October 30, 2024 • 32 mins
With the recent reveal of M4 MacBook Pro, etc, Apple continues to compare new generations of its "M" SoC to its original M1. Why?
Also, I suspect a massive improvement to DJI Neo video quality settings is inbound. Here's why.
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8:33 M4 Thoughts
21:36 DJI NEO Future Firmware Video Settings Thoughts
Also, I suspect a massive improvement to DJI Neo video quality settings is inbound. Here's why.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just real quick before we start a little area of
kind of house cleaning, kind of let you, letting you
in beyond the curtain, as I am to do here
in Geek Therapy Radio. I got an email from South
Korea recently shout out South Korea, thank you so much
for tuning in, but he mentioned that he gets like
local ads, local Texas ads in South Korea. I just
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want to address I don't control the ads that go on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
To Geek Therapy Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It is a point of contention with me, actually that
so many freakin' ads are put onto my radio show.
That not just because I don't see a dime of it,
but because I don't have any control over what y'all hear.
So I don't necessarily I don't approve the ads that
go on the show. I certainly don't necessarily endorse any
of the ads that you hear on this show. I am,
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but I will let you know that I am looking
into talking with the radio station that still hosts my
radio show, and I still love all of them over
there at iHeartRadio and KPRC N I fifty Am. I
have my radio show broadcast on there from twenty seventeen
to twenty twenty four, I ended the broadcast part of
Geek Therapy Radio just because I had my second child
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and there's just way too much to do and doing
a radio broadcast every week.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Really it was. It was a struggle.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So I called them up and I said, hey, go
ahead and sell my airtime to infommercials or something like that.
But I can't provide a weekly radio show anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's just too much.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But they happily agreed to continue to host the back
end of the podcast. So that's why you still hear
all the ads even though I don't have any control
over them. So I am working on This is the
point I want to make. I am working on migrating
my RSS feed over to my own back end on
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spreaker that I pay for out of my own pocket,
that will not have any ads any like you know,
interjected commercial breaks in because why and if I do
get sponsored, if there are sponsors for Geek Therapy Radio,
I will read those spots within the content. So I
am working on migrating my RSS feed over to my
own personal accounts. I have to make sure that's all
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legit and above board with iHeart, but I am working
on that. I don't foresee any bumps because I still
have a great relationship with them. So I'm working on
I'm working on migrating the podcast over to my own
back end where you don't hear any of those of
those ads that said what I'm concerned with is confusion.
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What I'm concerned with is you being already subscribed to
Geek Therapy Radio podcast and me migrating it over to
my own personal account and there being some sort of
flub in unavailability, like you click, you try to download
latest episode, or you try to go play a past
episode and it says podcast not available. I hope that
the switch is seamless and that on your end it
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is seamless and you don't even notice anything other than, hey,
there's no more ads on all my podcasts. But we'll
see how it goes. The question would arise then, is
would I start this from scratch? How many would come
over to the new Geek Therapy Radio podcast if I
have to start the back end from scratch if it
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disappears from your from your podcast app, are you even
going to notice that it disappeared?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And would you would?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Most people have the wherewithal or the not the wherewithal,
because you'll have the wherewithal, But you would you have
the intent to notice that geek Therapy Radio was missing
and then look it up again and then resubscribe to
geek therapy Radio. I know a lot of my rider dies.
Would I know I would get the emails. My email
would not be changed. My email is not attached to
iHeartMedia at all. My email is Johnny at geek therapy
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radio dot com. I did a lot of legwork and
groundwork before I started the podcast, and as I went
to kind of prepare for the day that I might
have to migrate over to a different back end, so
that I made sure to keep my email not attached
to iHeart. IM made sure to keep various other factors
of geek Therapy Radio kind of under my control should
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iHeart ever pull the plug.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And again, I'm not bad mouthing iHeart at all.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Just so you don't know what the future holds, so well,
hopefully the migration process will be easy. I see on
the back end of spreaker it says you can migrate
podcast over from a different back end, So we'll see
if that is painless. But that's in the works. I
don't control the ads. I'm sorry for the ads that
you hear on Geek Therapy Radio currently. Thank you for
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bearing with me. And with that, let's get into it.
Welcome to the Geek Therapy Radio podcast. You've got your
mental curator, Johnny Hemburger. I'm actually sitting in the studio
right now in the Geek Therapy Radio studios, which is
just a kind of the upstairs converted playroom. And when
I say playroom, and you're thinking, oh, you got a
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big house, you got a big giant playroom. No, it's
like a ten by ten or like a ten by
eight rectangle here at the top of the stairs, and
there's two doors off of it. But anyways, this I'm
back behind the good mic. I think I've got my
audio settings kind of sussed out here with my Aoris
seventeen h in task am Us twenty twenty whatever and
(05:13):
M Audio not M Audio Universal Audios four seven dead
d whatever. It's the big setup and it's frustrating. I've
mentioned a couple of years ago, a year ago, whenever
I got this gigabyte Aoris seventeen h that I have
had nothing but kind of audio issues and glitches with it,
and it made it frustrating to use this laptop for
any sort of audio production work, especially audio recording work.
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But at the moment, I think I've got to sust out.
I'm also, for the first time in geek Therapy radio history,
recording this straight into Da Vinci Resolve. I've been moving
so much of my workflow, all of my workflow into
Da Vinci Resolve. I have been editing my podcast and
Da Vinci Resolve when I'm recording them with my DGI
Mike's two's and now I'm actually doing.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
All my recording.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well for this episode, I'm doing my recording directly into
Da Vinci Resolve. So that's kind of the name of
the game, is simplifying and simplifying and streamlining the process.
So if this works out fine, especially on this AAR
seventeen h that I'm using for the brains of this
whole operation.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Great.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The less apps and less software you have to bounce
between and record into and transfer out and important to
other things. That's one of the beauty, beautiful things about
Da Vinci Resolve is that it can do all a
whole heck of a lot. Now, while the audio page
of Da Vinci Resolve fairlight audio is super useful for
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video editing. Obviously, something like Reaper is gonna be a
bit better for actual music production. I don't think da
Vinci Resolve is obviously it's not catered to that necessarily.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm sure there's ways around it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm sure there's a huge learning curve to kind of
do all exactly what I did in Reaper and Cakewalk
Sonar and pro tools. I'm sure there is ways to
do a whole like most of it in da Vinci Resolve.
