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HHBSO 136: New Apple Products! · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to he's app, but something's off all right today
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I'm going to talk about all the products Apple announced this
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week. So over the past three days,
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Apple has been announcing new products every day Monday,
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Tuesday and Wednesday. And some of you know I'm a
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techie if not, you know now. So I'm very excited about some
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of the products Apple has announced.
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I've been doing a couple of posts on my Patreon with my
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Patreon subscribers. There's a link off to the side
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and down below. Join us over there is fun.
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If you want to join as a free member, there will be a few
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things you can partake in without paying any subscription
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fees. But I did a couple posts over
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there and there are some key products that I wanted to pick
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out and talk about from all the products that Apple announced.
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They announced like several different things.
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Some of them are like minor updates.
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Some of them are like brand new products.
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So 1 is a brand new product. The first thing I'm going to
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talk about is the biggest announcement that dropped
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Wednesday morning. It's the new MacBook Neo.
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So in the Apple world they've always had well over like the
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last several years they've had the MacBook Pro, which is like
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their high end, high performance laptop, which is meant for like
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professionals and media creators, people that need like
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a lot of horsepower. And then they also have the
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MacBook Air, which is their thin and light or kind of their
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mainstream laptop. OK, so that's the pro, the high
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performance one, the the big one, the expensive one.
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And they have the Air, which is like the thin and light one.
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So the MacBook Pro, it got a what's called a refresh, like
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they put a new chip or CPU in it.
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They bump the specs a little bit, but by and large it's
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mostly the same. And they did the same thing with
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the MacBook Air spec bump, new chip, you know, a couple of the
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numbers on the specs change, but same design, similar price.
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So those got little minor updates.
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But now there's this MacBook Neo, which is the entry level
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MacBook. It's going to sit below the
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MacBook Air and there have been a lot of rumors about it, as
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there usually are with upcoming new Apple products, and this is
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the one I'm the most excited about.
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O here are some of the numbers you need to know about it.
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It starts at 599, which is cheaper than I expected.
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On my Patreon, I was talking to one of my subscribers about, oh,
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this rumored entry level Mac laptop, how much it was going to
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cost, The rumors where that is going to start between 599 to
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799. And I thought, well, they just
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announced the entry level iPhone, a new entry level
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iPhone, which we're talking about for 599.
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I can't imagine Apple also launching a whole laptop that's
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the same price as the cheapest new iPhone.
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Also at 599, 799 was going to be like, you know what?
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That's too close to how much the MacBook Air is going to cost,
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which as of a few days ago that started at 999 and I was like,
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you know, 699 feels right, but 599 is the entry price for this
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brand new entry level MacBook Neo.
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Some of the specs and features is the 13 inch laptop and it's
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all aluminium. So all the other MacBook laptops
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for the last several years now have been all aluminium designs.
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And this new MacBook Neo is also all aluminum.
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It comes in four colours. So instead of just like a boring
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like silver and black you get, I forgot the exact they have all
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these I think they call it like indigo and lime.
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But basically there's like a a lime, a pink, a silver and a
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blue like a blue, grey, whatever the actual names are.
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I don't care the names that Apple gives all the all the
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different colours, but it's just as light as the MacBook Air as
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2.7 lbs and it's got most of like the features that you would
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want in like a laptop that's kind of around that under $1000
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price point. It's got a similar keyboard to
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the MacBook Air. The trackpad is similar.
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It's not a haptic force feedback trackpad.
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It's like a physical clicky trackpad that you would probably
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expect out of most laptops out of this price.
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Obviously it's got like the latest Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and
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things like that. The screen is actually a pretty
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high resolution screen. It's pretty much the same
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resolution as the MacBook Air. You know, for someone who would
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use it for like everyday things, right?
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Web surfing even we have got several tabs open, students,
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people who are using it. Not for like, not for heavy duty
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photo or video editing, not for like heavy duty games.
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There are a lot of like mainstream users, I think where
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this Mac would make a lot of sense.
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And at that 599 price point, it's in very stiff competition
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because there are a lot of Windows laptops that start from
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like 5-6, seven, $100 on up. You know, if you wanted an entry
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level less expensive laptop for like 5 to $700, usually you
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would be looking at an entry level Windows laptop.
