Apple doesn't want you to open the Mac Studio

[@ShortCircuit]

Editor's Note: Sorry, the HDMI port is 2.0

[@dux5]

okie

[@linuxnoodle8682]

malding

[@Mxrtin21]

Ok

[@FleaOnMyWiener]

Apple should be the ones apologizing

[@lossless4129]

Isn’t hdmi 2.0 the new 2.1? Lol

[@ggamer7578]

At least this one has a removable cable

[@etherdark]

beat me to it

[@alexeiutgoff7955]

@바비 소녀들.🇰🇷 Go away

[@lu4414]

*for now*

[@ripcordjack]

The i macs cable is also removeable. You arent supposed to and it doesnt work with any other cable but you can remove it

[@fmmderetarzi]

@@ripcordjack yea....the same way you can jump from a plane without a parachute once...who wouldn't want that.

[@e7234]

I love when Linus enters the room looks at the thing and gives his honest opinion. then just goes away like nothing has happened. It adds so much realism and a nice feeling of not being sold out. Just plain nice review with a little satirical touch.

[@pieterrossouw8596]

He's a good seagull. Flies in Craps on everything Flies away

[@Lucian_Andries]

@@pieterrossouw8596 You mean pigeon. Seagulls are known only for stealing stuff. :)

[@TheSonorabob]

@@Lucian_Andries no no I think seagull. I was crapped on the head by a seagull once when I was a kid. They’re also calculating. This isn’t just chance it’s cold calculated production. 😆

[@Lucian_Andries]

@@TheSonorabob Well all birds are "crappy", so... :)

[@althds7099]

Just watch vids by Casual Geographic about birds, they are usually fucked up

[@eomoran]

Have to admit, dbrand actually making it 15 minutes is mega brain

[@Frank72364]

Worst company ever.

[@masterdoge17]

dbrand’s 50 joke is the best. Galaxy brain play dbrand

[@farawaythrower]

its kind of just annoying lol, dont see how its smart

[@TyrannicG]

@@farawaythrower even annoyed you comment on it, thats a W for them.

[@88porpoise]

It is the "short" Linus promotion after all

[@ljessecusterl]

The Magic Mouse's charging method is still the most pants-on-head thing I've ever seen in 35 years of using computers on a daily basis.

[@anujmchitale]

The mouse itself is such shit-tier. They should pay us to use that junk.

[@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459]

It looks stupid, but the battery lasts a long time. You should be able to do a whole month’s worth of work on an hour charge. The ergonomics are a much bigger problem, and even that can be adapted.

[@actualperson1971]

@@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459 I have a mouse, I've been using it for half a year, and I've charged it exactly once. I don't really think having to charge it once a month is a lot of work between charges

[@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459]

@@actualperson1971 what mouse do you have

[@poker.4203]

Don't want to sound like a fanboy but if you were to charge it overnight wouldn't it last a whole day? I just wanna see what issue do people have with that

[@GuusvanVelthoven]

I love how the people off camera always chat with the host. Makes it way nicer to watch for me.

[@5Perf65mm]

Agreed

[@prw56]

makes it feel less formal, which is good because formal (in the context of reviews) is so associated with selling out and dishonesty.

[@sinuslebastian6366]

@@prw56 well they made this channel with exactly that goal in mind: be an informal version of LTT with less complex videos. So I'd say they've achieved that goal.

[@Oceansta]

Nahh tooo much dking around and out takes. Just get to the point already 👋

[@sinuslebastian6366]

@@Oceansta watch other videos then. Why are you here?

[@joeblow5214]

Apple never ceases to amaze me with how engineering wise they are always taking one step forward and 5 steps back.

[@a4andrei]

You spelled over-engineered wrong.

[@corporatestatusbrah]

Never ceases to amaze me with how people continuously expect apple to want the user to open the computer.

[@GFG2gifted]

@@corporatestatusbrah you missed every point made here. 😂🤦‍♂️

[@corporatestatusbrah]

@@GFG2gifted lol what point?

[@TheHammerGuy94]

let me quote Linus in his Wan show: "Actual human effort was wasted to make this worse and anti-consumer. when this Display becomes obsolete, it goes STRAIGHT to the Landfill!"

[@SchnitzelDaemon]

Actually love short circuit videos when people just pop in and give their thoughts on things

[@DavidDrury90]

Anthony as host makes every video he's in even better. It's just such a genuine fun experience when he's hosting.

[@dss12]

That comment did not age well...

[@gugapereira00]

@@dss12 Why?

[@fezzes428]

he has become she

[@blindwheels]

I love videos with Anthony, his humor is very refreshing, & his rage is very relatable.

[@Eric-yt7fp]

He is an absolute gem. Really love his stuff.

[@louisxiv546]

His face makes my eyeballs singe

[@sermerlin1]

I would not say is very relatable but rather honest.

[@spartacus987]

Anthony is the reason I keep coming back. Relatable in his irritation to stupid decisions lol

[@bugato]

They made him do this review because they knew how angry he would be

[@TheHarryChanne1]

$200 for a membrane keyboard is criminal. And I say this as a shareholder. I feel dirty now.

[@ScottGrammer]

What did you think of the $1,000 monitor stand or the $1,200 casters?

[@Ladioz]

membrane keyboards are more responsive than others. I regret buying a mechanical one

[@xmlthegreat]

@@Ladioz it's not the responsiveness that is the issue. Compared to older keyboards the new ones are absolutely flimsy plastic trash.

[@gnaedigerfels]

@Ladioz What do you mean by responsive ? mech keyboards are more responsive factually speaking. Also it really depends on the type of keyboard you bought, because there are many different flavors of switches.

[@rdvgrd6]

That’s a slim aluminium keyboard with excellent built quality and also has Touch ID with its own authentification chip in it.

[@MayuFuji]

Fun fact: Apple calls those parts (and by those parts i mean the rubber ring that you have to remove and get a replacement) "consumables" and they send us new ones when we order parts for repairs. :)

[@4riel]

yikes

[@SpeakChinglish]

Consumables? I like to see Tim Apple eat one of them in the next dapple event 😂

[@ryanvacation7319]

Apple is a company of contradictions

[@trytesting4114]

i am pleasantly surprise it didnt cost an arm and leg and maybe my kidney for the rubber ring

[@mcid47]

damn that's definitely eco friendly moves after removing chargers from their new phones

[@b1gbird001]

I love how Linus turns up and is like "that's dangerous" and Anthony is like "oh no, it gets better" and Linus goes from midly amused to completely agog.

[@fionawashere1086]

I'm flabbergasted you really used that word.

[@TheWuffball]

As good as they are, as smart as they are, imagine if they put the effort to make something with just the basic level of user replaceability, how amazing it could be

[@gabrielebursi5509]

@Penismaster471 because when Apple does something all the other sheep companies do the same and screw us over

[@desther]

But that would net them less money? ;) And Apple philosophy is to milk customers dry.

