Don’t buy a MacBook Pro - MacBook Air M3

Apple is back with an upgrade for their thin and light MacBook Air and this seems to be one heck of a power boost. With the new M3 there's hardware raytracing, tons of compute power, and looooong battery life, so why get a MacBook Pro? Jake is here to check out Apple's latest laptop to see if it's worth your hard-earned money.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Controversial take?
0:22 Unboxing and ports/design
2:10 Specs
3:57 Sponsor - Apos
4:32 Keyboard, display, and speaker impressions
6:44 LABS display, performance, and battery tests
10:48 WiFi speed testing
11:41 Pricing and overall thoughts
12:40 Outro

[dannymartial]

Wasting the Apple sticker is criminal. You’re supposed to be like me, and hoard a stack of them for decades without ever putting them on anything

[frostytf]

Adding the M1 laptops in all of the benchmarks graphs would have been much more useful than M2. I think most people with M2 wouldn't even be looking at this laptop.

[kevinkariuki]

"the day apple stops including stickers in their packaging is the day we know we have failed as a society." and now they have stopped! 🤐😁

[KopfKino]

By the time you upgrade to 16gb of RAM and 512ssd like a normal human being, you might as well get the pro : the display is phenomenal

[fartacusxd]

And apple just got rid of including stickers so we failed as society

[shubhamshelat]

They have done apple stickers discontinued

[mkzrv]

Coming from an i7 2019 MB Pro. The difference in speed when doing daily tasks is insane, and the battery life is phenomenal. Worth the upgrade for sure. Yes the extra features, pro motion, miniLED, more ports, active cooling, etc on the M3 MB Pro are tempting but for real world use the air is just perfect and more than enough for what I (and most people) need.

[B.D.F.]

I’d say between an M3 MacBook Air with 512 GB of storage and a refurbished M3 MacBook Pro with 512 GB of [edit:]storage it’s a no-brainer to spend the extra $80 (CAD) to get the better screen, better speakers, better battery, and better cooling.

[TDT]

I'm replacing my Early 2014 MacBook Air with this M3 Air. 10 whole years difference in technology is going to be insane.

[charliegundlach]

If the Air had 120 Hz pro motion I would get it no-brainer honestly. That is the only thing that I would want more

[WJKnightMare]

Day 12 of asking Linus to turn a ps5 into a PC

[Gearsandco]

and I totally agree, it has the same exact cpu from the base Pro, the only real thing it's missing is the cooling fan, you can fix this with a 1mm thermal pad, it will bridge the constant between the m3 chip and the bottom case, which would be more than enough to passively cool it. And NOOO DON'T GET THE BASE MODEL, UPGRADE THE GPU TO 10 CORE AND AT LEAST 16GB RAM IF YOUR NOT LOOKING TO DUMP THIS LAPTOP IN THE TRASH AFTER 2 YEARS!!!

[miha]

12:08 "if all you do is web browsing, watching YouTube, browsing memes and basic photo editing " it's literally description of Chromebook. You don't need 1000$ machine to run browser.

[dragonflame]

Video idea for if you guys take them lol
When I got my 2020 Zephyrus G14, my friend told me I should get a cooling pad for it. I had no idea what they were until then, but now that I have one I don't actually see much of a performance difference. The temperatures of the chassis and the hotspots around the keyboard seem to be cooler, but I don't think it actually contributes to internal temperatures. I think it could be an interesting idea, though it might not be a big enough idea for the main channel.
Anyway just wanted to pitch the idea. Have a great day if this gets seen!

[mirage]

I cannot get over how limited that I/O is. Two type C ports and a headphone jack means dongle hell if I wanna do something as simple as plugging in an external drive. Type C drives are not common around here.

Having said that: this much horsepower in a dead silent, rock solid package cannot be beat. Nobody else offers something similar.

[hlm]

People say go Pro, but for me while I would like a Pro’s (more power, better screen, ports don’t bother me I already have a set of really good docks and adapters), My main machine is still an M1 Pro 2020 with 16GB RAM and I have a backup M2 Air 8GB, I do prefer the M2 Air, but definitely notice the extra RAM on the M1, but for me the Airs offer long life battery, thin and light machine. The screen isn’t a big deal as my MacBooks spend most of there time docked to a 27” 4k screen. Also I prefer the thinner shell and weight when carrying it about and I find it really comfortable to type on (Due to the lower Z height) when I’m using it out and about. Cost of the upgrades it’s still cheaper than an equivalent Pro. Really the standard M chips are just so powerful, so while 16GB 512GB SSD is a must really if you prefer the lighter machine you won’t be disappointed.

[DarkstarDarth]

My friends M3 blew a rod and estimate to fix it was $7k so he sold it and got a Honda instead.😀

[nfugitt]

I wanted the M2 MacBook Air, but the color options stunk and I was able to get an M1 Pro with the config I wanted in the Air (512/16) for $100 more on sale. The extra $100 got me a 120 Hz Mini LED screen, better speakers, and more ports.

[athok]

00:41 we have failed as a society as they just stopped and wont include them in iPhone 16...

[Boy-hkwc]

"The day apple removes stickers from there packaging" today they iphones dont have apple stickers no more, we have failed boys