Except those of us who haven’t bought the product yet and appreciate a decent level of insight into performance and other factors before making our purchasing decision. I appreciate their effort, especially MaxTech. Could they be even more knowledgable? Well, couldn’t we all.
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I might be changing my mind about Max Tech YT channel
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I rely less and less on written reviews. I find YT reviews offer a level of detail that is hard to duplicate in written word. Take Gamer Nexus; their reviews are so indepth, that reading that would not be feasible, nor would they garner such a large following
I go to Anandtech for deep dive iPhone/Mac reviews but this year they're a bit tardy with the M2. :-(
I watch her specifically because she‘s not too critical, and sometimes I just want to see someone not bash a product I‘m gonna buy. Youtubers can be so toxic about Apple, and when you‘re actually buying a product it can be too much.
I don’t think anyone is saying that they’re making it up out of thin air.
Apple did a bad thing, it should be known by the public, but… between June and July 2022 they made 18 videos about the subject.
18 videos to say “hey, just so you know the lowest end SSD is slower than the old one so be careful.”
18 videos, all with the most insane titles.
And now, with the M2 MacBook Pro’s, and the Mac mini, they’re just doing it again.
Almost daily videos about the stupid SSD.
This isn’t just letting the customers know about something, this is forcing it down their throats.
OMG...I know its off topic but I feel vindicated in finding Luke Miani obnoxious because all he produces is fluff under the coat of big words. I thought it was just me.
Video is a great way to tell a story but a horrible way to consume reference material. Give me a written review and I can find the information I'm looking for in a few seconds. Give me a 10min YouTube review and I'll spend minutes jumping around looking for the second or two that says what I need to learn. Then a week later when I want to double check what I remember, I have to spend that time jumping around waiting for them to say it again. If it wasn't this video, but a different one, then I can lose a lot of time confirming that before looking for the correct one.
It's more like I am trying to move from two machines, Mac mini + MBA, to one machine MBP. Cut cable clutter. Let go of stuff that I don't need. Simple desk, simple life.
I only buy machines every 3-5 years.
As for stocks, I can tell you that my 401k is down about 4% over the last year, so not the greatest investment right now. Cash going to be king over probably the majority of this year.
MKBHD review are getting worse and worse. Basically regurgitates the spec sheet while occasionally getting something wrong. He seems to be moving onto other things and doesn't put in that much effort to computer or phone reviews anymore.
Thank God, at least someone recognizes that phones and computers are about as good as they're going to get.
Exactly this. They like to throw gas in the fire. The SSD is not slow. Can we stop with that narrative? As a professional that can still rely on my 2010 Mac Pro at 250 MB per second SSDs, these modern SSDs are just fine. Can we stop this whole narrative it’s “slow”?
Name one thing you need this much speed where these M2 SSDs are slow. Even raw 8k footage uses about 270 MB/s. Even if you can come up with the one thing, you more than likely need a different computer anyway.
This is Vadim's most recent tweet. This person is literally recommending getting more storage instead of RAM that is faster than SSD.
I mean.. at this point why Apple even bother selling Macs with 8gb of RAM? They should have just sell them with 4gb of ram and everyone should upgrade to 512gb of storage so we can multitask and swap all the way.
He doesn't know what he's talking about and it was proven multiple times.
obviously he had to correct himself when people told him that RAM is faster than SSD but still.. everyone should get more storage (that he finally admits is slower) and swap instead of getting more RAM without any swap.
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She is not crazy. She makes good videos. Yes she is a huge fan of Apple, but so what? A lot of other people are huge apple fans too. That doesn’t make her crazy and it’s unfair to call someone that. It’s pretty rude.
I know it’s not your tweet, but people REALLY need to stop with the “swap memory” as an argument. If you are swapping enough where SSD performance matters this much, guess what? You need more RAM. Getting a fast SSD for swap is just backwards. You need more RAM to swap less.
I still have a little swap on my 2010 Mac Pro. That runs SSDs at 250 MB/s. Do I notice it? No. I have the memory to where I don’t swap as hard.
Exactly! And he's telling people to get more storage so they can "swap faster" instead of getting more ram which is pathetic.
Yeah, his reviews haven't been good for a while now. His video-essay style stuff (where it's less focused on a product and more on a category or trend) is still interesting, but his reviews are basically just pretty spec sheets.
She is a happy path reviewer. Over the years she had me look at some of the products. Of course I did my own research after her review. I will take Ijustine over clickbait frauds like Max Tech.