[@nomoregame9699]

@Penismaster471 because environment? hello!!! we live on same planet and promoting bs like this where companies purposely make something less user repairable just for their own profit is scummy AF and everyone should be called out for that doesn't matter if someone use apple products or not

[@michubern1444]

they want more money!!! fuck planet earth

[@KingFinnch]

with that funding and those engeneers, they'd probably figure out a universally backwards compatable port for everything ps: you have good taste in baseball teams

[@sisconhimejoshi]

Love how this video gets everyone’s hopes up when it already has been discovered by the time it went live that the “SSDs” are protected up the ass, can’t be swapped for higher capacity, second slot can’t be populated, replacing storage is a repair-only option and those aren’t even SSDs to begin with! this computer is a user accessibility nightmare.

[@Qyngali]

@@guycxz question is how do you get the raw NAND packages, do you really think you can buy them from anybody except Apple? And of course, you have to send the computer in to get it done... I don't think there's a 1% chance that independent repair will be able to buy them, let alone get the software to set it up.

[@guycxz]

​@@Qyngali A DFU is a factory reset of a sort available to anyone. Ifixit already manged a storage swap one a mac Studio. As for whether you could get compatible NAND packages, it's still up in the air. Apple could supply those, and theoretically you should be able to get them from any of the vendors that sell to apple. The real question is whether these are off the shelf parts or some custom exclusive part made for Apple alone. Apple's past point to the latter, it also appears that Ifixit couldn't get 2 NAND packages working on the same mac. It could be that they were from different vendors and therefore the controller had no firmware compatible with both(Apple sources from many vendors and has a firmware for the storage controller for each vendor and size), but it could also be a limit on the possible storage configurations the chip is allowed to support. I'm generally pessimistic but since my knowledge is both cursory and second hand I can't do better than a guess. There are quite a few tinkerers out there trying to make this machine do whatever they need or want; They will be the judges of where the limits actually are, and with M1 being as impressive as it is they are sure to be tenacious.

[@rondobrondo]

​@@Qyngali Bro , question is, how do you get any parts for a computer? Do you really think you can buy them from anybody except the computer companies ? And of course, you have to send the computer to someone who knows what they are doing so that I don't fuck up a computer that's actually optimized for performance instead of for cheap and suboptimal modularity. I don't think there's a 1% chance that independent repair will be able to rip me off anymore by charging me for services that CAN't GUARANTEE, in one way or another, I will have a perfectly computer at the end of the day. -- Anyway, main thing is that Macs overall, even when you consider the bad ones dragging down their average, are empirically cheaper over their lifetime and last, on average, between 1.5x-3.5x longer than PC counterparts. I have had two MacBook Pros in the course of 13 years, typing on it right now and it's been able to keep up with the years and stay optimised. I run Ableton with optimal settings, I game on it, and I develop on it. Are they harder to fix? yes. Is it impossible to fix these or fix the new ones? No, but everyone is getting that they have to pay the only people who know how to fix something because they don't know how to fix it themselves when they aren't just opening an overpriced, underperforming, standalone module bit from Best Buy and popping into their slots on their expensive computer case. Ya'll are worried about space? Use the fast af ports and hook up a good external drive IF, and that's an, IF you need it. Most people don't need to have bunch of modularity nd room to upgrade .They want something GOOD and they want their upgrades to be simple and connectable if it gets the job done. Just fuckin hook a drive up, that's why the ports are fast man. maybe get better at organizing your file systems and keeping unnecessary trash out so you don' need to upgrade what is already very big. People don't wanna pay extra money to have options that the vast vast majority of people don' need and will never need, but love to imag9ine that they will so they can feel slighted and ripped off when you get something straight forward and insanely powerful and a super competitive price, yet still able to beat out the competition without even having finished all of their optimizations for third part software not confifgured for the architecture. Is this why ya'll shell out huge buck for giant computer cases with tons of space and ports and "oh yeh you Gotta spend a bunch on good cooling systems.. oh yeh gotta replace that other useless thing that my overheating, poorly performing, money pit needs. Damn, I'm too stupid to know how to work on these Macs, even tho other people are already making video about how to do it. Hmm, well, if I can't just waste a ton of money PRE-Prepping myself for a future upgrade that might not make sense or ever get used, but at least I know I wasted money now to make it harder for me to afford things later." wait

[@Qyngali]

@@rondobrondo fanboy

[@MementoMori-xx5qo]

Yeah this is driving me up the wall. I do logic board repair on macs I put my ass on the line to say this Mac studio is not upgradable. Apple fans are simple they are a removable board thing it can take any M.2 SSD LOL.

[@BUBERMAIL]

I just love when Anthony is the host, also leaving in the mistakes makes it real

[@justingoers]

Yeah Anthony is great. One of my favorite KZbin personalities.

[@kishascape]

Yes he's cute and funny.

[@triskelion86]

He’s too honest that hurts! 💔

[@qwerty-thebest]

Props to Apple for creating 50% more packaging than needed.

[@raoulduke3000]

BUT it's fully recyclable...

[@KarsonNow]

I love sarcasm. 😘

[@bizarrefruit9133]

Keep quiet or they'll make the box smaller by not including the hardware! Then you'll have to buy the thing that wasn't included from Amazon who will send it to you in a cardboard box 10 times larger than it needs to be. It takes some real skill to screw your customers that hard and get them to defend you for doing it. XD

[@kishascape]

@@bizarrefruit9133 That's what they did to the iPhone boxes.

[@kishascape]

I like the boxes and it protects the product anyways so wrong hill to die on. Pseudoenvironmentalist.

[@Neoxon619]

If you’re wondering, Apple actually locks you out from loading up your own SSD. The Mac Studio doesn’t boot at all if it doesn’t detect the SSD it came with. They should’ve at least done it like Sony with the PS5 & set a minimum bandwidth requirement for any additional SSDs. Honestly, this has me worried about the upcoming Mac Pro.

[@qnebra]

But in PS5 SSDs are avalaible in market and not by Sony?

[@joshw2929]

They would be crazy to do that. Apple ssds are the worst on the market by far.

[@zainshamim343]

I don’t know why but I don’t think there’s any “mac pro” coming out

[@Neoxon619]

@@qnebra Yeah, that’s why I’m complimenting Sony’s approach with the PS5. As long as the SSD you pick up is PCIe Gen 4 & meets a minimum bandwidth requirement, you’re off to the races.

[@Neoxon619]

@@joshw2929 That’s exactly what happens. It’s been tested on another channel, & they discovered that the Mac Studio won’t boot up if it doesn’t detect the original SSD.

[@mmm.3839]

Apple has lowered their consumers expectations so low to a point where they'd get excited to see an extra slot for storage

[@josephpoulsen5447]

Nah, the average Apple consumer doesn’t care

[@Slurpy2k8]

@@josephpoulsen5447 And why the fuck should they care? 99% of people using a Mac Studio have zero reason to open it.

[@tanawatleelayouva5123]

@@Slurpy2k8 cost of storage on that shit is so expensive if I get someway to upgrade with half a price, I do care about it

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

I am impressed that an apple product has usb A and hdmi at this point

[@ducksse]

Yah, but consumers allowed that to happened, it is just sad. On the other hand, most of Apple's consumers are not really tech-savvy. Not saying there aren't, just that the majority aren't.

