The new MacBook has been fine, yeah, it definitely feels a lot more responsive. It's not great, but it's definitely better than it was before. One thing that I do really like about the little MacBook is that it's been so quiet through all of this. I've basically not heard any fan noise from it, which is a huge improvement over any gaming laptop.

Now, just to compare more directly, I did try playing Dota again on the MacBook display with a more comparable resolution. Yeah, it may be retina sharp and have beautiful colors, but wow, is it not good for gaming now? I also tried Dirt, but getting it to run on an external monitor was the most annoying of any of the games.

When you launch the game, you have to do it without the external monitor plugged in, and then you have to go into the settings once you're there, plug the monitor in, and then there's like a 30% chance that the settings won't lock off and force you to use some very low resolution default setting. Most of the time, the settings locks you out, so then you have to restart the whole process again and hope that this time the settings don't lock you out.

You have to decide do you want to display struggle or use the monitor in the MacBook that has the motion rendering and input lag over 90's plasma television. I'm just gonna stop myself there because it goes on like that for a while, and at this point, we all know that gaming on a MacBook is like going to a buffet where most of your favorite food is just locked behind glass counters.

The little bit of food that you do have access to is several years old and just keeps glitching through your plate. But quite frankly, I don't mind that Apple treats non-mobile gaming like it's an STD. They may catch if they're not careful because I don't want Apple anywhere near the games industry.

The one thing that Apple is good at above all else is finding a way to charge unbelievable amounts for things and then having people still buy them. So, they're just gonna find a way to make gaming even more expensive, and it's not like game publishers need any help milking their customers dry.

If Apple starts buying game publishers, we may get Apple-exclusive games which would mean we'd have to buy a $20,000 MacBook just to play League of Legends or whatever. Can you imagine what would happen if Apple buys a company like Nintendo?

Hey, uh, I just want to buy one of those new Nintendo-designed-in-California switches, please, the one that's made from brushed aluminum so it's disgusting after the first time you've touched it. The base model for that is two thousand dollars, whoa, that is way too much money.

Yeah, but remember, it smells neutral and clean from the box, yeah, I guess you gotta pay for that. That makes sense. Oh, by the way, the base model doesn't actually come with any storage in it, and you kind of need that for it to work, uh, but luckily we have new Neural SSDs, and getting a 256GB one only costs an extra thousand two hundred dollars.

That is insane. I'm just gonna buy the base model and then I'll add my own storage, but you can't upgrade it yourself because it uses the new Neural SSDs; it's just an OEM Samsung drive. I can see it from here, yeah, but it's got neural in it there is no way anybody's gonna pay that amount for it. Um, they all did.

You know what? No, thank you. I don't want it anymore. Okay, well, I guess you're not gonna be able to play the new Smash Bros then. Look at all these awesome screenshots without any actual gameplay in it. Fine. Let me call my bank... oh yeah, did you want to charge it with that?

