You may have noticed a bit of vintage stuff appearing in this video and that's no coincidence! Ever since getting that Macintosh Plus I've been hooked! Coming Thursday I'll have a restoration video on that machine with much more to come! Thanks to Acronis for sponsoring, it makes exciting projects like my trip to Japan and many more projects that you'll see soon possible!

Oh no, a security-related video sponsored by a security company that wants to promote its product. "Hey guys you can trust us". No shade to Luke, get paid brother. But I am NOT trusting ANY security company.

So, this entire video is one ad for Acronis? Hmm....

Luke should label this video as a straight out-and-out commercial.

New model: 50% advertisement

How SAFE is your Mac? Who here was satisfied to learn the answer to this question? Who here thought Macs may have a vulnerability based on the title of this video? I genuinely thought this KZfaqr is doing a great service to our community researching and finding out OR explaining a new vulnerability that Macs are facing that I’m not aware of already. Or at least something new and valuable or a good knowledge to have. Because that’s what the title suggests. I gained nothing except a history lesson. I realized i gained nothing until near the end of the video. I don’t care if it is a sponsored video. I care if its a TV commercial. Because i don’t need what it’s selling. I needed to know “How SAFE is my Mac”. And i didn’t get my answer. I was fooled into watching a TV commercial. A 10 minute long, sneaky TV commercial. And i don’t read the description before watching any video. Can’t imagine anyone doing that..

Bravo, SnazzyLabs and Luke on concealing the fact your video is an ad until halfway through the video. The youtube disclaimer should say "this video is a paid promotion" instead of "includes paid promotion" to prepare us for the bias.

The whole video is an AD.

Acronis. Used their product to backup my PC some years ago. Disk crashed and Acronis could not restore it 😡. So never ever again. Now I use Drive Snapshot. Works fine. Could restore my data when required. Love it.

Oh come one, sponsored by a security company?!

Luka has just sold his soul to Acronis ...

I trust apple more than I trust some company named Acronis lol

I have feedback in 2 points: 1. How is Acorns better than iCloud? You can have 2TB of encrypted storage in iCloud and just have your important data there instead of using another company. 2. Video felt incomplete. I understand it was sponsored and I don't mind that, it still had some good content. However I wish it spoke more about how safe your Mac is as the title implied. As a relatively new MacOS user I was expecting to understand how much safer it is than say Windows(what I am familiar with). The only comparison was an ad from the late 90s? Should I look for an antivirus software for my Mac, etc. I walked away not being able to answer the question from the title of this video.

Sorry Luke but it's not a good video. 1) You didn't answer the main question how safe my Mac is? After the history part you basically just show us an old commercial about the 15.000 viruses and after that it's only ad for your sponsor. How safe is iCloud (with the advanced data protection)? 2) How does Acronis protect my data? Why is it secure and how secure is it compared to iCloud?

Nice infomercial Luke

Why Luke? 😢

No shade to Snazzy Labs and you, but these security companies isn’t any better than the tech companies. Arguably less safe…

I've used Acronis 2019 on the PC trying it out to clone between two hard drives little did I know it decided to clone over my boot drive as well. Reached out to Acronis tech support they could not give me a straight answer. I gave them everything they needed to know yet not one person reached out to phone me back. The Mac version of Acronis is awful I could not get it to work. If your on a mac use Carbon Copy Cloner and if your on a PC use AOMEI it will be the better choice. TL/DR: Acronis is the virus

This is the longest commercial I have ever seen.

So that was essentially just a 12 minute long ad? Like my yt feed was filled by two videos by Acronis today. One by Luke and the other one by Quinn

Luke: Look at all this junk! Me: Look at all that free stuff!

When your favourite youtuber sells out… super thin and inaccurate 90s story just to sell some bloatware.

Once upon a time I was an enthusiastic Acronis user, back when they made stand alone backup software. I can only remember one time in over 10 years that I ended up with a corrupted backup that failed to restore. Ever since they moved to their new subscription model and bloated the software with stuff I don't want or need I was forced to move on. I sure wish they still made their stand alone backup software. They'd still have me as a customer (as long as I could buy it outright and not have to rent it).