[@Razor2048]

Apple should save up to buy some mice from companies like Logitech, and then reverse engineer how they were able to get a USB port on the front of the mouse instead of the bottom of the mouse.

[@McDaaniels]

But they want the mouse to be unusable when charging so you have to buy a second one. More profit

[@agumon1605]

But also they want you to buy the mouse first, find out how it charges, then pop-up the trackpad selling page, then gracefully asks you to buy the m1 macbook

[@syrupybrandy2788]

but then they would have to make the mouse thicker which is blasphemy to the Apple cult

[@sterlingroberts6240]

@@McDaaniels I wonder how long it takes to charge a Magic Mouse, lol I bet you have to charge it for an average of 1 minute per day, lol It’s going to be hard to find time to charge it when you’re not using it. So frustrating.

[@emiloguechoons9030]

I know right?? that crap really goes against apple's whole "seamless user experience", can't use your mouse while charging it? apple are so strange, I recently bought a cheap ipad, it's the first apple product I've ever owned, and for what I'm using it for (music production, sequencing external midi hardware) it works amazingly well, they've clearly put a lot of thought into their products, and in that very specific niche is blows android tablets out of the water, but then you have stuff like the non removable power cable on their new monitor, the mouse cable that plugs into the bottom, the iphone automatically downclocking the cpu to make the device slower after a few years to push their customers into "upgrading", they pull so much crap and get away with it and yet people still treat them like untouchable gods, it's very cult like

[@GavinSeim]

Remember the Jobs days when Apple computers used screws as an accessible asthetic of industrial design instead over covering everything with black glue crap and calling it clean design? Videos like this make me glad I dumped apple even though I still don't like windows.

[@matasa7463]

I remember those little screws on the bottom of my iPhone 4. I would like a new iPhone designed just like it, with the larger screen size of the Plus models, and has proper audio jacks, easily serviceable battery changes (no glue), and replaceable screens. Stop being stupid, Apple. This is how you nearly died last time, after you kicked out Steve Jobs.

[@ASJSTAT]

@@matasa7463 IPhone 4 wasn’t waterproof though, Without glue it’s hard to have a watertight phone…

[@looneyburgmusic]

"...glad I dumped apple even though I still don't like windows." Windows might not be perfect, but at least you are always in charge of your own hardware.

[@frostyiv1509]

@@ASJSTAT who the hell go swimming with their phone? Unless they are just careless.

[@ASJSTAT]

@@frostyiv1509 you don’t go swimming with it, it’s there for people who are careless I agree, but it seems like that’s the trend.

[@bastienx8]

The storage is not easily replaceable because the modules are only memory chips, the controller is in the M1 soc (compared to every other ssd where the controller is on the module). Here it's like a soldered ssd on some laptops or all smartphones, the modularity is probably here to simplify the building. Another thing worth to mention is that the storage is hardware encrypted, like all macs since some years (or some high end professional pc laptops), so if you pull out the memory modules you still don't have the secure enclave to read the modules (and if you put another module the secure enclave probably cannot do anything)

[@DeMesstados]

Ya these are the engineering details that get completely overlooked when trashing every Apple design. People don't seem to understand the immense amount of hardware/software integration built into tight bespoke packages and that means sacrificing replaceability, reparability. No doubt Apple doesn't want people to fix their own stuff and makes tons of money off it but do people want to buy a Windows pc with off the shelf components that functions decently or do they want Apples SOC and peripherals that are all engineered to work together seamlessly which gives you Apples extreme performance and products that last for years without slowing down, the hardware level security, etc... Cause you can't have both....

[@HughGort]

@@DeMesstados You can have both, but it's more profitable to screw the consumer and just let shills and brainwashed idiots defend their bad practices (so bad they're always being sued)

[@ExperienceCN]

When I was in China I got a bigger storage chip in my iphone for cheap. So it could be possible to upgrade the Mac also but you need to program the chip before installing.

[@Xenthera]

@@DeMesstados locking hardware down through security has nothing to do with performance. Apple literally does it so people have to pay exorbitant repair prices or fork out for AppleCare+. If your argument is that apple wants apple only hardware in their macs, then they could sell replacement parts that are user replaceable. They actively choose not to for money reasons.

[@wxbrainiac]

@@DeMesstados lmao lets face it for the price of apples garbage you can get or build something way better apple is just overpriced garbage

[@luthergaming1649]

The silicone on the capacitors is actually for noise surpression, those are on the AC primary of the circuit and would give the unit a hum.

[@ionixm3496]

fair enough

[@luthergaming1649]

@@lexecomplexe4083 it's non flammable. In fact, it's actually flame retardant. The important thing is not being electronically conductive, that's all. The circuit in there actually doesn't look too bad at all, the parts are all excellent quality and the main board itself clearly had a lot of engineering work into it, but as they say in the video there they really made a big mistake with those connectors. Though it is understandable why, as when you have tight fits like that and want to keep things modular, that's the best way. It's just the connectors themselves which make it such a shame

[@noxious89123]

@@lexecomplexe4083 Any good quality power supply will have that sort of spooge all over its internal components. And to clarify, I'm not an Apple fan. I think they suck dick. But as far as egregious design choices, that isn't one of them.

[@chrismayfield916]

Those cant be on the primary right? they are electrolytics, so they couldnt tolerate the negative voltage. they would have to be on the output of a rectification circuit. I understand you might get some noise due to the voltage ripple after rectification (120Hz) but silicone is typically more for holding caps in place during shipping or other actions that would cause physical vibration such as a cooling fan.

[@colonelhacker3661]

I thought only transformers hummed, I learned somethin' :D

[@daviducockny]

Anyone want to bet the memory expansion is a proprietary format? Just want to laugh like Nelson from the Simpsons. Haha

[@The-Rest-of-Us]

“I don’t know how much further I wanna go” Goes further.

[@JayzTwoCents7-text-te]

Congrats you have been selected among our shortlisted 😃winner’s chat me up👆to claim your price 🎁

[@kholi9441]

so deep, you'd find Adele any time soon

[@spiddyman0079]

@@kholi9441 rolling in the deeeeeeeeeeeep.

[@ransworlder]

Apple: “Modularity”. MKBHD: “I don’t know if that word means what they think it means”. Anthony: “The IO is very, very modular”.

[@TomSidProductions]

Good luck even getting replacement parts.

[@lukemiani]

They thought we wouldn't get inside, they thought we wouldn't even try... hehe

[@arushh42]

Hi Luke, g’day

[@marleystar3]

I see what you did there Luke ;)

[@jonathanazcoitia642]

hope u get yours to funtion again!

[@kyoko703]

Luke in the comments section!!!!

[@yoelrey]

Stop breaking the thing. Just show me it’s performance!

[@christophermcbroom2375]

I love how honest Anthony is with his sponsor segments.

[@AlexSinclair]

"THIS IS $200?! I COULD BREAK THIS OVER MY KNEE!" Best tech review of 2022.

[@tyrosine87]

It's ridiculous that this is what they're offering in custom keyboard territory when it comes to price. Compare it to a Keychron board. Why do people buy this??

[@peters.7428]

My 5$ keyboard, while cracky, is more rigid than that apple one, and is probably more painless to use.

