I’m impressed so far!! - Apple M1 MacBook Air

The Apple Macbook Air is one of their most popular line of laptops or rather Macbooks. Does the M1 processor make it even better?

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[ShortCircuit]

Correction Note: Whoops, Linus meant Mac Mini, not Macbook Mini at 0:57

[fenrirthviti]

OBS Project team member here! Flattering that the first thing you think of trying on the M1 is us :)

We're working towards full native ARM support, there's parts (all right now?) that are just emulated, but seem to work ok. Also, the CPU usage listed in OBS is in the context of the process itself, and not the whole system. It's... a bad metric, honestly, I wouldn't use it for any kind of real benchmarking as it's fairly arbitrary.

[ferpykins]

can't believe he didn't go for the actual air joke and poke at the fact that it's fanless

[duartepedro]

Now you just have to add the _Intel not Inside_ sticker, to make it complete.

[jesseleite]

"They should call it the Macbook Success" ...Didn't they try that with the iPhone 6S already?

[KJAYG]

Friendly note, the same behaviour as option-clicking the green button is achieved by double clicking the title bar

[hellbenthorse]

LTT Store needs to make a "Whatever.. I'm Canadian" linus tshirt.

[gwoody]

The joke he should have said was “why do they call it a macbook air when there is no fan”

[Chris_miller]

The “drag to install” option allows you to start an application without installing it. You don’t have to copy it to applications first. It’s a nice feature sometimes.

[royz_]

Her dad: so what do you do for a living?
Boyfriend: Sir, I'm a professional sticker putter

[SuperSmashDolls]

The reason why you have to drag applications into a folder is because it literally isn't an installer at all. Applications on macOS are literally just directories you dump into a folder, and the .DMG you open is just a disk image with the directory in it and a shortcut for convenience. Want it on a USB stick? Drag it to a USB stick. Don't want the application anymore? Toss it in the trash, it's gone. You can have proper installers on macOS but that gets rid of the benefit of macOS's more isolated application packaging.

On Windows, you need installers, because Windows doesn't provide an easy way to package applications at all. Furthermore, those installers often need to install dependencies into your Windows system (DirectX runtimes are notorious for this). This makes "uninstallation" a nebulous and tricky concept as Windows does not keep track of what files are part of which applications. Applications have to ship their own uninstallers to do that for Windows, and there are shared dependencies that Windows doesn't reference count, so you can't ever safely uninstall them lest applications you installed afterwards break.

(I really like how Linux gets around this with package managers and the kinds of curation you can only do when your software ecosystem is all Free Software. This still requires you to actually use an installer, but the installer is actually smart enough to manage your entire system, and it's *part* of your system. Packages are just archives and the installer tracks what files go where. It also tracks dependencies, so if you uninstall an app, the OS can actually tell what can safely go away with it. It even handles core OS updates with the same mechanism!)

[Karotas]

Linus: "Anthony said its pretty good!"


Me: Ok, next video!

[nitishchaudhary]

2:15

Andy: Is that a charger?
Linus: Yeah its a charger man. What a concept.

[moonbastic]

Watching Linus work a Mac is one of the most boomer experiences I've ever had.

[michaelharvey]

Watching Linus try to use macOS is like watching iJustine try to use Linux..

[NoHandle]

You can tell it's a PC user when using two hands on the trackpad :)

[yeshwantradev]

Ironically, the Macbook Air doesn't have a fan

[meunknown]

0:59
did i hear that correctly
"macbook mini"

[youarewinston]

Watch a man suffer in denial for 12 minutes

[OperationBlueprint]

I'm surprised Linus doesn't know that double clicking the top of a window makes it full-size.