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You go into like a Best Buy or go on Amazon.
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There are quite a few Windows laptops you can buy for like 6
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or $700.00. And then you would also see
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Chromebooks at that price range, which is a laptop that only does
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Google Chrome and that doesn't do anything else.
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But usually Chromebooks are seen as like the least expensive way
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to get a laptop that deals that that you can kind of still we
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can't really install like the typical Windows programs on it.
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But usually Chromebooks, cheap ones will start at around like
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three, 5400. But they do have nicer premium
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Chromebooks that sometimes get to like the better part of
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$1000. There are some Chromebooks that
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are about $1000 like the really high end ones.
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Usually they're more for like business users.
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So it's a lot of competition in that range.
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And it's also a lot of consumers don't want to pay $1000 for a
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laptop and you've never really been able to get a brand new
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laptop from Apple for less than 1000.
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You can get some previous models.
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For example, Walmart was selling previous generation MacBook Air
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for as low as $600.00 as recently as like a few weeks
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ago. And you know, that's like
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probably a pretty good deal. But now we have this MacBook
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Neo. All right, I don't want to bore
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you guys to like all the specs, but let me tell you about what I
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think are like the pros and cons of this machine versus the other
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options and whether I recommend it or not, because I don't think
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my listeners are interested in like how fast the CPU is or like
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the tech specs. OK, So I think this machine is
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going to be great for people who are quote UN quote mainstream
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users. If you are not the type to be
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editing videos, you're not like a content creator, OK?
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You're just doing everyday things like web surfing, you
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know, your student, your home body, whatever.
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And you have a laptop already. You're used to using a laptop,
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but you're probably using like A3456 year old laptop.
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Maybe it's Windows or maybe like a really old Mac actually, or
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even a Chromebook. So you kind of prefer having an
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actual laptop, like a proper physical keyboard, a clamshell
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type laptop. You're not the type that's used
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to just like doing everything on a phone and you've been using a
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really old machine and you were thinking of like getting a new
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one. And you also are not married to
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Windows. There's some people I was
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talking to my Patreon, but someone it's like, oh, I'm used
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to running certain Windows only software, Windows only
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applications. If you're not using anything
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that needs Windows and you don't really care for Windows itself,
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you just need a cheap laptop that is like good qualities,
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that's going to be reliable, that's going to be dependable,
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that will last for like a few years.
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And your budget is in that six $700.00 range.
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I think this MacBook is probably the best value for someone who
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fits that profile or hassles requirements.
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And that's like huge amount of consumers that are like they
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don't want to spend anywhere near $1000 for a laptop.
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They just they don't have any demanding needs on a laptop.
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They want a proper trackpad, a proper keyboard.
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You know, a lot of what they do is web-based, is within a
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browser. They're not doing anything
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fancy, not playing any fancy games.
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They're not trying to like do any content creation.
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They don't really need Windows in the sense that they don't
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need to use any Windows specific applications.
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And they could buy a Windows machine, Windows laptop for six
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or $700.00. They can probably use a
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Chromebook honestly, but now they have this option for six or
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$700.00, this MacBook Neo. And the reason I would probably
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recommend someone go with a MacBook if that's the profile
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that they fit is the build quality is going to be better
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than anything else at that price range.
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Even though obviously it's not going to be the exact same level
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quality as like the MacBook Air. That's now over $1000 of the
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MacBook Pro, which is like the average MacBook Pro goes for
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like 2000 to $3000 to start honestly.
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But it's an all aluminum construction, which you'll
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really find at the six or $700.00 price point.
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I think the battery life is going to be pretty good.
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Apple laptops tend to be very power efficient over the last
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several years with the Apple chips that they develop in
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house. So the performance is not going
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to be as fast as those more expensive laptops that are like
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over $1000. But again, if you're not doing
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like heavy duty gaming, lots of video editing, specialized
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things like that, the performance is going to be fine.