[@Frank72364]

@@tyrosine87 because it is better for their needs. It is so simple. I would pick that over any mechanical keyboard any day of the week.

[@Frank72364]

@@peters.7428 I highly doubt that.

[@icephoenix1088]

"I can break this over my knee!" Correction he probably broke it by flexing it the way he did or just by looking at it wrong 💵🚽

[@Sommyie]

Apple: "think different" Also Apple: "How complicated can we build a nuc?" Apple engineer: "Hold my kombucha..."

[@gamingmarcus]

Apple: think differently Apple engineer: alright let me put the 52V backlight pin right next to CPU Vcore.

[@firefly2472]

Now we need the nuc to say boom.

[@Masterrunescapeer]

I love the Intel Nuc, have 3 of them, and there are partner ones by AMD's side that are also really good. I'm pretty tempted to get another one of the Intel NUCs that include GPU, but got the original ones as they're acting as home assistants and mini servers and mounted in vesa scattered around the house, actual discrete GPU NUC doesn't make as much sense besides really liking the design. The Mac Studio seems a bit too big to me to fit as NUC with transit, while too small to take advantage of airflow as stuck in one place, just seems a bit odd.

[@iskamag]

you have to think differently to be able to tolerate it ;3

[@StanleyMOV]

Didn't the mac mini have an sd card slot? I remember working on a mac mini in 2016-2018, and there was a little slot in the back for sd cards

[@awolr]

Believe he was referring to front I/O

[@tusharjamwal]

what? the Mac mini was released in 2020 wasn't it?

[@youcantmakemetosuscribe4745]

@@tusharjamwal ,there is older version of mac mini with intel chip, Not selling welll

[@jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493]

@@tusharjamwal the current mac mini with m1 came out in 2020, but the first polycarbonate mac mini with the powerpc g4 chip came out in 2005 before the intel transition a year later. the unibody mac mini that they still sell today (with updated specs every few years) came out in 2009. they removed the sd card slot on the last intel revision in 2018.

[@MrPeart75]

@@jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493 apple is currently selling both an M1 and intel version on their site.

[@JohnDoe-nc5dt]

I still cant get over how talented the team is at apple that designers their logic boards to have the weirdest form factors

[@1997HTAA]

The trackpad would be dope if it also functioned as a drawing tablet with the Apple pen and bigger size as he mentioned.

[@wayland7150]

Yeah just a simple device. For the money they charge it should be a drawing tablet with it's own screen.

[@arunashamal]

Yea.. then everyone would be complaining they put Wacom out of business.... Apple can't win

[@1997HTAA]

@@wayland7150 even screen-less for now, I’m sure it’s something they could do through a software update

[@d0tline468]

costs more than a modern wacom and has none of the functionality that even the old bamboo models had a decade ago. Brand-fashion products are a bad joke that won't end.

[@arunashamal]

@@d0tline468 bro. It ain’t a graphic tablet. Of course it doesn’t have any of the functionality that a graphic tablet has. You are complaining that a Bentley can’t mix concrete.

[@JannyBesmircher]

Anthony really grew on me the last year. His videos are easily my favorite in the LTT sphere.

[@yiqiwang4506]

The screws as DC bus for power supply is actually pretty good design. 380W power supply would conduct about 32 A of current, that either requires multiple heavy gauge wires in a hefty connector, or a bus bar (screws here). If the power supply is designed well, there should be capacitor discharging path when the power supply is off, so it is unlikely to hurt anyone.

[@SooksVI]

I was worried when Anthony grabbed the capacitors 😅

[@EpicBr0]

Good explanation. Apple has done this a few times before too, I think in the 2013 mac pro they had used screws/bus bars to carry DC to the logic board. That was a 450W power supply too so it was a little over 37A through those contacts. Surprised more devices don't use this method tbh.

[@robertt9342]

Would 12v DC be that dangerous though?

[@yiqiwang4506]

@@robertt9342 The amount of charge in those capacitors would give you a good zap if not dissipated properly

[@yum33333]

@@yiqiwang4506 No, they won't unless you lick your fingers first

[@manabellum]

Apple has had gen 2 of Magic Mouse, Keyboard and Trackpad since 2015. You complaint like they’ve just released them with the Mac Studio.

[@EEVblog]

6:49 I'm immortal apparently! Oh, just my words, darn.

[@MoSs.]

You're a legend!

[@samdavidh]

Anthony's charisma on camera is so nice to watch. As always love the videos

[@patjackmanesq]

Anthony is just pure gold. I've said it a few times here but he is consistently the most informative, interesting and funny presenter on here. Nice one Anto

[@peterbalighwa9534]

I love your energy dude from the first word you mentioned….”Mac Pro,sorry Mac Studio,sorry Mac mini”🤣😂Funny as it was I clicked with your humor right away and subscribed. The channel was suggested because I also follow MKBHD, tech geeks indeed! Won’t miss your other episodes keep them coming…!!

[@Texle]

9:33, I hate to break it to you guys, but Luke Miani did a video on this and the results are disappointing. You cannot even replace the current slot with another ssd without the Mac refusing to boot up, and the other slot does not work. This is completely unacceptable and a bad move by Apple! | Still another great video!!

[@Kyle_116]

That was a possibility that Linus mentioned in the WAN Show. He said it was either possibly another slot to be used, a dummy slot that would do nothing, or the board would have some sort of firmware lock that would get angry if you change the storage.

[@michaelwood9866]

yes! glad you said it as i saw the same video and apple is bending people over and the people are taking it!

[@Real_MisterSir]

Oh so it's like their phones where if you're not using "genuine apple parts" installed by "genuine apple technicians" then it is simply hard coded to reject any upgrade as if it was a virus? Got it, Apple is still a scumbag company funded by masses of normies. Cool.

[@NicoIsntHere]

Not entirely true, if you have RAW memory modules (which is what is installed from the factory) you can run a command to fully reset and use an aftermarket RAW memory module. Is this acceptable? I don’t think so, sourcing raw memory modules would be much more difficult but I think this has to do with the memory controller being ON the SOC making raw memory modules a requirement. It’s still scummy but hopefully the aftermarket scene can make upgrading storage more affordable.

[@dillardc81]

Ars Technica has an article refuting that claim. There is a workaround to replace the storage.

[@BoomBox2323]

Imagine apple making something user friendly and honored right to repair

[@rdvgrd6]

Well yeah, Mac Pro.

[@the4xgamer765]

@@sys-administrator Other companies don't have it because they don't have problems with repairs

[@rdvgrd6]

@@the4xgamer765 Samsung s22 got 3/10 repairability score.

[@syrupybrandy2788]

keep imagining

[@the4xgamer765]

@@sys-administrator Is there any point of getting a new iPhone screen if it costs 500$?

[@gino.avanzini]

6:55 loved the shoutout to Dave at EEVblog

[@XexaCrypt]

The look on his face on the thumbnail is him like "Did I just diffuse a bomb"

[@Solder_king]

Coming from aviation and industrial electronics that screw to pass the voltage is very well thought out. Those screws can handle the current and don't rely on wires that have terminals or soldered connections.

