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How Apple Broke Laptops Forever
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- Published on Jul 18, 2025
- Apple’s M1 chip changed the laptop game forever-but how did it break the competition? 💻⚡ From insane performance and next-level battery life to crazy efficiency, the M1 chip left Intel and AMD laptops in the dust. In this video, we break down why Apple Silicon is dominating, why Windows laptops are struggling to keep up, and what this means for the future of tech.
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Not hearing a fan on my laptop is life changing I can’t go back
Yeah, it's worth the money just because of that.
indeed, I rarely ever used my MacBook Pro 2010 on my lap. I do that multiple times a week now with the M1 Pro. Simply the possibility of putting it down onto a blanket without a thought of it burning itself is phenomenal
You can imagine how awful it has been being issued a Windows work laptop again after using an M2 as a personal laptop.
I am on Windows 10 and I never hear a fan. Plus with wsl and nvidia I think apple too far behind just like their lousy siri ai 😂
This was started by mini pc makers.
M1 is insanely good. It's hard to find one used macbook air M1 in Indonesia, just because it was so good.
True that
I bought an Air M1 a couple of months ago and I love it, I can do whatever I want, even for gaming, is insane
can confirm.. im in indonesia and using m1, im not going to sell this precious mac
I was very lucky to get the Air M1 from a friend who was selling it at a very cheap price, because he needed money to buy his wife an iPad Pro, he sold it for IDR 8 million in 2023
not hard, just over prize..... lot of them in FB marketplace, olx, tokped/tiktokshop or sopi🗿
The issue the whole time was intel. And Apple knew they had to wait to the end of a license agreement in order to start a silicone was developing 10 years before
M silicon chips are basically more powerful A chips from iPhones
@@adziak The word “basically” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
@@adziak M series is something way more grand
yes apple experimented with an arm macbook air with an A5 chip a decade before the m1 so they were waiting for this
Microsoft tried it on their first surface tablet. Surface rt
Bought the M1 pro in 2020, still running strong. No need to upgrade, does everything i want for work and personal use.
Took me a second to realize that its already five years since then. Crazy how the M1 is still playing in the elite top class of processors after 5 years without aging a small bit
I'm curious, how much RAM did you buy with it?
@@Salmagundiii just the basic 8gb, i can do 1080p video edits for days. 4k not so much but that's to be expected
I bought one last year, brand new from Walmart of all places. Best laptop I've ever used. I hope Apple supports it for several more years. If not, there's always opencore legacy patcher.
Same here, I have a Macbook Pro 14 Inch 1 tb M1 Pro Chip, and man, I haven't upgraded ... if I do it will be M5 Pro Chip max 16 inch since I got myself editing video, not saying it lags on my laptop but I wanna take it to the next level.
No one talks about how well-researched this video is. It’s not some AI-generated bs script; it includes a clip from Marques Brownlee's Waveform podcast, zooms into RUclips comments, features a clip from Linus, a CNBC interview, and numerous Apple keynotes. All these clips were definitely chosen by a real person, and I truly appreciate the effort. Keep up the great work!
It is called compilation, not research. With research you gain new knowledge, here we see a compilation what already existed elsewhere and is sawn togehter here.
@@MezeiEugen also he talked about his intel MacBook "overheating" there is a huge difference between overheating and thermal throttling. Overheating could lead to damage to the silicon or worse a fire, Thermal throttling just means it slows down, though thermal throttling defiantly isn't ideal. He talks about his first "mac" and he showed a timeline showing the Apple ][. which was a completely different product line than the yet to be released Macintosh which was 20 years before the PowerPC iBook he displayed as his first mac. On top of that he talks about "Apple's cold revenge against Intel" It wasn't revenge, it was just business, Intel wasn't meeting their needs, just as Motorola wasn't meeting their needs when they made the decision to switch to Intel in the first place. This video is sloppy and full of inaccuracies. There's a 50/50 chance an AI video would have done better.
AI work at its best.
@@MezeiEugenre-"search"??????
bro haven't tasted the deep research AIs 😂 Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experiment pretty can help you to cook a very well research ideas across the internet.
15 years ago if you said you would put a mobile-class chip into a desktop-class machine. People then would’ve laughed you out of the door.
no they wouldn't because 15 years ago chip performance was doubling every year.
It’s true, but mainly because computers 15 years ago weren’t approaching the limits of a wall outlet… Now that we’ve gotten to the point where a single computer can draw 1500+ Watts, power efficiency is becoming invaluable
mobile class?
@@loha-dev Sorry, cell-phone class to you Americans.
I've actually been telling people back during the a10 period that they should have put those in their Macs.. well guess what years later.....
The craziest thing to me is that Snapdragon failed to do the same thing in windows and got out-performed up by AMD's x86 chips, there's a lot of power Apple can draw out in simply owning the entire pipeline from OS to hardware, and it aligns with Apple's original vision, as Alan Kay once said and Jobs famously quoted: people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware
Thats the main difference.
_"people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"_
Not at all. That was nothing but just a marketing trick. The thing is Apple needs their own hardware just to the company exists, that's it. Thanks to the IBM open architecture Microsoft doesn't have a need to produce computers. If all of a sudden Apple disappears one day then no one will critically get hurt much. At the same time MS Windows in conjunction of x86 is a foundation of a variety of industries such as design, manufacturing, commerce, medical, defense, etc. Just bear in mind that all the Apple CPUs & all their hardware is designed exclusively on PCs running MS Windows OS.
@@MSM5500that’s quite the claim, what’s your source? I doubt it, as it would be counterintuitive for Apple to rely exclusively on Windows PCs for designing its hardware. Are Windows PCs involved in some aspects of the development of the hardware? More than likely, but not exclusively.
@@RedRedVine _"what’s your source?_
The knowledge of the facts is the source. All the electronic design Apple does in CADENCE which is MS Windows based software. The mechanical design is made in Siemens NX which is MS Windows base piece of s\w as well. All the simulations & testing is performed on a software run MS Windows.
And now you need to answer a question:
Please, name any CAD/CAM/CAE software of enterprise level available for MacOS????
You've got 15 minutes so be quick.
Qualcomm failed to provide the tools to third party software devs
I stuck with my 2011 13" MBP for a decade until the M1 Air came out and got it a few months after. I didn't realize how slow my old laptop was until I made the switch. I have since moved on to the 15 inch Air, which gives me the ideal real estate and speed for a traveling laptop.
