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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Alrighty, welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator,
Johnny Hemburger. Just assuming everything's recording here on my laptop,
which I will show you. I don't know if that
will show up on the camera, it'll mess with my tracking.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
But that is the og MacBook Air. Baby. I did it.
I pulled the trigger.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
All EDC compact, slim form factor, lightweight yet powerful content
creation laptop roads lead to MacBook Air.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm sorry to say, just all.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Things considered, it's just again, this is just my opinion
as one loan content creator here on my podcast, Geek
Therapy Radio podcast. But if you are looking for let
me rephrase that. I was looking for something that was
not very expensive, and I'll explain that in a second.
That was not very expensive but was fully capable of
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real solid content creation, both video editing and obviously audio editing,
podcast editing. Something that had great all day battery life.
Something with a good screen, good speakers, a good built
in microphone, all the things that a content creator would need.
Why did that turn off come on?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Maybe that'll that'll be better if you're watching this on YouTube.
I'm in my car right now recording of course, and
the overhead dome lights just went off, probably to save
the battery. But anyways, yeah, I got. What I wound
up getting was a twenty twenty first generation M one
MacBook Air. I got it with sixteen gigabytes of RAM,
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and it was just a shade on Amazon. It was
just a shade over five hundred and twenty dollars. I
think it was five hundred twenty six dollars used refurbished,
good condition M one MacBook Air with sixteen gigabytes of RAM.
This is before the M two refresh. Why did I
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do that? It wasn't just because of the cost. You
could get a used M two for one hundred or
two hundred dollars more. I mean, it's a little bit
more expensive for an M two and an M three obviously,
But why did I specifically go for the first generation
M one MacBook Air first and foremost? Like many around
this kind of tech space, will tell you, the Apple
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kind of in a good way back themselves in a
corner a little bit with the first generation of processors,
because they are so good, it's becoming difficult to convince
their own consumer base to upgrade from M one now
to M four and what have you. So that is
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reason number one why I went with a MacBook Air,
a first generation M one on MacBook Air, was that
the processor, even in the year twenty twenty five, is
still absolutely crusher when it comes to content creation. So
that was rule number one two. Oh, it's the battery life.
I needed, the all day battery life. This does not
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have the battery life of my sixteen inch MacBook Pro.
Of course, it doesn't have the brute force horsepower of
the M one pro chip inside of my sixteen inch
MacBook Pro. But the battery does last all day that
is used. This is five years old. When I got this.
The first thing I did was look at the battery
health to see what kind of capacity remains on this battery,
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and it's ninety two percent. After five years, this battery
still has ninety two percent of its original capacity. I
think when this came out, they were touting an all
day battery life of you know, best case scenario eighteen hours.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I have not tested that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I have not tested if it's sixteen and a half
hours or seventeen seventeen hours or whatever. It is now
at ninety two percent of original capacity, but I can
tell you just from working on it day to day.
Battery life is not an issue even when I'm editing video.
Editing video is a more power intensive task. Obviously, there's
no way you're getting fifteen sixteen hours of battery life
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while you're editing video.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Just flat out's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But every part of me says this is We'll do four, five,
six hours, maybe even seven hours of light video editing,
video editing for my needs for my use case, minimum
five hours of just straight up video editing. I have
not verified this, I've not tested this. You can look
around other YouTube channels to see people who have done
deeper dives into the actual battery life during heavy content
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creation and gaming and then versus just watching videos.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But this has not left me stranded.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
This is not leaving me kind of searching for a
wall charger in the middle of the day. I've had
this thing for about a week and it's I've been
using it all the time. I was a little bit
nervous about going from my m one Pro sixteen in
MacBook Air to this MacBook Pro to this thirteen inch
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MacBook Air, but it has I'm reaching for this in
the past week every situation, every kind of video editing situation,
every content creating situation, every work situation, emails, writing, typing, whatever.
M one, I've been going for the MacBook Air because
it is so small, because it's so lightweight. But speaking
of small, the screen on the M one MacBook Air
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is smaller than the M two's and onward the M
two MacBook Airs. I believe I have like thirteen point
eight inch screens. This one is thirteen points six inches
or thirteen point three inches somewhere around there. I even
with my eyes, I have not. It has not been
a deterrent. Sure, a sixteen inch MacBook Pro screen is
going to be way bigger, or my seventeen point three
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inch a or a seventeen inch screen is going to
be way more real estate.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But for a compact laptop on the.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Go that can do it all, I am not complaining
about this screen. The screen obviously is not miny led
or whatever that my sixteen inch MacBook Pro is, but
it still looks great.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
The screen still looks more than great.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Anybody looking at this, it's kind of weird because looking
at like a sixteen inch MacBook Pro screen or any
MacBook Pro screen, or an iPad Pro screen, You're like,
this is the cream of the crop. This is the
best that screens get. Maybe perhaps O Lead gets a
little bit better, but I mean you're talking about some
of the best displays in the world in these high
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end flagship devices, not just with Apple but with everything.
I mean, my Galaxy S twenty four Ultra right here
has the best, one of the best, if not the
best phone screens on the planet. And so going from
looking at you know, in my TV at home, I
have two TVs at home that are oh LED LG
O Lead TVs. Going from those cream of the crop,
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best of the best technology screens to looking at this
first gen MacBook error, I think it's just LCD screen.
I have no complaints. When you watch reviews and they say, oh,
the screen isn't technically as good as the as a
MacBook pros or whatever, that can be a bit misleading
because in real life the screens on the MacBook Airs
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are still absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Same with the speakers.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The speakers in the sixteen inch MacBook Pro obviously blow
any other sound any other laptop sound system out of
the water. I'm sorry, this is not an Apple fanboy
thing or a PC fanboy thing like I just mentioned.