There is a difference between a sponsor and a whole video advert. I think this got very close to crossing the line...

I have owned computers for 40 years now and, since I moved to Mac have never used and antivirus. And never got even one virus of course. Knowledge and common sense is the best antivirus :)

acronis is making the sponsorship rounds today isnt it

Time Machine?

Title is a question about Macs' safety and you talk about SSD failure and why I should use x software to backup my data? Why use 3rd party software when backing up to a (or multiple) physical drive(s) is as easy as using Time Machine?

man.. macos has built in backup

Remember when we joked there will be a time when youtube is going to be all ads and you’ll be able to watch a 30 second videos in between the ads? We shouldn’t have given them ideas …

You know what you sound like? You sound like my English teacher, speaking slowly and pronouncing each word very well.

My first computer was the SE30. Loved it! I was deep in the Apple World in the late 80’s and thought out the 90’s. Lots of goodies in those boxes on top of boxes. Ha Ha

this is 11 minutes 51 seconds of QVC, but more exhausting.

Wow I just watched an 11 minute commercial. Thanks Luke

So Luke, You going to go on late night television selling pots, pans, and skin care productsd?

just watched Quinn's snazzy lab commercial, er video for the same software...cant wait for MKBHD's version, guess they are hitting the rounds...next up the new Dyson vacuum videos! haha

I loved your Japan video. Would even watch more of the weird or custom tech they have.

I was shocked there wasn't an AOL disc in there

11min and 51s for an acronis ad

bruh two acronis videos in a row in my sub feed 😭

I trust apple more than google and Facebook, apple isn't perfect but they are a lot better

My first was the 128K the year it came out. Does anyone else remember the shuffle? Insert system disk, insert application disk, repeat repeat repeat. Thanks enjoyed this one!

Interesting that he showed Dungeon Master for Atari ST. My ST is the first time I ran into a virus...a bootsector virus that would auto-copy to any subsequently inserted diskette and start deleting data on the disk. Probably from a disk image I downloaded, but it only got a few disks before I noticed it.

Me, a 43 years old guy watching this video: oh a floppy disk … My son, a 8 years child watching this videos: oh a 3D print save icon… Felt a little Jurassic…

I think that video was more of an ad then a video. at least 50/50.

Is Snazzy offering a higher discount percentage or is the version on offer different?

I LIKED the games, encyclopedias, dictionaries they gave you in the 1990's. I still have them today. They were informative and interesting.

The unboxing reminded me of a Rick and Morty interdimensional cable commercial. Edit: by the end I realized it was all a commercial

Get your money Luke… but videos like these will make me far less likely to watch future content.

Is that Mac SE the one you bought in Akihabara a few days ago?

I would love to see more retro stuff! And I didn't know that about dungeon master! I used to play that as a kid on the atari-st!

fundamentally I support SIP on macOS. Even though it does annoy me a bit the way I see it is: most people (read: grandparents) do not know and do not care what that is, but it protects the VAST majority of users who don't even need to know what SIP is. At the same time, technically competent people can turn it off ONCE and never have to think about it again. I think the model Apple uses for SIP is actually a pretty nice compromise. It transparently protects most people, disabling it is complicated enough to raise some red flags even among competent people, and it only needs to be disabled once and then it won't bother you any more. It brings me peace of mind recommending macOS over Windows to people I know aren't the most savvy, but also means if I need to I can take control of my Mac. Compare that to the iPhone which locks everyone out all the time. Jailbreaks are really Security exploits and get undone automatically with every dot update of iOS.

A little skepticism regarding tech companies competence at protecting our data and their reasons for collecting it is healthy. If enough mainstream users share that skepticism, then companies and regulators have to take the issue seriously. That’s good for the end user.

I want my 11 minutes back.

I remember a lot of shops in the early 2000s selling copy cracked Windows XP and Adobe premiere etc for the price of a candy bar

The mac manuals were so amazing. I kept the Laser Writer Pro manual as a memento.

