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1. 0:00How much better is the new Pro LED
2. 0:02MacBook Pro compared to the previous
3. 0:04design? Well, today we are going to
4. 0:06compare everything from the new display,
5. 0:10the speakers, the performance of course,
6. 0:12new thermal design, and much more. And
7. 0:14the main goal is to see if it's actually
8. 0:16worth spending an extra $400.
9. 0:20And right from the get-go, this thing
10. 0:22feels thinner and lighter in the hand.
11. 0:25It's 0.7 lb lighter, which is
12. 0:27substantial, but I also noticed we only
13. 0:30have four screws holding down this back
14. 0:34panel compared to eight screws on all
15. 0:38God.
16. 0:39That literally stopped me talking. This
17. 0:41feels so much heavier, but look at the
18. 0:43eight screws here. So, before we jump
19. 0:46into it, let's open this up and look at
20. 0:48the differences inside. All right, guys,
21. 0:50moment of truth. All right, guys, so we
22. 0:52took some time to look at all the
23. 0:53differences, and there are five
24. 0:55differences between this redesign. So,
25. 0:58you can automatically notice that the
26. 1:00new MacBook is smaller. Look right over
27. 1:03there. And with that, look at these
28. 1:05corners. Instead of having the solid
29. 1:07aluminum, everything is milled out to
30. 1:09get more space and have less weight. We
31. 1:12have all this dead space right here. You
32. 1:14can clearly see how much smaller the
33. 1:16batteries are. Even these ones are a
34. 1:18little bit smaller as well, but with
35. 1:20that, the capacity went up. We went from
36. 1:2399.6 Wh to 99.9. So, the batteries have
37. 1:27higher density. Next, we have the
38. 1:29speaker differences. Because of the
39. 1:31smaller batteries and etched out size,
40. 1:34look at this woofer, how much larger it
41. 1:36is with the surface area. And this top
42. 1:39portion, instead of being slim and
43. 1:41etching going down a lot, it's just way
44. 1:44bigger overall. And we are going to do
45. 1:46that sound comparison. And for
46. 1:49difference number five, the fins off of
47. 1:51these heat pipes, even though they're
48. 1:53different design, multi-layer, it is
49. 1:55actually slightly longer for cooling,
50. 1:57which we're also going to test. So, it's
51. 1:59nice to see these changes and
52. 2:01improvements. You guys can see how the
53. 2:03new design is shorter this way. This the
54. 2:06width is about the same and looking from
55. 2:08the side, you can see the difference in
56. 2:11the venting with the new Pro LED looking
57. 2:14slimmer and smaller overall. And opening
58. 2:17these up, you guys can see that glowing
59. 2:20Apple logo that is finally back. All
60. 2:22right, guys, we have these set up and
61. 2:24one thing you can notice is the
62. 2:26difference in thickness. Apple made the
63. 2:28lid a lot thinner because of the OLED
64. 2:31display and the feet are now recessed,
65. 2:34making the new MacBook just slightly
66. 2:36thinner than before. [music] And looking
67. 2:38at the displays, I love the new design.
68. 2:41Our radius up top is different and the
69. 2:43cursor actually follows it right there.
70. 2:46And at the bottom, we also have this
71. 2:49nice little curve instead of multiple
72. 2:52edges where we have the window bent,
73. 2:55square corner, then we have square edge,
74. 2:58and then we have a plastic insert on the
75. 3:00old one where this one is all glass
76. 3:03coming down super super clean. And of
77. 3:06course, we now have the Dynamic Island
78. 3:09right there instead of that notch.
79. 3:11Honestly, it looks better in my opinion.
80. 3:14It makes the screen look larger and I
81. 3:16love that notifications come out of that
82. 3:18Dynamic Island. It is super clean
83. 3:21looking. It's a small detail, but it
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110. 4:24let's go ahead and compare the speakers.
111. 4:26Apple said that the bass got a lot
112. 4:28better. Let's take a listen.
113. 4:31>> [music]
114. 4:37[music]
115. 4:42[music]
116. 4:49>> All right, guys. You let me know what
117. 4:51you thought. Us here, we're actually
118. 4:54disappointed.