Nah! You won't notice how slow your old laptop was until you switched to the new one for a while and need to do sth on your old laptop.
@@jinraigami3349riyal
I freaking love my m1 Mac and it’s getting pretty old now!
This is telling (and a counterpoint to the opening sentences of this video), you were able to 'stuck' to your 2011 laptop until M1 (2020), so nine years ... try hanging on to any Wintel laptop for nine years, I dare you ;) ;)
I want a M4 but my M1 works fine, so I guess i'll get a M6/7 in a few years.
I was thinking about upgrading since my M1 MBA has only 8 gigs of ram, but even that amount is enough thanks to how efficient macOS is with apple silicon
got a M2 Air with 16GB RAM....It suits to my every need. Coding, Browsing, Writing and even some Gaming
I'm kinda considering to upgrade my more than 3 years old Air M1 8/512 to either 16/256 Air M3 or 16/256 Air M4, since now the base model starts at 16GB. For storage, it can be upgraded by the right technician. Or I can just use external SSD drive for way more storage. The thing is, this Air M1 is still going strong. Got a PC with i5 12400f, 3060 Ti, and 32GB of RAM. Mostly used for gaming and more heavy video editing. But to be honest, the M1 holds up close to it..
I got the M1 Pro 16" with 16gigs knowing it was a long time purchase. 5 years and no regrets, it is almost too good, they made the perfect laptop. Don't think I will upgrade for another five
@@ysahli same i even render 3d on unreal engine 5 twin motion lol. Its a beast rght now im playing call of duty wwii from 2017
The problem for other manufacturers is that they're chained to an OS slapped together by an arthritic company that is far behind the curve on RISC processors in desktop computing and is too busy getting high off their own AI supply.
True that
Meanwhile Apple Intelligence Siri Model is delayed into next year (2026) because apple spent years doing nothing rather than developing any LLMs. It has been 3 years since ChatGPT came out lmao
@@pkrazy and apple intelligence in general is shit lol
problem: windows
solution: linux
@@tarikvehab8938 copious amounts of wine ensues
I watched somewhere I already forgot which footage but Steve Jobs had a vision on how Laptops were supposed to be used. He imagined you are offsite for a few days in a log house in front of a lake just typing emails, disconnected from power wires and internet cables but still connected. This was his vision back in the late 90s when laptop were starting to be more popular. He really had a good vision of how tech products are supposed to be used and this is something they really focused on over the next 2 decades. Keep researching and developing ways to improve wifi and more importantly a laptop that retains portability yet can last a whole day or even the whole weekend. I was a life long windows user but I can't pass up the opportunity, makes me a lot more productive than constantly looking for wall sockets when I step out of the house
If you just read emails and browse the web you can probably develop something even more energy efficient - up to a week of usage.
The less features you support the less energy it will use purely by the fact that the instruction set is much smaller.
@@JamesSmith-ix5jd uhhh iPad?
@@JamesSmith-ix5jd uhh you mean iPad?
We tech bros can really be quite cumbersome when it comes to our tech. Its good that we have people like him that have a vision of tech that is more convenient and seamless rather than steampunk-ish lol
I don't feel bad for intel at all, in fact I despite Intel, it has been tried to milk its customers for decades.
Successfully, too. Intel made plenty of money, they don't need more. Intel is only the underdog by choice, they don't need our pity either.
Its bad for customers. Companies always need competition so that they produce cutting edge tech at good price.
@@spec214 yes, Intel's anti-competitive practices were definitely bad for the customer, it's good that they have more competition and less market influence now.
Remember larrabee? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture) All the promises it could have brought only to be canned in favour of more of the same. Just one of the idiocy of the suits.
I don't feel bad for Intel either in fact I hope Intel fail because their CPU and GPU suck so hard. Their NIC card is probably a rebrand Mellanox Connectx that's why it so good
I swear I'm never buying a MacBook again because of my bad experience with the MacBook Pro 2019-it ran very hot, was slow, drained battery quickly, and had flexgate and keyboard issues. Then I won a prize that gave me a MacBook Air M1 for free. I was skeptical at first, but after trying it, I was amazed. It was very fast, had no fan, made no sound, and had all-day battery life. This changed my perspective about taking laptops everywhere, which was still not convenient because they're very heavy, and I also needed to bring a charger because when working, the laptop only survived for 3 hours. Now I'm buying an M3 Max laptop for heavy coding and may use it for the next 4 years.
no way u got a m1 for free, if youre getting a m3, how about bless someone else up.. and gift me the m1 too, im currently on a really slow 2017 imac
@lewis563cry
Just get the pro for programming
No problem, just stay here long enough, and most RUclipsrs will be more than happy to force you over .. 😆
My advice is wait a little if you can. If the next line of laptops has the C1 then you want that.
I remember editing my first few videos on an iPad Pro with the A12X and how it was absolutely blowing away my Intel Mac Mini. A few years later when M1 debuted there was no question in my mind about replacing the Intel Mac with the new M1.
Dude, my first iPad was the 4th gen with 32bit chipset. And even that, was still capable for 1080p video editing! Made the video on my channel. Now I've been using Air M1 8/512 for over 3 years, and hasn't felt slow even a bit..
I recently upgraded from an iMac to a completely spec’d out M4 MacBook Pro. M4 pro chip, 512 gb SSD, 24 gb of RAM, 16-core Pro graphics card. I cannot say enough about the insanity of this machine. The ridiculous power that this 14” laptop has, and the fact that it does it all without even getting warm, is just mind blowing to me. It’s light years past any of the Intel MacBooks. Apple Silicon is something else
I just got that same model myself. Truly mindblowing, it’s a machine from another planet
"Completely spec'd out" and only has 512G SSD? I paid 134usd for a mini pc with that much. LoL.
i whole heartedly agree. I still have a Late 2020 13" M1 MacBook Pro (8GB Ram, 256GB SSD) and it got me through many things, simple internet browsing, media consumption, high school and college schoolwork, modded minecraft and occasional roblox, eventually even photo editing, and yet even with a broken screen (small drop did it, slid off sofa maybe a foot tall drop), I got a dongle that had a HDMI port and was still able to use it with a external display. I did just upgrade to a new 14" M4 MacBook Pro (16GB Ram, 512GB SSD) recently as the performance upgrades from M1 to M4 were significant enough for me to pull the trigger, but that M1 Mac still works fine even though I'm not using it as much now since I upgraded. My mom still uses her 13" M1 MacBook Air (8GB Ram, 256GB SSD) to this day and last I checked within the past few months, her MacBook Air's battery health is still at 97% after all these years.