[@aravindpallippara1577]

Sure but it lacks shielding from the mac studio case, so any kind of short should burn up everything

[@rondobrondo]

@@aravindpallippara1577 what?

[@Solder_king]

That can be said about anything electronic, so I don't see how that is a legitimate concern

[@brunotardaguila]

@@aravindpallippara1577 I don't get how or why those screws would ever touch the case. I also like the fact that the screws are a much more durable connector than a cable solution.

[@aravindpallippara1577]

@@brunotardaguila shielding is necessary regardless - open connectors can get wet (humidity anyone?) - bugs can get in (happened too many times, drawbacks of living in the tropics) - I would much rather have proper shielding (read plastic sheath over the wire) than deal with open connectors like a screw - also easier for open metal to corrode Things can get so much messy when you are have 3-5volts components so close to 12v or gods forbid 120-240V

[@NicoIsntHere]

If you get raw memory modules would that work? Seems like some people have figured it out but it’s way wayyyy more work to swap storage. Sourcing raw memory modules alone seems like a chore but could save people big bucks.

[@MaksKCS]

raw?

[@NicoIsntHere]

@@MaksKCS yes, memory modules without memory controllers/logic. Just dumb plain memory modules or “RAW” memory modules.

[@N1lav]

even if one could source the raw nand modules you would have to find a way to copy the firmware data and other apple crap from the one you are replacing. Strange Parts did a video where he upgraded the storage of his iPhone, he had to get a tool to copy all the raw data from the old chip and move it to the new one for it to work. I am pretty sure Apple would definetly done some of their anti consumer magic crap to make storage swapping impossible. I think the slots are there just for easy assembly.

[@NicoIsntHere]

@@N1lav you just need to DFU mode and make the system clear the memory module first so it’s working on tandem with the SOC’s memory controller. People have already figured it out so this is possible but way too much work for the average consumer.

[@rocktheworld2k6]

It sounds like you could but it would have to be the same storage size as the one you're replacing. Doesn't seem like they're upgradable.

[@Rezm0ni]

Thank you for mentioning the ergonomic issues. I can't use the Apple periphery due to problems with my carpal tunnel. Rally hate the keyboard and the mouse

[@jangcho1537]

You're not alone..

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

WHY? STOP BUYING THEIR SHIT THEN.

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

@@bigchungus6223 Yeah but he is stupid enough to use and support Apple Products so there is that, so you basically misread what I stated, Don't buy Apple, period the end, learn to use a real computer, not some chinese junk wrapped in a pretty package with a stolen OS.

[@prismaticc_abyss]

you really brought that problem to yourself by buying anything fruit branded.

[@rezmon5311]

The people saying I brought this upon myself by using that shit clearly don’t know shit. What’s wrong with you plebs. I don’t use their gear because I literally can’t because of conditions that I have due to playing too much guitar. I just stated that the gear they offer is shit and that’s it. Mofos out there wild lmao

[@azzajohnson2123]

I love that you cant use the mouse while it charges because they put the port in a stupid spot not to ruin the unergonomic aspects of the shell.

[@apositivebrat]

Yes, I've been waiting for this.

[@apositivebrat]

@Projit nah

[@st0nedpenguin]

Apple: We're moving to environmentally friendly packaging. Also Apple: We used 10 trees to make this one box.

[@randomcomment9992]

Recycled paper doesn't need any new tree cut. But nice try, next time try a bit harder.

[@nickwallette6201]

It's a little pretentious, but it is just a single piece of paperboard cut in an elaborate shape. There are definitely issues with this computer. The box is not one of them.

[@NoTraceOfSense]

@@randomcomment9992 Still in violation of the “reduce” part of reuse reduce recycle

[@kevbo2981]

@@NoTraceOfSense I don’t think you know what that means. First of all, it’s “Reduce, recuse, and recycle”. And it’s more Apple not following the “reuse” step.

[@NoTraceOfSense]

@@kevbo2981 the order is pure semantics recuse: (of a judge) excuse oneself from a case because of a potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

[@henlolimbo5088]

I just upgraded my 2012 mini's storage with an ssd. As the years went on they made the newer ones difficult to upgrade, this is no exception.

[@mndlessdrwer]

I'm still loving all the off-camera interactions and Linus just randomly dropping into videos he's not hosting.

[@seeibe]

I was in time for the code but I put in 167cm and apparently they expected something other than metric system. Dbrand then proceeded to call me a b**. It was fun, but I'm not exactly sure how it's supposed to get me to buy their products lol

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

@Projit You don't have content except one video... or are you saying that nothing is still better than short circuit?

[@FL-MU]

When the apple mouse had only one button (many years ago), I turned away and never looked back. Still no regrets.

[@arthurgamerpro6585]

why? apple is great

[@forgehe]

Glad to see Apple saving the environment with their overly complex packaging

[@NoTraceOfSense]

@@lordv1le859 Still using those materials Though it’s sick packaging though

[@dunxy]

Dont forget the e-waste!

[@antares8826]

@@lordv1le859 But what about: A normal packaging out of recycled cardboard? :D

[@charnooh7532]

@@lordv1le859 "Praise Apple for using recycled materials in their products!... Huh? What did you say? That designing their products to be unrepairable has an astronomically larger impact on the enviroment, and the reason why they're sucking themselves off about the recycled packaging is so the people that are also sucking them off would defend them online when discussing right to repair? Well how about you shut up!"

[@charnooh7532]

@@lordv1le859 I doubt you realize this but you are literally an ad. Like the whole point of that program is that people like you can tell strangers online that they're wrong because Apple does everything in their power to make their products repairable for anyone besides themselves. I'd encourage you to stop trying to be a cheerleader for a company. Just beacuse you bought or even liked their product, doesn't mean they're your friend and you gotta stop anyone from badmouthing your pal.

[@Silver-fh4fb]

Apple should've called it the Big Mac.

[@Errcyco]

I like your videos the best of all the dudes on the channel. You're exactly like one of my smart friends so you working in a place where you're able to stay current and tinker.. is just way cool. Whoever hired you done good, from your first video to this one you've gotten way more comfortable talking to the camera and it shows. Good work man! and fuck I want a studio but.. can't justify spending that much when I have a MacBook already (hence why your job so cool!)

[@_Turbocat777]

How freakin hard is it to add a MAGSAFE connector the the front of the mouse and make it work cabled or un-cabled.....

[@sambakk9819]

the point is to stop you from using it as a wired mouse once the battery is dead so yeah it's not complicated but it wouldn't be good for business

[@_Turbocat777]

@@sambakk9819 right, My point is that is horrible and there are intuitively better alternatives. but I'm not the first person to look at that mouse and confirm that almost anything about it's design is intuitive.

[@Frank72364]

Have you ever seen touch mouse with option to charge it while using it? Because I haven’t. Logitech and Microsoft put charging port on the bottom as well. Tbh, I don’t understand what the problem is. To me it seems like it is just another ”Apple bad” NPC bs.

[@ProfileUserNumber]

@@sambakk9819 no exaggeration, you could get up and take a bathroom break and in that span your mouse will gain like 9 hours of charging. In 3 minutes I think, 9 hours. It’s really not an issue in any way.