119. 4:55We know the 16-in MacBook Pro already
120. 4:58had amazing bass, but this new ProLED
121. 5:01makes this sound like it's lacking in
122. 5:03bass. They tuned everything down just so
123. 5:05the bass stands out with its massive
124. 5:08amount of bass, which it has. Whereas on
125. 5:10the old MacBook, the vocals are front
126. 5:13and center. You hear the clarity. I
127. 5:15think it's a huge miss. It's a
128. 5:17downgrade. It's a little disappointing,
129. 5:19but you guys let me know your thoughts.
130. 5:20And now, let's get into the displays
131. 5:23because that is the major breakthrough
132. 5:25with Apple's ProLED, and we have a lot
133. 5:28of things to cover, a lot of
134. 5:29differences. But starting out, we have
135. 5:31full-screen brightness. Now, Apple lists
136. 5:34both of these at 1,000 nits full-screen
137. 5:37uh with the updated version of this
138. 5:3916-in MacBook Pro. But if you guys look,
139. 5:41we actually have to turn it down two
140. 5:43notches to try to match these up for our
141. 5:46camera recording. So, it is actually
142. 5:49brighter. Now, it's also listed at up to
143. 5:512,000 nits when you're outdoor for peak
144. 5:54brightness compared to 1,600. And now,
145. 5:57watching this video right here, even
146. 6:00though this has a good screen and we're
147. 6:03in bright environment, you can
148. 6:06>> [music]
149. 6:06>> instantly tell the difference. This has
150. 6:0810 million to one contrast ratio and the
151. 6:12brights just pop as you guys can
152. 6:16probably see even though you guys are
153. 6:17not watching HDR, [music]
154. 6:19the colors look at that red just
155. 6:21popping. Look at this, even the
156. 6:23differences in colors
157. 6:25uh where you have the gradation of those
158. 6:27flowers,
159. 6:29it looks good. Look at that peak
160. 6:30brightness in this flower popping out
161. 6:33and along with that uh the blacks are
162. 6:36pure black as well. And turning down the
163. 6:39lights, you could see what a lot of
164. 6:40people complain about with mini LED
165. 6:42displays, you have this blooming or
166. 6:45ghosting around bright objects with
167. 6:47contrast on these menu bars and the OLED
168. 6:50just looks so clean. And look at the
169. 6:53blooming on the fireworks themselves.
170. 6:58When you have small bits of light, it
171. 7:00literally has a glow all around it where
172. 7:04on the MacBook with the Pro LED, it
173. 7:07looks amazing. Everything else is black
174. 7:10compared to a glow kind of filling the
175. 7:12screen where you have more fireworks. It
176. 7:15just makes the screen look great when
177. 7:17the algorithm just can't keep up. The
178. 7:19OLED is so bright, so crisp and sharp,
179. 7:23the saturation looks great.
180. 7:25>> [music]
181. 7:25>> I mean, this display is shockingly good.
182. 7:28There are a lot of movies where you have
183. 7:30these dark scenes and the blooming can
184. 7:33just be distracting. It just looks ugly
185. 7:35compared to the amazing OLED. Now, both
186. 7:39these displays have ProMotion 120 Hz,
187. 7:42but that doesn't tell the whole story.
188. 7:44The Pro LED uses similar tech to the
189. 7:46iPad Pros that Dave2D tested out and you
190. 7:48guys could see a massive difference in
191. 7:50gray to gray response time, meaning it's
192. 7:53just so quick at changing the image. If
193. 7:56you look at this scrolling, even with my
194. 7:59eye, I could feel that it is smoother
195. 8:01and you guys could see in the
196. 8:02slow-motion shot. The same thing goes
197. 8:05for or scrolling the web. It's just so
198. 8:07clear and sharp. The ProMotion feels way
199. 8:10more like ProMotion. And in this example
200. 8:13of this UFO slow down, you could see
201. 8:15it's perfectly crisp, smooth compared to
202. 8:18all the ghosting as the pixels are
203. 8:20trying to switch, which just blurs
204. 8:23everything out. So, it just makes this
205. 8:26new display so smooth if you do any
206. 8:29gaming, that's also a really big
207. 8:30difference. And next, I have to mention
208. 8:32the touch. And I have a weird aversion
209. 8:36to touching. Like, I haven't even been
210. 8:37touching this.
211. 8:39Uh let's try it out.
212. 8:41That just feels so weird. It is a little
213. 8:43cool that you could do it. I don't know
214. 8:45if I will be doing it.
