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hey what's up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is the 2016 MacBook you can tell because it's pink so this one should be pretty quick there's not a whole lot of difference between this guy and last year's first-generation in fact I'd hardly call this a second-generation product at all it's essentially just a speck bump inside it's like a version 1.2 of the 12-inch MacBook but almost everything else you'll find about this guy is the same as last year so you have the same exact paper-thin dimensions the 13 millimeter thin superlight two-pound body the same low travel butterfly key backlit keyboard the same really large really nice force touch trackpad the same incredible sounding speaker with the full-width grille still don't know how they made it sound that good but it's still here and the same 12 inch Retina display the only difference on the outside is the new color available the rose gold yeah 2016 you're the pink tech anyway what's different is on the inside this year it's basically just getting a speck bumped to the new skylake Intel Core M chips it's actually a pretty significant upgrade in the performance Department if you take a look at it you can now pick between a 1.1 gigahertz core m3 or go all the way up to a 1.3 gigahertz m7 that turbos all the way to 3.1 gigahertz so much faster CPU and GPU performance is nice plus faster storage as well the internal SSD is now getting you around 400 plus megabytes per second writes and 800 plus megabytes per second reads which is great so it's faster there and for the record there's also a very slightly larger battery inside it's about a 5 percent more dense so not a huge deal but better performance and better battery life with the new chips without getting thicker or heavier that's a win win and that is exactly it that's everything that's changed honestly like I said it's a pretty quiet refresh I would have loved to have seen at least a tiny little change on the outside because here my two biggest pet peeves with this laptop are still here of course there's just one port and there's still that 480p webcam so you would think that they could at least throw in one more USB type-c port now that it's later in the year and it's becoming more mainstream there's more accessories starting to use USBC now I saw a pair of USBC headphones the other day so I think the Chromebook pixel a whole year ago actually had it right with a USB C port on each side just two ports but it makes a big deal when you want to use an accessory while charging or just plug in two things at once with the MacBook you'll still need to carry adapters and that in a way kind of defeats the purpose of having such a thin and light and beautiful computer and then yes the 480p webcam is also still here I think you could have upgraded this to Apple it's 2016 so if the smartphone in my pocket can have this huge 4k sensor with optical image stabilization in this thin body you could have fit a 720p sensor in the new MacBook just saying anyway so this little refresh it isn't going to change your mind about the MacBook if you weren't already going to get one it's not that big of a change obviously it's more like if you were on the fence about getting the last one well this one is better for sure so I'd recommend it obviously over last year I think I would still recommend the 13-inch MacBook Pro to people still looking for a bit more performance but for a thin and light it doesn't get much better it doesn't get much thinner or much lighter so the baseline 12-inch MacBook is a neat little machine and a lot of fun so that's basically it thanks for watching this one and I'll talk to you guys the next one peace