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hey guys is Austin this is the 12 inch MacBook and when it came out back in 2015 it wasn't exactly received very well which begs the question why does this still exist in 2018 or 2019 I guess the biggest issue with this machine has always been the single port the USBC is great but the issue just like I said in my original 2015 video is that a single port means that you were stuck forever as a resident of dongle town yes my friends dongle town is right down the road from garbage town and just a little ways away from knotch City know these days USBC has become a lot more popular so a lot of accessories do support it natively but the problem still here is if you want to do I don't know something like plugging in something as well as using a charger at the same time you just can't do that without a dongle and that's simply not an issue that you have to deal with on other Mac's or well any other laptop you buy like literally any other laptop complicating all this is the current Mac lineup so we have the 12-inch MacBook the 13-inch MacBook Air as well as the 13-inch MacBook Pro without touch bar all these systems are almost the exact same price they share a lot of similarities and it just doesn't really make a lot of sense right now my friend Quinn from snazzy labs did an excellent comparison between all three which you guys should definitely go check out but the gist of it is is if there's a lot and come with these three laptops which kind of means that the 12 inch is the odd one out now that doesn't mean that there are no advantages to using the 12 inch macbook first of all this is one of the thinnest and lightest laptops that you can buy today full-stop there is something to that we have a full-fledged Mac OS running here on a laptop which is really about the same size as an iPad it also has the fundamentals down not like do you have a very sharp and accurate screen but you also have one of the best touch pads in the game the speakers are there the battery life is pretty solid I mean a lot of the main things that you look for in a laptop aren't here and accounted for with the 12-inch MacBook that is until you look just a little bit closer the keyboard for example is the older style butterfly switches and while they're fine the new ones in the MacBook Air and I only feel a lot better but they're also more durable the webcam is also famously potato quality with a whopping 480p resolution I'm not really sure why they still exist in 2018 or 2020 the performance but this is a family laptop which is a big reason why it is so tiny but because of that you give up a fair bit of actual speed so with especially that quarter in three model it's fine for a lot of basic use so if you want to do web browsing and maybe a little bit of very light audio and video editing it's fine but anything more heavy it does start to chug a little bit on this guy put this all together unless you just have to have the smaller size the MacBook doesn't make a ton of sense right now that got me thinking though I had a little chat with my buddy John about what exactly the feature might hold for the 12-inch MacBook this is my friend is a 12-inch MacBook are you familiar with such a wonderous computer is this what they call it Mac that's what they call Mac where do you think about the MacBook where it is today like as far as the 12-inch MacBook it's been updated a time or two over the last few years but for the most part this is pretty similar to what came out in twice extreme or 2015 right well yeah it's not been updated in a while I think it should be 12-inch MacBook yes 13 inch MacBook Air yes get rid of the MacBook Pro without touch bar yeah and if you want a MacBook Pro not that the touch bar is what you know separates a pro the quad core does that's what the big deal is that's what people miss a lot of the time is that the 13-inch MacBook Pro without touch bar is dual-core do you remember when they announced the non touch bar MacBook Pro they're like this is great for people who are upgrading from an air like they specifically called out is like the air replace yet and I think that was like that takes place of the air it's just I think old smell they realize it's the stupid name people for vanity or for whatever it is they want a MacBook Air yeah what do you see as the future of knowing the Mac but specifically what do you see is the future of the 12-inch MacBook because I really do feel like this doesn't make a lot of sense to buy right now like I feel like this is way too close to that MacBook Air and to that Mac Pro Apple is playing the long game and they're okay with making short-term sacrifice in regards for the future so the iPad pro is this magical life-changing device that you might go sell everything for why that's why I'm excited is because it plants a seat for the future so I think that's like seed one which sets the path for this I feel like everyone's so stuck in the past of like wool x86 is a different platform it's never gonna happen but why do you want to stick in an archaic system if you look at where x86 is attractive in the last few years we've gotten performance improvements but they then you know 5% here 10% there whereas you look on the arm side specifically with what Apple's been doing with their a-series processors it's like oh look 20% 50% 100% there's these massive performance gains to the point where I would think that in most any way you measure it in MacBook a 12-inch MacBook is not as powerful as the 8 cores that are inside that iPad right you've got that GPU I mean there's a ton of power there people always say why doesn't Apple put Mac OS in the iPad one if they did that it has to be x86 and they would just erase everything that's in the future yeah - you know the other thing is why don't they put their pro apps on the iPad why why don't they do that give me final quick gimme logic I guarantee you they have a Final Cut version that's ready to go on the iPad I guarantee you they have logic but they don't need Apple to put their apps on they need everybody else in like Photoshop coming to arm is huge and the interesting thing is like right now they're already doing like a hint of the future where like their t2 chip or whatever like it is doing Co processing along with Intel very good point I guess my thought here is it with the 12-inch MacBook this seems like the prime candidate for it to be like the very first Mac will be powered by an apple a 12 or a 13 or 17 whatever the case is but an apple processor again Apple is playing the long game short-term sacrifice long-term game you guys want to know more from John he has an entire series about why the iPad is the greatest invention known to mankind used by professionals of all sizes and shapes and you can go check that out I'm gonna go back to talk about max though can I shoot one of your videos and edit it on the iPad pro yes you can't actually that would be great yeah I'm gonna do it