I got Apple Land PC and Windows and Macoa. I
use all of it all the time. Android, I use
all of it. MacBook Pro speakers are the best in
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the business, and I would say that even the built
in microphones, in my experience, are the best in the business.
One reason I went with the first gen M one
MacBook Air is that the speakers are still top firing.
I mentioned this in the previous video I believe before
I actually got this first gen MacBook Air. But the reason,
one of the reasons I'm okay with going with the
first gen M one MacBook Air was that the speakers
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or top firing, as opposed to M two's and so
on that bury the speakers underneath the keyboard. They still
sound great. I'm sure I've not heard an M two
or M three MacBook Air. I'm sure they still sound great.
For this form factor, these speakers still sound fantastic. They're
not as good quote unquote as like a sixteen inch
MacBook pros speakers, but they are still There's probably no
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other device, no other device that I own. I've got
a oh gosh, what is my Zephyrs G fourteen. I've
got a Zephyrs G fourteen with an RTX thirty sixty
in it. Good speakers, good speakers in it, but nothing
compares in my experience to speakers in a MacBook. And
that's one of those little things about a content creation
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computer is the sound needs to be good, the display
needs to be good, and in my case, what you're
listening to right now, the built in microphone needs to
be good. The built in microphone for the MacBook Air
is in fact underneath the lee speaker girl. So that's
why I'm favoring speaking into the left speaker girl a
little bit off access, because that's the main microphone in
a MacBook Air and also in MacBook pros as I've
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demonstrated in the past. So all these amount to In
the track pad. I hate track pads. Usually I severely
disliked trackpads.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
But I noticed something the other day.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I was talking to my buddy Buddy, who was talking
about he was in the looking he was shopping for
mice for wireless mouse's, wireless mice's mess and I said,
you know, I just realized the other day that I
was using my my MacBook Air here and I have
my Logitech Pebble mouse in my backpack with me all
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the time, and I got it out and I had
it next to the MacBook Air, and after four hours
of video editing on battery, by the way, I realized
I never touched the pebble, the Logitech Pebble wireless mouse.
I was just using the track pad the whole time
on the MacBook Air, which is technically small. Is it
a smaller trackpad in the sixteen inch macwipro because it
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looks massive on here, But while a trackpad, it was
never going to be as good as a dedicated mouse.
The fact that I went four hours and I had
a wireless mouse next to me and forgot about it
and it was just using the trackpad to edit video
in Da Vinci Resolve is a testament to how good
the track pad is. And it means that in a pinch,
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you maybe don't need to carry the law wireless mouse
with you with a MacBook Error MacBook Pro. I always will,
but it wouldn't be the end of the world if
I got somewhere and I needed to sit down and
work on something and I realized, oh, I don't have
my wireless mouse. That the trackpad, Apple track pads. You know,
credit where credits do Apple trackpads. I have never on
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a PC ever even come close in my experience, personal
experience to something as good as the trackpad on Apple devices,
especially modern Apple devices, with the haptic feedback and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
The keyboard.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's great on this one too. I gotta start wrapping
it up because I obviously I'm recording in my car.
I got to go up to the office. I'm at
work here. But yeah, uh I had the a sus
Vivo Book fourteen with an O lead panel. Had that
for a few weeks, sent it back to Amazon, and
I was like, you know what, Like I said, all
roads lead to used MacBook Air. And that's where I'm
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at today. Couldn't be happier. Somebody's stopping me on the street.
What what is the best compact portable laptop that you
can recommend for you know, under six hundred bucks? Around
five hundred bucks used MacBook Air, one hundred percent used
M one. MacBook Air absolutely all the way because you
can get it for around five hundred bucks now with
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the sixteen gigabytes of RAM, and if you're a serious
content creator, not that the eight gigabytes can't get you
through eight What Apple? What mac os and M one
chips do M chips do with with way less RAM
is crazy? Uh so you can do a whole lot.
You can video at it, you can four K video
add you can you can watch an eight K timeline
with eight gigabytes of RAM on a MacBook Air. But
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more RAM is always better, makes things faster, snappier, you
can have more effects going on. So and they're so
cheap now, so why not go for a sixteen gigabyte
RAM MacBook Air M one MacBook Air for less than
six hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
This is so cool?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Like one of the best real one of the best
things about M two and M three and M four
chips coming out is that the M ones just get
cheaper and cheaper.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And they're still baller.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
They probably won't have the software support as long as
M twos and M three's updates and things like that,
but that's to be seen. M ones are so good
it won't surprise me if Apple extends the support of
M one devices beyond I think their desktop mac pros
or whatever they are, with like one hundred and ninety
two gigs a RAM. You know, the big cheese greater towers.
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Those are still in M one max chips, M one pros,
and M one max chips. There's still m ones and
their flagships seven thousand dollars devices, so one't surprise me
of Apple supports M one devices for a few more
years beyond like what they typically did with you know,
Intel chips, for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I really got to run upstairs. Thank you so much
for listening to the Geek Therapy Radio podcast or watching
here on YouTube. I adjusted the settings of my Osmo
Pocket three here to hopefully track me a little bit
smoother unless jittery, but we'll see how it works out.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
This is all an experiment. Geek Therapy Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Podcast started in twenty seventeen. It's been an experiment for
the last several years. I'm never gonna nail it down,
but that's one of the in my opinion, one of
the kind of beauties of geek therapy radios. I'm constantly
tingering with things anyways, talk too much. You are worthy
of love, you're worthy of giving love, you're worthy of
receiving love, and you were worthy of your own self respect.
Thank you so much for listening to geek Therapy Radio
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today and I'll catch you next time.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Peace Out,