This is actually insane because I went through the exact same situation that you described word for word.
@Boababa-fn3mr yup, the lid was open, and idk if it would’ve been different if the lid was closed, but a foot drop really did break the screen
@Boababa-fn3mr I don't even know what broke the screen, I opened it and it was cracked a lil on the side and there was heavy pixel burn in as well as glitching lines all through.
Same situation.Still typing this on my M1.
Still quiet and fast as ever but now getting a bit bashed up, physically speaking, just from daily driving.
Now thinking about pulling the trigger on M4 or waiting another 8 months for M5.
Some of this isn’t exactly true. Windows laptops have always lost literally half of their performance when not plugged in and running on batteries. Mac laptops, even using Intel, didn’t have nearly as much of a problem. The problem was that Intel (and AMD) were just increasing their performance by an average of 5% a year and features they were promising Apple just didn’t happen. Apple would build a new machine for a new chip which didn’t come out. The A series of Apple’s chips were advancing rapidly. It’s funny that those chips and now the M series are advancing at a good 20% a year today and is considered disappointing because people are expecting even more.
Liar. You cant test all windows laptops made now.
You re everywhere to praise Apple .
@ grow up. I’m telling some history. It’s all public information. You can look up the facts for yourself, but you’re probably too lazy to do it.
You're right. Ive been a user of both platform for almost 2 decades, on professional and personal settings. Macs were always more stable, more energy efficient, and better built than the windows counterpart (even with intel powering both platforms). This video has some serious misinformations in it.
It was also the fact that Intel chips generate a lot of heat and still use a lot of power compared to what Apple wanted to achieve. They released MacBook Air without a fan with the M1 processor, that would be impossible with the heat Intel chips generate. M1 compared to Intel saw a 50% improvement in battery life
@@saf6996 saf, sure, when your Apple OS doesn't allow you to use 80% of the hardware and apps on the market, sure, it is more stable. LoL.
7:36 is a diabolical clip
Microsoft "beginning" their transition. Microsoft started moving to ARM in 2012 with the release of Windows RT on the original Surface. To say that Microsoft has been trying and failing to make the switch for over a decade is being kind.
Because they have no affordable mobile devices. Only a 1k surface pro
@@Drewcardello Yeah, Apple’s success with big transitions is based on cheap sub-$1000 hardware.
Because there weren't good ARM chips around, until very recently.
@@MrD3000 We’re talking about a failed software ecosystem transition. Microsoft is just incapable. It’s a miracle they managed the jump from DOS to Windows.
@ these things are extremely complicated and have thousands of components that move the needle one direction or the other, and they sometimes don't work out, yes.
My previous comment is factually correct; when Microsoft attempted to move away from x86-based systems with Windows 8, the available ARM CPUs weren't nearly as capable as Apple's M1 today. Don't forget, that's over 10 years ago. Their ambition should be commended.
Apple had a decade of experience working on their own microarchitectures for their phones and tablets in conjunction with producing their own hardware and software around that platform before they put out the M1. They played the long game, and they succeeded. The main reason Apple could put out machines with the M1 and leave Intel's x86 architecture behind, is they don't have to care about backwards compatibility. Microsoft does, which is why they are the kings of the corporate world.
You can't compare the two companies and what they do, really. They have some fundamental things in common, but they are more different than they are the same.
Well, mac was never buggy. And thats the whole point of mac.
Windows is cheap and has a ton of flavours. If you are not in the USA, you probably have started your journey with a Windows.
Only later in life , people have migrated to mac and by choice.
I was a lifelong windows user, switched to macOS in 2017 and never looked back.
Yes, Intel macs are still usable , no need to worry. M1 and everything else that came after is another beast altogether.
Hope this helps.
The reason in the 1990's, I bought an Apple computer as my home system was because, as long as each device (monitor, printer, scanner, cpu, external hard drive, etc.) had an Apple logo, you received lifetime (800) toll-free telephone support. (smile ... smile).
Yh that’s the part I disagree, also battery life was also pretty bad in wondows laptops and that’s the same for fan noise and heat , the biggest difference with M1 was that it resolved all of that issues not that software became less buggy since it wasn’t buggy .
@@Omar-kl3xp there are windows laptops with wonderful battery life, they tend to come with compromises however
I don't find the MacBooks buggy, some older ones do have problems like the 2009/2010 17" MacBooks where their capacitors fail but once replaced they work perfectly fine. The 2011 MacBooks were probably the worst due to the graphics failure and the butterfly keyboards in the 2016-2019 models was definitely an issue but that was hardware and not internal. I used Windows since the 90s and switched in 2022 to a 2015 15" MacBook and WOW the difference was noticeable immediately, everything ran faster, smoother and battery life was incredibly even for the battery with 300 cycles. Older Intel Macs can still run quite well with open core legacy patcher and because they can dual boot Windows/Linux/Ubuntu they could be a good secondary laptop if you needed one of those operating systems for work or software that only works on them.
Yeah, while windows machines were more powerful, the problem it’s based on Windows. Mac OS is still better than Windows.
After buying macbook m1, i realized what portable computer feels like.
Before macbook, I was a laptop user for more than 15 years, and always felt like having a desktop, because I had to make sure I had a socket near me to plug it in.
dude, Apple wasn't struggling, the entire industry was struggling, and the problem isn't that components are separate the problem is Intel's architecture that is what was burning ALL laptops, in windows laptops you didn't felt it because they were made of plastic but it was there.
Also Apple didn't bet in an idea that seamed to be impossible, that idea is as old as ICs because that was the idea behind ICs, long before Apple produced the iPhone, in the 1990s there were companies selling ALL integrated computers in a single chip, they are called microcontrollers and were used by what today people would call "IoT" microcontrollers like PIC were very popular before people went lazy and started to use Arduinos and now ESP32s
Apple basically went bankrupt in the 90s, and were saved by Microsoft.
