Apple MacBook Pro M1 2020

 MacBook PRO M1:

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So the internet is filled right now with

people positively spiffing themselves

demented all over that new apple silicon
now seriously there's so much rampage
friction going on right now that I'm
kind of concerned that the entire web is
just going to spontaneously combust
but is apple's new all-in-one m1 chipset
really
as spouge-worthy as everyone seems to
make out well to find out I grabbed one
of the 16 gigabyte models of the new
MacBook pro with apple's m1 chip
that's almost 2 000 quid's worth a kit
and that came straight out of my whiskey
fund and you know how
much i love whiskey kitties for 1 900
bob i could have bought
a lot of whiskey so for the last several
weeks in between my other laptop reviews
I've been using the MacBook pro
m1 to be doing pretty much everything
video editing photo
and script and all that good stuff so is
it actually worthy
of all of that praise well here's my
real world MacBook pro
m1 review and from all the latest
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cheers so let's start with the design
and anyone who's bought a MacBook pro
these last few years will really be
struggling to see any proper external
differences with the m1 model
it's definitely a real shame that given
the changes that have taken place inside
of the MacBook that apple didn't take
the opportunity to also freshen up the
design on the outside and really
differentiate these new
m1 laptops from the older intel models
but then the aesthetical part of design
doesn't seem something that apple's
really concerning itself with
much these days I mean have you seen the
new iPhone I mean
my kid has a Barbie phone that looks
more legit than this thing regardless
though that metallic chassis is at least
as robust as ever proven well up to a
life on the road
and while this 13-incher is seriously
hefty compared with dell's rivals for
instance
at least it's kind of compact for a
professional laptop of course one issue
with the smaller laptops is definitely
the limited space for ports and that is
certainly a weakness here
the MacBook pro m1 serves up a pair of
thunderbolt 3 ports sadly not the fresh
new thunderbolt 4
as found on the new tiger leg version of
the xps 13
and a lot of hp Lenovo and Azusa's new
laptops
although that's only really an issue if
you want to get a dock connected to your
MacBook pro in order to hook up a lot of
peripherals and different drives and
things like that
sadly both of those thunderbolts are
crammed together on the left edge which
is less than ideal but it is a minor
grumble at best so
suck it up junior moving on you've got
that now standard combination of
keyboard and touch bar
and so far I'm more than happy with this
this is apple's so-called
magic keyboard and the magic part of it
is that all of the keys still actually
work
two months later that's definitely a
massive improvement of my old 2017
MacBook pro wear and I wish I was
kidding here
by now the space bar had already started
packing up
this keyboard offers a very comfortable
typing experience the keys have got a
good bit of bounce but they don't feel
spongy and they're very well sized for
touch typing
adding some excellent backlighting and
you've got a solid all-around board
and it's the same story for the MacBook
pro's touch id sensor built into
that power button as well once again
this works with charm fast and
responsive as always
likewise the touch bar is a lively
dynamic alternative to function keys
that's really coming into its own now
that devas have had a bit of time
to make use of it it's a fast and easy
way to control your media
adjust the display brightness all that
good stuff and also access essential
features when you're using apps
and that spacious touchpad is definitely
another winner admirably filling that
palm rest
to the full extent it did take me a
little while to get used to apple's dual
click
methods you just got to push softly for
a left click and then push harder for a
right click but once this method
clicks sort of speak then it all just
works perfectly and no complaints either
when it comes to that 13.3 inch
its display the 2560 by 1600 pixel
resolution means everything looks pin
sharp and despite that compact design i
thought I could still comfortably edit
photos and video
or enjoy some depressing real-life
murder documentaries to further sink
into my 2020 funk
color reproduction is typically natural
which is ideal for creative use
100 of the serge and an impressive 86
of the adobe rgb are ably handled plus
the maximum brightness tops off at 480
nits which is more than strong enough to
comfortably work out doors
you've got full Dolby atoms support here
and those stereo speakers pump out a
decent
beefy bit of audio once you pump the
volume all the way up you've also got a
headphone jack hazard plus some reliable
Bluetooth support for gold wire free now
if you want to do some zoom in or
whatever to actually see your friends
and family at some point you've got a
perfectly bold standard 720p
hd webcam stuck there above the screen
it doesn't have a privacy shield or
anything like that when it's not in use
but you do at least get this dinky
little green led which pops into
life whenever the camera is being used
by an application just in case you know
you want to get up to something dodgy
and you're having to completely forget
that you're live streaming to the
internet
and as you can see the picture quality
as standard for this sort of laptop is
generally kind of sort of soft
and grainy and it is thrown by harsh
lighting as well but it'll do the job
for a basic web chat
as for that built-in mic well it's okay
but you will have to speak up to be
properly heard and it also picks up on