But that's not really what DaVinci Resolved, the audio suite
and Davinual Resolve is designed for. But the fact that
I can just record straight in da Vinci Resolve and
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have great EQ, and have great compression, and have great
even audio effects built in, and be able to do
all my audio work for a podcast at least in
Davincu Resolve is pretty cool. For instance, I'm not gonna
have to use any noise reduction theoretically on this podcast
because I'm in a controlled environment and I'm using my
handy dandy Trusty MXLV sixty seven G that I bought
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back in two thousand and three with kind of my
last one hundred dollars and I've been using it for
over twenty years since it is my workhorse. A quick reminder,
if you want to hear more of me doing kind
of deeper dive podcasts, more well researched podcast, more highly
produced podcast check out the Beyond Bones podcast from the
(08:02):
Houston Museum of Natural Science. I of course will include
a link in the podcast description for geek Therapy Radio here,
but if you want to search in your favorite podcast app,
just search HMNS or Houston Museum of Natural Science Beyond
Bones podcast and look for the purple color scheme. And
that's how you know you've got me over there at
the Houston Museum of Natural Science. All right, So I
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want to move directly into a couple subjects that I
specifically wanted to bring up today. One that is fresh
on my mind because I just watched it. I just
got done washing Apple's new MacBook Pro announcement movie. You know,
it's fifteen twenty minutes long, somewhere in that ballpark, and
I'll just be honest with you, just to jump right
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into it, just to get right to the brats text,
jump right into the deep end, the little the thumbnail
in the intro of the video made me legit think that, oh,
this MacBook Pro is getting a touch screen at no,
the way that the hello was written out on as
the thumbnail and as kind of the teaser, I was like, oh,
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that looks like a touch input in someone drawing a
cursive with their finger, hello onto a MacBook Pro screen.
That's not what it is. It's not a touch screen.
We're still waiting for the day if it will ever come,
if it ever needs to come. Frankly, that the MacBook
Pro gets a touch screen, that any Mac laptop gets
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a touch screen, not the touch screen. I thought we
didn't get the touch screen. I thought that by the
thumbnail and the teaser that ooh, this is the year
we get the touch screen. The bigger Well, I'm not
going to get into the bedantics of all the specs
of the MacBook Pro. It's by the M four. You
can get the M four Max and the M four
Pro or vice versa. The takeaway from it in twenty
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four hours of battery life. Yes, it is more powerful
than the M three chip. But here's the actual takeaway
from it. I've heard a lot of people kind of
in the tech space complain about this or postulate about
this or be concerned or puzzled by this. Why does
Apple always compare their benchmarks and in performance improvements to
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the M one ship? You know, I've heard reviewers and
different commentators in the tech space kind of say that
it's kind of it's what is it? It's deceptive to
keep comparing to the M one rather than comparing to
the M three because, for instance, M four to M
three is not that big of a jump across the board.
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There are definitely improvements, but it sounds way more impressive
to talk about the improvement and performance across all areas
neural engine, GPU, CPU encoding, codex, all the sorts of
things in comparing that to the M one rather than
the M three, Because it's more impressive to compare it
to the M one than it is toward to the
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M three.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And now why is that?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, that's deceptive, that's Apple being deceptive, Apple being Apple.
So here's my takeaway, another way to think about it.
And perhaps I'm not alone in this, perhaps other tech
reviewers tech commentators have mentioned this, but it kind of
dawned on me back in twenty twenty when the first
M one came out. Let's fast forward a year and say,
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you know, the next year whenever it was that they
announced the M two. I said, the best thing about
the Apple M two is that now you can get
refurbished M one models for much cheaper. That still holds
true even all the way into M four. The reason why,
in my opinion, in my estimation, why Apple keeps comparing
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the performance of M four to the M one is
because a lot of us still have M ones, and
a lot of people are still buying used or refurbished
M one chips. The same thing for M two, M three,
M four, or the best thing about M two, M
three and now M four is that you can get
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an M one, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air all the cheaper,
and there are still people buying refurbished M one laptops
because they are so good. There are still people that
have held onto their M one, MacBooks, Airs and MacBook
pros me included, because the M one is so good
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and now you can get it at at a huge
cost savings. I remember that I had the at the
time thirteen point three inch MacBook Pro, loved it. M
one ship all that after M two, maybe it was
into M three, I said, I'm going to upgrade my
MacBook Pro thirteen inch M one, but I'm not going
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to upgrade to M M two. I'm not going to
update to M three. I'm just going to update to
a sixteen inch MacBook Pro M one MacBook Pro with
the M one pro chip. I think it's the M
one pro chip in there, and I have not looked back.
It has been a fan fantastic laptop that you got
for something like one thousand dollars cheaper than Launch. I
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have no regrets. I use my sixteen inch M one
MacBook Pro nearly every day. It is the laptop that
I slide into my rolling case when I go out
to when I go to the museum, when I go
to work, when I go anywhere to do anything, the
laptop that I take with me is that M one
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MacBook Pro sixteen inch. So, getting back to my thought,
the reason why Apple keeps comparing, you know, the M
four now to the M one is because so many
people are holding on to their M one MacBook pros
and their M one MacBook Air.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So it's you.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You're trying to convince your own customer base to upgrade,
to get rid of your M one and move over
to M four when a lot of us are still
kind of you know what, it's great. I'm still doing
everything I need to do with my M one ship.
Video editing is great, photo editing is great. That the
battery life is still great for the M one ship.
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It it's just great. There's not much. There's not You
can argue this. If you're an Apple person, if you
do way more intensive work than I do than video editing,
say there there. It could be something to be said
for going from M one to M four, But for
the for most people, for the workloads of the masses,
there isn't yet a big enough incentive to go from
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M one to keep to finally ditch your M one
and spend two thousand extra dollars or whatever it's going
to be. I think the new M pro start out
or start out under two thousand dollars. I think they
started like sixteen or seventeen hundred dollars. They'll quote me
on that, but they start out under two thousand dollars.
M four MacBook pros starts under two thousand dollars. But
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still that's your that's still around two thousand dollars. You
spec it up, you're gonna be way over two thousand dollars.
There's not enough incentive for a lot of people, me included,
to spend a new let's just say two thousand dollars
on a new M four MacBook Pro. Is there two
thousand dollars worth of improvements to workflow and improvements to
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power versus M one in my opinion, just for what
I do personally, No, And I think a lot of
people are in that camp of hey, M one is
still working out great for what I do. It's we're
still getting new updates to mac os and things find
are just sailing. I'm still getting sixteen hours of battery
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life or whatever. I love editing video on the go
in Da Vinci Resolve on my M one sixteen inch
MacBook Pro. Not because it's super powerful. I leave it
in low power mode when I am just not attached
to the wall. I have it pre set. You know,
you can in the power settings, in the battery settings,
you can set it to continue to run in performance
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mode and high performance mode when it's not plugged in.