Still desktop beats Apple silicon though but for power efficiency Apple silicon is above the game
It's the classic issue - Apple has their own OS and can make it work super efficiently with custom hardware. Whereas windows compromises with greater flexibility, but more power consumption and glitches.
I think they both have issues - one glaring one is how Apple rips off consumers by charging excessively for upgraded RAM/storage. (Like, 4x the cost in some instances compared to PC or DIY upgrades.)
@ yeah it’s crazy how expensive ram and storage is from them
Especially because they bake in read/write speed to the size of SSD - so you’re required to go up one SSD size to get the full use of the machine.
@@alexpgantthis isn't true lmfao
i am paling to mac book pro 14inch for video editing should I go with M4 or M4 pro or M4 max
or M1 chip ?
M ones makes me switch from Windows after ~20 years. Insane. That battery life is just unreal. Bought M3 Air (16/512) after x1 Carbon last gen, and it's like black and white difference. I can just take that shit for a weekend WITHOUT ANY CHARGER, and in case, i just kill it with heavy load, literally everyone would have an USBC charger. Whole new universe.
doesn't carbon also charge with usb-c?
@@mormatus yep. For 4 hours.
How is it with gaming now though? Im playing ObRemas and KCD1/2 with some Shadows and Civ6....would it play those games withiut issues? Likes fans or lowerring graphics.
With the exception of the iPhone/ipad I have yet to see a design from apple that requires soldered storage and before the m chips soldered ram. The fact they kept flip flopping between soldering the ram and storage each generation further proved the point.
I agree 100 percent. My current Apple desktop system is a space gray "trash can" size Mac Pro 8-core/D-700/64GB/1TB SSD model and, you can add and make modifications to RAM, SSD, and the processor. (smile ... smile).
@transitengineer And the cheapest m1 macbook air from five years ago mops the floor with it in any task while consuming 30 times less power. Still think that trash can is worth clinging to it?
@@transitengineeruse an M series and you will never care about upgrade ability again
It is interesting how little attention the Apple Silicon transition has received outside of tech circles... Macs are cheaper and more powerful than they have ever been, and it seems like fewer people are excited compared to the days of Core Duo and translucency
Well, I used to talk about this all the time, what is missing is "fun". Go back and watch some of the "I am a Mac and, I am a PC" TV commercials it is almost never about specifications, just the fun (iLife) you have and simplicity (iWorks) of use with an Apple desktop or laptop computer. (smile ... smile).
The issue is that power translates almost nowhere except the tests. Any 500+ bucks modern machine can do all the basic stuff, with it's pros and cons. As for extream load, no games or 3D modeling on Mac and I don't need a video edditing, that's why Mac market share is around 15%. Top machines are barely usable and only suitable for quit thin market of specialists. Cheap machines? No such thing from Apple. And as for middle range, yeah Mac Air have funtastic features, but the 60 Hz LCD with the notch killing it all for me, so I stuck with Linux and Windows.
@@FayFromGallifreyno 3D modelling on Macs? You sure about that?
As for games, that’s up to the developers, but nearly every game can run on M series chips. It’s just up to the developers to optimize and release natively. All the new Resident Evils have done just that, and now Cyberpunk is going too as well. Mac Gaming could happen, it’s just up to the developers.
As for everything else - I work in film and television out of an award winning audio post production house as a sound designer, and composer. In all my years working in the industry, I have not one come across a professional studio that uses anything other than a Mac.
@tyleryoung306 Yes, there are very limited 3D modeling soft on mac. As for games, you can't cheat physics. The Air Series without active cooling will always be a joke in games, since throttling is a real thing. And no one will purchase 1000+ machine to play games with half of its screen native resolution, when there are consoles for 300-500 bucks with better performance. As for Mac pro, with it's price point you can get a real desktop 4090 which performance quite ahead of any M chip. The real graphic performance, not in tests, but in real applications, you can get from a top M chip is around 4070 Mobile, which is quite impressive for an SoC, but at the same time it's the gaming performance of a 1000 bucks Windows machine for 3000+.
@@FayFromGallifrey No 3D modeling on Mac? You're clearly just a hater or completely ignorant. Now you can do all CAD work from a mac if you want to. Why make shit up?
It's funny because as soon as I saw the beginning of your comment I already knew that the word "games" was about to come out sooner or later. It is literally just gamers now that have an issue with Macs. Almost every other professional has been taken care of... and now games are starting to be quite playable on the newest machines. It is just a matter of support.
Currently still using M1 Air. Got it back in 2021, still going strong. The main thing I’ve noticed is diminished battery life. I need to charge it more often, but that’s to be expected.
6:58 "x86" not "86". It didn't prioritize performance - it prioritized compatibility (like Windows does). The name "x86" refers to the original PCs, with 8086 CPU, 80286 CPU, 80386 CPU, 80486 CPU. The Pentium and Core series would have been called 586, 686, etc, except the marketing department discovered they couldn't trademark numbers.
Intel didn’t just build chips - they invented an entire industry from scratch with the 4004. That wasn’t just a new product, it was a new world. And they didn’t stop there: they kept pushing the frontier of technology. Even more impressively, they did it at a time when tech wasn’t at the center of people’s lives - back when the average person would go, “A computer? Uh… what’s that?” Yet somehow, they managed to put the name of a processor on the front pages. Pentium became a household word, especially when Microsoft went wild and teamed up with the Rolling Stones for one of the most iconic ad campaigns ever. Then, in my opinion, while they were changing that name for something totally nonsensical at the same time they started to rumble down. The nomenclature of those chip is maybe good to store a document in the nasa db, not to explain what are they selling. To me they already died, when at the launch of M1 decided to hire the Mac guy, to embarrass themself and everyone, in the most awkward moment of its history.
@@youerny Great overview!
Yes, and there is a reason why Apple switched to Intel. Apple did so because there was no PowerPC G5 viable mobile CPU. Laptop sales were at that time booming, with laptops being much more popular. Apple's OSX was from it's introduction being written to support Intel CPU's. And Apple was better prepared to make the transition than Microsoft ever did or could with any non-Intel, non AMD CPU architecture.
I imagine that the M5 or M6 will be the first chip advertised to M1 users.
