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so later this month i can give you all a
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full review on how this has been
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performing
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nice
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perfect scroll list
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you guys see this i started coding at
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like i don't know 8 30 the whole little
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project that i have built right here
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that one right there and the computer is
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currently at 33
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i'm not gonna lie the temperatures do
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get quite hot and the whole chassis gets
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hot but we're gonna talk about the whole
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thing
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i think a lot of us right now are
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confused as to what laptop would you
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pick for development and what i've done
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in this video is very much try to talk
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some scent out of this new macbook don't
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get me wrong the m2 macbook air is a
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fantastic piece of hardware with some
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limitations it's been my daily driver
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for everyday tasks except for when it
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comes to making content and it's been
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the laptop i've been using for 99 of my
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programming work i've done some python
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work messed around with some benchmarks
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tried flutter for a little while and
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worked on deploying a server on linux so
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i can use my node apps and it's been fun
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but definitely not 200 dollars funner
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than the m1 macbook air and let me
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explain why i think the biggest thing
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that came to mind for this review when
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doing that work was the keyboard look
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for the past like two to three years
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keyboards realistically haven't changed
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all that much i think after a couple of
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months of using this i do feel like
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there is slightly a different feel
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compared to the m1 macbook air i feel
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like there is a tiny bit more travel and
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the actuation force is better i find
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myself making less spelling mistakes and
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writing code a bit faster and with a new
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full height function keys it makes my
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experience a bit more efficient when it
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comes to actuating these it's just
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convenient for when i'm working for like
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small and simple things like i don't
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know turning the brightness up popping
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spotlight with one stroke instead of a
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combination toggling do not disturb to
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focus on coding those little changes do
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make the keyboard efficiency better
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compared to having half height function
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keys plus whenever i put this thing down
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to work and open the lid i don't find
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myself missing that little fingerprint
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id button the m1 air had i however do
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miss the elevation the keyboard had on
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the m1 air i do feel like it can make
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your typing faster at times but i'm
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willing to give that up and stick to
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these slightly modified keys they seem
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to put in here also below the keyboard
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the trackpad on the m2 air also got
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slightly wider and i knew i wasn't crazy
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but i do feel like the haptic on the m2
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is different
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different bad different good i just
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think it comes down to preference but
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for me i finally concluded that i like
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this smoother bassier haptic feedback
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it's definitely satisfying double
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clicking on code and deleting words
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i will say the larger trackpad is
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definitely better since i do feel like i
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had a bit more runway when dragging
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files and highlighting code i know
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trackpad sensitivity can fix this but i
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like my sensitivity as it is when i was
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writing code in js i also realized i can
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just use both my fingers to extend the
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cursor but it can be a bit of a hassle
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okay so the screen i cannot neglect and
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will not neglect that it is in fact an
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improvement over the m1 air it's
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slightly larger which helps me fit more
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code on single lines and it has a
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thinner top bezel which i love giving me
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more room for cover editors on full
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screen however the notch does take a bit
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of space and if you have a lot of helper
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apps combined with something like
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android studio things get cramped and
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you might end up losing some of the apps
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you need however personally i will
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always take all the screen real estate i
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can get i pick my battles wisely for my
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use and so i rather just have the notch
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and i'm talking from experience that
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notch also incorporates a new 1080p
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camera which might make your theme
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scrums more enjoyable and this is a
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really big might what i can guarantee
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you though is that this new display does
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emit a noticeable extra 100 nits of
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brightness which i completely love i do
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think it would have been awesome getting
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that mini led display with a high
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refresh rate for when we scroll code
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infinitely i also think it would have
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been super clutch for front-end
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developers who refer back and forth to
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designs now the thing i most hate about
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this laptop definitely the inability to
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rock dual monitors when i was filming
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myself turns out that i was rocking my
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pc for the tutorials and the laptop for
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coding mainly due to the fact that you
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know i wanted to properly test battery
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life but throughout the weeks i found it
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such a hassle to coat on a regular
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monitor in fact to be honest i never did
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i either rocked my ultra wide or used my
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satachi hub to be able to simulate dual
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monitors but out of the box just like
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the m1 air we do not get dual monitor
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support
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one thing you should do out of the box
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is maybe getting some nice deep brown
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decals i didn't for the sake of our
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reviews but you can totally see that the
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sides don't age too well ports are
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definitely getting more and more scratch
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but the rest of the body seems to be
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doing pretty fine however if i were you
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i wouldn't take any chances i also must
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say the keyboard gets super greasy in
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the trackpad too i pretty much use this
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laptop everywhere and anywhere i go and
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so that's something to be expected with
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this new colorway except for the
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keyboard expect that all across the
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board other than that the rest is
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holding up super nicely as a programmer
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i don't think you'll be disappointed at
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how sturdy this thicker body feels i do
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feel safe throwing it in a bag and know
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that the chassis will hold up very well
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as for the elephant in the room the ssd
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slowdown definitely something that was
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noticeable especially when i was
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figuring out flutter when running
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emulators on a 8 gigabyte model the ram
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and ssd interact with each other to
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allocate memory when it needs to but
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because we are now running on one single
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man chip you can definitely see the
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struggle at times when reading and
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writing when developing on flutter it
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tends to lag especially if you have a