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enfor today's video i did some gaming on this little macbook here and it was actually the first time  i've ever gamed on a macbook and yeah it was it was quite the experience i can't click on applythis is the first ever macbook pro on the channel and uh just having it in  the office makes me feel like i need to start drinking pumpkin frappuccino lattes or whatever  i'm sorry macbook i'm just lashing out at you because i'm intimidated by youoh that was quite disappointing i was expecting the whole thing to just  unravel with that one little tugthat does not smell like a new electronic device i think apple puts like a scent in these boxes  smells quite nice it's very like neutral clean smelling wow that's thin but has a nice reassuring  weight to it and then in here it says designed by apple in california which i find is a little  bit of a weird thing to brag about anyway let's see what kind of documentation we get in here  you get some gray macbook stickers so that you can flex that you have a macbook even  if you don't have it on you and then we have our white charge cable with our charge brickthat was what i was expecting the laptop packaging to do that is very satisfying i like that a lot  and then we have our little brick which i touched half a time and it's already gross so that is the  problem with having stuff or white like this is if you have even a little bit of finger cheese  on your hands it's gonna transfer and then this is the 67 watt one which is a weirdly specific  wattage and then other than that that's that's it that's all we get with it okay let's have a closer  look at the macbook now the little macbook in question is the m2 13-inch macbook pro which the  internet seems to think is one of the dumber apple products at the moment which i don't know i feel  like the 600 luggage tag begs deliver but anyway uh i didn't pay for this little macbook it was  actually sent over by micro center who apparently also stocks apple stuff micro center really does  have an awesome selection of electronics and thank you again for sending over this macbook  now i was immediately impressed by the build quality of the neutral clean smelling macbook  but i had a couple of concerns wait a minute so you're telling me you have to use half of  its i o to charge the thing you can't touch a button on it without the thing turning  on i just want to demonstrate the keyboard without switching you on turn off come off nothere we have our fully unsheathed macbook pro that is such a nice looking little laptop but  you know the problem with the nice-lookingness of it is i don't really want to touch it with  my gross manhands because i know it'll just immediately ruin it actually on the note of  immediately ruining it let's try and open it up and have a look inside and after taking a while  to figure out that macbooks use pentalobe screws i ran into a bit of a roadblock  six screws and then do we just lift it off oh i actually have an idea i'm gonna use this thingdoes it work oh yeah that please tell me that was the tool that cracked and not the laptop  okay so i just looked at the ifixit video and you do need to use this little thing you kind of  pop it on there and then use one of these bad boys in in here  oh oh i fix it you are very smart but despite ifixit's genius it still felt rough this really  feels like i'm taking a knife to a baby seal's face ah please just come off there we go yay  but there was one thing left for me to discover the hinge there's something here keeping it downyou should be able to there oh oh there we go oh there we go very nice  wow it's open oh it doesn't look like i damaged anything oh one first impression those are some  sexy laptop insides although there's not much of a cooling solution here but it makes sense  considering that the m2 chip in here can actually run passively like it does in the macbook air  so this may actually be an overkill cooling solution for it which is very promising in terms  of thermals and noise while gaming other than that though the ram and the ssd are soldered down which  really sucks especially considering that this only comes with eight gigs of ram and you can't upgrade  it after the fact in fact the only way you can do anything about the storage and memory in here is  by letting apple bend you over a table when you're actually ordering the device so upgradeability  is just not a thing on this laptop at all which you know it's an it's an apple device obviously  but it's still really disappointing to see uh anyway with that let's try gaming on the thingokay there goes half our ports nice hello that is a pretty laptop as i was setting up the little  macbook i was really flexing my apple knowledge let's go up here and get some more about this mac  information it's about as far as my navigating mac os knowledge goes the news app has the same icon  as dota for some reason that's really weird the keyboard of the little macbook is fine  it does feel like it has more key travel than it looks like there's space for so i guess that's  impressive in terms of the track pad i like the size of it although even on the firmest settings  i feel like it registers clicks too easily and doesn't give you enough haptic feedback which  means it's easy to accidentally click when you don't mean to the aggressive lack of ports on  the little dongle book is definitely an issue which means the little occasions usb hub from  the last video already saves the day oh wait i was supposed to be talking about gaming well while i  was struggling to install steam on the macbook i decided to have a quick look at the apple app  store's game selection which aside from a whole bunch of phone games was barren wow you know a  game selection's bad when the only two games in there that get you excited are more than 10  years old oh wait there's disco elysian that's cool oh we also have psychonauts too apple use  spoilers and once steam was installed it didn't get a whole lot better even most of the games  without that little circle of death next to them don't seem to work and despite steam constantly  trying to convince me to just use a pc instead i eventually found some games that worked kind of cs  go has launched but it's defaulted into windowed mode that shouldn't be much of a problem righti can't click on apply i can't apply the settings because i can't figure out how to resize  the windows so that i can get to the button to click on it there is no way that's gonna work but  