Congratulations! I do keep a gaming PC but switched back to Mac, well back... was gone from the late 90s until the M1 came out. I gave up my 16" M1 Pro and Studio and just got a 14" M3 Pro and love it. I found myself on the go more and for my personal video and audio work I did a lot of it on my MBP then would transfer to my Studio. Instead I just got a TB dock for the MBP and to plug my external drives into. You can get a Thunderbolt 4 enclosure and Nvme drive for a good price and it will pretty much as fast as your internal drive. Excited for your journey!

Am I the only person that thinks Apple uses the refurbished section of their website to move slow selling brand new stock?

Thank you for sharing. I am also looking at purchasing a refurbished mpb pro with the same specs. Only a question of time of when I’ll be able to go ahead. This gave me good vibes. I have never gone with a refurbished before.

I always buy refurbished Apple products. Arrives in excellent condition. Same warranty. I typically save around $300(US). In most cases these are products people bought, used for a day or not even at all, then returned it.

Love this video Sam! Very informative! I am currently looking at updating my computer to the MacBook Pro. Will keep an eye out for the new video.

I find the "refurbished" prices aren't low enough to make it a value. If I spend $100 to $200 more I can have brand new from Apple -- or worse, just wait a couple months and buy new model with brand new chip for $100 to $200 more.

Great video! Just a heads up I got my m3 max from Best Buy here in the US for $2899 on sale. B&H and best buy go back and forth on the sales and they were really excellent. I got a base m3 max with 36 gb ram and 1 tb if you’re still looking within your return window. Enjoy!

I’ve bought 2 refurbished iPads and my M1 2020 MBP from Apple over the past few years here in the UK , and all 3 devices arrived looking like new. Shrink wrapped and with a 1 year warranty. All 3 devices have been reliable. I’d definitely recommend checking out the Apple refurbished part of their store. Thanks for a great video

Nice presentation. I like the way you take your time to explain everything. Is there a part two of this video? You inspire me to see what I can find in the apple refurbished area. They have some nice iPad Pro 12.9 inch. I might have to replace my 12.9 one in the near future. Btw, your profile pic is very nice. You should use contact lens in stead of glasses.

Thanks for the video, I'm curious what your audio setup is? I didn't see a mic anywhere but the audio was very good, even when you seemed further away from the camera.

i had no idea there were refurbished mbp, it was great that you actually walked us through the whole process, thanks a lot.

I've purchased multiple refurbished MacBooks from Apple's website over the past decade, and every single one was just like new, with full warranty. Only the box might be different.

Thank you very much...been meaning to get one of these and the savings are hugeee and it's basically like getting a new one...subscribed

Great video Sam. Looking forward to the next one.

Nice Video! Waiting for the next video now! Want to know how satisfied you are with 4K editing! :) Is it 4K 60fps?

I was several hundreds of dollars shy of grabbing an M3 Pro. Bought the M1 Pro MacBook Pro from Swappa in fantastic shape, 99% battery life/health. My first Mac and i also video edit. Hope you enjoy your Mac!

Thanks for sharing. What’s the wallpaper at 7:14 ? Looks like a Sonoma but not quite like mine.

Would have like to seen the price comparison of you upgrading to a 5700x or maybe 5900x or better and a good gpu compared to the mac☺️ total price after selling your old parts also cost to performance comparison

As a new Space Black M3 Pro 12/18C user myself, it looks perfect and indistinguishable from a brand new unit. I think you did yourself a great favor and made a good saving.

In the earlier M-series, there have been some great bargains with refurbished MacBooks, as many people (globally!), during the lockdowns, couldn’t see the actual MacBooks to decide on the colour, so they bought 2 and simply returned one for the refund. So they are practically brand new, but have to be sold as Refurbished. (I bought an M1 MacBook Pro with higher specs than I would have been able to afford, and it looked brand new.)

Hi Sam, great video. Everything is brand new with Apple refurbished regarding the laptops except for the logic boards which are throughly checked for hardware issues.

Cool. Im considering this as an option, so am interested how this goes.

Awesome video looking forward to your full review comparing it to windows

Awesome just ordered my refurbished 14" MBP M3Max today! 36gb of ram and 1tb ssd. Really hope i made the right choice, didnt want to wait until 2025 for M4

For a lot of users, the M3 Pro 14in is great. I have one in silver and don't see myself updating for 5 years (except for a battery replacement)

I bought the exact same model as a refurb, direct from Apple, a month or so back. It’s flawless. Indistinguishable from brand new. I’m a UXer and Product Manager, so this is likely to pack all the punch I’m ever likely to need. It’s my first refurb purchase and, while I looked at 3rd-party refurb resellers, some of whom had slightly better prices, the extra confidence from buying directly from Apple was valuable. Can definitely recommend buying refurbs from Apple. 👍👍

Apple Refurbished replaces the outer cast and battery and anything else with cosmetic defects. Other than the outer box it will be indistinguishable from new.