10 years ago Mac’s we’re not as buggy and bad as you state in the beginning. Maybe 20, but not in ‘15
That voice crack thou 5:49
Grew up pro PC and Windows my whole life, mostly with laptops. Tried them all- COMPAQ, HP, Huawei, Acer, Toshiba... loud fans, bunch of heat (even when asleep or on standby) and battery life was abysmal. Bought a Macbook last year and the difference was insane. Don't think I'll be looking back should future Macbooks continue this trend of quiet, cool and fast computing.
if in the future Apple buy more gaming company and force them to make games for them they would be the perfect machine
After being a windows user for years i finally made a switch to mac. I just bought the macbook pro m4. Struggling to learn the interface but damn. The laptop is so cold and I only had to charge my laptop every 3-4 days.
I remember the timing when M1 came out everybody questioning its capability, shifting to exploring its limit, till fasinated by how quick all companies' apps became compatible with M1.
Really, legendary.
Great video. If Apple ever gets gaming, there will be few reasons to go with the traditional x86 architecture anymore.
Thanks man
Some x86_64 CPU have better performance, especially in gaming on AMD APU side, with similar power consumption. The lead Apple had with M1 latested like 5 months before AMD did a comeback, but it's not know from Apple community. On ARM side the lead regarding performance and battery consumption is held by a Qualcomm Snapdragon
Yep, I predicted this a while ago, this, cloud gaming, and AI will change gaming forever, very soon.
i think Apple approach in gaming is by using External GPU in the future, the problem is they still stuck at Thunderbolt license
@@syarifairlangga4608 interesting. Do you mean that Intel holds them back?
Can I axe you why you say dextop @2:15
He meant Samsung’s dex pc, which is dextop if combined together
Pronunciation.
@@sturmx96 ok, thanks!
I agree 100%, Having a M1 macbook pro with M1 pro chipset. I never felt the need to upgrade. I can keep a 1000 tabs across multiple browsers, VS Code, Local servers, testing tools. Everything runs so smooth, very less heat and no fan noise and still incredible battery life. I could just throw the windows laptop out of the window they feel like 1980s tech now. 😅
Oh and very few people mentioned the fact that Apple distributed a Developer Transition Kit before M1 is in retail. It was literally a Mac mini with an iPad chip in it. It had so few components the inside was almost empty. It already outperformed the latest MacBook at the time. And Rosetta was pretty much flawless. Incredible.
The M series has damn awesome performance. However, the closed ecosystem, and planned obsolesce is what now keeps me away from apple. Just like the intel macs apple decided to drop every software release, its about time for the M1 mac mini to be on the chopping block. At the very least the intel macs could natively run windows or linux with ease. Keeping the hardware out of a landfill, and still be a moderately productive machine. Limiting any expansion is also a big downside, even if they made their own custom modules available (SSD) for someone who needs a bit more storage and doesn't want some USB thing to carry with them. The M series was a great move, the inherent downside is that it made it easier to for Apple to increase proprietary components. Which can also be viewed as an upside that their integration was the speed boost need for ensuring ARM to be competitive. It is just not for me anymore, I'll take my crappy plastic laptop, without someone controlling what I pay for, or waiting for software to be ported to ARM. (which is becoming more common) Apple used to create art with full user functionality, now they create representations of that art, under their control. (in the name of security, and sometimes I confuse security with greed) Maybe I'm more passionate about this being a long time Apple users (1987) and the reason for sticking with them, was exactly against what they become.
I can’t agree with planned obsolescence, I’ve still got 8 year old Mac’s that are still getting security patches and with Open Legacy Patcher you can support positively ancient Mac’s. I’ve never kept a windows computer beyond 4 to 5 years max. Also the porting of apps is a non issue with Rosetta2, you can run native x86_64 binaries on an M series processor with any changes at near native speed. On cyber security the two largest vulnerability points in a system now are the firmware and the applications, Apple’s processes for security help protect both. Yes Apple gets to manage the apps but are you qualified to determine if an app has a vulnerability in it ? Just downloading from the internet is a fools approach to security, it is asking for Malware, no matter which OS you are using. The only way to check an app is at the source code level and this is VERY hard and expensive and can only be cost effectively done at scale. With Thunderbolt ports now you can expand any Mac with external devices, the days of direct bus connected devices is dead a standardized external interface at 40 Gbps meets nearly all non-Enterprise requirements. There is valid technology reasons beyond profit for the approach that Apple is taking. Yes it makes them lots of money, but from a technology point of view it works.
@@OzMIB Ummm Open Core Legacy Patcher is the exact proof Apple has planned obsolesce. Recent officially dropped models typically work perfectly with OCLP. Add a couple more years to the model, and software patching is needed to run on missing/legacy hardware. I do agree that most widows computers don't hang around more than 4 or 5 years, either because they are used for gaming with upgrading to get every FPS as possible, or because someone paid $499 to just have a computer with a few basic tools, and at that price buying a replacement makes sense. I guess my argument is that the price to Apple's discontinuation is a slap in the face. Something even like web browsing over the years requires more ram, documents and software, increase over time, requiring more storage. Thunder bolt is great, but turning your desk into a porcupine with you mac at the center, takes away from the aesthetic cleanliness of the Apple design. For mobile Apple is fantastic with battery life, cutting the need for a power cable, but replaced with my external SSD that I have to carry with my computer. I also agree with the software security for average users, but what if I want to run software compiled from source code? It gets more difficult every release to do so, I bought the thing, give me my warning and be done. I have been a Mac user since my MacintoshSE in 1987. I have seen upgrades fade into nothing. Computers intentionally built to be beautiful inside, so upgrading could also be aesthetically pleasing. I have seen Rosetta like compatibility discontinued pretty quickly through their transitions. (68K>PowerPC>Intel>Apple Silicon) and just waiting for history to repeat itself. I slowed my Apple upgrade purchases after I felt dookied on when I bought my PowerMac G4, and they released the intel line. I did buy a 2011 MacBook Pro and I may be one of the few that sill have one with discrete graphics still working today. I do still use older iMac (2008 acquired for free) for the ease of iMovie mainly. I gave Apple lots of money over the years, and now that they are big, they stopped "thinking different" and now just "think greed" Maybe I just have grown bitter with age, but I do not think this way about every company making advancements. Anything Professional should have 100% professional integration, even if it is a consumer spending the extra money upfront to have that professional experience. My journey, MacintoshSE> Color Classic II, LC580, PowerBook 1400, Rev.D iMac G3, iBook G3, iMac G4, PowerBook G4 (aluminum), MacBookPro 2011, and various different iPods. (The Imac G4 was just purchased for looks and not something I felt I need, but just wanted) Every one of these was bought at the entry price and upgraded extending their life with overlap in replacement. I used the latter end with many patches and tools getting every $$ i spent. I'm writing this on a core i7 W3680 (T3500 workstation) with a GTX1060, running modern Linux. It is my daily driver and I even use it for emulation, and some lighter games. Its not a speedster in this day, but is quite a work horse for its age with a modern experience. Sure I can install Linux on an intel mac, but I'm still stuck with 8GB of ram, or a soldered storage solution, I want the less cable ideals from older Apple. ADC may have had its issues, but with 1 daisy chained connection it looked great. Wireless accessories have great aesthetics, but only until a recharge, or my passionately hated replacing batteries. While thunderbolt can be chained, multiple devices that can be integrated, just adds to the clutter. I didn't write all this to create an argument, but a discussion and view from what lead me to my comment. I still use a PowerG4 until this day at work, but not for a daily driver, but a nice bridge between some 1980s hardware and modern tech. It would definitely be useless if it came with soldered 512MB of ram, and soldered 120GB storage.