let's give it a try holy crap it's actually worked what and after that stroke of luck  first impressions were good that is the whole thing right we're loading into a game and this  laptop doesn't sound like a jet engine about to explode from the exertion of it like every gaming  laptop that is very promising but my excitement evaporated pretty quickly keyboard no how do i  i don't want emojis why does that bring emojis up okay that is not a thing crash how do i shift  now keyboard struggles aside we may be running the game at 2560 by 1600 but for cs go at low  settings that is not a very good frame rate and it feels quite input laggy also the display  isn't very good at motion rendering you can see there's quite a bit of motion blur when  you look around even for a 60hz panel the motion rendering is pretty rough so it may be quiet but  it's not running cs go very well let's quickly try some dota that's not a great start i just  clicked on settings and it seems like the game crashed oh no it just took super long never mind  now considering that we want to leave it at the native resolution which is quite high i am going  to leave the settings a bit lower oh despite the quite high frame rate it still feels really  input laggy and it's like a molasses-y feeling i can still last hit but it's against the bot and  it just it doesn't feel very good so let's plug an external display in and see if that fixes itwhoa even plugging an external monitor into it's kind of buggy  for some reason initially when i plugged it in it wouldn't give me a 120 hertz refresh rate  through the aces dongle but then i plugged it into a different dongle which gave me 120 hertz and  then when i switched back to the occasions it now also gives me 120 hertz out so that's all weird i  don't know what the reason is for any of that and then dota also decided to get in on the weirdness  so i'm getting music through the macbook but no video over there and then on the display  i'm getting just the mouse okay let me just un plug the display and then it breaks it there  okay so i've unplugged it from the other display but now it looks like that okay let me try plug  the hdmi back in and then maybe that helps i found so far with this macbook i've had to do everything  three times before anything's actually worked so let's give it a try again we've just gotten  a mouse again okay that's that's very good after that i tried to see if csgo is working hey well  cs go works with an external monitor wow that is a lot better now it's quite unfair because  this is a high refresh rate gaming monitor as opposed to the 60hz display in the macbook  and it's a lower resolution which means we get a higher frame rate all of which will help  the input lag but still it just it feels so much better go see if we can get dota runningyay it's finally worked the way i fixed it was by changing resolution from default for display  to scaled back to default for display and then it was fine yeah it definitely feels a lot more  responsive it's not great but it's definitely better than it was before and one thing that  i do really like about the little macbook is it's been so quiet through all of this i've  basically not heard any fan noise from it which is a huge improvement over any gaming laptopnow just to compare more directly i did try playing dota again on the macbook display with  a more comparable resolution and yeah it may be retina sharp and have beautiful colors but  wow is it not good for gaming now i also tried dirt but getting it to run on an external monitor  was the most annoying of any of the games when you launch the game you have to do it without  the external monitor plugged in and then you have to go into the settings once you're there you plug  the monitor in and then there's like a 30 chance that the settings won't lock off and force you to  use some very low resolution default setting but most of the time the settings locks you out so  then you have to restart the whole process again and hope that this time the settings don't lock  you out and you have to do this every time you want to play the game so you have to decide do  you want to display struggle or use the monitor in the macbook that has the motion rendering and  input lag over 90's plasma television now i'm just gonna stop myself there because it goes on  like that for a while and at this point we all know that gaming on a macbook is like going to  a buffet where most of your favorite food is just locked behind glass counters and the little bit of  food that you do have access to is several years old and just keeps glitching through your plate  but quite frankly i don't mind that apple treats non-mobile gaming like it's an std they may catch  if they're not careful because i don't want apple anywhere near the games industry the one thing  that apple is good at above all else is finding a way to charge unbelievable amounts for things  and then having people still buy them so they're just gonna find a way to make gaming even more  expensive and it's not like game publishers need any help milking their customers dry but  if apple starts buying game publishers we may get apple exclusive games which  would mean we'd have to buy a 20 000 macbook just to play league of legends or whatever  can you imagine what would happen if apple buys a company like nintendohey uh i just want to buy one of those new nintendo designed in california switches please  the one that's made from brushed aluminium so it's disgusting after the first time  you've touched it the base model for that is two thousand dollars whoa that is way too much money  yeah but remember it smells neutral clean from the box yeah i guess you got to pay  for that that makes sense oh by the way the base model doesn't actually come with any  storage in it and you kind of need that for it to work uh but luckily we have new neural ssds  and getting a 256 gig one only cost an extra thousand two hundred dollars that is insane i'm  just gonna buy the base model and then i'll add my own storage but you can't upgrade it yourself  because it uses the new neural ssds it's just an oem samsung drive i can see it from here yeah but  it's got neural in it there is no way anybody's gonna pay that amount for it um they all didyou know what no thank you i don't want it anymore okay well i guess you're not gonna  be able to play the new smash bros then look at all these awesome screenshots without any  actual gameplay in it fine let me call my bank oh yeah did you want to charge it with thatyou