215. 8:47Um I was told that if you use your
216. 8:49trackpad, you get a small little window.
217. 8:52If I press, it actually makes it a
218. 8:54little bit larger to make it easier.
219. 8:57>> [music]
220. 8:57>> Now, I still get some shake tapping as
221. 9:00you guys could see on the screen. But,
222. 9:02let's go ahead and open up a window
223. 9:05here.
224. 9:06Let's try to click there. Okay, you guys
225. 9:08see it got bigger.
226. 9:10So, now I can actually easily
227. 9:13access that and use it.
228. 9:15That feels super smooth on my screen.
229. 9:19And actually, this is where the
230. 9:20ProMotion comes in. That would have been
231. 9:22a good test. Now, for me, I'm just not
232. 9:24used to touching a Mac, but Linus was
233. 9:28freaking out and saying he's buying this
234. 9:30day one because it has a touchscreen.
235. 9:33So, clearly some people are going to
236. 9:35love it. And if you're a developer,
237. 9:38you're creating iPad or iPhone apps on
238. 9:40your Mac, that is going to be amazing to
239. 9:43have that. Some people might use it for
240. 9:45video editing. So, you guys let me know
241. 9:47how much you care about that on your
242. 9:50MacBook. And overall, I am really
243. 9:53impressed with the display. We didn't
244. 9:55even mention reflectivity because it is
245. 9:58so good we didn't notice it. Usually on
246. 10:00touchscreens, it looks really bad. So,
247. 10:02Apple did a shockingly good job. This is
248. 10:04the best screen you can get [music] in a
249. 10:07laptop. And I think that if you have the
250. 10:10option to spend the extra 400 bucks, it
251. 10:12is well [music] worth it. And now, let's
252. 10:14get into performance and thermal
253. 10:16testing. We [music] have these machines
254. 10:18spec'd exactly the same, and we are
255. 10:21going to start out with Geekbench
256. 10:23[music]
257. 10:247 right here. Let's go ahead and run it.
258. 10:26And the reason I say thermals right
259. 10:28away, we're going to be doing a couple
260. 10:30tests because of this new fan design.
261. 10:32It's thinner, the vents are different,
262. 10:34even where they blow, we might start to
263. 10:37see some differences. And here are the
264. 10:39results, and they are very close, but
265. 10:42the new Pro LED is actually a little bit
266. 10:45lower both in single core and in
267. 10:47multi-core, it's about 500 points
268. 10:50[music]
269. 10:51lower. Now, this is just a basic test,
270. 10:54and we expect all your normal tasks to
271. 10:57be the same. It's the same exact chip,
272. 10:59but where things get really interesting
273. 11:01is when you are really hammering on the
274. 11:03CPU and the graphics, and the cooling
275. 11:06systems have to keep up. So, let's go
276. 11:08ahead and take a look at that. And this
277. 11:10is the latest version of Cinebench.
278. 11:12We're going to go ahead and start the
279. 11:15CPU stress [music] test. I have MX Power
280. 11:18Gadget opened up right here.
281. 11:20Theoretically, the clock speed should be
282. 11:22the same. They're looking to be slightly
283. 11:24higher, actually, the performance ones
284. 11:27and the efficiency ones
285. 11:29on the new Pro LED, which is very weird.
286. 11:32Even the CPU wattage is a couple watts
287. 11:35higher. So, maybe the cooling system is
288. 11:37better, but right away, I'm hearing the
289. 11:40fans on the Pro LED.
290. 11:44And this one's just starting to kick up.
291. 11:46Let's open up our TG fan Pro here, and
292. 11:49we're at 4,600 compared to 4,000 RPM.
293. 11:53So, yes, the Pro LED's fans kick up
294. 11:56sooner, and take a look at this, guys.
295. 11:59Here, on the old one, our max fan speed
296. 12:02on the right side was 5,777.
297. 12:05This one is 6,750
298. 12:08RPM. About 1,000 higher. And on the left
299. 12:11side, it's also similar. 6250 versus
300. 12:155349.
301. 12:17So, Apple definitely made some fast
302. 12:19fans.