Finally. Some one sees through all that marketing bullshit and fans cheering. Apple is making things worse on market. Their machines is unserviceable, their software is extremely restrictive and all that tied up to their web services and infrastructure. Total control over users.
You not buy apple product, you donate them money and they pleased enough to give you one of their things for limited use.
It's lead to disaster in established PC ecosystem where everyone need to cooperate to be profitable and on market. Apple choose to not.
I have a Microsoft surface with intel i7 14th gen and rtx 4050, that thing barely lasts a few hours. It’s also quite thick because it requires intense cooling, but it still feels warm whenever I use it would I have been better off getting an apple silicon mac?
The actual answer to ”How Apple Broke Laptops Forever” is of course parts pairing and soldered memory and storage. Break one thing, change the whole machine. That’s broken forever.
Ur sad like really sad , go see some friends.
@@lordflaflust He's right, though; even MKBHD says sucks for how Apple jump prices once you upgrade memory or storage. The freedom to buy more storage at a cheap price is amazing.
@@visualbree then go for those options. It's free market nobody is forcing you to buy apple.
I love my M1 Pro. It's still running fast, smooth and don't need to be upgraded.
The only thing holding Mac’s back now is MacOS itself
How so?
@@kirishima638just isn’t compatible with most software due to the lower user base, customization.
@ name one application (not a game) it is not compatible with.
@@kirishima638 SolidWorks
You're are absolutely spot on. I am using an M1 Max Mac Book Pro and it is insane. I haven't heard a fan noise ever, even when I am editing videos.
Your claim that virtualization cuts performance is unfounded. Most modern processors support virtualization at near zero cost. I can run osx on my Linux machine at near native hardware speeds
I am also an M1 max user, upgraded my macbook to the m1 max before my old laptop was even 2 years old, and it halved my compile times massively increasing my productivity. It was insane. Now I see no need to upgrade to the m4, my laptop is still amazing to this day, so I wonder how long this laptop will last unlike my previous intel laptop that lasted less than 2 years.
Watching this on my MacBook Air M1, literally the best purchase I've ever made
2:17 DeXtop workstation, I hope you meant Samsung Dex not a Windows Desktop 😭
really good video, especially considering your sub count!
Nice video i have questions i want to switch to Mac but dont want to get the latest (budget) is pre owned Macbook Pro M1 would be sufficient in 2025 My usage (basic Coding, light video editing and browsing)
I would suggest you to go with M1 Pro for the best but m1 with 16 gb of RAM works fine for that
I would be less concerned about if, your used laptop had an M-1, M-2, or M-3 processor. What is most important is the amount of RAM, and the size of your internal SSD drive. Therefore, I would suggest min RAM at 16GB and min SSD size at 1 TB. (smile ... smile).
Nice effort creating the video
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Absolutely amazing hardware, followed up by the worst OS ever created. I'm not sure how anybody can possibly use that OS.
because it's very good as a work computer, very smemingless and fast, if you like gaming of course you'd prefer windows
@@aucunrespect9598 how can I close app with one button? Or maximize window with one button?
@@aucunrespect9598Windows is not just better at gaming, my ignorant friend.
OS isn't bad, it's UI and candy-kiddie focus that sucks. Pity, Apple could have given us XXIst century Unix workstation with clean, stable desktop.
Wtf, have you at least ever used Windows ?
Always crashes, I had to reinstall 3 times, one time my windows got corrupted, and I couldn't recover my data because it asked me to enter a password that never existed in the first place.
Not only that, but they force you to update by enabling some built-in bugs, one time I couldn't even connect to the internet, it was just disabled by the OS, and all the wifi/ethernet options were totally gone from the settings app. Also, MS apps never work correctly, they're buggy and even slow on offficial MS hardware.
And with W11 it's even worse, the OS is even more bloated, they removed good features from 10, and that copilot tool is pretty much a spyware.
I'm only using windows to play some games that aren't availible on Mac or Linux, but when there will be enough games I will never use windows again.
Can it run Power BI ?
The fancy video editing and the enthusiastic narrative could not cover up inaccurate claims like around 2:38" m4 max outperforming RTX 4090" which lack references of sources. Aside that, there are actually numerous over-estimation of apple products, whose flaws will reveal themselves so long as you simply google and double check the tech specs.
Exactly my thoughts
7:30 Blatant lie and marketing bullshit. In silicon both Arm and x86 are same simple machines. Only difference in silicon is decoder - on x86 it used to variable length instruction decode, on ARM it's fixed length instruction. And because of variable length - x86 can easily maintain backwards compatibility while ARM forced to invent new complete incompatible instruction set every few years. Thats all difference. "Complex instruction set that is hurting x86" is more myth used by these companies.
I've had my M1 Air for around 4 years now. Best damn laptop I've ever used in my life. No unacceptable driver glitches that seem to plague every windows laptop. Ridiculous 10-hour battery life. Full performance when unplugged. Instant wake. The best developer machine I could ask for. Almost zero throttling despite being fanless. It's insane.