Hey anyone facing battery drain and heating issues on m1 pro on ventura ? I am so tired of heating issues

5:53 MEGAPHONE! I used that on my first Mac, a Performa 6220! It turned my mac into an answering machine!

Luke, would you recommend a Mac Mini M2 for a 10 year old?

Man the video could be good and interesting as you want but… it will always looks like a Ad and nothing much more :/

An Amiga program just made Luke’s video 🤘🏽

Packaged software made sense in the 90s. You couldn't just download anything from the internet. Providing things like Clarisworks, encyclopedias, budgeting software etc was value added to the Mac. You needed to have something to do on your computer. This was especially true for the Performa line as it was directly marketed to home users who may have never owned a computer before and didn't have a software catalog on the shelf. Anyways, the Miani "content" ends around the 7 minute mark guys. The rest is pure ad.

From the title I was expecting a video on if it is unsafe to keep running an unsupported version of Mac OS.

thanks for the excellent ad -.-

Wow an 11:51 add. Good job!

Crucial made a deal with acronis. I know it because I bought an ssd and the program required a crucial ssd to be working. ı don’t like them because my disk would just not be cloned. I then wrote windows to the replacement ssd and transferred files, manually.

Ah I miss my old Mac Plus. It was uber! I had a modem too!

Apple SSDs do NOT fail “all the time” as Luke claims. As a consultant, I’ve seen maybe one or two Apple SSD failures in the last decade.

Never understood this kind of backup software, I just prefer to use Time Machine, it’s easier and comes free with the Mac

Been enjoying your videos… Few important thing… Game Hackers would easily get around embedded manufacturers trick security codes by simply copying the entire Game Disk as an image elsewhere. To produce a working copy of the Master disk, they would recook the image over to the new floppy. Capturing disk images was later enhanced by a special plug in card to eliminate security signals embedded in code to disrupt copying a new disk. Witnessing this speaks loudly that “code theft knows no bounds”. Because of the intense Hacking over the Internet, Libraries were forced to divide hard drives to include prepared setup for reinstall complete Windows systems. The working partition when User finished would auto be reinstalled with a fresh operating system for the next user. Users time was limited to a few hours to limit how corrupt the Hacking could get. As a Library User after my home System was destroyed, using a Boot Floppy with the Write Security Window engaged, was sufficient with overcoming Hacking. However, instead, Hackers targeting me would destroy the Floppy drive instead. Through intense testing up against high level Hackers, it’s been discovered Apple has purposely built in Backdoor(s) that enable Informed Hackers to enter. Entering enables the Hacker to flip the User Device to a Slave to a Master. This happens in seconds and Setup setting don’t have an effect. Further testing shows this ‘backdoor is in the Bluetooth function. Normal Bluetooth is limited to 30ft, but this modified Bluetooth for Special Hackers is around 100ft. Bluetooth BT design offers a faster method of connecting then WiFi and appears the best choice for high level Hackers. Whether it was purposely designed in for Government/Intelligence Groups, the knowledge was given to a large Criminal.Org. They have been busy stealing from everyone especially from Debit Card Holders. My last Debit Card only lasted just over a week before it had to be blocked. Researching deeper, I’m of the belief that Apple has the backdoor function code buried in the most secure area. Feel it isn’t in the iOS as updates haven’t helped. Where facial/biometric Security function code resides may where it is. This suggests it’s in the more secure sepOS. It isn’t known if the sepOS is upgradable. The Backdoor design is in Hardware with improved components to handle longer distances past 100ft. This suggests it’s built in to the Antenna Module in iPhones and iPads. Feel it exists with all Apple products. Realize this backdoor was proven to exist in Cricket. It’s expected to exist in the other manufacturers systems also. Marty Didier

What you do is manually backup and backup especially if your a business.

I loved Dungeon Master back in the day!

"an increasing distrust in technology companies to manage our data and keep us safe" and that's why i should pay real world money to acronis, a technology company, to "keep me safe", right?

Come on Luke. I've been following you for years! I know that you need sponsors for your channel. BUT: you've got 434K subscribers=you make a good business. This is way to much sponsor - and to less info.

