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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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Yeah, 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 Grey 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 
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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
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And not only have they lowered the price,

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they have also given you
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You now have a 16 GB
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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

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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 Oasis

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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.

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I have spent time designing this monitor

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and it looks fantastic.

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The back in particular

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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 ISIS's pro art line up,

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so they provide a bunch of colour

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accuracy test shots in the box

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to show that it's been thoroughly tested.

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They specifically compared

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to other much higher

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end production monitors

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which can be in the five figure

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price range.

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This isn't meant to be compared

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to cheap monitors

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due to how

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it is designed for anyone who does

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content creation, whether you're

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a filmmaker, photographer,

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3D artist or designer.

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If you want super top notch

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colour accuracy,

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this is a monitor for it.

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It's a 31.5 inch CUDA led monitor.

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That's 4K and resolution,

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and it also does up to 240 hugs.

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And of course,

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viewing any content on it is sublime.

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Outlets have always been amazing

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in this area.

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It has Thunderbolt four built in

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so you can connect a macbook

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with one cable and daisy chain

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other thunderbolt accessories

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like another monitor.

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The Thunderbolt Port also provides

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up to 96 watts of power.

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I was able to get 240 hours right

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out of the box with the MacBook Air,

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and it is buttery, smooth.

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It's perfect for anyone

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who is looking for a high quality

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outlet 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 out a live link

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to head down the description below.

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This MacBook Air

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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

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here, AM4 chip, which has a ten core

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CPU and a eight core CPU.

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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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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

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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

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the upgraded

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unified memory of 16 gigabytes.

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with lots of different screens,

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you shouldn't have an issue like room

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editing as well has been no issues.

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I've been editing

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photos very, very fast and snappy.

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Being able to go through my library

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quickly, copying based edits and stuff.

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It's been very, very smooth.

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So here I am. Anything a video?

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This is for my sole favourite

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Mac jobs Mac apps I can't live without.

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I have two clips,

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I have a screen recording

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and I have the AOL of myself.

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So every half hour that we can see,

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I will of myself.

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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 so

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that, you know what, I'm demoing the app.

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You can see me in the corner

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and I'll see how I'm taking up.

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I had the screen recording solve main

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focus of the screen

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when I, for example,

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let's have a good

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let's have a look at this one.

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So right now I have a set of two

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better performance.

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it does play

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fairly smoothly and

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it can

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jitter sometimes and

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it's okay

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right now,

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but that's a better performance.

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If I get a better quality

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and I start playing,

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I may be doing fine right now.

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But what would happen

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is I start showing right now

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I think it's

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because Final Cut Pro

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has done the background rendering.

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and you have two clips like this, two

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heavy clips because I'm using ten,

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there is 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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you know, the media engines

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and whatever else, but it isn't air.

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so 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 Main Right

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now, though, it's running smoothly.

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I think, like I said, it's

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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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of my more complex videos,

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and my review videos

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are technically a bit easier,

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but for stuff like this,

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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 to collapse

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on top of each other.

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which means it's playing by clips

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at the same time.

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but it works.

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someone who's interested in

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doing basic video editing.

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Maybe you're shooting stuff

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with an iPhone

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or a of insta360 or whatever it is.

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like handheld gimbal cameras.

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You are not going to have any issues here

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with the M4 chip,

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like you will not have

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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

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the way,

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is when it comes to rendering video

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as something like Final Cut Pro.

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When I was rendering videos

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at the source, same video out

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the render times would be double,

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sometimes triple the time.

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having to go back and edit something.

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I'm sometimes having to render videos

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for clients

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and stuff very quickly as well.

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Time for me is very, very valuable.

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one of the downsides of the M4 chip.

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it wasn't really designed for that.

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for everything that it can do.

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If you're someone who's

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just getting started

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with content creation,

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maybe you're just making that all

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video here and there, maybe doing some

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3D rendering, some 3D editing,

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whatever it might be I stuff.

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I think this is going

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to be completely fine just to start 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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and what it 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

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this on battery life

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when it comes to these laptops now.

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And I think most people need to worry

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unless they're doing

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super, super heavy stuff.

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Maybe you're spending the whole day

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video editing

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you might need to connect it

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to a charger.

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I've been working inside that web.

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Browsing, watching videos

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is going to last you the whole day.

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No problem.

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Now let's go through

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some downsize and improvements

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that I think

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could be made to a lot bigger.

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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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is not having the Magsafe charger.

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But we know with the Mac mini,

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for example, that you can have an extra

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thunderbolt port with the base M4 chip

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and the Mac Mini also has two extra

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SBC ports, so that's five ports in total.

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It would have been nice to maybe

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see an extra thunderbolt

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port on this side

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specifically

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because everything is on this side.

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I kind of feel like

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it just makes it quite limiting

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when you're connecting stuff

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because you've got to make sure

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they have enough length

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and the cable or whatever.

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It would have been nice

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to have another Thunderbolt

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port on their side 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 all that isn't a mini.

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It is 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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we'll say you're limited to 60 hertz,

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another 60 hertz thing that I feel like

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a lot of people do complain about.

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But I really do think 60 years

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for most people

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who are buying this machine

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60 hours, they probably even notice

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the difference between 60 hours, 120

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yards, 60 hours

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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

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to have many LCD oil.

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And then finally, as a storage,

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you have 256 gigabytes 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 mostly

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I'm editing

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lots of photos and videos and stuff.

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I need a hard drive to edit off.

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It's just not going to be enough storage.

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

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I think it'll be great

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upgrading it to 512 or one terabyte.

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The problem is the pricing for upgrade.

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It's $200 each time.

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So to upgrade from 256

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gigabytes of storage to 512

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gigabytes of storage,

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where you're only adding

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256 gigabytes of storage

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here is 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 for.

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I have it we don't have for $140,

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you can get a Samsung T7

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two terabyte personal drive

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for $140

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to upgrade to two terabytes

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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 the upgraded unified memory

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going from eight gigabytes to 16

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gigabytes 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, but I've had fun.

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I've got pro Lightroom or 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

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with a few downside.

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As I mentioned,

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this is definitely the best value Mac,

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but 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

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guide where you can see

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all of the Mac points 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

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the must have apps if you have a mac.

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So hopefully you guys enjoyed it.

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