Battery life alone is a huge selling point!
I've had Core 2 Duo and i7 MacBooks and both of them ran insanely hot.
I bought an M1 Pro MacBook Pro 3.5 years ago and I don't know if I've ever heard the fan kick up yet.
LOL "Mac was slow and buggy 5 years ago" What?! Is this creator fr? I still have two MacBook Pros 2009 and 2012 which I upgraded to SSD and more RAM and they run better than new in 2025. Is credibility a thing anymore on RUclips or are we just pumping content because we can make flashy videos with good editing?
my dad baught a 2017 macbook and before the 2nd month ended he sold it becuz it had lots of errors
@ I’m not saying that nothing is infallible, but to make a blanket statement is stupid.
the script is clearly ai written
I wouldn't call MacOS "buggy", although it does have some bugs and I definitely hit some. But the OS UI and behavior choices are questionable at best, especially comparing to modern Windows and Linux systems.
@@mormatus that is one opinion, of course, and you’re certainly allowed to have one. Every OS has bugs and weird experiences. That was my point, but to wash away an entire system - well, I’m not expecting journalism on RUclips
The m1 was the only thing that made me think about an Apple notebook, the battery was already good, imagine with the new Apple chip
0:53 Apple made users miss gaming, and live the DONGLE life😢😢
did you check the latest amd apus though?
TL;DR they introduced M1, nothing else in this video, skip if you know what M series CPUs are
M1 was so good, I’m on a 2020 Pro M1 base model, and even being the entry level Pro, this many years later I’m still getting around 50FPS on my trucking game with the graphics cranked up
Used to be a Windows user, also a fan too. But with Win 10 having too much telemetry and Win 11 pushing ads, I was looking for a reason to switch. When the news came out for the M1, I knew it had potential to change laptops forever. Got one and I loved the performance and battery life (especially the battery life).
It feels like this should've come sooner if it wasn't for Intel resting on their laurels, they are now feeling the burn that was creeping for a long time. There's still more revolutions coming down in the chip fabrication, but while it may help Intel, it will also help Apple and AMD, pushing their lead even more.
Good stuff, I love to see the short history of the M1. The M1 is gonna be one of the most iconic chips alongside the Pentium, 8088 and 6502 among others. I can't wait to see 30yrs from now people playing with the M1 making hobby PCs because we love the tech. I hope we can get to that point haha.
I am an AI engineer and use my M3 MacBook Pro several hours per day, 7 days a week, and I just want to say I thank Apple everyday for the experience I have with it, and also, I have to say, I don't know what the Fan sounds like, I would like to hear it someday, but I never had XD
Took you long enough to get to the point, jesus…
"Apple doesn't innovate anymore", "Android had that feature for a while now" but when apple does innovate the entire industry shifts that last for years
Really pro nice video continue more video 🎉
The M1 chip is so good, too good that i'm scared Apple will implement some software to trottle them down in a few years so people upgrade...
2:10 "chasm" sounds like "kazim"
Kah-zim, yeah
ESL doing really good tho
I think Apple has accepted that people won't upgrade their Macs as fast as they used to. But consider this: people on the M1 (myself included) that at some point upgrade to an M5/6/7 will once again see an incredible performance boost. Customers now have the luxury of being able to wait with upgrading until it's worth it, instead of out of necessity because the system and apps demand it. That retains your customers instead of losing them after a few upgrade cycles.
I use an old MacBook Air and I like its keyboard. I just like windows pcs upgradable ram and storage in some models. However Mac OS looks good enough on Catalina
I'm on a M1 Pro 16" (2021). I will be using this thing until it's no longer supported. Godly machine
I wish Apple allowed their silicon to be used on other devices. MacOS really holds it back and doesn't take advantage of the crazy power it holds. It's like having the motor of a Camaro in an old Camry.
macOS is built for apple silicon, what other software would you like to run on it? Windows? Which has a problem at the moment of not having softwares supporting arm on it, and their x86 translation layer is just not as good as apples Rosetta.
I wish Apple simply fixed the macOS - removed the bloat and open ecosystem for more diverse set of professional tools. Modernize and standardzie GUI and not make doggie bag out of it as it happens with Widows since 8 onwards....
I'm impressed you don't have more subscribers... This is some documentary quality video man... Great job! New sub here 💪🏼💪🏼
What were you doing to your older Macs? I switched to the MacBook Pro back in 2010 and from 2018 till 2022 I had to use a PC and it sucked! My 2010 MacBook had a physical problem that I couldnt justify fixing (due to the age of the device) which prevented me from using it as my daily driver, but it was still faster and only slightly less reliable than my brand new top end PC laptop that I got from work.
The MacBook was so much more quiet than anything else on the market, more reliable, more performant than PCs of the same spec... I have no idea how you could have started this video with the claims you made...
I have a base MacBook Pro 14 Inch with the M1 Pro chip
It still blows my mind after 5 years while every Windows Laptop I ever had even the thinkpads from work just sucked but I guess we never knew what we could have
how about *repairability*?
That's why I no longer buy Apple hardware. I now have a Linux laptop (System 76) with a fan and I love it. If the fan turns on during an inconvenient time I just activate quiet mode in exchange of a little slower performance. It is fully repairable, expandable and I have more RAM than any MacBook.
not to be that guy, but you took 10 minutes to just say it was unified memory architecture
great video thoe, keep it up
I have an m4 and an asus zephyrus g16, 4080. I love my asus but once I got to work at 10am and realised id left my charger, my battery was at 17%, surprisingly when I got home after a full day of video calls, lots of coding, running docker, browsing, building and depoying code, I got home at 7pm I started watching a movie and only realised when it got to 2% that I needed to plug it in. The efficiency and power in macs is just insane. you normally expect to only get 1 of 2, if its powerful , its not efficient, or if its efficient it is not powerful. the m4 can render 4k video on battery at 1% battery for 15 mins without any performance issues. Do these things even have a fan?
Just commenting for engagement so more people see this video 💪💪
Thanks mate
It's been two years now, and I'm not even updating the OS of my MacBookPro M1. I have a fear that it will slow down my M1, which I use for music production, DJing, and basic 4 K video editing. Please guide me on whether I should update the OS or not.
dont update, it will slow down
you talk a lot and say nothing.. Long video with no actual content. Just repeating Apple's M-series is better than Intel's.