An 11min ad…😑

if it comes to hardware backups, a gigabit ethernet NAS system would work, as it has fast enough transfer speeds to back content up.

I must say we can call you the apple square shirt guy ahah - so you bought that little mac in japan?! I was supposed to have one given to me but for some reason I never had it and now it sold quite high- yeah the nineties were great! I mean for apple computers.

How old was Luke when people stopped using floppy disks? Luke neglected to mention that a real floppy was actually floppy.

I have never never gotten a virus on my Mac but I do use a VPN for downloading and Surfing!!! I had gotten viruses on My PC netbooks monthly!!!! I love my M2 Air :)

the thing literally ships with a hardware based rootkit controlled by apple...

So what does acronis do besides “protect us”? Cloud storage like iCloud and backups like Time Machine… I mean, we already have that for free. Cool history lesson though.

I started working in IT in the mid-1980s. The very first virus/malware I ever saw was more fun than malicious. It would be a small program inserted into startup.bat on MSDOS machines. Upon boot, there would be a strange sound and then the system would display "ATTENTION - WATER DETECTED IN DISK DRIVE". It would then say "STARTING SPIN CYCLE" and the sound system would play a weird sound using what sounded like a spin cycle on a washing machine. After a count down of about 30 secs, it would then say "WATER REMOVED, SYSTEM READY FOR USE" and then startup.bat updated to remove the program. It was actually pretty funny (for about the first 10 times LOL).

Oh good. A 12 minute ad for a service nobody wants or uses…

What’s wrong with using Time Machine and an external HDD or NAS? Your video are great but this being a 12 minute ad for Acronis is the exception.

It's incredibly safe once the iCloud lock kicks in 😂

Apple your fav company as just decided no one can refurbish used products I was shock to see 3000 M1 Macbooks has to ground up instead of refurbishing or used for parts not good for recyclers either or the enviroment what do you think Luke.

You call it “bloat”, but seeing as Mac software wasn’t plentiful back in the day (and there was no Mac App Store), this was very useful CDs to make the computer useful.

Nice ad

You’re really overstating the prevalence of viruses and malware in the ‘80s. I very rarely encountered a virus while working at Kinko’s in college, and we scanned every customer disk we inserted into our Macs. We scanned scores of disks each week, and rarely did we find anything. Viruses and malware didn’t really take off until the popularization of the Internet, and then that was more a Windows problem than a Mac problem, just as it is today.

Normally, I really like your videos but the whole premise of the video (at least it seemed to me) is that people dislike big data and that tech companies have very little trust. I don't feel like you addressed this, and moreover, you offer a 'solution' that is just another tech company with cloud hosting.

So, Luke, a related question. Once you’re logged into iCloud on a Mac, everything is open to anyone who can get into the machine: email, Notes, contacts, OneDrive, etc. And computers get stolen all the time. So how secure is my Mac if it’s stolen?

I would kill for those Apple stickers ngl

I think Macs are the safest out there without having to install anything. That’s the power of Time Machine.

Wait, people don’t trust Microsoft, Google, or Apple to hold their data in the cloud…but they should trust Acronis? Why is that? How is Acronis any better than other online backup solutions?

Excuse my technological illiteracy, but why would it be beneficial to use Acronis instead of a combination of Time Machine on an external drive and iCloud? (legitimate question, not discounting the video sponsor)

breh this really just be an 11min ad

You're hit the nail on the head

I don't know why they never made Hard Disk Floppies, meaning inside was an actual 1 layer dbl sided hard disk that could spin way faster and be read faster. Store more. Etc. I should of been born in 60's I'd be a billionaire.

At 9:36 he says, "5TB of cloud backup is included", this is FALSE. If you upgrade to a PREMIUM subscription, you get 1TB for free, but upgrading to 5TB costs $290/year. Not sure why Luke lied here? Or at the very least, misled the viewers by accident due to ignorance of actual pricing?

I HAD THAT ACCESSORY PACK - yeah imagine how Windows 95 was hurting Apple