But I run it in low power mode power conservation
mode when I'm not plugged in and I'm editing four
K video content. They're not super Hollywood. I don't have
you know, seventy tracks loaded into Da Vinci Resolve. It's usually,
you know, probably maybe ten tracks max. Usually it's between
like four and six tracks that I'm editing four K
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and I'm converting to pro res and cashing it and
doing all that kind of stuff. I leave it in
low power mode because it's just fine and dandy in
low power mode, and I can edit all day. My
body gives out before the battery gives out when I'm
editing four K content on my M one MacBook Pro
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sixteen inch. And there in line is the rub I
have no reason, no incentive, no desire to upgrade from
M one to M four. Apple knows that Apple knows
that I'm not alone. There's probably somebody listening to this
pod cast that is in the same camp. They've still
got their M one MacBook Air and they're like, dang,
this thing still crushes. So it's kind of convincing your
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existing customer base to upgrade where a lot of people
haven't probably upgraded enough. And you can speculate, you know,
you can call me out on that same Johnny, I
don't think that's the case, but then why four generations
into M one chips, are they still comparing to M
one when M five comes out, I would not be
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surprised if they still comparing. Oh, it's up to two
times faster video encoding than M one chips. Because still
by the fifth generation of M chip, people are still
liking under their M one's they still mention it. Apple
still compares to the M one. It's not me just
being a conspiracy theorist. Apple still compares their own products
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to M one M one that shift to ARM based
processing M one and again in twenty twenty, I said
this watch, Intel is gonna or not Intel, You're gonna
start seeing windows, laptops on ARM architecture. They're gonna switch
over to to ARM architecture. They're using Snapdragons, and that's happened.
Snapdragon excellente. We're seeing windows on ARM really being fleshed
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out and they are awesome chips.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That happened.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I don't It wasn't me just being an oracle or
anything like that. Everyone saw the writing on the wall.
Apple went to in house ARM based architecture, and now
the rest of the industry would follow. I said, mark
my words in twenty twenty, said, mark my words, the
industry is going to follow this. This is Apple actually
doing something. Dare I say innovative? I know that triggers
a lot of fanboys and girls on both sides. But
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the shift to M one was a I said, it
wasn't dropping a pebble in the pond. It was tossing
Mount Everest in the ocean like it's a It was
a huge paradigm shift across the entire industry. And Apple's
M one silicon was so good, and I was like,
this's gonna be great for years to come. I said,
this M one one is going to be good for
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probably ten years, seven to ten years. M one's still
going to absolutely slay, possibly even be supported by Apple
for that entire time. Also, and it's true, obviously we're
on M four. Apple keeps comparing M four to M
one in their own copy. So yeah, the best thing
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about M four is that now you're going to be
able to get M one laptops all the cheaper. Now,
there are other areas of improvement that maybe you really need.
Maybe you really need a thousand knits of SDR screen brightness.
Maybe you really do need sixteen knits of peak HDR content.
Maybe I do like that there's going to be an
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option for a more matt screen gloss instead of just
having a gloss and glassy screen, we're super reflective and
basically unusable outside that. Now you're going to have a
more less reflective display option available. That's really cool. There
are a kind of these quality of life improvements obviously
between the generations that might be important to a lot
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of people, but to most people, I would argue M
one based MacBook pros and MacBook Airs still check that box.
I've been thinking and noodling actually with the idea of, like,
you know what, I miss my thirteen inch MacBook Pro,
and I've been canoodling with the idea of waiting for
the price to drop on thirteen inch MacBook Airs. They
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don't have to be duper powerful, but just having a
very small, yet very capable a thirteen inch laptop back
in my kind of daily rotation. I have no need
for it. This is not something that like, oh, this
is really going to fill a gap in my life.
It's just M one has gotten so cheap and one
is still so good that if I could get an
M one MacBook Air thirteen inch for under five like
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under six hundred dollars. I might sell another laptop to
get it.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That's neither here nor there. It's not on my radar
of something that I need. But I'm just saying, and
one is still so good that I'm like, hey, maybe
I'll get another thirteen inch M one laptop. Maybe M
two will be all the cheaper now, and maybe I'll
get a thirteen inch M two MacBook Air just for
super light on the go, running gun, editing and doing
whatever I need to do. So that's that they still
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compare M four to M one because the people still
buy m ones, and people still have m ones, and
people haven't upgraded from their m ones. Hence why they
still compare to M one. That's just that's my piece
on that. Let's move on. I was wrong about DGI
Neo firmware update. I said that before the October sixth
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DGI Neo North American release that DGI would release a
major firmware update to address all the scathing reviews about
video quality coming out of the DGI Neo. DGI as
I've mentioned, sent me my DJI neo for some reason.
On September twenty ninth, and I said, okay, I'll give
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it a week. I'll play with it a week. Maybe
by October six, they'll come out with a major firmware update. No.
Actually the last firm more update I think was on
September twenty ninth, if I'm not mistaken, up to firm
where one point three hundred, which fixed some tracking issues
and did fix some video issues, not many. I'm waiting
for the firm or update that kind of adds more options,
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more settings and video, especially in standalone mode, that you'll
be able to kind of that you'll be able to
tether your neo to your phone and be able to
kind of bake in the settings you want for the
next time you fire, you know, restart the drone and
you're using handteld mode, you can say, all right, and
standalone mode, I want these settings for video, and it
kind of bakes it into the to the memory, and
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next time you use it in standalone mode, you've got
your reduced sharpness, your reduced noise reduction or increased noise reduction,
whatever you're going for. I thought we would get an
update like that. Also, I thought the update when it happens,
and I still it's I'm still wagering, you know, I
just wouldn't be surprised if this major update it's gonna
come sooner than later. DGI has a track record of
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doing this. I've harked on the DGI Mavic three Pro,
where the super telephoto lens was basically unusable at launch
and for a couple months after launch it was just
the image quality coming out of that sensor was garbage.
And then in a subsequent firm more update, they've added
more options and ten bit video and you could do
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record now log flat profiles with the super telephoto lens.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I believe the super telephoto.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Lens on the Mavic three Pro is the same half
inch censor that they use in the DGI Neo. That
half inch censor appears all across their product board. If
you go to dgi's website and you look at the
specs across different drones and different generations of drones, that
half inch censor stews up all over the place. So
I know that half inch sensor is capable of doing more.