303. 12:21They're both maxed out right now and
304. 12:23sitting normally like this,
305. 12:25I'm hearing this one. This one is kind
306. 12:27of in the background blended away. All
307. 12:29my attention is just hearing the fan
308. 12:32speed from the new one. Wow. All right,
309. 12:34guys, check this out. It's been 9
310. 12:36minutes and I've been watching this and
311. 12:39sometimes we have a difference of four,
312. 12:42five watts even. Right there, you'll you
313. 12:45guys saw we had a difference of five
314. 12:47watts in the total power. Now, also I've
315. 12:50noticed that the new Pro LED has been
316. 12:52running cooler, sometimes four, five
317. 12:55degrees on the hottest core as well. So,
318. 12:57I'm excited to see the results, but
319. 12:59let's but let's bust out this thermal
320. 13:01camera and right here, you guys see the
321. 13:04hot spots on the display coming from the
322. 13:06old one like we've seen for years, but
323. 13:08not on the new one. They redesigned it
324. 13:12where the air blows out the bottom. So,
325. 13:15that is cool. It's also good for
326. 13:16clamshell mode, but the old one has way
327. 13:20more heat on top of it and on the
328. 13:22display compared to the new one. So, the
329. 13:25cooling system is definitely working.
330. 13:27All right, guys, we have our final
331. 13:29scores. The old M5 Max scored 9229
332. 13:33and the Pro LED scored 9165.
333. 13:39So, [music] yes, even under a full load,
334. 13:41we are seeing a performance difference
335. 13:44and that lines up to the lower wattage
336. 13:46as well. But, the interesting thing is
337. 13:48when I do the math, that's less than a
338. 13:501% difference in performance and this
339. 13:53one ran cooler on the CPU, the whole
340. 13:56machine was cooler in our thermal uh
341. 13:59camera footage. Yes, it does run
342. 14:02noticeably louder and the fans probably
343. 14:04kick up quicker, we saw that and maybe
344. 14:07day-to-day you might notice them
345. 14:08slightly more, but overall for a thinner
346. 14:11machine that's a lot lighter with this
347. 14:13new design, that it actually is better
348. 14:15than I expected. Now, we are going to be
349. 14:17doing more testing on these new
350. 14:19redesigned machines. We have the M5
351. 14:21[music] Pro as well that came out, the
352. 14:24smaller sizes. We're going to compare
353. 14:27the new redesign to maybe an older
354. 14:29laptop if you have one of the older ones
355. 14:31to see how much of a difference there
356. 14:32is. So, make sure you guys are
357. 14:33subscribed for that. But, if you bought
358. 14:36an M5 Max, which is likely because you
359. 14:39needed the performance, you saw leaks
360. 14:41about the OLED model,
361. 14:43you're still getting insane performance
362. 14:44on that machine, even slightly better.
363. 14:46And between these, if you're going to be
364. 14:48running graphics, they're pretty
365. 14:49similar, maybe slightly worse on the new
366. 14:51one.
367. 14:53Uh so, I would not be upgrading. Maybe
368. 14:54even if you have a M4 Max, wait a little
369. 14:57bit longer unless you know you want the
370. 14:59new display, you want the touch like
371. 15:01Linus, uh some of these new updates.
372. 15:04Uh but, if you do have an older machine
373. 15:06like Vadim is upgrading from a M1 Max,
374. 15:10he waited that long for this update, for
375. 15:12the new screen. [music] It is an
376. 15:14absolutely insane machine, and he's
377. 15:16actually going for an M5 Pro this time
378. 15:19instead [music] of buying a Max chip,
379. 15:21and that's going to be a very awesome
380. 15:23video to watch, the difference [music]
381. 15:25between a Max and the new Pro. So, make
382. 15:27sure you guys are subscribed for that as
383. 15:29well. Overall, is it worth spending the
384. 15:32extra 400 bucks? If you are looking to
385. 15:34buy a new machine right now, should you
386. 15:36get the one without the touch that you
387. 15:38can still get while you can or get the
388. 15:40new one? I would say get the new one.
389. 15:43Apple has done a fantastic job. We're
390. 15:45going to keep this design for a very
391. 15:47long time, just [music] like this
392. 15:49design. It's lighter, it's thinner. It
393. 15:51is really nice.
394. 15:53Um I think they did a good job. It's
395. 15:55pricey,
396. 15:56but you're getting a quality machine.
397. 15:58So, go ahead and click that circle above
398. 15:59to subscribe. [music] Check out one of
399. 16:01those videos right over there. This has
400. 16:03been Max, and I'll see you in the next
401. 16:05one.