all the background noise going on around
you so I'd highly recommend
using an actual proper headset but of
course the whole reason i was so
curious about the new apple MacBook pro
was that
m1 chipset which apple has crafted in
collaboration with arm
ever since the launch apple has been
absolutely brazen its own beef about the
performance
of this m1 chipset claiming that these
new MacBook devices are more powerful
than 98
of all windows laptops out there and
unsurprisingly
that's not true so if you're using a
program that is actually optimized for
that m1 chip then they
tend to run well here on this 16 gig
MacBook pro
but certainly not all of them run
perfectly in final cut pro for instance
i was constantly seeing dropped frames
when editing just a single stream of 4k
video and that's without adding any
fancy extra elements
and that seems to be because i shoot in
the standard mpeg format rather than
apple's own pro
res format and that's so i can actually
edit using a variety of software
and devices when needed so lesson one is
this kiddies unless you play
absolutely by apple's rules using only
m1 optimized software and using only
apple's own format you can expect to see
judders and shaky behavior
from these new MacBook's I tried using
software like [ __ ] and was absolutely
appalled at the so-called performance
even quite basic windows laptops like
micro soft's surface laptop go which i
only recently reviewed offered a
smoother experience at a third of the
cost
although at least fairly demanding games
ran with a respectable is enough frame
rate on the MacBook pro m1 as long as i
kept the graphics settings low
but those detail levels up high and
everything usually becomes a hot god
damn mess
and as a rough indicator of performance
on the default high settings on rise of
the tomb raider the MacBook churned out
average frame rate of 27
21 and just 23 frames per second with
noticeable drops throughout
the one key area where i did actually
notice a performance increase on the
MacBook pro m1 compared with my older
2017
MacBook pro is the video processing
speed on this thing
you can get a video processed in about
sort of three or four minutes compared
with around 15 to 20 minutes
on the older device so again as long as
you temper your expectations and use the
MacBook pro m1
exactly how apple expects you to then
all is gravy but to be honest if you've
got a MacBook pro from the last three
four years with the radiant graphics
then i wouldn't rush to upgrade anytime
soon as for the mac so experience well
big sur has proven reasonably stable so
far only crashing a couple of times in
the past two months
it's an incremental update of course
with a few little aesthetic tweaks
thrown in and of course the ability to
run iPad apps if you
ever feel the need the new control panel
effort is mostly redundant as a lot of
those features can be fast accessed on
the touch bar but it will please those
with older machines
however I'm definitely not a fan of how
you can't uninstall quite a lot of
apple's pre-installed apps including the
likes of chess
not exactly a vital piece of software
for the overall running of the MacBook
you'd have thought
and yeah queen's gambit might have been
a pretty decent show but it hasn't
exactly inspired me to go play
virtual [ __ ] chess on my MacBook all
the time thankfully I've had bugger all
issues when it comes to the internet
connectivity on the MacBook pro
m1 though thanks for that dependable
wi-fi 6 support I've actually seen some
really nippy upload and download speeds
which is obviously great when you're
dealing with whop and great files going
onto YouTube and stuff like that
as for the storage well the base model
of the MacBook
pro m1 comes with a measly 256 gigs on
board which when you're video editing is
about as useful as a condom machine in a
nunnery so I naturally said bollocks to
that and sparked up another 400 quid
roughly 10
bottles of your finest 12 year old malt
on the one terabyte version
and this registered read speeds just
over 3 gigabits per second
and just under that for writing files
which is a solid effort overall
comparable to rivals like the dell xps
13. and I got to say while my
expectations certainly weren't met on
the performance front mostly thanks to
apple's ridiculous boss
and the ceaseless parroting online the
MacBook pro m1 definitely did impress me
when it came to the battery life i found
that even when i was video editing
in final cut pro i would get around nine
hours of non-stop use from a single
charge and again when i was working in
the likes of google chrome i used to do
a bit
scripting or whatever while streaming
media again I would get around sort of
nine
hours of use which is definitely better
than most windows rivals
and so after actually using the apple
MacBook pro m1 as my full-time laptop
in between other reviews naturally would
i recommend it to
fine fork well I know I've dumped on it
from a great height quite a bit
in this review but that's only because
my expectations were rather high
because of apple itself and naturally
the echo chamber that is the internet
the fact of the matter is the MacBook
pro m1 is a perfectly fine
creative laptop especially thanks to the
fantastic battery life
on this thing definitely really handy if
you want to be editing on the go
at some point in 2021 when we can
actually leave our houses again and the
performance is good
as I stated before if you actually stick
to apple's own rulebook but if you want
to be using third-party software and the
like you're not going to get any
benefits from the m1 that you wouldn't
get from much cheaper windows devices
so that's what i personally think of the
MacBook pro m1 would be great to hear
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