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So I know in the DGI Neo it is capable
of doing more. In fact, when you go into these settings,
if you tether the dg Neo to your smartphone or
to an RC. You can see a setting under video
color profiles. The only selectable color profile right now on
your phone and attached to an RC is normal color profile,
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so you know, and updates coming. I bet we're going
to at least get a flat color profile with the
DGI Neo from when you're using it with your phone
or you're tethered to an RC. Whether we get ten
bit or not, I don't know. The reason why I
don't think we'll get ten bit necessarily is because it
is a two hundred dollars drone and maybe DGI doesn't
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want to cannibalize their own kind of product line by
offering ten bit and d LOG color profiles to their
two hundred dollars drone. So if we don't see ten
bit and we don't see d LOG added to the
ten to the to the drone, to the dj neo,
it's probably just because as a two hundred dollars drone
that said still want to be surprised if they add
d LOG or d log AM or whatever flat color
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profile to the dg I Neo four when you're flying
at least paired to an RC, as it stands right
now currently, even with firmware one point three hundred, binding
your DJ ne O to the d r C and three,
you get so much more control over your color. You
can adjust sharpness, you can adjust noise reduction. Of course,
you get the ISO adjustments, white balance, shutter speed, all
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that kind of good stuff. You can get good You
can get good image quality out of the dj I
Neo when you are paired to an RC. But I
was wrong about the release of let's call it DGI
firm where one point four hundred watch me release this
podcast and then one point four hundred comes out, and
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I'm just like, well, yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So yeah. I still love the dj I Neo.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's the most fun I've had with a drone since
I got my very first drone and was the very
first time you get into the sky, you get a
camera into the sky. It was one of those like
moment of like, I am living in the twenty first century,
I am living in the future. This is so cool.
The feeling with the GGI Neo, though, is just a
whole heck of a lot of fun. It is just
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a blast. Even at two hundred dollars, even if you
don't buy an RC. It is just a blast to use,
especially in standalone mode. It's just a shoot. I have
no buyers or more at all for the DGI Neo.
Some of the one of the rubs though for me
with the DGI Neo and like recommending it to people,
is if you want the most out of it, you
have to also bundle it with the DGI RC and three.
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And when you bundle it with the the remote with
the RC, you're up over three hundred dollars. You're around
three hundred and thirty three hundred and fifty dollars. And
if that's what you're going for, like you really want
to pair a drone to an RC and you want
that kind of level of control over it, then you
got to look at the DGI Mini four K, which
comes with an RC and is three hundred dollars. It's
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thirty dollars or fifty dollars cheaper than a neo with
a remote control. It's not you know, there's different use
case scenarios for both. But I would say if somebody
is looking to up their kind of video editing and
recording capabilities and their drone capabilities and they don't really
care about the handheld modes and all the different kind
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of features they come with the Neo and the and
the built in cage around the props and all that
kind of stuff. I'd say, if you're only going to
get one drone, if you just one, I recommend the
Mini four K for three hundred dollars versus a Neo
and an RC for over.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Three hundred dollars. But it's it's up to you. I
have no buyers or more with a Neo.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I saw a review I forget that what channel it
was on on YouTube that the dude sent his He
he didn't like it so much. He was so disappointed
by it that he sent it back and like, did
you we really? It's a two hundred dollars drone and
I don't. I disagreed with to each their own, but uh,
he said he sent it back, and like, really, did
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you really send it back? I mean maybe you did,
maybe you didn't. But again, dj I've greatly improved the
products over firmware updates. They have a long track record
of doing that. So obviously I'm not a shill for DGI.
I'm not being paid by DGI. It's just DJI Neo
it's really fun. I was wrong about their release for
the major firm or update, but I do believe it's inbound.
(28:16):
A point I did want to bring up, though, is
I was looking at I've been looking at the specs
between the DGI Neo and the DGI Mavic three Pro,
specifically for the sensor that is used between both of them.
So the GGI Mavic three Pro obviously has three sensors,
but the super telefollow sensor. Is the half inch censor?
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Is it the half in censor? Is it the same
half inch censor that the DGI Neo uses. The DGI
Neo uses a half inch sensor. Both of them are
twelve megapixel. I am led just to just the logistics
of it all, just the economics of it all, that
it's the same actual sensor being used between the DGI
NEOs half in censor and the dj Mavic three pros
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half in sensor and the half in sensor that is
used across other DGI products. Why would you have an
entire It doesn't make any logical, logistical financial sense to
be sourcing different half in sensors, which leads me to
believe that it's the same half in censor, whether it's
on the d two hundred dollars DGI Neo or it's
the super telephoto sensor on the DGI.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Mavic three pro. The bit of.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
The thoughts that I have it has to do with
the read and right speeds and the output and the
megabits per second of you know, output from the half
in censor on the DI neo. On the DGI neo,
the maximum data rate is seventy five megabits per second.
That's the maximum video data rate on the DGI Neo
is seventy five megabits per second. The internal read and
write speed of the memory on the DGI Neo, however
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I've stated in the previous podcast, is around and over
two hundred megabits per second sustained seventy five megabits coming
out of the sensor. Read and write speed of internal
memories two hundred megabits per second leads you to believe
that there is more meat on the bone, hence the
upgrades coming to color profiles, possibly ten bit possibly log
color profiles coming to the DGI Neo. The only thing
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that might hold it back is the two hundred dollars
price point. There might be some fear of cannibalizing. That
being said, DGI has added a lot more capabilities to
that half inch censor when used in the Mavic three
Pro and used in other drones. So I was looking
at the specs, Okay, the half in censor on the
Neo and the half in sensor on the Mavic three Pro,
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and I'm thinking, maybe maybe just because the internal read
and rice speed is two hundred megabits per second, doesn't
mean that the sensor can output two hundred megabits per
second or anything over seventy five megabits. Maybe it's capped that.
Maybe that sensor is just capped to seventy five megabits
per second and no matter what drone it's used in.
But I was looking at the specs. Seventy five megabits
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per second cap it was current on the DGI Neo.
But you look at the same exact sensor on the
Mavic three Pro and it is I'm looking at d
aspects right now in front of me as I'm recording
here since I'm in the studio, same twelve megapixel sensor,
but at a data rate of the Telli camera, the
half inch sensor can do a data rate PROS four
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two two HQ at a data rate of one seven
hundred and sixty eight megabits per second. So if it's
the exact same sensor, then theoretically it can do up
to seven hundred and you know, eighty whatever megabits per second,
or certainly one hundred and twenty megabits per second, maybe
even one hundred and fifty megabits per second. So all
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lends more to my theory of there's a big, firm
more update incoming that possibly includes massive upgrades to the
video settings and codex and things that you can use
in color profiles for the Neo. But yeah, I'll leave
my piece there. So talked about Apple, talked about DJI
Neo updates, and I'm using the good microphone. Hopefully there's
no audio anomalies, no pops and clicks. Hopefully there's not
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too many, because I really don't want to go back
and re record this anyways. Thank you so much for
listening to Geek Therapy Radio. You are worthy of love,
you're worthy of giving love, receiving love, and you're worthy
of your own self respect. Check out the Beyond Bones
podcast from the Houston Museum and Natural Science look for
the purple color scheme. There I will of course include
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a link to it below, probably to Spotify or Apple
or both, or maybe just to the landing page on
the museum website. But at any rate, thank y'all so
much for listening. Talk to you next time.
