I managed to squeeze over 13,5 hours from my Macbook air, but it was back in 2021 when laptop was still very new and fresh. Mind you though, that I had to reduce screen brightness, sound volume (which isn't that high already) and use as little of the machine power as possible. Still - that is impressive result - my phone can't get that much of a performance with screen and wifi being turned on at similar brightness level :D

Means a lot, seriously. Thanks for watching

I’m sure it’ll last you years to come. Great buy!

2.01 now!! Thanks for being there to witness it :)

@@montaguebarnabasltd2.02 now!!

Hell yeah. Best of luck for a long lasting machine.

That’s really lovely to hear, thank you very much for watching as always. Yeah lately the difference between the Pro and Air line has been a lot less defined. Using an Air to edit all my videos… Anyway, glad to hear you enjoy.

The longer, the better, also for the environment. And if Intel-based MacOS really gets totally unsupported without the important security patches, you could install a light-weight Linux, or even a "normal" Linux. Or even ChromeOS. Perfect for light-weight tasks.

Completely forgot to mention that, despite intending to. Yep, an important point.

I wonder if the M1 and other M’s 16” have the same fatal flaw as the 2019 version… if so that would suck. I’m going through so much time and videos to see if its worth buying a M1 Max MBP and its good to see videos so that I can know what to expect and to prepare as best I can for any issues… even if those issues aren’t repairable. Now I’m hesitating buying that M1 Max and instead go for a beast PC build/pre-built

@@rafaelacash7 The M1 is redesigned regarding this weakness. The issue was that the guilty SMC controller was too close to the fans hence humidity and heat created excessive use. As the M1 doesn’t have any fan and is no longer based on intel architecture the issue is no longer present. This being said M1 have their own issue especially with excessive RAM allocation to the SSD (especially the 8gb) which leads to drive death after sometime 2-3 years. They are plenty of videos on KZfaq from Louis Rossman or other channels which explain the issues between the two models and how to limit bad surprises with the M1 (usually answer is take the 16gb RAM and 512 SSD as minimum). For the 16 intel, if the issue occurs only solution is to replace SSD and the faulty controller (it costs of course), if issue didn’t happen yet, replacement of the controller only and protect it with coating tends to offer decent protection for years. You can check yourself and make your own idea and of course a lot depends how people use daily their MacBooks. I’m not making any publicity for any of them simply inciting people to research and document themselves before they configure their future machine =)

Valuable insights. Appl is so ethical nowadays by lowering 66% of the lifespan of its new gen devices by saving 5% or less than $100 in its BOM cost. No 256/8G models should be made or sold.

Really really lovely comment. Thank you. Yeah I think the buzz around M1 ETC. spread so quickly, people needing new laptops for university or new jobs just went out and bought them, then the word spread I suppose… I do think the right move is buying the cheaper Air models if you’re not using the GPU a lot.

Thanks for watching. Yeah you cannot find a better laptop for that price right now!

I’ve heard they’re more suitable for music anyway, I’m sure you’ll be fine with yours.

@@montaguebarnabasltd sure, still working fine for me, the specs is core i9 2,3 Ghz, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD

Agreed. Thanks for watching!

Thanks a lot for watching! Much appreciate the comment:,)

1:1 resemblance, trust me

Reminds me of when I’d mess around on my father’s first gen Intel Mac when they started using Intel… and years later I started making videos about them! Anyway. The 5,1 is an all time great. Agreed.

I think it’s better suited to the desktop form factor. Fewer heat problems.

and what it would be for? Frying eggs or showing how loud and short battery life it can have?

Important individually? Perhaps not. Significant and catalysts for big changes? I think so. It’s true they have relatively high failure rates, and I’m not singing the praises of the 16” 2019. It was a landmark for MacBooks, though.

@@montaguebarnabasltd I'll grant that they're landmarks, but I'm of the era of PC builders and Mac users that pines for the days when Macs of all stripes were upgradeable. I think the step to Apple Silicon is fairly game-changing, But the A1990 and A2141 models hurt more than they helped, IMO. But glad to engage in friendly discourse and generate some engagement for your video and channel.

@@TraneFrancks Broadly I do agree with you. It would be far far better if we could have both the upgradeability of last decade and the performance of M1/2/3. I think too many people choose to keep an older Intel machine without realising how much it’s slowing them down, though. If you’re prepared to take that risk, then it’s a great stand against Apple to keep a laptop so long. Apple Silicon granted me a super power in video production, though. I’m simply not able to create content half as quickly on my 2012 or 2015 MacBooks. Always appreciate the feedback! Thank you for being constructive lol.

@@montaguebarnabasltd Life's too short to be negative online. Discourse is great. Disagreement is fine. Disagreeability for the sake of being right isn't gonna help anybody. 🥰 On my other channel, I'll say that making a 4K 60FPS video that's 5-10 min. isn't all that hard in iMovie on the 2016. I expect that were one using ProRes and the like, it gets much harder. An iPhone SE 2nd Gen as the camera + iMovie and the 2016 doesn't really break a sweat. If I ever up my video game, I might really benefit from an M3. It's attractive, largely because of how much I detest the butterfly keyboard. (I use a Magic Keyboard when not mobile.)

Oh, right. The other reason that the 2016 has hung around so long is that I have a whole passel of Intel-architecture VMs that I run under either Parallels Desktop or VirtualBox. Since I can't run Intel VMs on Apple Silicon, it's a big impediment. I have legacy software that I need to maintain, so having Intel around is necessary.

Glad it’s still doing its job 👍👍

If you want to upgrade the macbook but aren’t in a rush but need software support there are solutions for getting latest macos on the unsupported intel macs which will buy you some time till the M4 comes out which makes the older macs cheaper

@@ash_Psyyyy Next one I am considering is getting an M1 or M2 MacBook Pro 13, I am not fond of the the 14 or 16 inch models.

Respect for using the last upgradeable consumer Mac!