Should you upgrade to Apple's M1 chip MacBook Air/Pro?

Apple's new Apple Silicon MacBooks are FINALLY here! In this video, I go over the Pros and Cons of upgrading to the M1 chip MacBook Air/Pro from an Intel-based MacBook!

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Apple's new Apple Silicon MacBooks are now available to order, so in this video, I show you guys all of the differences between Intel MacBooks and M1 chip MacBooks to help you decide if it's worth upgrading or not.

I go through things like the fanless design of the MacBook Air, the new features and specs compared to Intel models, I go through third-party app support and Rosetta 2 emulation, and much more!

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Timestamps ⬇️
New Apple Silicon Macs - 00:00
Issues with current Intel MacBook Air - 0:50
How M1 MacBook Air fixes those issues - 1:20
Who should upgrade to M1 MacBook Air? - 2:18
Benefits of MacBook Pro over the Air - 4:20
Downsides of the M1 chip for MacBook Pro - 5:21
How will Gaming work on the M1 Macbook Pro? - 6:42
Who should upgrade to M1 MacBook Pro? - 8:20
Final Answers on upgrading to Apple Silicon - 9:51

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[ivinitmittal]

Apple: We removed the fan from the MacBook "Air"
Everyone: Bruh! It wasn't connected to a heat pipe anyways!😂😂

[parthep]

watching this on a 2020 macbook air lol

[Entity-oyyl]

I think the channel will have one of the most complete and in depth coverage of the new Macs

[brgsstm]

It’s always amusing to hear a ‘YouTuber’s’ take on what ‘non YouTuber’s’ do for work. To them, lower spec machines are for ‘replying to emails and watching videos’ whereas the higher spec machines are obviously designed solely for ‘editing videos and playing games’. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Non_Member_]

Results from M1 inside the new MacBook Air:
Single-core score of 1, 687
Multi-core score of 7, 433

If situated on Geekbench’s leaderboards right now, the M1 chip would sit at #1 on the list of single-core scores and #13 for multi-core scores

This result fully outperforms the most expensive 16-inch MacBook Pro

[HarshitSharma-epfn]

You will reach 500K and even a million and above! One of the best contents available on Tech.
One day apple will itself send you a review unit and you don't need to buy for yourself from their site. Looking forward for that day.
Always supporting you ❤️

[alexman]

Well, geekbench 5 leaked macbook air score of 7433 multicore. Beign about 10% fast than the i9 - 8 cores macbook pro 16''! That's insane!!!

[Robert-dtis]

Moment of silence please for the people who bought the 16” recently when the M1 MB Air literally outperforms it lol

[MrMcSnuffyFluffy]

I'm literally going to only be writing a novel on my air. Extremely excited about it not having a fan. Seriously, this thing seems awesome for authors.

[isosnitsky]

Shortly, You absolutely should upgrade, unless:
- You need external monitors
- You need ports
- You need RAM
- You need any kind of virtualization (Docker, VMware, Virtualbox)
- You need Windows
- You need some obscure utilities like cgroups 2
- You need eGPU

[saurus]

Issue: Fan noise very loud.
Apple engineers: remove the fan.
Apple fanboy: *cheering* what a breakthrough.

1:10

[rahimer]

How do you guys intend on getting rid of your early 2020 MacBooks. I feel totally ripped off by Apple.

[TheLucidLuxray]

I'm thinking of finally upgrading from my 2017 MBA to a M1 MBA.

[rodrigo]

I have a 2019 13 inch pro base model and im not upgrading ( this pc needs to last 6 years + :D) but for people looking to buy a new pc its a great option

[MinhLe-sfze]

I would love to upgrade to the new macbook pro from the one of 2017, but the only thing that bogged me is that the new one only have 2 ports and I need 4. So I would probably wait for the higher end macbook pro next year then. Great vid as always

[whatsindansgarage]

Fight me or hate me but those who complain how slow a Macbook Air or entry level Macbook Pro has no idea what a slow computer is. When I started college I have my dad bough me an Acer Aspire One netbook for an introductory programming class. At that time my dad and I had no idea how demanding the tasks will be for my new computer to handle. I entered a class and most of my classmate were using Macbooks. I soon dropped out of the program (not because of my computer for sure) and most of my classes were humanity classes so I used my computer mostly for essays and power point presentation. Still it has trouble keeping it up. It was running Windows 7 (not the starter version, full Windows 7) and the OS was obviously not made for that kind of hardware (AMD HD graphics, 4 GB of RAM). When I started unisity I still have that computer but I install Ubuntu on it and get like six hours of battery life as oppose to five hours. Perforamce wise it was usable but still very slow even when browsing a long PDF article for an art history class or using Adobe Digital Edition. I finally got a Chromebook for my second semester. The speed was okay and I got 8 hours of battery. But the build quality was not adequate with all the plastic. The summer that follow I got a summer job so I ended up upgrading to a Chromebook Pixel. Worst decision ever made I could have gotten a Macbook but since all my classmates have Macbook I want to have something a little different. But I was clearly stupid. I have it for like two years til it broke and Google never offered the level of support Apple does so it was doomed. Perforamce wise it wasn't even great since the SSD was made for smartphone and was very slow and the heatsink doesn't do a good job when dealing with heavy task. I got my Macbook Air late last year and I could not be much happier. Yes the fan is on when browsing a big webpage or doing encoding but I haven't seen any slowdown and I think the cooling system is doing its work. And I believe that an Apple Silicon will definitively solve the problem.

[domdy]

Looking forward to your review of future ARM MacBooks :)

[jmpersic]

Really glad I didn't pull the trigger on the MBP 16 eight months ago. Pretty sure I could develop software on the Air now. Looking forward to the tests!

[randalld]

Looks like I took a gamble. I am trading in my baseline 2019 16 inch MBP for the new 13 inch M1 MBP (16gb upgraded ram and 512 storage).. hoping its an improvement. the extra battery life and the other neat features are nice