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You're not going to be. It's not going to be any slower
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for sure than a equivalently priced Windows or Chromebook for
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sure. Like me knowing the technical
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specs and like what it's capable of, the performance will be fine
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as long as you're not trying to like edit the next whatever
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feature length movie on it. OK.
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I think the durability is going to be good.
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I think it's going to be a laptop that will easily last you
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4 to 5 to 6 years because obviously physically it's like a
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unibody aluminum construction. It's going to be very durable.
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And Apple has a very good track record of putting out software
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updates and security updates for their laptops that are like 7-8,
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nine years old. So they have a very, very good
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track record of that. The other thing that would push
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me to recommend this over an equivalent Windows machine, it's
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Windows itself. OK, I have a Windows computer
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that I use as like a secondary machine, but I do interact with
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it like multiple times per week. Every week I go on to to do
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little things. Microsoft has made Windows so
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crappy over the years. OK, I don't know why everywhere
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you go in Windows 11. So I've got the latest version
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of Windows 11 by the way. So this is like the same version
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of Windows you would get if you go buy a Windows laptop or any
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Windows machine. Windows 11.
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Microsoft puts so many ads into Windows, even though it's not
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like some free trial version of Windows.
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I've I, I pay full price for Windows.
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I pay full price for that Windows computer.
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It serves me ads like everywhere.
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It's like it always nudges me to like, use this Microsoft thing
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or do that Microsoft thing. It's like, I don't want all this
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shit popping up on a computer I've spent several 100 or even
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over $1000 on. OK, obviously Apple is not
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completely immune to this. If you buy a new iPhone or a new
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MacBook, there are like some subtle things that will nudge
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you to like sign for some Apple services, but they're very
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subtle and like they don't keep popping up all the time.
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OK, I've got like 2. I've got a Mac laptop that I'm
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on right now. I've got a Mac desktop that I do
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on my heavy duty, like podcast and video editing on.
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And that's like the bulk. That's my work machine
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basically. And I've got an iPad and I've
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got an iPhone. You know, the amount of
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advertising and the amount of plugging that Microsoft does
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within Windows for a computer you pay full price for already,
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It's ridiculous. Like even on the lock screen,
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it's pushing all these ads in the Start menu, It's pushing all
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this shit within the web browser.
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Like if you're using Microsoft Edge, it's like there's so many
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ads. And if I wasn't paying money for
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Windows, if I did just drop like $800 on a entire Windows
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computer, it'd be like fine, OK, maybe it's just like some ad
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supported lower priced version. But no, you buy the full price
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version of Windows. Even if you pay $2000 for like a
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really nice Windows machine, it's still the same version of
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Windows that's serving you all these ads.
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So Microsoft is on my shit list because of that.
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Like they pushed so many ads and on Mac OS you don't get that.
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So that's for me one big reason to not use Windows.
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Unless you have to use Windows for some reason, you use some
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Windows specific software that only works on Windows, which
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over the years that's like less and less the case.
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Now, I don't recommend Windows to the average user unless you
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are so used to Windows you really don't want to try to use
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anything else. So that's the first way.
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The second thing is a Mac just works better to unlock a Mac.
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Like if your laptop's been sitting there, let's say your
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Windows laptop, you know, it's been sitting there the whole day
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while you've been at work. OK, you come home and you just
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want to like, open up your Windows laptop to, like, do
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whatever. Start using it.
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Sounds like a little thing, but the speed in which a Mac laptop,
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like, just snaps awake instantly and unlocks instantly when you
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put your finger on the fingerprint reader.
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You get so used to it that if you switch back and forth
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between a Windows laptop on the Mac laptop, you're like, oh, the
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Windows laptop feels kind of clunky.
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Even just little things like that.
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Doesn't sound like a big deal to wait an extra few seconds when
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you open the laptop. And it doesn't sound like a big
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deal to, like, have it take an extra few seconds to unlock
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until you get used to it. You know, people like I lock and
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unlock my laptop multiple times a day, and you just get so used
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to that, too. If I were to use the Windows
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laptop, it just feels like, OK, this feels a little ancient.
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Why is it taking an extra 5 seconds to wake up when my Mac
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wakes up instantly every time, reliably over many years?
