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Apple M1 Macs! Hands-on with the new Mini, Pro, and Air

These three new systems, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini, speed past their predecessors, but not without caveats for early adopters.

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  1. gurru ji ji

    November 17, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    Should I buy mac book pro or air m1 for editing and logic

  2. Agent EagleT

    November 17, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    Spicy

  3. eddie ennis baysal

    November 17, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    dont watch this this is bs nothing we didn’t know

  4. zero11010

    November 17, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    Gaming on a Mac …. HAH!

  5. Sunil Ochani

    November 17, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    please increase volume, even on mini pod full volume, its hard to listen

  6. noisezone

    November 17, 2020 at 5:18 pm

    Is it true that the Mac Mini M1 can handle only one Display ?

    • Rob Smith

      November 17, 2020 at 5:24 pm

      The Mini can have 2 displays. One up to 6k through thunderbolt and one up to 4K through HDMI. MacBook Air and Pro can only use one display.

    • noisezone

      November 17, 2020 at 5:28 pm

      @Rob Smith thx, thats all i need to know 🙂

    • Caleb

      November 17, 2020 at 10:15 pm

      If you daisy chain a Thunderbolt Display, does that count as 1 display or 2?

  7. B R

    November 17, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    After seeing it in this video, I miss my black MacBook. Wish I kept it just for fun.

  8. GenreOnline

    November 17, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    I like Dan Ackerman a lot. I think his delivery and his speaking voice as well as his mannerisms, which are very cool, but in this particular overview of the new Mac he seems a little bit tired or maybe he has a touch of cabin fever because he’s been in seclusion, wherever he is, for a long time with his family and who knows but I think he’s been quarantine too long so whoever’s got the the cure or vaccine for the virus please send it over to Dan and his family so that they can come back to wherever they wanna come back to for CNET. Love y’all.

  9. John Jensen

    November 17, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    cool, an landline phone on the wall! Credits from me! Wanted one to.

    • Hardcore Panda

      November 17, 2020 at 8:17 pm

      intercom?

  10. BGhosh INDIA

    November 17, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    Nice Shirt

  11. Matt Timoteo

    November 17, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    Very nice 👍..can’t wait to open my MacBook 💻 pro..thanks for the advanced review..

  12. BoriBoriPR

    November 17, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    Can I use an iPad as a screen monitor with an iMac mini?

  13. David S

    November 17, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    “Hands On” – proceeds to not touch a Macbook for the entirety of the 9 minute video…wtf

  14. DRB Production

    November 17, 2020 at 8:21 pm

    All the hairs you lost on your head, you found on your face. 😂
    Great video.

  15. TippedJoshua

    November 17, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    The mac mini and the iPhone 12 mini are the same price.

  16. René Johnsson

    November 17, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    Have you test the air with 256gb that only have 7gpu vs the air with 512gb 8gpu?

  17. Ukraine NATO

    November 17, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Ukraine 🇺🇦

  18. biggmann2k14

    November 17, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    I’m planning on getting my first Mac for photo editing, but I can not decide between the new Mac mini or the iMac 5k. Can anyone help?

    • *

      November 17, 2020 at 9:27 pm

      Depends on if you want to buy a separate display or not.
      For photo editing I would rather take the iMac since the integrated display is just 🤯.

    • biggmann2k14

      November 17, 2020 at 9:29 pm

      That was my thought exactly! But I want the Mac mini for the new M1 chip since it looks promising but I don’t want to spend more than 600 on a monitor

  19. dimitrimoonlight

    November 17, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    What are you talking about!? New Macs works natively iOS Apps!

  20. Andrzej R

    November 17, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    Can I attach two FHD monitors and external drive at one time and get the Air charging?

  21. J4ckCr0w

    November 17, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    You’re a completely wrong person for this channel. Do us a favour go do something you know.

  22. Ranz Joseph

    November 17, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Waiting for my Macbook Air

  23. Seyedmorteza Ghaffarishahri

    November 17, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    Man you should not be allowed to ever make a garbage video like this!

  24. Wigglytuff

    November 17, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    I’ll wait for the iMac

  25. Jounrey- Plaz

    November 18, 2020 at 12:37 am

    i have an iBook 1st gen should i the air

  26. physics77guy

    November 18, 2020 at 3:25 am

    you have to tell that you have to use apple apps as they are more optimized for them so its not a good option for people who don’t want to use those particular apps

  27. The Desi Lifestyle

    November 18, 2020 at 4:24 am

    I’m just going to wait for touch and iPen support.

    • Denis Andrei

      November 18, 2020 at 6:09 pm

      Not gonna happen, they have ipad to sell.

