Why Does The MacBook Still Exist? #Helpful Post

ey guys is Austin this is the 12 inch

MacBook and when it came out back in

2015

it wasn't exactly received very well

which begs the question why does this

still exist in 2018 or 2019 I guess the

biggest issue with this machine has

always been the single port the USBC is

great but the issue just like I said in

my original 2015 video is that a single

port means that you were stuck forever

as a resident of dongle town yes my

friends dongle town is right down the

road from garbage town and just a little

ways away from knotch City know these

days USBC has become a lot more popular

so a lot of accessories do support it

natively but the problem still here is

if you want to do I don't know something

like plugging in something as well as

using a charger at the same time you

just can't do that without a dongle and

that's simply not an issue that you have

to deal with on other Mac's or well any

other laptop you buy like literally any

other laptop complicating all this is

the current Mac lineup so we have the

12-inch MacBook the 13-inch MacBook Air

as well as the 13-inch MacBook Pro

without touch bar all these systems are

almost the exact same price they share a

lot of similarities and it just doesn't

really make a lot of sense right now my

friend Quinn from snazzy labs did an

excellent comparison between all three

which you guys should definitely go

check out but the gist of it is is if

there's a lot and come with these three

laptops which kind of means that the 12

inch is the odd one out now that doesn't

mean that there are no advantages to

using the 12 inch macbook first of all

this is one of the thinnest and lightest

laptops that you can buy today full-stop

there is something to that we have a

full-fledged Mac OS running here on a

laptop which is really about the same

size as an iPad it also has the

fundamentals down not like do you have a

very sharp and accurate screen but you

also have one of the best touch pads in

the game the speakers are there the

battery life is pretty solid I mean a

lot of the main things that you look for

in a laptop aren't here and accounted

for with the 12-inch MacBook that is

until you look just a little bit closer

the keyboard for example is the older

style butterfly switches and while

they're fine the new ones in the MacBook

Air and I only feel a lot better but

they're also more durable the webcam is

also famously potato quality with a

whopping 480p resolution

I'm not really sure why they still exist

in 2018 or 2020 the performance but this

is a family laptop which is a big reason

why it is so tiny but because of that

you give up a fair bit of actual speed

so with especially that quarter in three

model it's fine for a lot of basic use

so if you want to do web browsing and

maybe a little bit of very light audio

and video editing it's fine but anything

more heavy it does start to chug a

little bit on this guy put this all

together unless you just have to have

the smaller size the MacBook doesn't

make a ton of sense right now that got

me thinking though I had a little chat

with my buddy John about what exactly

the feature might hold for the 12-inch

MacBook this is my friend is a 12-inch

MacBook are you familiar with such a

wonderous computer is this what they

call it Mac that's what they call Mac

where do you think about the MacBook

where it is today like as far as the

12-inch MacBook it's been updated a time

or two over the last few years but for

the most part this is pretty similar to

what came out in twice extreme or 2015

right well yeah it's not been updated in

a while I think it should be 12-inch

MacBook yes 13 inch MacBook Air yes

get rid of the MacBook Pro without touch

bar yeah and if you want a MacBook Pro

not that the touch bar is what you know

separates a pro the quad core does

that's what the big deal is that's what

people miss a lot of the time is that

the 13-inch MacBook Pro without touch

bar is dual-core do you remember when

they announced the non touch bar MacBook

Pro they're like this is great for

people who are upgrading from an air

like they specifically called out is

like the air replace yet and I think

that was like that takes place of the

air it's just I think old smell they

realize it's the stupid name people for

vanity or for whatever it is they want a

MacBook Air yeah what do you see as the

future of knowing the Mac but

specifically what do you see is the

future of the 12-inch MacBook because I

really do feel like this doesn't make a

lot of sense to buy right now like I

feel like this is way too close to that

MacBook Air and to that Mac Pro Apple is

playing the long game and they're okay

with making short-term sacrifice in

regards for the future so the iPad pro

is this magical life-changing device

that you might go sell everything for

why that's why I'm excited is because it

plants a seat for the future so I think

that's like seed one which sets the path

for this I feel like everyone's so stuck

in the past of like wool x86 is a

different

platform it's never gonna happen but why

do you want to stick in an archaic

system if you look at where x86 is

attractive in the last few years we've

gotten performance improvements but they

then you know 5% here 10% there whereas

you look on the arm side specifically

with what Apple's been doing with their

a-series processors it's like oh look

20% 50% 100% there's these massive

performance gains to the point where I

would think that in most any way you

measure it in MacBook a 12-inch MacBook

is not as powerful as the 8 cores that

are inside that iPad right you've got

that GPU I mean there's a ton of power

there people always say why doesn't

Apple put Mac OS in the iPad one if they

did that it has to be x86 and they would

just erase everything that's in the

future yeah - you know the other thing

is why don't they put their pro apps on

the iPad why why don't they do that give

me final quick gimme logic I guarantee

you they have a Final Cut version that's

ready to go on the iPad I guarantee you

they have logic but they don't need

Apple to put their apps on they need

everybody else in like Photoshop coming

to arm is huge and the interesting thing

is like right now they're already doing

like a hint of the future where like

their t2 chip or whatever like it is

doing Co processing along with Intel

very good point I guess my thought here

is it with the 12-inch MacBook this

seems like the prime candidate for it to

be like the very first Mac will be

powered by an apple a 12 or a 13 or 17

whatever the case is but an apple

processor again

Apple is playing the long game

short-term sacrifice long-term game you

guys want to know more from John he has

an entire series about why the iPad is

the greatest invention known to mankind

used by professionals of all sizes and

shapes and you can go check that out I'm

gonna go back to talk about max though

can I shoot one of your videos and edit

it on the iPad pro yes you can't

actually that would be great yeah I'm

gonna do it