Just real quick before we start a little area of
kind of house cleaning, kind of let you, letting you
in beyond the curtain, as I am to do here
in Geek Therapy Radio. I got an email from South
Korea recently shout out South Korea, thank you so much
for tuning in, but he mentioned that he gets like
local ads, local Texas ads in South Korea. I just
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want to address I don't control the ads that go on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
To Geek Therapy Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It is a point of contention with me, actually that
so many freakin' ads are put onto my radio show.
That not just because I don't see a dime of it,
but because I don't have any control over what y'all hear.
So I don't necessarily I don't approve the ads that
go on the show. I certainly don't necessarily endorse any
of the ads that you hear on this show. I am,
(00:49):
but I will let you know that I am looking
into talking with the radio station that still hosts my
radio show, and I still love all of them over
there at iHeartRadio and KPRC N I fifty Am. I
have my radio show broadcast on there from twenty seventeen
to twenty twenty four, I ended the broadcast part of
Geek Therapy Radio just because I had my second child
(01:09):
and there's just way too much to do and doing
a radio broadcast every week.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Really it was. It was a struggle.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So I called them up and I said, hey, go
ahead and sell my airtime to infommercials or something like that.
But I can't provide a weekly radio show anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's just too much.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But they happily agreed to continue to host the back
end of the podcast. So that's why you still hear
all the ads even though I don't have any control
over them. So I am working on This is the
point I want to make. I am working on migrating
my RSS feed over to my own back end on
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spreaker that I pay for out of my own pocket,
that will not have any ads any like you know,
interjected commercial breaks in because why and if I do
get sponsored, if there are sponsors for Geek Therapy Radio,
I will read those spots within the content. So I
am working on migrating my RSS feed over to my
own personal accounts. I have to make sure that's all
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legit and above board with iHeart, but I am working
on that. I don't foresee any bumps because I still
have a great relationship with them. So I'm working on
I'm working on migrating the podcast over to my own
back end where you don't hear any of those of
those ads that said what I'm concerned with is confusion.
(02:35):
What I'm concerned with is you being already subscribed to
Geek Therapy Radio podcast and me migrating it over to
my own personal account and there being some sort of
flub in unavailability, like you click, you try to download
latest episode, or you try to go play a past
episode and it says podcast not available. I hope that
the switch is seamless and that on your end it
(02:57):
is seamless and you don't even notice anything other than, hey,
there's no more ads on all my podcasts. But we'll
see how it goes. The question would arise then, is
would I start this from scratch? How many would come
over to the new Geek Therapy Radio podcast if I
have to start the back end from scratch if it
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disappears from your from your podcast app, are you even
going to notice that it disappeared?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And would you would?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Most people have the wherewithal or the not the wherewithal,
because you'll have the wherewithal, But you would you have
the intent to notice that geek Therapy Radio was missing
and then look it up again and then resubscribe to
geek therapy Radio. I know a lot of my rider dies.
Would I know I would get the emails. My email
would not be changed. My email is not attached to
iHeartMedia at all. My email is Johnny at geek therapy
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radio dot com. I did a lot of legwork and
groundwork before I started the podcast, and as I went
to kind of prepare for the day that I might
have to migrate over to a different back end, so
that I made sure to keep my email not attached
to iHeart. IM made sure to keep various other factors
of geek Therapy Radio kind of under my control should
(04:06):
iHeart ever pull the plug.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And again, I'm not bad mouthing iHeart at all.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Just so you don't know what the future holds, so well,
hopefully the migration process will be easy. I see on
the back end of spreaker it says you can migrate
podcast over from a different back end, So we'll see
if that is painless. But that's in the works. I
don't control the ads. I'm sorry for the ads that
you hear on Geek Therapy Radio currently. Thank you for
(04:30):
bearing with me. And with that, let's get into it.
Welcome to the Geek Therapy Radio podcast. You've got your
mental curator, Johnny Hemburger. I'm actually sitting in the studio
right now in the Geek Therapy Radio studios, which is
just a kind of the upstairs converted playroom. And when
I say playroom, and you're thinking, oh, you got a
(04:52):
big house, you got a big giant playroom. No, it's
like a ten by ten or like a ten by
eight rectangle here at the top of the stairs, and
there's two doors off of it. But anyways, this I'm
back behind the good mic. I think I've got my
audio settings kind of sussed out here with my Aoris
seventeen h in task am Us twenty twenty whatever and
(05:13):
M Audio not M Audio Universal Audios four seven dead
d whatever. It's the big setup and it's frustrating. I've
mentioned a couple of years ago, a year ago, whenever
I got this gigabyte Aoris seventeen h that I have
had nothing but kind of audio issues and glitches with it,
and it made it frustrating to use this laptop for
any sort of audio production work, especially audio recording work.
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But at the moment, I think I've got to sust out.
I'm also, for the first time in geek Therapy radio history,
recording this straight into Da Vinci Resolve. I've been moving
so much of my workflow, all of my workflow into
Da Vinci Resolve. I have been editing my podcast and
Da Vinci Resolve when I'm recording them with my DGI
Mike's two's and now I'm actually doing.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
All my recording.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well for this episode, I'm doing my recording directly into
Da Vinci Resolve. So that's kind of the name of
the game, is simplifying and simplifying and streamlining the process.
So if this works out fine, especially on this AAR
seventeen h that I'm using for the brains of this
whole operation.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Great.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The less apps and less software you have to bounce
between and record into and transfer out and important to
other things. That's one of the beauty, beautiful things about
Da Vinci Resolve is that it can do all a
whole heck of a lot. Now, while the audio page
of Da Vinci Resolve fairlight audio is super useful for
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video editing. Obviously, something like Reaper is gonna be a
bit better for actual music production. I don't think da
Vinci Resolve is obviously it's not catered to that necessarily.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm sure there's ways around it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm sure there's a huge learning curve to kind of
do all exactly what I did in Reaper and Cakewalk
Sonar and pro tools. I'm sure there is ways to
do a whole like most of it in da Vinci Resolve.