  28. DCtraveler

    November 18, 2020 at 5:10 am

    They should have 5 chip level for their Mac lines:
    Air is up to 8 cores,
    Mini and 13inch Pro up to 12 cores 16inch Pro up to 16 cores
    iMac up to 18 cores,
    Mac Pro up to 24 cores
    I don’t think put the same chip in different computers is a good thing for users as well as for their own marketing

    • Melvin

      November 18, 2020 at 6:09 am

      But this chip is capable and it’s far better than the models they replacing. Why 12, 18 or 24 cores when 8 cores give better performance than outgoing versions? Marques told in his video and I agree with him, from now on RAM, cores and other stuff won’t matter on Macs. It will be just the performance. I don’t see Apple introducing more cores in upcoming macs for next 2 years. I think they will just replace some or all battery saving cores with high performance cores and add gpu support for rest of macs. These chips are already fastest. No need to add more cores for now.

    • DCtraveler

      November 18, 2020 at 7:07 am

      @Melvin you can’t be seriously suggesting all Mac line up using the same 8 core chip are you ? It is good ! But not that good, when you have to handle 4-12 streams of 8K or 4K ProRes editing or very complex 3D modeling or complex scientific simulations ! You need computer more powerful than M1’s 8 core. that is why you need 16 to 28 cores. That is why there are Mac Pro in the line up. Yes specs is not important, if it is not optimized with software but there are tasks real Professionals do that even the well optimized M1 Mac won’t cut it. To those super complex tasks Optimization can only take you so far, then more hardware becomes a necessity.

    • Melvin

      November 18, 2020 at 7:40 am

      @DCtraveler lol that’s not what I meant. I said 2 years. obviously raw performance matters and cores matter. I just said that these chips are fine for the time and I don’t see apple adding more cores. look how much the models get improved by these m chips. This jump is more than enough. And these laptops even beat their MacBook Pro 16 inch which is the most powerful pro portable machine but that one still better because it has gpu, these ones don’t. what I meant was they will replace those with same chips maybe and just add egpu support and I think it should be enough of upgrade for now. I don’t see apple jumping too far ahead. Their new chips already come close to their best laptop now without egpu so they might just add support for that. and then as u said, will keep adding more stuff. but I think, for next 2 years, these chips are fine.

  29. Jan -Jansen

    November 18, 2020 at 5:39 am

    Hello Dan (and everybody),

    I’m trying to get something done at Apple, Feedback is not helping (as a single person).

    It’s Messages app on all devices. You probably using it too, but one BIG BIG flaw is that you CANNOT archive conversations.. only 2 things I can do, let me keep hundreds of conversations clutter up and making it a chaos, or delete precious conversations forever…

    Like whatsapp (boooo!) – you can just easily archive it.

    – What really need to be done (and that certainly will help) is that all the subscribers of big communities like you have make will start to send feedbacks to apple about this. And maybe you will or take it in consideration to speak about it an episode and even maybe ask other people who do the same as you and where you have contact with, to do the same and start this thing, Apple needs to get attention for this and solve this finally once and forever.

    thank you very very much!! – and everyone who reeds this and feels the same! please start filling in some feedbacks.

  30. Fireblaster 207

    November 18, 2020 at 6:16 am

    A Question: Can you play Wii or GameCube games on dolphin with the *NEW M1* .

  31. Benjamin Marquez

    November 18, 2020 at 6:27 am

    Hi nice video ! One question I’m a student and want to buy the new MacBook Pro but i don’t know if it’s necessary to buy it with 256gb or with 516gb

    • Rod Herzstrom

      November 18, 2020 at 2:02 pm

      I will say go with the 256gb and buy an external hdd its wayyy cheapear.. Any way I was also doing some tests with apps on my channel with the m1 macbook pro if you want to check it out

    • Benjamin Marquez

      November 18, 2020 at 2:09 pm

      @Rod Herzstrom The 256GB would fill rapidly with download some apps and word, PPW, excel pdf and that type of stuff? I also edit 2 types per week I edit some documents with vector graphics. So I can save the apps and main archives that I mentioned on the computer and the extra stuff save in the external memory.

    • Rod Herzstrom

      November 18, 2020 at 2:16 pm

      @Benjamin Marquez when I was a student I managed to finished a bachelor and a master with a 128 GB Macbook Air 2014 hahaha but yeah obviously I couldn’t install many things and carried an external hard drive. Now the thing is that there’s a price of 200$ or more to get the 516GB MBP… I dind’t want to pay that :p

    • Benjamin Marquez

      November 18, 2020 at 2:24 pm

      @Rod Herzstrom thanks! Nice videos on your channel anyway!

  32. True United

    November 18, 2020 at 6:33 am

    Intel getting bullied at this point….😫😭😭

  33. BeastMode_0N

    November 18, 2020 at 6:35 am

    You can’t upgrade the ram and hard drive buddy

  34. Raydio FPV

    November 18, 2020 at 7:00 am

    I had that black MacBook

  35. Dziban Art

    November 18, 2020 at 7:02 am

    Dude, the memory is inside the SOC, in fact it is inside the processor itself, it is not up-gradable.

  36. Tor Hunemark

    November 18, 2020 at 8:47 am

    If I’m not mistaken, these are the worst ARM-powered Macs that Apple has ever created.

    • dela vago

      November 18, 2020 at 1:47 pm

      How does this make sense?