[@rdvgrd6]

Two minutes of charging during your pee break gives you 9 hours of battery life give us a break already

[@Techno-Universal]

That would be an absolute nightmare to try and clean when it fills up with dust after a few years of use and is having cooling problems because of the dust!

[@bilinasmini3480]

As good as they are, as smart as they are, imagine if they put the effort to make something with just the basic level of user replaceability, how amazing it could be

[@smilysht238]

that is assuming you could get a few years of use out of it

[@ahappycoder2925]

@@smilysht238 it’s a Mac. It’ll last forever

[@Teluric2]

@@ahappycoder2925 hahahhahahahahhaha It will last forever in the basement gathering dust. I can say because I was married to a fangirl working for apple fanboys in a design studio. You re Mac fanboy you re in denial

[@ahappycoder2925]

@@Teluric2 my 13 year old MBP that still runs light stuff great says otherwise

[@megatronskneecap]

I love how randomly anxious Jono seems to get about Anthony trying to see inside the damn thing

[@andreyrod9453]

I really love Anthony reviews and how the whole team just masher well during de video, you all are just great!!!

[@Mr.C0ffee]

The box is more engineered than the actual product 😂

[@rdvgrd6]

How is the Mac studio not engineered? This thing is more powerful than Mac Pro with 1/10 it’s size, while keeping all the I/O and 2/3 of its size is dedicated to cooling.

[@nulledpixel]

Keep Anthony making these reviews. Always entertaining.

[@CATA20034]

Phat power connector is really nice done like that! Low resistence, high current. Old school!

[@kokomooe]

I used to be a mac user for about six years and after watching your channels for three years, now I changed to PC user. that's how you guys influent me over my decision to use windows...

[@theAlex3041]

Ah yes, the redemption arc

[@arthurgamerpro6585]

mac is better

[@johndeguzman5516]

With the amount of value Apple charges for bigger storage, a 2nd storage slot is really something to be excited about.

[@chubbymoth5810]

Even more once you hear its disabled in software.

[@Alzakielz]

Im watching this and i feel like i shouldn't be surprised about the price. How much do they gotta pay the guys developping/designing this to not go crazy with apples demands ? Also it encompass everything that apple don't want you to do.... Repair your stuff or add more stuff, i'd never want to open this after watching this video lol.

[@itdepends604]

They are not complaining about the price of the computer itself, only the price of the peripherals. Also, it's still crappy that apple makes it hard to open stuff, regardless of what apple thinks you should do with YOUR computer.

[@nomoregame9699]

if only apple spend that much time to make stuff user repairable. And also don't kid yourself when you say developing this must be pricey "gotta pay for development" or can't be upgraded nature of apple products. The steamdeck is actual revolutionary design and even that is not priced high also don't forget how repairable it is. Almost like apple purposely went out of their way to make it as hard to repair this product

[@Alzakielz]

@@nomoregame9699 That's why im saying they gotta be paying those guys a fortune. It gotta have been a nightmare to make this on purpose lol. Also yaaa the steamdeck is repairable, it'll be e-waste in barely a few years but yeah(if we ever find a solution to make handheld device upgradable though and allow it to be used for more time, that would maybe win me over). Also i kinda wouldn't attempt to open it up myself just because im not convinced to remember where everything goes afterward lol.

[@Mooorino]

Anthony is pure gold!

[@enthusiasticgamer88]

"Can I just point out how crap it is that we are expected to be impressed by that?" This literally sums up all Apple products.

[@ScottLahteine]

Apple chose removable NAND modules for their own reasons, basically to simplify the manufacturing process, and not to impress anyone. It's just a weird projection to assume other motives. I guess if Apple had soldered the storage on the board -as with their portable machines - there would be nothing to rant about, but the removable modules raised false hopes.

[@reservoirdawg2487]

"There is no reason screws need to be hidden under this" - THANK YOU! NOw, can you tell the same damn thing to Dell, HP and every other company that has EXPOSED screws on the bottom of their laptops AND under the rubber feet? What is the point to hiding SOME screws and not others.. especially on the bottom of a computer.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

But there is a reason. There is a number of people who won't consider opening it if it's glued. Just like there is a reason why the power cable on the monitor isn't removable (meant to be). Those are specific choices and they very well have reasons. You might say that you find them stupid, but they are still reasons.

[@josh7709]

Oh yeah. I've been close to break several bottom covers (or at least the screw supports) due to the fact that there are one or two f-ing hidden remaining screws under those rubber feet.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

@@schmittydAU The reason is that a damaged cable could probably only be rapaired by apple or approved shops, therefore profits. And when the repair isn't available or the product isn't supported anymore, the dead plug basically means your monitor is trash and you'll have to get a new one. Those are reasons, or are they not?

[@noncopyrightedsongs2723]

Hi Anthony and the LTT Team. I think the 2 ssd slots are filled up with the 8tb Option. Hope you see it

[@devnol]

the dual slots are filled with any SKU over 512GB, 1TB being 2x 512, 2TB being 2x1TB, 4 being 2x2 and 8 being 2x4 because at that size module you can only fit 4TB nand flash per module. They do this so that they only need to produce one mainboard and then plop in different modules depending on configuration.

[@jamesmitchell3608]

Love Anthony's honest opinions...

[@Stuff1646]

Btw, from my own research they have developed new type of SSD whereby the controller is on the mainboard, and the SSD is just NAND flash chips. So using normal SSD module won't work, and replacing it with same brand won't work either, as you got to erase the SSD before upgrading and/or replacing, else won't boot and/or will refuse to recognize the SSD.

[@heygeggan]

The controller is in the CPU. You should read the comments before pointing out the same thing

[@Stuff1646]

@@heygeggan This is thru my own research from playing around with it, and you are correct it is in the central processor, albeit simple piece of software can erase it for use with different NAND SSD, altho doubt apple will release such tools, so left upto us to develop the tool in question.

[@Stuff1646]

@Projit Nah, Chad 😂

[@nopal87]

as an industrial designer I understand apple decisions towards hiding the screws (thats their design language) but as a product design engineer and a right to repair supporter I do find it assholish... you can always use a heatgun or a hairdryer to make it easier and maybe not kill the seal/feet.

[@MB_X]

Hello, I agree partially with your statement. The problem is that the screws are on the bottom of the unit. A non visible part of the device when in use, so there is no excuse for them not to just use there regular torque head screws that are silver and fit perfectly with the design. Then there's the power supply issue, but I'm not going to get into it.

[@KYSMO]

DeSiGn LaNgUaGe! You know what I think about their dEsIgN lAnGuAgE? DUCK APPLE!

[@nopal87]

@@KYSMO hey, not a big fan either... But that's them I love minimalist but not the ones that lack stuff...

[@nopal87]

@@MB_X still, they like their stuff to look pristine... And that has been the since the Ipod came out. No visible hardware. Not saying I love/like apple, is just that what they sell and people keeps buying their stuff and complain about it... Lol

[@MrRidged]

that is not a ssd its a memory storage daughter board with out a controller as the controller is in the m1 chip and apple has made it so you cannot upgrade the storage it is soft locked to the machine and they will not even be offering upgrades only repairs to the storage

[@JohnADoe-pg1qk]

Just as the storage of Apple devices is not expandable, one might think that they have a whole range of NAS products or similar to offer...