But that's not really what DaVinci Resolved, the audio suite
and Davinual Resolve is designed for. But the fact that
I can just record straight in da Vinci Resolve and
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have great EQ, and have great compression, and have great
even audio effects built in, and be able to do
all my audio work for a podcast at least in
Davincu Resolve is pretty cool. For instance, I'm not gonna
have to use any noise reduction theoretically on this podcast
because I'm in a controlled environment and I'm using my
handy dandy Trusty MXLV sixty seven G that I bought
(07:41):
back in two thousand and three with kind of my
last one hundred dollars and I've been using it for
over twenty years since it is my workhorse. A quick reminder,
if you want to hear more of me doing kind
of deeper dive podcasts, more well researched podcast, more highly
produced podcast check out the Beyond Bones podcast from the
(08:02):
Houston Museum of Natural Science. I of course will include
a link in the podcast description for geek Therapy Radio here,
but if you want to search in your favorite podcast app,
just search HMNS or Houston Museum of Natural Science Beyond
Bones podcast and look for the purple color scheme. And
that's how you know you've got me over there at
the Houston Museum of Natural Science. All right, So I
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want to move directly into a couple subjects that I
specifically wanted to bring up today. One that is fresh
on my mind because I just watched it. I just
got done washing Apple's new MacBook Pro announcement movie. You know,
it's fifteen twenty minutes long, somewhere in that ballpark, and
I'll just be honest with you, just to jump right
(08:45):
into it, just to get right to the brats text,
jump right into the deep end, the little the thumbnail
in the intro of the video made me legit think that, oh,
this MacBook Pro is getting a touch screen at no,
the way that the hello was written out on as
the thumbnail and as kind of the teaser, I was like, oh,
(09:06):
that looks like a touch input in someone drawing a
cursive with their finger, hello onto a MacBook Pro screen.
That's not what it is. It's not a touch screen.
We're still waiting for the day if it will ever come,
if it ever needs to come. Frankly, that the MacBook
Pro gets a touch screen, that any Mac laptop gets
(09:27):
a touch screen, not the touch screen. I thought we
didn't get the touch screen. I thought that by the
thumbnail and the teaser that ooh, this is the year
we get the touch screen. The bigger Well, I'm not
going to get into the bedantics of all the specs
of the MacBook Pro. It's by the M four. You
can get the M four Max and the M four
Pro or vice versa. The takeaway from it in twenty
(09:50):
four hours of battery life. Yes, it is more powerful
than the M three chip. But here's the actual takeaway
from it. I've heard a lot of people kind of
in the tech space complain about this or postulate about
this or be concerned or puzzled by this. Why does
Apple always compare their benchmarks and in performance improvements to
(10:14):
the M one ship? You know, I've heard reviewers and
different commentators in the tech space kind of say that
it's kind of it's what is it? It's deceptive to
keep comparing to the M one rather than comparing to
the M three because, for instance, M four to M
three is not that big of a jump across the board.
(10:35):
There are definitely improvements, but it sounds way more impressive
to talk about the improvement and performance across all areas
neural engine, GPU, CPU encoding, codex, all the sorts of
things in comparing that to the M one rather than
the M three, Because it's more impressive to compare it
to the M one than it is toward to the
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M three.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And now why is that?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, that's deceptive, that's Apple being deceptive, Apple being Apple.
So here's my takeaway, another way to think about it.
And perhaps I'm not alone in this, perhaps other tech
reviewers tech commentators have mentioned this, but it kind of
dawned on me back in twenty twenty when the first
M one came out. Let's fast forward a year and say,
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you know, the next year whenever it was that they
announced the M two. I said, the best thing about
the Apple M two is that now you can get
refurbished M one models for much cheaper. That still holds
true even all the way into M four. The reason why,
in my opinion, in my estimation, why Apple keeps comparing
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the performance of M four to the M one is
because a lot of us still have M ones, and
a lot of people are still buying used or refurbished
M one chips. The same thing for M two, M three,
M four, or the best thing about M two, M
three and now M four is that you can get
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an M one, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air all the cheaper,
and there are still people buying refurbished M one laptops
because they are so good. There are still people that
have held onto their M one, MacBooks, Airs and MacBook
pros me included, because the M one is so good
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and now you can get it at at a huge
cost savings. I remember that I had the at the
time thirteen point three inch MacBook Pro, loved it. M
one ship all that after M two, maybe it was
into M three, I said, I'm going to upgrade my
MacBook Pro thirteen inch M one, but I'm not going
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to upgrade to M M two. I'm not going to
update to M three. I'm just going to update to
a sixteen inch MacBook Pro M one MacBook Pro with
the M one pro chip. I think it's the M
one pro chip in there, and I have not looked back.
It has been a fan fantastic laptop that you got
for something like one thousand dollars cheaper than Launch. I
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have no regrets. I use my sixteen inch M one
MacBook Pro nearly every day. It is the laptop that
I slide into my rolling case when I go out
to when I go to the museum, when I go
to work, when I go anywhere to do anything, the
laptop that I take with me is that M one
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MacBook Pro sixteen inch. So, getting back to my thought,
the reason why Apple keeps comparing, you know, the M
four now to the M one is because so many
people are holding on to their M one MacBook pros
and their M one MacBook Air.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So it's you.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You're trying to convince your own customer base to upgrade,
to get rid of your M one and move over
to M four when a lot of us are still
kind of you know what, it's great. I'm still doing
everything I need to do with my M one ship.
Video editing is great, photo editing is great. That the
battery life is still great for the M one ship.
(14:09):
It it's just great. There's not much. There's not You
can argue this. If you're an Apple person, if you
do way more intensive work than I do than video editing,
say there there. It could be something to be said
for going from M one to M four, But for
the for most people, for the workloads of the masses,
there isn't yet a big enough incentive to go from
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M one to keep to finally ditch your M one
and spend two thousand extra dollars or whatever it's going
to be. I think the new M pro start out
or start out under two thousand dollars. I think they
started like sixteen or seventeen hundred dollars. They'll quote me
on that, but they start out under two thousand dollars.
M four MacBook pros starts under two thousand dollars. But
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still that's your that's still around two thousand dollars. You
spec it up, you're gonna be way over two thousand dollars.
There's not enough incentive for a lot of people, me included,
to spend a new let's just say two thousand dollars
on a new M four MacBook Pro. Is there two
thousand dollars worth of improvements to workflow and improvements to
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power versus M one in my opinion, just for what
I do personally, No, And I think a lot of
people are in that camp of hey, M one is
still working out great for what I do. It's we're
still getting new updates to mac os and things find
are just sailing. I'm still getting sixteen hours of battery
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life or whatever. I love editing video on the go
in Da Vinci Resolve on my M one sixteen inch
MacBook Pro. Not because it's super powerful. I leave it
in low power mode when I am just not attached
to the wall. I have it pre set. You know,
you can in the power settings, in the battery settings,
you can set it to continue to run in performance
(16:00):
mode and high performance mode when it's not plugged in.
