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so this is not my first rodeo with iPhones I will do a separate video on the SAE coming up very soon but I want to I guess talk today about the MacBook 2016 my first impressions I've I've had it for about a week now and I've honestly been enjoying it I've said that in the comments I haven't made any secret of that this is an absolutely beautiful machine and I have zero buyer's remorse I can say that with 100% confidence a lot of you thought that I purchased this for gaming that that is not what it was purchased for I have that so what I want to gain my game on that but when I'm away out of the studio and I need to edit on the go like for instance when I was in Atlanta with McElveen we were filming in those micro centers this would have been so much nicer to have than my cheap crappy would run over 100s to edit on not only because it is more powerful than the lenovo won addressed by a long shot i can actually download Cinebench i can even download Cinebench on my laptop on the 100's but on here i'm pushing about 200 ish CB which isn't great it's a Core m3 processor if you were worried about that but I will say this thing runs Final Cut Pro like an absolute champ so you know Final Cut renders in the background while you're actually working on your project so in my case it takes about an hour to an hour and a half to edit and render a 10-minute clip I do a lot of edits you know little cutscenes here and there so that takes a lot of time and the animations are also time consuming I can't do as much with Final Cut Pro but this is a perfect solution for when I'm on the go and that's what I'm going to show you here a few of you were concerned about the video editing capabilities of the MacBook 2016 mainly due to the fact that it's only sporting a quorum 3 that the dual core hypothetic processor but only running at 0.9 gigahertz which is underwhelming I mean my iPhone SC is actually about as powerful as this desktop processor which is pretty sad and so on right but I do have Final Cut Pro which is something that most laptops that would be more powerful than this will not take advantage of so here's exactly why I think I'm going to end up keeping the MacBook 2016 and using it as my daily out of the office drivers when I need to edit on the go because Final Cut Pro renders in the background and it takes me about 45 minutes to an hour sometimes an hour I have to render a sizable video files for YouTube I'm going to be okay I'm not gonna have to wait that long for the rest of the video to export after I click the export button if I had purchase something like a blade stealth the razor blade stealth core i7 6500 view that still mind you a dual-core hyper threaded processor so it's it's got four threads but it's effectively the same as this in terms of how many cores it has and in fact it has hyper-threading now it is a faster processor in terms of frequency those do take advantage of ddr4 this is only ddr3 with Core M chips but if you're using a Razer Blade stealth you're gonna have to use something like Adobe Premiere Pro you could settle for Sony Vegas or even DaVinci Resolve but my only other alternative would be Adobe Premiere because I know that one like the back of my hand and I love the I guess versatility of Adobe Premiere so if I decided to use it every premiere on that laptop it's not going to be an enjoyable experience the i-765 hundred-year does not score very well we're talking around 300 CB that's only about a 33% improvement over a point nine gigahertz core M processor so I could choose to go with an underpowered laptop but that will run Final Cut Pro like a champ and render in the background and take a lot of the load off of the final export process or go for something like an i7 6500 II processor that will have ddr4 will be will have faster frequencies all of that but will take considerably longer to export an equivalent file length because Adobe Premiere does not render in the background and it's just overall a bulkier program now obviously if you are a very quick video editor it takes you like ten minutes to throw a bunch of clips together and you're rated export Final Cut Pro is not going to be able to render everything in the background quick enough to the point where when you click export it's just kind of stitching everything together last minute and it's going to take a super short amount of time in this case because I only was in Final Cut Pro for about 10 to 15 minutes you could tell where the background rendering had stopped and where it was having to do all the rendering immediately following the export click so it noticeably slowed down it took a lot longer we're looking at 16 minutes here for a 10-minute video file in 1080p 60 still not bad for Final Cut Pro for a core m3 and keep in mind ahead and head time to render open through so a 10-minute video file it definitely would have had time because it takes me a lot longer than 10 minutes to go through all of those clips but if I had done the exact same thing in Adobe Premiere we'd still be sitting here waiting for the thing to finish exporting we're talking 30 40 minutes at least based on what I have seen so far on several other sites the benchmark and export in Adobe Premiere files that are considerably large with the core i7 6500 U or even a core i5 which is just basically a lower clock core i7 so that's so far as my opinion on the MacBook you see I already have a Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint all the stuff I need for school in class I've been using it pretty much every day you can tell in some cases when things get a little boggy I'll show you an example here so we'll open up for the documents there's this very large file it's actually a well log for my senior design class okay it's this one right here so this is a huge file it's actually a PDF but it's an image saved in the PDF format and every now and then you can tell this computer struggles to keep so you see the scrolling is fluid up to a point and then it just kind of lags behind little things like that you can tell a higher clock speed would have helped going for the M 5 processor versus the m3 would have helped there but that's an extra two three hundred bucks I bought this