[@richardsondelacruz7450]

@Projit *NO*

[@neanda]

Very cool, and so unique. It's mad you popped up, i can't remember what I was looking for. Mental vid though, love it

[@goncaloveiga]

Great review. Linus and team: Anthony is a great reviewer. I love watching his videos.

[@randallgreen4084]

I guess I don't get the point, Apple has built a company by tightly controlling it's environment in both hardware and software. It's been this way for what, 30-40 years, why would you expect them to change now. People keep buying Apple because it works and works well with other Apple products. Apple customers are not interested in doing their own thing and have disposable income to pay for Apple to do it all for them. I can't/don't buy Apple products because I don't want to be limited to what Apple wants me to use and buy.

[@gamingterrain3703]

Last sentence pretty much sums up why i don't buy any apple products either

[@IlBiggo]

​@@gamingterrain3703 Last sentence also pretty much sums up apple hate. Apple doesn't keep you from buying anything non-apple. Want to use a Logitech mouse and a Cherry keyboard? Do it. Want to run windows software? Do it. I don't know why you should buy a perfectly good pc and ruin it with clunky hardware and inferior software but sure, go for it. Want to use your specific kind of graphic card, processor and memory because your games force you to use them? Build yourself a gaming PC, I'm sure Apple won't call the FBI on you for that. I can't believe people are complaining about apple being _a walled garden_ when in fact it's the DOS/PC world that keeps you from choosing other options. Ever tried hooking a PC-formatted disk to a Mac? What about a Mac disk hooked to a PC?

[@gamingterrain3703]

@@IlBiggo alright then. What about the mac itself now? Sooner or later its gonna begin to reach the end of its lifespan and based on what i see in this video, there's absolutely nothing i can do to improve longevity. What would you do if you run out of storage because you bought a model with a little amount?Apple refuses to implement something as simple and rudimentary as upgradable storage based purely on greed. Non-user repairable devices means you pay them more money to repair or replace it. How are you trying to belittle pc's for having the ability to upgrade them? If you dont want to "ruin a perfectly good pc buy adding clunky hardware to it" then you dont have to. You can just buy a new one. But simply having the option to upgrade is very important to many end users who cant afford to crap out thousands of dollars for a whole new system. None of what you talked about mentioned longevity of the computer itself. Software will continue to get more and more demanding over time and every system at one point or another will start to struggle. So excuse me for wanting the option of extending its lifespan. Apple has proven time and time again that they do not care about their consumers' right to repair. They only just recently implemented the self repair program for their phones and laptops because of legality reasons. Not because they wanted to. And i don't know where you got the idea that the OS on pc's are limiting. Name any fundamental software based process you can do on macOS that you cant do on Windows or Linux. There aren't a whole lot are there? And yet there are several....SEVERAL things you can do on windows and linux that you cant do on macos. Freedom of choice is why i choose not to buy apple products. Even on their phones, you cant download any applications that isnt on the appstore. These new mac studios and their new monitor with it's non-detachable cable, only prove how greedy apple is and how little they care about their consumers. They pic and choose every little opportunity to squeeze every last drop of cash from their customers. $400 extra for height adjustablility on a monitor stand? $20 extra for a black keyboard over a white one? How can you defend pure greed like this??? Most of their products are way too expensive when you can get just as good quality or even better from other manufacturers for less money. They're good, dont get me wrong, but not for the price alot of the time. But i guess sheeps like you will continue to defend their scummy business practices no matter what they do.

[@IlBiggo]

@@gamingterrain3703 I'll quote the OP: _"People keep buying Apple because it works and works well with other Apple products. Apple customers are not interested in doing their own thing and have disposable income to pay for Apple to do it all for them."_ You seem to think I'm interested about the same issues you're interested in, which is funny, because I never talked about greed or care or phones or monitor stands. You want to buy a different monitor stand, buy it, it's not a crime. You don't know where i got the idea that the os on pcs is limiting? Did you read my message, or were you too enraged by somebody talking sense to read on? I gave just one example: PCs can't read Mac disks. Macs read PC disks. Out of the box. I'm waiting for the _several_ secret things you can do on a PC and not on a Mac, but you should also look into the many things a Mac can do that a PC won't ever do, like, be cool. Oh, wait, and support me for 30 years as a professional audio producer - while you try to decide what brand of soundcard will work with your next game.

[@Pinjataaa]

The videos of this guy are always awesome and true, love it. Keep up the good work.

[@gabrielecostagliola2123]

I love how cool is to hear him speaking! Please make more video with him!

[@g.nathan]

I feel like short circuit videos are very much influenced by how other pc manufacturers have done things in the past. Just because they do things differently doesn’t mean they are inherently dumb. Using screws to conduct power to the 12V bus is actually a very common practice outside. Replacing coils of wire (these gotta to be thicccc to carry the ~30A of current) with a pair of screws is good decision if you consider it from a electrical and power system perspective. Anthony may be a very good with how other PCs are designed but it doesn’t make a power supply engineer.

[@MrConminer]

Interessting, could you maybe name some examples so I could further look into that.

[@jamesbrooks9321]

"USB 3 point... whatever" yeah that's exactly how i feel too

[@georgewendell]

5:26, I’m sorry Anthony you’re lovely but wrong. I don’t like the keyboard because it’s like my laptop but I used to get carpal tunnel from using any kind of keyboard with raised keys. The low profile of apple’s desktop keyboards saved my hands 🙌🏻

[@HessTruckBOOKS]

LOVE the candor!

[@andyheater]

8:25 "why would you do this?" Well, using screws as conductors is a great way to attach high current assemblies together. Its a very common thing in power supplies. Not sure why they wouldn't do it actually.

[@iancuninghame9163]

Its screwed into the main board...

[@Jack32X]

Only Apple would purposely design a system that runs the risk of literally killing the end user if they try to disassemble it

[@arunashamal]

It doesn't.. and it is a genius system....if you know your electronics. for apple hating reply guys it might be a shit system that kills people. For an electrical engineer. It is a brilliant solution

[@IlBiggo]

Only a Apple hater could be so ignorant to think 12V would kill him, and to not realize that exposed contacts are inside every electrical device. Too dumb to deal with electricity? Don't take apart electrical devices.

[@christianhujer346]

Hey Anthony, you're amazing. Hey Linus, thanks for creating these opportunities for Anthony and us viewers. Big fan here. Keep it coming, folks! Keep it coming, Anthony!

[@Damyewal]

@5:26 You know that optical illusion where you see a bunch of black dots on a grid that arent there? This keyboard is doing that for some reason

[@Tekel-Upharsin]

Of the big four (Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon), Apple is by far the most anti-consumer - all while maintaining the guise of being pro-consumer with their deceptive stance on security and privacy. In reality Microsoft has done a role reversal, and despite some shady bullshit still happening with Windows 10/11, they're far more consumer friendly these days than Apple is. I would have never imagined that a decade ago.