But I run it in low power mode power conservation
mode when I'm not plugged in and I'm editing four
K video content. They're not super Hollywood. I don't have
you know, seventy tracks loaded into Da Vinci Resolve. It's usually,
you know, probably maybe ten tracks max. Usually it's between
like four and six tracks that I'm editing four K
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and I'm converting to pro res and cashing it and
doing all that kind of stuff. I leave it in
low power mode because it's just fine and dandy in
low power mode, and I can edit all day. My
body gives out before the battery gives out when I'm
editing four K content on my M one MacBook Pro
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sixteen inch. And there in line is the rub I
have no reason, no incentive, no desire to upgrade from
M one to M four. Apple knows that Apple knows
that I'm not alone. There's probably somebody listening to this
pod cast that is in the same camp. They've still
got their M one MacBook Air and they're like, dang,
this thing still crushes. So it's kind of convincing your
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existing customer base to upgrade where a lot of people
haven't probably upgraded enough. And you can speculate, you know,
you can call me out on that same Johnny, I
don't think that's the case, but then why four generations
into M one chips, are they still comparing to M
one when M five comes out, I would not be
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surprised if they still comparing. Oh, it's up to two
times faster video encoding than M one chips. Because still
by the fifth generation of M chip, people are still
liking under their M one's they still mention it. Apple
still compares to the M one. It's not me just
being a conspiracy theorist. Apple still compares their own products
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to M one M one that shift to ARM based
processing M one and again in twenty twenty, I said
this watch, Intel is gonna or not Intel, You're gonna
start seeing windows, laptops on ARM architecture. They're gonna switch
over to to ARM architecture. They're using Snapdragons, and that's happened.
Snapdragon excellente. We're seeing windows on ARM really being fleshed
(18:15):
out and they are awesome chips.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That happened.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I don't It wasn't me just being an oracle or
anything like that. Everyone saw the writing on the wall.
Apple went to in house ARM based architecture, and now
the rest of the industry would follow. I said, mark
my words in twenty twenty, said, mark my words, the
industry is going to follow this. This is Apple actually
doing something. Dare I say innovative? I know that triggers
a lot of fanboys and girls on both sides. But
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the shift to M one was a I said, it
wasn't dropping a pebble in the pond. It was tossing
Mount Everest in the ocean like it's a It was
a huge paradigm shift across the entire industry. And Apple's
M one silicon was so good, and I was like,
this's gonna be great for years to come. I said,
this M one one is going to be good for
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probably ten years, seven to ten years. M one's still
going to absolutely slay, possibly even be supported by Apple
for that entire time. Also, and it's true, obviously we're
on M four. Apple keeps comparing M four to M
one in their own copy. So yeah, the best thing
(19:23):
about M four is that now you're going to be
able to get M one laptops all the cheaper. Now,
there are other areas of improvement that maybe you really need.
Maybe you really need a thousand knits of SDR screen brightness.
Maybe you really do need sixteen knits of peak HDR content.
Maybe I do like that there's going to be an
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option for a more matt screen gloss instead of just
having a gloss and glassy screen, we're super reflective and
basically unusable outside that. Now you're going to have a
more less reflective display option available. That's really cool. There
are a kind of these quality of life improvements obviously
between the generations that might be important to a lot
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of people, but to most people, I would argue M
one based MacBook pros and MacBook Airs still check that box.
I've been thinking and noodling actually with the idea of, like,
you know what, I miss my thirteen inch MacBook Pro,
and I've been canoodling with the idea of waiting for
the price to drop on thirteen inch MacBook Airs. They
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don't have to be duper powerful, but just having a
very small, yet very capable a thirteen inch laptop back
in my kind of daily rotation. I have no need
for it. This is not something that like, oh, this
is really going to fill a gap in my life.
It's just M one has gotten so cheap and one
is still so good that if I could get an
M one MacBook Air thirteen inch for under five like
(20:52):
under six hundred dollars. I might sell another laptop to
get it.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That's neither here nor there. It's not on my radar
of something that I need. But I'm just saying, and
one is still so good that I'm like, hey, maybe
I'll get another thirteen inch M one laptop. Maybe M
two will be all the cheaper now, and maybe I'll
get a thirteen inch M two MacBook Air just for
super light on the go, running gun, editing and doing
whatever I need to do. So that's that they still
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compare M four to M one because the people still
buy m ones, and people still have m ones, and
people haven't upgraded from their m ones. Hence why they
still compare to M one. That's just that's my piece
on that. Let's move on. I was wrong about DGI
Neo firmware update. I said that before the October sixth
(21:45):
DGI Neo North American release that DGI would release a
major firmware update to address all the scathing reviews about
video quality coming out of the DGI Neo. DGI as
I've mentioned, sent me my DJI neo for some reason.
On September twenty ninth, and I said, okay, I'll give
(22:06):
it a week. I'll play with it a week. Maybe
by October six, they'll come out with a major firmware update. No.
Actually the last firm more update I think was on
September twenty ninth, if I'm not mistaken, up to firm
where one point three hundred, which fixed some tracking issues
and did fix some video issues, not many. I'm waiting
for the firm or update that kind of adds more options,
(22:28):
more settings and video, especially in standalone mode, that you'll
be able to kind of that you'll be able to
tether your neo to your phone and be able to
kind of bake in the settings you want for the
next time you fire, you know, restart the drone and
you're using handteld mode, you can say, all right, and
standalone mode, I want these settings for video, and it
kind of bakes it into the to the memory, and
(22:48):
next time you use it in standalone mode, you've got
your reduced sharpness, your reduced noise reduction or increased noise reduction,
whatever you're going for. I thought we would get an
update like that. Also, I thought the update when it happens,
and I still it's I'm still wagering, you know, I
just wouldn't be surprised if this major update it's gonna
come sooner than later. DGI has a track record of
(23:09):
doing this. I've harked on the DGI Mavic three Pro,
where the super telephoto lens was basically unusable at launch
and for a couple months after launch it was just
the image quality coming out of that sensor was garbage.
And then in a subsequent firm more update, they've added
more options and ten bit video and you could do
(23:30):
record now log flat profiles with the super telephoto lens.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I believe the super telephoto.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Lens on the Mavic three Pro is the same half
inch censor that they use in the DGI Neo. That
half inch censor appears all across their product board. If
you go to dgi's website and you look at the
specs across different drones and different generations of drones, that
half inch censor stews up all over the place. So
I know that half inch sensor is capable of doing more.
