've had no issues.

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It's run so smoothly

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because of that doubled memory.

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I think that's where the MacBook Air

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is really good value.

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If you're willing to put up 
with a few downside,

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as I mentioned,

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this is definitely the best value MacBook

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you can get right now.

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Make sure to check out my other video

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where I did a MacBook buying guide,

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where you can see 
all of the MacBooks compared,

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what I think is worth the money,

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what I think isn't worth the money.

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Make sure check that out.

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And I also have a video on the must have apps

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if you have a Mac.

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