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bunch of things opened like i did so not
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only do you need to keep in mind the
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shortage of 9 chips but also the amount
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of ram you get now i'm about to dive
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look i spent hours upon hours installing
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flutter a month ago and hours upon hours
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figuring out how to use it with apple
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silicon and so the only issues i faced
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with flutter were mainly ram related
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causing slow downs especially when
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compiling for the first time and other
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small things related to connecting my
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app to firebase their documentation
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seems super outdated because every time
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i follow it and do something on the
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terminal or write code to fix issues i
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always get weird errors nobody seems to
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have figured out it's almost like it
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could be android and sdk related when
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deploying to their emulators i will say
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vs code works really well when only
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doing ui work it's the application i
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used when developing the little youtube
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homepage you guys saw and i had
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absolutely no issues with it just know
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it takes ages to compile a flutter
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project for the first time so be patient
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but the ide is super quick when it comes
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to intellisense even when using some of
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the pre-fill and helper methods of
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flutter however no matter what ide you
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use your computer will feel like it's on
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fire i reached maximum temperatures of
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105 degrees when i was first compiling
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and i think i was averaging about 85 to
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90 degrees throughout my development
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process i'm not quite sure how much
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these thermal pads are helping us out
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look overall for flutter things are very
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finicky nothing ever goes smooth and you
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need to be ready to troubleshoot outside
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your project scope which just delays
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your development time since you're
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trying to figure out other things
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unrelated to your coding developing with
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8 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of
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ssd is doable and this never stopped me
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from compiling but i heavily recommend
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that if you want to do any sort of
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mobile development don't buy anything
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less than 16 gigabytes of ram a couple
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of emulators with a bunch of tabs like i
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had and your ide will just throw you ram
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errors everywhere which is something i
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never ever experienced when i was
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writing javascript look i'm sort of fed
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up of showing you guys the usual
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benchmarks like speedometer the
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javascript mandel algorithm or even
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docker speeds the new m2 does it well
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and a bit better than the old m1 what i
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truly wanted to test though was going
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from easy simple code to a heavy
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javascript project with conflicts and
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tons of calculations something that will
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push my temperatures gradually for a
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long period of time and so i found a
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really cool tutorial on how to code a
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self-driving car with javascript
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basically i played with graphics neural
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networks and machine learning to test
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this laptop out it took me like a good
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three hours to build this out but it was
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super fun i never really encountered lag
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and noticed that i had my code editor
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opened multiple tabs within brave and
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even some of the other apps running in
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the background i kept averaging 75 to 85
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degrees towards the end of the project
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however as time went by and the project
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got a lot more complex you could
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definitely tell that the temperatures
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were rising and the chassis was getting
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hotter i also took a look at how brave
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performed compared to chrome while
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running this project and honestly i'm
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impressed that things seem to be pretty
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stable in both browsers i did notice
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brave eating less ram compared to chrome
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but that was totally expected what i did
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not expect was the fact that chrome eats
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6 times more cpu resources than brave
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does so keep that in mind honestly for
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any type of javascript coding this will
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definitely deliver especially if you
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work with react ujs angular or you just
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deploy server and build apis i really
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wouldn't worry about that i even think
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you're better off with the m1 air if you
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don't care about the new features and
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the same thing can be said about python
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python was extremely enjoyable to use
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especially when i know my virtual
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environments run super well and i can
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control and install django the way i
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want to so yeah i actually spent the
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weekend learning django and it's so much
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more intuitive compared to node and
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express i actually really liked it
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everything was super smooth from using
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manage.py to ram consumption the numbers
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made total sense i will say i alternated
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between pycharm and vs code when
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following my crash course and i noticed
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that pycharm does eat a lot more battery
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compared to vs code it's not that big of
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a deal but it's worth pointing out in my
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opinion vs code is way better for django
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mainly because hot reload on pycharm
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really takes quite some time it took
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forever to reflect some of the changes
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when i was writing code the second
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biggest elephant in the room battery
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life i don't even know if that's a sync
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but you get it battery life within my
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three workflows was great great compared
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to other laptops of course in three
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hours of writing code with django and
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having a bunch of tabs opened i saw a
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drop of around 30 percent which is
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really really good but django was the
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least heavy project i made in contrast
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to monday morning where i wrote a whole
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ui flutter interface and in three hours
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we dropped from 100
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to about 35 percent it really all
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depends on what you're doing with this
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laptop so you won't get the same results
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across the board so keep in mind that
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mobile development is definitely heavier
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and makes me almost want to recommend
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the 14-inch macbook pro for this type of
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work instead it really took me a long
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time to put this whole video together i
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built three projects went through hell
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and back with flutter learned python and
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even wrote machine learning code with
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javascript all to properly showcase what
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this new air is capable of doing i'm
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actually really happy with my tests and
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the amount of time i've put into them i
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really think it's going to be one of
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those reviews that helps you guys choose
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whether or not this laptop is the one i
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hope you guys enjoyed and i hope you
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guys are here to stay i'll try to make
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more of these as time goes i know we
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really need a review of the macbook pro
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14 inch versus the m2 macbook air i'll
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see what i can do i'm signing out guys
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take care
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