[@haomingli6175]

You only fix a product once in a few years, on average. But you use it everyday. So better user experience, even by just a little, drastically outweighs a degrade in repairability in terms of "pro-consumer-ness."

[@litapd311]

@@haomingli6175 okay, but the user experience isn't better because it's harder to repair lol. there's no benefit to making their things HARDER to repair, other than apple making more money off their customers

[@haomingli6175]

@@litapd311 I mean the user experience with actually using the product, for the right user, is very good for the Mac Studio; I am not talking about the experience of repairing it. Besides, it does not appear to me that it is very difficult to repair. Other than the RAM and CPU, everything is modular. And these things are unlikely to break. The more easily breakable parts, like the ports, are all removable.

[@IlBiggo]

@@haomingli6175 You have to understand that some people just buy a computer to dismantle it and play with the little rectangles with the tiny bugs. The more little rectangles, the more they have fun. And of course the computer shouldn't have screws because daddy don't let them use a screwdriver.

[@rondobrondo]

@@IlBiggo legos for grown men who haven't discovered what a money pit project car is.

[@Bitnoobish]

Man Apple do be hiding secrets in that Apple🤣

[@schnitzelsemmel]

Anthony being disappointed by Apple is just a whole new mood we've all been longing for

[@tgstudio85]

Glue on capacitors is for lowering noise they create when working.

[@wyoshiro]

"That is CHONKY!" 2:22

[@lowrivera]

As someone who has an extensive background in graphic design yet a career in computer science, I can tell you, programmer will always want straightforwardness and efficiency at the forefront of everything , and graphic designers will always want aesthetics to come first. The truth is the best, like most things in life are somewhere in the middle. I appreciate Apple's design logic because it makes sense aesthetically. I am perfectly fine with them having the screws under the rubber ring and applause them for it. Because if it were up to programmers, the guts would almost always be showing, and bad aesthetics are just not good for business.

[@littlejackalo5326]

That's because you're so conditioned to bending over for everyone in your life, that you'll readily do it for Apple too. Putting screws under the river has absolutely nothing to do with æStHeTiCs. It's too dissuade people from taking it apart to fix it themselves. And to dissuade people from having a 3rd party repair company from repairing it. They'll need to tell the customer, "We'll need to remove the rubber off the bottom, and since Apple won't sell replacement parts, it will have to be put back into place with double sided tape, and it won't be perfect." So the sissyboi Apple customer will think that will "ruin" the device's aesthetic, and won't want to go through with the repair. They make products for the stereotypical Apple person. The person that drives a Prius, is very frail, floats around, and has very weak wrists.

[@angolin9352]

Programmers have nothing to do with hardware design.

[@lowrivera]

@@angolin9352 Missed the point bit didn't we, LOL!

[@johndododoe1411]

@@littlejackalo5326 Don't conflate Apple fanboys with any other group you happen to dislike. It weakens your argument when addressing people with different hate combinations.

[@johndododoe1411]

The mac mini from 10 years ago that introduced the round bit on the button had that entire piece be an elegant no tools screw lid that could be opened by a slight turn, revealing the replaceable guts. It also used industry standard drives including Apple's own SATA multistandard optical drive in the non-server model.

[@88porpoise]

Effing awesome dBrand. Sponsor spots worth watching.

[@ETHANR26]

better than the video. might as well review toasters or paperweights

[@Frank72364]

Can I ask your age?

[@88porpoise]

@@Frank72364 you can ask but I won't answer. But I watch LTT videos primarily for entertainment. And if the sponsor spot entertains me, I give them credit. And dBrand's sponsor spots have provided me significant entertainment at no cost to me.

[@dalekkiller]

I love how low profile the keyboards are. They work for me.

[@DerPfoertner]

I also was annoyed by the way Apple designed the charging port on the mouse. But: 2 Minutes Charging gives it about 9 hrs. of runtime. So while you’re taking a dump, you can charge your mouse

[@nordern1]

That's the "It's not as aweful as it could have been" excuse. Fact is, there is no good reason to put it there and everyone besides Apple have figured out where to put the charge port on a mouse. I don't have to make a ritual of it, I just plug in my mouse when it needs power

[@AndrewPL5]

@@nordern1 This is why I just got the trackpad instead of the mouse. The trackpad can be charged whenever, but generally I just don't like the ergo of the mouse. Saying that, nobody is excusing how the mouse needs to be charged. It's just not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. I charge my trackpad maybe a few times per year.

[@DerPfoertner]

@@nordern1 it’s not an excuse. It is like it is. 2mins. charging - 9 hours of work. What’s the problem with it? It’s not that big deal

[@tomboss9940]

@@nordern1 it's that you don't use it as a cable mouse (and ruin the battery).

[@yoyoyonono]

@@tomboss9940 uhhh you realize that you can just have it not charge the battery after a certain point

[@a1white]

Removing the rubber ring (which you can glue back on easily) to expose the screws, really isn’t a big deal. Many products have screws under the rubber feet. It’s common practice. For a Mac it’s seems remarkably repairable.

[@mthoko_n]

They obviously like to Hate on Apple

[@a1white]

@@mthoko_n so many more professional, objective tear-down videos out there (iFixit, Maxtech) that deserve so many more views than this thing

[@TheLittlebobby3]

What’s not to hate, it’s apple. Oh hey you want a computer, you can never fix it yourself, it’s 300-500% over priced, you aren’t in control of any of the hardware, and when your warranty expires, if it breaks you can pay us 1/4-1/2 the cost to fix it even if it’s just a small rubber piece. But at least it’s software is smoother and more streamlined looking than windows. Think my PC at home would = 3 of these $20000 Mac Pro things but I only spent 4k on it and I get to change anything I want anytime.

[@a1white]

​@@TheLittlebobby3 This isn't a Mac Pro thing (and it isn't $20,000). Look at other reviews comparing this to a top of the range high end top of the Ryzen powered PC. It's actually not that bad for the money. With an iFixit score of 6, it's not as bad some other Macs have been lately. But hey, I know it's not the best value machine on the market. It is a Mac after all.

[@TheLittlebobby3]

@@a1white i don’t review apple products. Waste of time and money unless you are into creative content or other things. Windows has the same stuff just less streamlined for non-computer savy people. Mostly just dislike apple as a whole, over priced and scum tactics to get you to waste WAY too much money on something. hence why I only own iPhones, don’t have to talk to apple what so ever I just talk to my phone carrier.

[@prismaticc_abyss]

I'm convinced that apple employs the best of engineers, technicians, designers and scientists and invests millions of dollars every year into the practice of making their products as shit as humanly possible. Truly a remarkable feat of dedication.

[@breakfast7595]

bUt MuH oVeReNgiNeEreD bOx

[@VonSketcher]

They make it last as little as possible, to make customers to buy a replacement as soon as possible.

[@prismaticc_abyss]

@@VonSketcher its not just that, its also just general asshole moves like making all parts non replaceable and making macs uncompatible with non apple devices.

[@VonSketcher]

@@prismaticc_abyss Don't forget that the parts are seemingly not even compatible with each other, even if it's parts from an identical working device (model, manufacture date and all).

[@ellisz5972]

Such a difference from my old G4 Cube which, opening it was an art form in itself.