How was the internal storage. How many TBW (terabytes written)?

Nice video. I recently started using both Windows and MacOS as well. I was looking for a travel computer and landed on the base M2 Air. This was my first mac and theres definitely a learning curve to it but its enjoyable to see the way two different behemoths think about what computing is. I dont do any creative work, mostly coding and the like and tbh, you cant go wrong with either which is why ill never understand the hate on either side. That being said i prefer windows approach to windows and application management. MacOS seems to overcomplicate that piece even with stage manager.

The M1 13 inch MacBook Pro that I use was also purchased as an Apple refurbished unit in 2021. It was in absolutely pristine condition and had a battery cycle count of...one.

Why are there 2 different M3 Pro chips? Without any special designation. I bought a refurb M3pro MacBook Pro from Apple, but my M3 Pro chip has 12cpu and 18gpu cores. I would think that Apple would have separate designations for those.

… I never thought to check the Cycle Count on M1 MBP when I bought it. I think that information should be included as a necessity in the specs on the sale page for all of Apple’s refurbished devices. When buying a car, we always check that milage, and that it matches the advertised amount.

Feb 2019 my fiancé and I both bought refurb Macs w our tax money. I got a 2018 w an upgraded video card and she got a 2017. Both computers did eventually have the butterfly switch keyboard issue and we got that repaired in Feb 2024. Mine didn’t have any issues after that but after it was returned she began having power issues where things would intermittently shut down out of nowhere. This was eventually repaired bc while we were outside of AppleCare it occurred from the keyboard repair and battery replacement we received. It was an issue w the iGPU. A few months later we ended up having new issues come about but it was after the extended period was up and while it still worked well enough, it was becoming more random and we both ended up upgrading. Our original buy had been before the M1 announcement by over a year so I decided to get the exact same M3 Pro MBP baseline model. Here in the US it is 1700 instead of 2000 and she decided she didn’t want a laptop this time and opted for just a baseline M2 Mac Mini for 500. Both of us are able to play World of Warcraft better than before and the M series is so much better than the Intel chips from our old laptops it’s silly. I did keep mine tho bc it was dual booted w Windows and that is how I play Fortnite w my son. Also while some Linux distros have ARM builds (I have Fedora 40 KDE and OpenSUSE w KDE installed via UTM), distrohopping is easier w the old MBP and external 2TB SSD I have. The refurbs are an excellent way to get a new Mac and considering they are fully covered, unlike most places giving short warranties for anything refurbished, speaks a lot to their belief in their systems.

A 1060... "Slightly out of date"? That was slightly out of date 10 years ago. You could have just got a 3070 for $1200 and saved yourself $2000.

I've gotten Apple Certified refurbished on a couple things. Couldn't tell they were ever touched before. Added Apple Care & the whole 9 yards! No worries at all. Good way to save money when you can't get a corporate or school discount.

I really support new tech content creatores keep it up and keep it real that´s how you build a long term loyal community.

I've been told most the refurbs didn't pass QC and were later made-good. That's as opposed to customer returns which can have reduced battery life etc. Whatever the case you got a good one.

I saved $600 buying refurbished MBP M3 Max 36gig. Very surprised at how much faster and fluid it responds compared to my M1 MBP 16gig, which I was happy with.

I hope you have a lot of fast external storage, because 512GB is really not a lot for 4K editing. That's something that you sacrifice from a Desktop PC to any Mac except the Mac Pro, is the inability to have additional fast internal storage. With a PC you can add more NVMe SSD's or even SATA SSD or Hard Drives for more storage.

I recently bought a MacBook m3 pro from an authorized distributor in the original packaging with seals and after opening it and checking the number of cycles, it turned out that it already had 3. Is this normal?

You can have that bottom menu and top bar automatically hide for more screen real estate.

Great video love the video quality ❤

as for graphics 1080ti would edit 4k with your pc setup

i got a refurbished from apple iMac in the past. they're great, basically like new! ive had my iMac for like 10 years and it still works great! great way to save some money and you can get current macs for less!

sam, am australia too, just need ur opinion, which one better to purchase m2 pro ref or m3 pro ref, does the differences contrast really bold tho?

18GB Unified Memory is this the ram ? and not 18GB Unified Memory in the m3?

Awesome rig! Welcome to Mac World

I'm little bit jealous, because here where I live I can't buy refurbished MBP just only the new one, and the brand new MBP with same specification price is A$ 4241,95 -and the TAX is included.-. 😵‍💫

Apple Referb is the gold standard. I’ve bought an iPad and Mac mini M1 and have been using them for 4 years now.

how can we identify weather the MACBOOK is refurbished or not after buying from the local shop, i mean can we identify it through the system report or from any other parts

Hey , it will do more then fine, im using M1 with ipad pro and Lumafusion for editing 4k. il buy soon a mac mini for same purpose with m2 or m3.