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Because I've used multiple Mac laptops over the last 15 years
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and they all do that. So just little refinements that
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it just feels like a higher quality, more thought out piece
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of equipment. Touch ID, you can get it on the
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MacBook Neo, but you have to get the more expensive trim.
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So there's two versions of the MacBook Neo you can get.
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The base model is 599. It does not have Touch ID, which
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is the fingerprint reader. You can get the 699 upgraded
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version. That's the only other version
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that's available. So you get more storage, 256
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gigs versus 512. So you double that and you get
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the fingerprint reader. It's 8 gigs of RAM for both
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versions. You don't get options there, but
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I would spring for that 699 version for the extra storage
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and also to get the Touch ID. Yeah.
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So without going to like lots of specs, I think if you're somehow
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in the market for an inexpensive laptop and you're not like
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drawing to the hip of Windows, you're not like so gung ho about
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Windows that you would not consider a different platform
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that. I actually think at the 599 or
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699 price point, you should just get this MacBook Neo.
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It's a really great value and some of the reasons that the
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MacBook is going to be better, some of those things are
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intangible and you just have to trust me.
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Just that the smoothness of the whole experience of just like
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these little things like how quickly the machine wakes up,
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how quickly it unlocks, how fluid you know it is to navigate
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the interface. These are things that are hard
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to sell to someone, but go into an Apple Store or like go into a
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Best Buy, whatever and just like use it a little bit and then you
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realize it. It just makes your life easier.
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You know, sometimes these like tiny little intangible things.
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It's not really like a headline selling feature, but like when
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you just need a laptop that works, it's like got good
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battery life consistently. It reliably wakes up the
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updating process like very smooth.
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It doesn't like throw ads at you like Windows does.
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Everything just kind of works. Sometimes that's all you want,
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you know, like with cars you can get like a fancy car that's
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like, you know, some like fancy Rolls Royce or Porsche or
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whatever and it's like really great performance, yes, but
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sometimes you just want something that like works all
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the time, something each one of the appliance.
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And at this price point for a laptop that's maybe like the
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higher praise, it's like it's like super reliable.
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And I think that's sometimes the best luxury at all.
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It's something you don't need to think about too much, something
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that doesn't get in your way for this price point.
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It also looks great. It comes in all these different
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colours. It's like all aluminium.
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So it's like a really kind of like premium feel for this price
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point. So I think it's great.
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I'm obviously biased because I'm more I'm much more in the Apple
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ecosystem than like the Windows, but I still use Windows and I
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still have an Android phone that I use.
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So that's why I think this is actually this is this is Apple
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really flexing it's muscles in terms of like the supply chain,
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how much it can drive down the price of something, but still
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kind of bringing that Apple design that is known for.
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So I'm keeping a very close eye on house how much of A sales and
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commercial success this is, but not having used it myself, but
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everything I know about it at this price point, I think this
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is like this is going to this is a great value for sure.
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And I trust Apple enough that Apple doesn't really put out
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products that are like bad quality.
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Honestly, it's one of the things about Apple is it's it's very
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rare for them to put out a product where like the physical
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engineering quality is not very good or like the way it's been
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constructed and manufactured isn't very good.
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Apple doesn't really do that. And part of Apple having that's
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kind of more premium brand image is because of like, you know, at
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least the construction and the engineering is usually above
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average. OK, now that I've stopped
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gushing about the laptop, I'm a laptop person.
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So like, even though I don't think I'm the target demographic
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for this machine, I think this machine would just be great for
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like the 90% of people that want a laptop, but they don't.
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They're not power users. This is just such great value.
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So I'm very excited to see how it how commercially successful
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or not it becomes because I think it's great value.
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All right, the next product I want to talk about is the iPhone
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17 E OK? The E is the key part in the
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name of that particular product. So there's the iPhone Pro and
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Pro Max, which are big sellers. You see them all the time,
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especially the iPhone 7 Pro and Pro Max, the newest version with
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that gigantic rectangular camera bar on the back.