I like that I can tell a customer to buy *any* Mac and it will performantly satisfy their needs. There's no way I'd ever say that about a PC.
The truth about PC is that many components are genuinely bad and it's basically FOMO with minimal perfomance and efficency improvements.
this video is 4 years late
they really nerfed their business model of making users upgrade every year. my m1 pro still feels as fast as it did when i bought it
Literally apple breaks their own laptops when decided to solder in their ssd nands to the motherboard. They break and the whole machine is useless. So no fancy chip is worth if one suicidal ssd ropes itself.
Very true. I remember talking a fan-boi in 2010 who boasted about buying super cheap broken macs. He was young, so didn't get the irony.
I am using 2020 MacBook Pro, soldered RAM.
Not broken yet.
If this is true.....and it is 5 years now since their introduction....then we would be inundated with a TSUNAMI of YT and other social media videos from Windows Fan Bois detailing ALL OF THE BROKEN APPLE SILICON MAC INTERNAL SSDs. Please someone send me ONE link from a credible Windows (or Mac) reviewer demonstrating this failure constantly across any flavor of Apple Silicon Mac.
It's not competing ass long as it's limited to ARM stuff in it's performance and efficiency. So that's an Apples to Oranges comparison unless you strictly limit your comparison to specific tools that are overall not just available, but also working identically on x86 and ARM platforms AND not in any way affected by macOS or Windows limiting their performance, because the you'd not compare the hardware,. but a mixture of hard and software gain ..
As an more than just 'advanced' user, developer and expert, using hundreds of different tools all the time, not just the mainstream office or creator's applications, the relative share of aplpications that are identically available for all platforms (including Linux) is extremely small.
So, as there obviousy is not much room for any generalizeable comparison when it comes to purely the hardware, the comparison for technically informed people is way more dependent on other facts, like: What applications one is using, what kind of enterprise Apple, the quality of their products, their general abuse of costumers, their marketing tricks and tsrategies and their ethics.
Knowing alone what the horrible consequences of a walled garden ecosystem are, and what kind of enterprise Apple is, I'd rather spend more money on even a slower notebook than ever buying their stuff.
this is a really good video
I have been using MacBook Pro's for like 20 years and when I bought the M2 AirBook I could not believe how much faster it was than any intel I had ever used. Loving this revolution!
I'd use one if it weren't for Mac OS. That OS is truly holding the whole SOC back in my opinion. I've been using it for work for a year now and I still cannot comprehend how people put up with this OS and it's quirks for so long. I'm definitely considering a Used M1 MacBook to put Asahi Linux on tho
In which areas is it holding it back?
Just learn the os man
@@gabby222themoon It's not about not knowing the OS, it's about the incredibly inefficient workflows of MAC OS, the plainly stupid windowing system and it's technical quirks like for example it's file system, the dock which is borderline useless and makes big part of the display unusable and so on..
For example I still see life-long Mac OS users at my company who still struggle to find correct open Window they want because it's windowing system is just so plain sh*t. Also it's silly animations that you cannot turn off for example which slows any workflow down (eg. clicking an item in a sub-menu shows a silly highlighting animation as "this is where you clicked" which takes half a second). If you've only used Mac OS in your life you probably don't even notice how much this actually slows you down.
Now before you go tell me "hurr durr just use all apps in full screen in different spaces along with stage manager", I tried this approach and it's even more frustrating and slow to work like that.. The worst part of all is that Apple doesn't give you the option to turn any of this crap off. It's "Heres how WE WANT you to use the OS and deal with it". I could live with that philosophy if it was actually efficient and practical unlike the mess it currently is.
I could go on as I only talked about it's sh*t GUI so far. I feel sad for people who've only experienced Mac OS in their life and think it's so perfect and the best thing out there.. I despite using that OS so much despite the Mx SOC's being so god damn good.
@@gabby222themoon
It's not about not knowing the OS, it's about the incredibly inefficient workflows of MAC OS, the plainly stupid windowing system and it's technical quirks like for example it's file system, the dock which is borderline useless and makes big part of the display unusable and so on..
For example I still see life-long Mac OS users at my company who still struggle to find correct open Window they want because it's windowing system is just so plain garbage. Also it's silly animations that you cannot turn off which slows any workflow down (eg. clicking an item in a sub-menu shows a silly highlighting animation as "this is where you clicked" which takes half a second). If you've only used Mac OS in your life you probably don't even notice how much this actually slows you down.
Now before you go tell me "hurr durr just use all apps in full screen in different spaces along with stage manager", I tried this approach and it's even more frustrating and slow to work like that.. The worst part of all is that Apple doesn't give you the option to turn any of this crap off. It's "Heres how WE WANT you to use the OS and deal with it". I could live with that philosophy if it was actually efficient and practical unlike the mess it currently is.
I could go on as I only talked about it's trash GUI so far. I feel sad for people who've only experienced Mac OS in their life and think it's so perfect and the best thing out there.. I despite using that OS so much despite the Mx SOC's being so god damn good.
macOS feels more convenient.
bro amazing story telling/video editing skills you have
could you share how did you learn this?
This was excellent. I would never have guessed it was the first video for your channel. Good luck!
What people don't know is that when M1 was produced they're already working on a different processor altogether. M1 to M5, has already been made. Just working on minor tweaks, what they're developing now is something that will cross the nano scale.
1:38 completely unnecessary animation. 😂😂
😂😂😂
But it’s nice and adds to the video. Would you rather not have it and just have some boring stock footage or a blank screen?
lol…typing this from 2019 Intel Mac-starship
I'm still a happy camper with my 16" M1 Pro MBP. These days its mostly docked to a 32" Widescreen monitor. My next Mac might just be an M4 Mac Mini.
How can it break the laptop industry when it can't be used for gaming, AI or whatever niche stuff other than video editing?
It can be used for apple gaming and AI 😂
Laptop industry has never been about gaming neither about AI, since laptops has allways balanced between performance and size / battery life.
I think it's definitely an overexaggeration but it is the first major transition to ARM and has unchallenged battery life
@@gabby222themoon just search about ai IoT software stack compatibility
None cares about ai 💀💀💀