I want a refurbed M3 Pro, but it’s so hard to find a 16” with 16/18gb ram and a TB SSD. I’ll keep looking, though

Welcome to the Apple ecosystem. When you buy a certified refurbished Apple product, they normally replace the battery. And everything else, but the logic board. The warranty on the refurbished product is the same as buying a new product. I hope you’re loving it.

Neural Engine not neutral engine! 500$ out of 3500$ is a small discount for a standard model, which is quite often on sale for larger discounts (different scenario if a built to order config is taken into account which are never on discount). if i spend 3000$ on a device i will have a bandwidth 2500-3500$ considering an upgrade or not. The comparison to PC-upgrade we are talking about 1000$ (Mainboard, CPU, GPU, RAM) vs. 3000$ including an additional training phase necessary, from the economical point not a good idea, if one always wanted to transition to another world. o.k. For a company having the rest of their equipment e.g. in the windows world, additional staff, additional hardware and software training, a lot of additional costs to the plain hardwarecosts.

On Amazon MacBook Pro M3 14" 36gb 1 tb...about $2,500

I bought an m1 MBP with 16gb of ram and 500gb ssd and it handles 4K footage relatively well as long as it’s not h265

Apple’s refurbs are the best. Tried Amazon once. It was okay. But Apples are pristine! And you get great packaging. Not the case for Amazon.

Can you get Apple care with refurb's. How about battery... does apple give you a new battery as part of the process?

holy balls, almost 3k for a laptop when you have a desktop office? Igotta watch the rest of the video now, lol. I was thinking a laptop might be easier than updating the desktop PC, but I had no idea they were that expensive.

My question, I have nothing phone 2 and I am thinking of buying MacBook m1 for editing vlog recorded in phone 2. Can I easily transfer video file to MacBook for editing.

Upgrading your PC graphics card with a used 3060 or 3070 would give you a huge uplift in performance.

good god! This same computer in the United States costs $1,699...why is it more than double! Does this have to do with the exchange rate where you are or what is this?! congrats though either way, I have been using a surface pro 7 as my main machine for years and still want to build a proper PC very soon but want a MacBook pro pretty bad at this point. Its just all around a basically perfect machine! Build quality, display, speakers, performance, battery life. HAS EVERYTHING..

Hi Sam ! Are you Greek background?

I got this laptop a few months ago and I love it. apple refurbished is the only way to go if you’re insistent on buying from them directly because they don’t put their devices on sale and their like brand new basically. Sadly they didn’t have any and I did trade in my MBA so I was stuck with Apple.

Thank you ! I recognise from the name . Is true many Greeks are living in Australia!

I hope this configuration of 18 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD is good enough for your workload.

Curious, why didn't you get an M2 Max instead? Should be around the same price no?

Its hard to find a black MBP M3Pro with 1TB ssd... even the Apple store doesn't have them new. Is the 1TB only on the M3Max?

18 gig memory is a bit low for 4k video. I got 36gig memory.

Its AUD..

Whenever I feel like buying an Apple product I watch Louis Rossman's channel and he saves me $$$

You are in Australia. Wait for a regular JB HiFi sale and negotiate an improved discount. When JB HiFi discounts so do other stores and you can play them against each other, even individual JB HiFi against JB HiFi.

refurbished is the way to go M1 Pros are a steal and edit's three streams of 4K like a champ!

Amazon has what you what for $1799 and it's not a refurbished one.

There were no conclusions about whether it was worth it or not

Apple Refurbished products are basically brand-new. Apple replaces the body the keyboard the screen and the battery. The only used part is the motherboard so yeah basically new they are the only company that does this.

bought my 2023 Refurbished Macbook Pro M3 pro 18gb Ram 18core for $2000 plus tax.... It was used for 2-3 weeks by the previous owner.. lol

Can’t wait for the new iPad pros refurbished 😂

Macs are really good at video editing, even an m1 tablet outperforms most pcs at editing videos. Microsoft is just a heavy beast that has too many weaknesses

whatever apple you eat or buy...you can't live without with windows OS....😄

I always thought that Apple makes the best laptops in the world.

Honestly all you needed is upgrade GPU to RTX 4070.

i do not think you would have spent that much if you had upgraded your pc 😏

For the money you spent you could build a PC with 7800x3d 4079ti Super or even 4080 with 32gb of ddr5. And just keep your mouse keyboard and monitor. If you need portability then yes the Mac Book is king.

Ha ha ha!! iPhone is next!!

u r cute

What is the point of this video? Everyone knows Apple refurbs are top notch and rarely lemons. And it's been that way for years. Buy an Apple refurb and you're most likely going to get a computer that's 99.999% brand new. No video needed, unless of course, your next meal depends on subscribers.

Verrry slooooow video. Boring.