(23:57):
So I know in the DGI Neo it is capable
of doing more. In fact, when you go into these settings,
if you tether the dg Neo to your smartphone or
to an RC. You can see a setting under video
color profiles. The only selectable color profile right now on
your phone and attached to an RC is normal color profile,
(24:19):
so you know, and updates coming. I bet we're going
to at least get a flat color profile with the
DGI Neo from when you're using it with your phone
or you're tethered to an RC. Whether we get ten
bit or not, I don't know. The reason why I
don't think we'll get ten bit necessarily is because it
is a two hundred dollars drone and maybe DGI doesn't
(24:41):
want to cannibalize their own kind of product line by
offering ten bit and d LOG color profiles to their
two hundred dollars drone. So if we don't see ten
bit and we don't see d LOG added to the
ten to the to the drone, to the dj neo,
it's probably just because as a two hundred dollars drone
that said still want to be surprised if they add
d LOG or d log AM or whatever flat color
(25:02):
profile to the dg I Neo four when you're flying
at least paired to an RC, as it stands right
now currently, even with firmware one point three hundred, binding
your DJ ne O to the d r C and three,
you get so much more control over your color. You
can adjust sharpness, you can adjust noise reduction. Of course,
you get the ISO adjustments, white balance, shutter speed, all
(25:24):
that kind of good stuff. You can get good You
can get good image quality out of the dj I
Neo when you are paired to an RC. But I
was wrong about the release of let's call it DGI
firm where one point four hundred watch me release this
podcast and then one point four hundred comes out, and
(25:44):
I'm just like, well, yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So yeah. I still love the dj I Neo.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's the most fun I've had with a drone since
I got my very first drone and was the very
first time you get into the sky, you get a
camera into the sky. It was one of those like
moment of like, I am living in the twenty first century,
I am living in the future. This is so cool.
The feeling with the GGI Neo, though, is just a
whole heck of a lot of fun. It is just
(26:10):
a blast. Even at two hundred dollars, even if you
don't buy an RC. It is just a blast to use,
especially in standalone mode. It's just a shoot. I have
no buyers or more at all for the DGI Neo.
Some of the one of the rubs though for me
with the DGI Neo and like recommending it to people,
is if you want the most out of it, you
have to also bundle it with the DGI RC and three.
(26:32):
And when you bundle it with the the remote with
the RC, you're up over three hundred dollars. You're around
three hundred and thirty three hundred and fifty dollars. And
if that's what you're going for, like you really want
to pair a drone to an RC and you want
that kind of level of control over it, then you
got to look at the DGI Mini four K, which
comes with an RC and is three hundred dollars. It's
(26:54):
thirty dollars or fifty dollars cheaper than a neo with
a remote control. It's not you know, there's different use
case scenarios for both. But I would say if somebody
is looking to up their kind of video editing and
recording capabilities and their drone capabilities and they don't really
care about the handheld modes and all the different kind
(27:15):
of features they come with the Neo and the and
the built in cage around the props and all that
kind of stuff. I'd say, if you're only going to
get one drone, if you just one, I recommend the
Mini four K for three hundred dollars versus a Neo
and an RC for over.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Three hundred dollars. But it's it's up to you. I
have no buyers or more with a Neo.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I saw a review I forget that what channel it
was on on YouTube that the dude sent his He
he didn't like it so much. He was so disappointed
by it that he sent it back and like, did
you we really? It's a two hundred dollars drone and
I don't. I disagreed with to each their own, but uh,
he said he sent it back, and like, really, did
(27:53):
you really send it back? I mean maybe you did,
maybe you didn't. But again, dj I've greatly improved the
products over firmware updates. They have a long track record
of doing that. So obviously I'm not a shill for DGI.
I'm not being paid by DGI. It's just DJI Neo
it's really fun. I was wrong about their release for
the major firm or update, but I do believe it's inbound.
(28:16):
A point I did want to bring up, though, is
I was looking at I've been looking at the specs
between the DGI Neo and the DGI Mavic three Pro,
specifically for the sensor that is used between both of them.
So the GGI Mavic three Pro obviously has three sensors,
but the super telefollow sensor. Is the half inch censor?
(28:37):
Is it the half in censor? Is it the same
half inch censor that the DGI Neo uses. The DGI
Neo uses a half inch sensor. Both of them are
twelve megapixel. I am led just to just the logistics
of it all, just the economics of it all, that
it's the same actual sensor being used between the DGI
NEOs half in censor and the dj Mavic three pros
(29:00):
half in sensor and the half in sensor that is
used across other DGI products. Why would you have an
entire It doesn't make any logical, logistical financial sense to
be sourcing different half in sensors, which leads me to
believe that it's the same half in censor, whether it's
on the d two hundred dollars DGI Neo or it's
the super telephoto sensor on the DGI.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Mavic three pro. The bit of.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
The thoughts that I have it has to do with
the read and right speeds and the output and the
megabits per second of you know, output from the half
in censor on the DI neo. On the DGI neo,
the maximum data rate is seventy five megabits per second.
That's the maximum video data rate on the DGI Neo
is seventy five megabits per second. The internal read and
write speed of the memory on the DGI Neo, however
(29:50):
I've stated in the previous podcast, is around and over
two hundred megabits per second sustained seventy five megabits coming
out of the sensor. Read and write speed of internal
memories two hundred megabits per second leads you to believe
that there is more meat on the bone, hence the
upgrades coming to color profiles, possibly ten bit possibly log
color profiles coming to the DGI Neo. The only thing
(30:13):
that might hold it back is the two hundred dollars
price point. There might be some fear of cannibalizing. That
being said, DGI has added a lot more capabilities to
that half inch censor when used in the Mavic three
Pro and used in other drones. So I was looking
at the specs, Okay, the half in censor on the
Neo and the half in sensor on the Mavic three Pro,
(30:33):
and I'm thinking, maybe maybe just because the internal read
and rice speed is two hundred megabits per second, doesn't
mean that the sensor can output two hundred megabits per
second or anything over seventy five megabits. Maybe it's capped that.
Maybe that sensor is just capped to seventy five megabits
per second and no matter what drone it's used in.
But I was looking at the specs. Seventy five megabits
(30:53):
per second cap it was current on the DGI Neo.
But you look at the same exact sensor on the
Mavic three Pro and it is I'm looking at d
aspects right now in front of me as I'm recording
here since I'm in the studio, same twelve megapixel sensor,
but at a data rate of the Telli camera, the
half inch sensor can do a data rate PROS four
(31:15):
two two HQ at a data rate of one seven
hundred and sixty eight megabits per second. So if it's
the exact same sensor, then theoretically it can do up
to seven hundred and you know, eighty whatever megabits per second,
or certainly one hundred and twenty megabits per second, maybe
even one hundred and fifty megabits per second. So all
(31:37):
lends more to my theory of there's a big, firm
more update incoming that possibly includes massive upgrades to the
video settings and codex and things that you can use
in color profiles for the Neo. But yeah, I'll leave
my piece there. So talked about Apple, talked about DJI
Neo updates, and I'm using the good microphone. Hopefully there's
no audio anomalies, no pops and clicks. Hopefully there's not
(31:58):
too many, because I really don't want to go back
and re record this anyways. Thank you so much for
listening to Geek Therapy Radio. You are worthy of love,
you're worthy of giving love, receiving love, and you're worthy
of your own self respect. Check out the Beyond Bones
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(32:19):
a link to it below, probably to Spotify or Apple
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much for listening. Talk to you next time.
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