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You'll you'll see that you have been seeing that out and about
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over the last few months in all sorts of places where there are
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people. And then there's also the
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regular iPhone 17. Not the Pro, just the regular 17
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Pro. Sorry, the regular iPhone 17,
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not the Pro. And that's kind of like the the
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mainstream version, like the Pro and Pro Max is like the high end
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top of the line iPhone models. You have the ones that are the
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not pros. That's like the regular version.
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It's cheaper, but honestly it does most of what most people
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need it. But people tend to just buy the
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Pro because reasons. The 17 E is the entry level
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iPhone. It doesn't get a lot of fanfare
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because a lot of them advertising budget goes to the
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17 Pro or Pro Max, but those are the highest profit margins for
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Apple. And people don't seem to have a
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problem paying $1000, fifteen, $100 for the high end stuff for
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the iPhones. But the 17 E is notable because
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it's 599. It's the entry level version of
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the iPhone. It replaced the 16 E, which was
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last year's entry level version of the iPhone and there's not
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really anything earth shattering about it.
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But I bring it up because for a lot of people that don't want to
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spend like 1000 dollars, 1200 dollars, $1500 for a new phone,
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for example, David, he doesn't take a lot of photos.
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So having like all these fancy cameras, like it's he doesn't
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really use them and he does a lot of work on his phone.
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He does and he doesn't really have like a laptop.
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A lot of times when he's like visiting me and he's doing some
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like work thing, anything, a lot of things that I would just
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reach for my laptop, I wouldn't even attempt on a phone.
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He does on the phone, actually. Yeah.
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But if you don't want to spend $1000 on the phone, you just
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want something super reliable, the iPhone isn't the only
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option, but if you're used to the iPhone, you're not
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entertaining Android, but you don't want to spend $1000 and
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you don't really need the fancy cameras.
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You know, you don't need like the Super high end features.
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Give the 17 EA look and it's not going to be, it's not going to
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blow your socks off. It's an entry level, entry level
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model. It's not going to blow your
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socks off. But I mention it because it
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really is in the shadow of the iPhone Pros and Pro Maxes of the
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world. But I think it's actually a
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good, decent phone for someone who doesn't have, you know,
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super high demands of their phone.
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If you do take lots of like selfies and lots of photos and a
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lot of people do. Yeah.
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You know, one of the more expensive iPhones with the
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better cameras, you would see an advantage out of that,
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especially with like the new selfie camera on like the more
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expensive seventeens. But the 17 E for like 599, you
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know, it's actually a pretty good value.
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They didn't you know it. It's not some massive redesign
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for the 17 E that they just announced, but it did gain a
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couple of notable features. It now has Magsafe.
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So if you use any of the iPhones from the last few years,
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Magsafe, it's basically magnet. They have a magnet on the back
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of the phone, but using the magnetic accessory of the
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Magsafe accessories is like low key life changing.
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And like once you get used to Magsafe and having things
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magnetically snap onto the back of the phone, whether that's
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like a Magsafe wallet, a magnetic charger, or like other
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things you can do with it, it's hard to go back to a phone that
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doesn't have the magnets, that doesn't have Magsafe.
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Last year's 16 E did not have Magsafe.
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The 70 E now does. So that's something that you're
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going to kind of notice right away.
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It is, to be honest. It is otherwise not like an
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earth shattering update is pretty similar to the 16 E, but
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I just want to give it its dues because it's really good value.
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And for someone you maybe your current phone, you have an older
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iPhone, it's kind of on it's last legs.
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The battery's starting to wear and not really hold a charge
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that well anymore. Maybe it's like 6 or 7 years
24:15
old. I have a iPhone 12 mini.
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That's my backup phone. I travel enough that having a
24:21
backup phone is very essential. But one year I did lose my phone
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when I went to EDC in Vegas and I didn't have a backup phone and
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it was like it was not a good time.
24:32
I had to go emergency buy a burner phone from Best Buy in
24:36
the middle of my vacation. Not good.
24:38
Anyways. And even that iPhone 12 mini, I
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think it's, it's like 5 or 6 years old now because I don't
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use it that much. The battery on it is still
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pretty decent. If I have been using that phone
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all day every day as my regular phone, I'm sure the battery
24:54
would be really worn out by now and the battery life would not
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be as good as when it was new. But a lot of people probably
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don't need $1000 phone. I think a lot of people think
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they need a nice phone, but you know, just take a look at it.