    • Tor Hunemark

      November 18, 2020 at 4:46 pm

      @dela vago It does make sense, but it’s mostly silly.

  37. Tor Hunemark

    November 18, 2020 at 8:50 am

    I’m really curious about how the MacBook air handles heat when it’s pushed to the limit.

    • Vishnu MRV

      November 19, 2020 at 2:23 pm

      Extremely well

    • Tor Hunemark

      November 19, 2020 at 4:40 pm

      @Vishnu MRV I’m glad to hear! and thanks for answering 🙂

  38. Oscar Ibanez

    November 18, 2020 at 9:23 am

    Honestly, most people would be better off with a Mac mini, especially since most people truly do not need the portability. Sure, you can not modify the Mac mini anymore (that hurt me to be honest), but Apple is truly giving you a bang for your buck with it, as opposed to ripping you off with both the MacBook Air and Pro. Most of us already have a 4K tv in our homes to use with it, and getting a wireless keyboard that will most likely be better than the MacBook keys, you are still saving so much more money.

    Also, I’m excited to try Logic Pro on the Mac mini.

  39. morningstar

    November 18, 2020 at 9:47 am

    Bro. Look at the lens not the LCD.

  40. Drew Martell

    November 18, 2020 at 11:18 am

    why is 8gb ram still the standard?

  41. Muhammad Adriansyah

    November 18, 2020 at 12:03 pm

    Macbook air with 16gb or macbook pro with 8gb?

  42. Igor Marcos

    November 18, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    Why do reviewers think everyone is a goddam video editor?

    • UnDark

      November 18, 2020 at 1:33 pm

      Yeah seriously. How about 40+ zoom participants while presenting using Jira, Figma, Sheets, or Slides? That’s more realistic for me.

    • Aaron Lee

      November 18, 2020 at 6:03 pm

      To test the capabilities of something that’s already native on the Mac that’s also resource-intensive.

    • Lenny Marinez

      November 19, 2020 at 4:47 am

      Lmao. Igor I agree

    • MistaHaYo

      November 19, 2020 at 12:26 pm

      @UnDark Even with 8gb of ram it performs all of that very fast and no lag.

    • UnDark

      November 19, 2020 at 1:20 pm

      @MistaHaYo Thanks. I ordered the 16GB version. Looking forward to the delivery.

  43. Jakeified

    November 18, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    At least read the specs 🤦‍♂️

  44. Jesse Pinkman

    November 18, 2020 at 5:39 pm

    Too expensive.

  45. Maroof Khan

    November 18, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    suggestion, show benchmark outputs. and less talking

  46. Daniel Seo

    November 18, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    I remember Dans long hair days!

  47. White Mail Privilege

    November 18, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    Dan Ackerman? More like Dandruff.

  48. Mike Graham

    November 18, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    I thought these weren’t upgradable.

  49. Saintraft

    November 18, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Damn your hair went from your head to your beard.

    • Oskar Andreas Johansson

      November 20, 2020 at 1:53 pm

      What does that have to do with anyting?

    • Saintraft

      November 20, 2020 at 7:14 pm

      @Oskar Andreas Johansson I’ve been watching him since I was small , so you notice these things. HAHAHA

  50. Zelig Lim

    November 18, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    3D modelling benchmarks

  51. Philippe Dassonval

    November 19, 2020 at 3:44 am

    Apple is a great company with great products but Apple doesn’t
    listen their costumers regarding criticism ..For example ; many people
    complains about the low resolution on the Laptop webcam 720
    resolution ,also removing the SD card port ( bad idea ) etc….. It’s
    sad !!!

  52. Meti Nik

    November 19, 2020 at 7:49 am

    The biggest downside with YouTube reviewers reviewing these devices is they are mainly use it for video editing! And reviews video editing capabilities . I , as a regular user, never edit videos on daily basis and i don’t care about video editing that much!

    • John Wick

      November 19, 2020 at 4:54 pm

      You will 😉 in future

    • John Wick

      November 19, 2020 at 4:55 pm

      Video editing is fun!

  53. Peeticek

    November 19, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    Could you test some BOINC crunching pls?

  54. The Spine and Brain Centre

    November 19, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    This was a terrible “hands on”. Should have been titled “let’s talk”

    • Frippertonics

      November 20, 2020 at 1:55 am

      That’s all I needed to read.

      Movin’ on…

  55. koukouvania

    November 19, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    jeez i thought i saw sue perkins

  56. André Mota

    November 19, 2020 at 7:52 pm

    just talking? 👎🏼

  57. Avada Kedavra

    November 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Is it worth it to upgrade from 2020 intel 13 inch MacBook Pro to this one? I literally bought it 4 months ago 😭

  58. bannajirocks

    November 20, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    How is the gaming on new MacBook Air ?

  59. Piano na Prática - Raphael Mingattos

    November 21, 2020 at 12:40 am

    What’s up with that ancient phone back there?

  60. Piano na Prática - Raphael Mingattos

    November 21, 2020 at 12:43 am

    well, only when accepts everything lol

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