laptop for $1000 so go and hire that to me just really wasn't worth it for what I need this laptop to do I'm willing to wait a little bit longer in terms of export times for the sake of saving two to three hundred bucks so things like this it might struggle a bit more I don't normally open up huge image files as PDFs but you could definitely tell there are limitations to device like this all in all though I will say very good experience so far the type C port is not limiting for what I do most of what I transfer is via the cloud or I'll just use an email I'll just use an email address and just send myself the document via an email so I don't really need an extension whatever dongle right now I do have word I put it right here I do have the type C two USB 3.1 thumb drive so if I ever need things immediately transferred I can do that from my desktop or wherever but for right now I'm satisfied I'm okay with the keyboard I'm getting over it the key travel is something to get used to the keys really dull move much it almost feels like a touchscreen if you can imagine that like touching I don't know I guess you don't get any key travels so it feels like you're just touching metal and just responding like like tapping on a screen but that's that's kind of what this is you get used to it it's not something that I recommend for everybody but if there's a compromise I'm willing to make to have a sleek profile something that's very portable and the battery life is something else I wanted to touch on very quickly battery life I've been getting a full day at least sometimes I can I can go for two days total I've had it to where I'll use it all day in class I'll watch youtube videos in the afternoon and I go to sleep I have 55 percent battery life so like I'll just make it last till tomorrow afternoon and it does it does that admirably and I've been running it on half brightness the entire time so I think going any higher than that would probably be detrimental to overall battery life in a significant way so that's it folks that is the I guess the current state of affairs with the MacBook 2016 here in the studio I do recommend this product to pretty much any college student who's willing to make a few compromises in terms of operating system capabilities it is it does have a learning curve it's not something you can just pick up and just figure out right away it took me about two and a half hours to figure out that a two finger tap was equivalent to a right-click on a trackpad that's that's how much of a newb I was four or five days ago but I'm learning very quickly if your computer guy or know anything about operating systems it's really not that difficult you will have things that you'll have to look up on Google you know like I had to look up how to record my screen on this so using QuickTime so I record my screen using QuickTime simple google search I know that from now on I'll have to do is open up QuickTime and go up into the window and then click a click record screen or the file record screen I'm still learning it anyway folks this is the end of part two I hope you at least appreciate the fact that I was only to switch out right just for the sake of the channel just for the sake of showing you all I guess a different side to computers so Apple is different on purpose they want to be different because oh they're Apple and you guys know what that entails I know a lot of you up front just were like ah blah Apple blah blah people say that about Samsung to love Samsung blah blah or Windows Bob I don't know once you go Mac you never go back that's what they say at least and as of right now I don't plan on switching back to anything else anytime soon zero buyer's remorse even though I spent a good chunk of change on this I could have gotten an equivalent laptop from Windows for about seven hundred bucks I know I know you're kind of paying for the ecosystem all does that sound familiar a lot of Apple guys say ecosystem I never really knew what that meant when people set it back in the day but now I kind of do now that I own Apple products I see what they mean it is a good ecosystem it's a different it's a different experience altogether you don't feel like you're using a laptop I don't know it's hard to explain it feels like it's it's it's just a different type of computer because of the operating system the way this thing is just built it's just it's a beautiful laptop even if you hate Apple you have to admit this is a beautifully designed laptop and that's part of what you're paying for it to be completely honest you're paying for build quality you're paying for for the looks for the for the logo all of that goes into it so thousand bucks I'm not remorseful yet I don't think that's going to change I think it would have happened already if I was going to feel remorseful I do feel a little bitter about the fact that they released the new Apple watch and they're selling it for about the same price it's waterproof and I think it's got a thousand nits of screen brightness that's pretty awesome I might take you back and get that one I don't know yet SC I'm keeping that I am buying the iPhone 7 I want a headphone jack that's pretty much how it's going to be and I like small phones it's actually a big big change from my note 4 but I really like this size I think it's a perfect 4 inches is a good size for a phone screen in my opinion of course pretty much everything I said in this video is my opinion but that's kind of the point I want to give you my perspective you guys know how I am with computers I'm a big windows guy big a Android guy I do kind of miss Android but I'm very happy that I'm in the Apple ecosystem now whoops if you liked this video give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you feel complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't already stay tuned for well part 4 of the CPU core series and I guess we'll move on other stuff I have an i3 6100 PC Bell coming very soon you follow me on Twitter you already knew that this is science to do oh by the way I did it this entire video on the MacBook could you tell well other than the fact that I couldn't include Adobe fonts probably the only only way you could have could have been able to tell yeah anyway see you soon