25:11
If if you don't take a lot of photos, you don't play a lot of
25:14
games on your phone, you're not you don't shoot tons of videos.
25:16
You're not like a YouTube like me.
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Take a look. Some of the less expensive
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iPhones and iPhone 17 E because it does have the Magsafe.
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Now it's going to be for maybe like the average iPhone user.
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If you are holding the 17 E in one hand that cost 599 and then
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you hold an iPhone 17 Pro in the other hand that starts at like
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what, $1000 like 1100 or something, you might have a bit
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of a trouble convincing yourself that the 17 Pro is worth the
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extra $500. It's not going to be for
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everyone, but I would say unless you really need the cameras,
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take a look at the 17 E all right.
26:04
I quickly mentioned the MacBook Pro got a spec bump, nothing
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earth shattering. The MacBook Air got a spec bump,
26:10
nothing earth shattering. Honestly, the MacBook neo is
26:13
like the really big news. This Ivan 17 E is also not like
26:17
anything revolutionary, but I just want to point it out there
26:20
because I feel like it it's it's a bit underrated and I think a
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lot of people should give it consideration because it is
26:28
actually really good value. The only other brand new thing
26:32
kind of that Apple announced, and I don't think it's relevant
26:35
for a lot of people, though they released some new monitors and
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they're called the Studio Display and the Studio Display
26:43
XDR. I'm actually not going to talk
26:46
about them because I think they're crap value.
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Apple sometimes does monitors on and off through Apple's
26:53
history's debate monitors. So these Studio displays is an
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updated 1. They did sell a monitor called
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the Studio Display before, and they also sold a high end
27:05
monitor called the Pro Display. The Pro Display is now
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discontinued and the two new models, the Studio Display, the
27:13
Studio Display XDR are the only monitors that Apple now sells.
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They are very expensive for what they are.
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So it's a 727 inch for both of them.
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They are 4K. It's a 5K resolution, 5K.
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It's actually pretty high 5K resolution.
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The base one, the student display, it's got like
27:34
Thunderbolt and USBC, It's got a webcam, it's got some stuff.
27:38
It's not just a monitor, it's got speakers, a webcam.
27:40
It's got like it can charge your MacBook or your laptop.
27:43
You plug it in. 5K resolution is quite high.
27:46
Obviously the screen itself is actually going to be very high
27:48
quality. Apple always does very high
27:51
quality screens in terms of like the image quality, in terms of
27:54
like the brightness and the contrast.
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So that is where it is going to be more premium maybe then like
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your average 5K monitor, it's like half the price.
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And then you have to higher institute with display XDR.
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It's like higher refresh mini OED, blah, blah.
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I don't think any of you are going to be interested in any of
28:11
that. I wouldn't actually even
28:13
recommend most people buy it unless you're like a hardcore
28:15
Apple fan. So you heard about, oh, Apple
28:18
has these like fancy looking monitors.
28:21
Joey, is this something I should be looking at?
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I think the people that are techies and know what they're
28:28
getting into with these monitors, I think those are
28:34
maybe one of the few people that are suitable to buy those
28:36
monitors. But even as a techie, like
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they're not good value. Like in terms of like the amount
28:43
of money, how much they cost and what you're getting.
28:46
They're good quality monitors. I can tell you that even though
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I haven't used them like I have enough trust that these are
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going to be very high quality monitors with great image
28:55
quality, excellent brightness, excellent contrast.
28:59
The picture quality is just going to be outstanding.
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I can already tell you that. Is it a good value?
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No. So if you're like, oh, I heard
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Apple release some new monitors, Joey, is this something I should
29:08
buy? No, you should not buy them.
29:11
Just not good value and you know, there are so they're like
29:15
Samsung and LG and like view Sonic and like there's all these
29:19
other companies out there making monitors that for the 99% of
29:25
people it's going to be just as good and more than good enough
29:30
for what they need a external monitor for, for way cheaper.
29:33
Do you really need a webcam built into your monitor?
29:37
Not really. You know, there are 27 inch 5K
29:40
monitors out there for like hundreds of dollars less where
29:44
the image quality is still excellent that you're not paying
29:48
the Apple tax. You know, I talked about the
29:51
MacBook Neo, that new entry level MacBook being a really
29:54
great value and it's like great construction.
29:57
It's going to be like more than speedy enough for its intended
30:01
user. You know, it's got like you're
30:04
not really paying an Apple tax with that.
30:06
Like that's actually such a great value.
30:08
Like Apple could have bumped it bumped those prices by another
30:12
$100 and I would still be recommending it as a great
30:14
value. And then the iPhone 17 E, the
30:17
entry level iPhone that I said is not going to blow your socks
30:21
off, nothing revolutionary, but for 599 for a brand new iPhone,
30:25
it's going to do most of what people want or need from an
30:30
iPhone short of like super high quality cameras and like an
30:36
extra large battery, which, you know, a lot of people would love
30:39
a bigger battery and longer battery life.
30:40
But you know, for it's actually pretty decent phone, it's pretty
30:43
good value 599 for like a brand new iPhone.
30:46
But to pay like, I don't know, 1500 or $2000 for a 27 inch 5K
30:52
monitor, you're that's a heavy Apple tax, no doubt is a great
30:57
monitor. These are great monitors.
30:59
It's just too expensive. It's just not a good value.
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So this is not a tech podcast. I know you guys listening are
31:05
just like not in a shady way. You guys are not techies and you
31:10
guys are not like, you know, for the average consumer, which you
31:15
guys are listeners of this podcast.
31:18
Don't feel like you need to go. Don't be interested in those
31:22
monitors. Don't don't need to worry about
31:24
them basically so well, I guess I just talked 5 minutes about
31:28
those monitors anyways. Well, I know this is a slightly
31:31
different podcast that we're doing today and you guys don't
31:35
like it when I talk about tech Formula One.
31:38
I think some of you guys can appreciate the tech stuff, but
31:41
the tech stuff I talk about is tech that's for like the average
31:44
consumer, like a 599 iPhone is for like the average person is
31:48
not aimed for like some super niche power user that's geeking
31:53
out over tech and A599699 MacBook.
31:58
It's for like your your college students, like your average
32:02
mainstream laptop users. So I think a lot of you guys
32:05
would be interested for like a laptop, a brand new laptop
32:09
that's like in that price range, which I think it's going to be
32:11
incredible value. But the monitors are just no, I
32:15
don't know. I don't know how they can charge
32:17
so much for those monitors, but price the laptop that cheap.
32:20
Like the value proposition is just so crazy different between
32:23
those two things. Obviously, these monitors are
32:26
not meant for the average consumer.
32:28
So the Apple tax is really heavy for that one.
32:31
I would love to hear from you guys.
32:32
Are you guys interested in this new MacBook Neo?
32:37
It's kind of sort of uncharted territory.
32:40
Apple has never tried to play in these in the in this price range
32:44
for a laptop. Even going back to maybe if you
32:48
went back 20 something years ago when they had the ibook that you
32:54
know, like just around the turn of the million, like in the
32:56
early 2000s, they had those Apple iBooks that had all the
33:02
funky colors like the tangerine color, that orange and where
33:06
it's like this like plastic shell had this like rounded kind
33:10
of pebbly design. That's the last time that Apple
33:14
tried to go for like a lower cost consumer friendly kind of
33:19
fun design with different colors, entry level laptop.
33:23
Since they did that ibook like something like 20 plus years
33:27
ago, they've not tried to go to that low end of the laptop
33:32
market. So they're returning back.
33:34
So that's why I'm so excited about this particular machine
33:37
because I think it's going to be it's really great value and I'm
33:40
really interested to see how it does.
33:42
Let me know what your thoughts are on any of the things that
33:44
Apple announced. I already talked to a couple of
33:46
you on my Patreon that you guys were kind of a couple of you
33:49
were interested in, like this potential new entry level
33:54
MacBook. So put your thoughts down on my
33:56
page chart you're watching from there or down in the YouTube
33:58
comments below if you're watching from YouTube.
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And until next time, bye y'all.