The Ultimate Apple Ecosystem: A Review of the Latest and Greatest

I recently had the opportunity to try out the latest and greatest from Apple, and I must say, I'm thoroughly impressed with the results. The new AirPods Pro 2 have completely changed my game when it comes to wireless earbuds. They fit my ears great, they sound amazing, and what really sets them apart is the exceptional noise cancellation. In fact, I was able to use them on a commercial plane ride without even needing to bring out my over-the-ear set of Sony headphones, which used to be my go-to for travel. The AirPods Pro 2 have come a long way since their last generation, and it's clear that Apple has put a lot of effort into improving the noise cancellation feature.

But what really gets me excited is the quality of life improvements that these earbuds bring. For example, I love the little charging sound scene that the headphones make when they're properly seated. It's a small touch, but it's one that adds a level of sophistication and refinement to an already excellent product. And let's not forget about the battery life - it's great to know that I can get a full day's use out of these earbuds without needing to recharge them.

I also want to mention that the new AirPods Pro 2 have added some really nice features that make them even more useful for everyday use. For example, they come with a new standard charging case that's designed to be more convenient and easier to use than ever before. And if you're someone who works with physical people more often than not, I think the new AirPods Pro 2 are a game-changer. They have a feature called "Active Noise Cancellation" that uses two microphones to detect ambient noise and produce an anti-noise signal to cancel it out. It's a really effective feature that makes these earbuds feel like they're actually doing something more than just playing music.

Another highlight of the new AirPods Pro 2 is their compatibility with other Apple devices. I've been using them in tandem with my iPhone 13, and I'm blown away by how seamless it all feels. The earbuds pair effortlessly with my phone, and I can control everything from notifications to volume changes without having to lift a finger. It's like they were made for each other.

But the AirPods Pro 2 are just one part of the ultimate Apple ecosystem that I've put together here. I also want to give a shout-out to the new 10th generation iPad, which is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to productivity and collaboration. With its super-ultra-wide-angle camera set on the horizontal top for easy use in teleconferencing situations, this iPad feels like it was designed specifically with business users in mind.

And let's not forget about the price - at $449, it's a fraction of what you'd pay for a MacBook Pro or an iPad Air. But trust me when I say that this thing is worth every penny. The screen is stunning, and the camera is one of the best I've ever used on a tablet.

Of course, no Apple ecosystem would be complete without a smartwatch. And let me tell you, the new Apple Watch SE is an absolute steal at $249. It's got all the same features as the Series 8, but with one major exception: it doesn't have blood oxygen monitoring or some of the newest fitness features. But for someone like me who just wants to stay connected and get notifications throughout the day, this watch does everything I need it to do.

So there you have it - the ultimate Apple ecosystem that's worth every penny. From the AirPods Pro 2 to the 10th generation iPad to the Apple Watch SE, each of these devices brings something unique and valuable to the table. And with a total price tag of $360.06 (a whopping $150 off the original sticker price), this is an ecosystem that's more accessible than ever before.

But what about you? What do you think is the absolute best Apple ecosystem out there? Let me know in the comments below, and if you like this video be sure to check out my other content on finding the cheapest Apple ecosystem possible.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enoh it certainly looks like the yearly Apple release window has closed on 2022. we've gotten a ton of new stuff this year some has been kind of meh yet some has been really really good so if you were looking to buy some sweet new computers phones tablets Etc going into 2023 what comprises the best overall ecosystem that Apple makes let's find out for starters personally I think you need to have a reason to buy an ecosystem like there is no point in buying all of this stuff if you're just going to browse the internet at the house if that's you buy the M1 Mac Mini ecosystem video over so I'm going to slant this at the student office worker because I am a fairly prolific office worker myself I'm assuming you need to be able to work on specific applications transfer files between colleagues and peers and stay connected to whatever Cloud instance your work or school uses for Knowledge Management I'm also going to include some older Tech in here where I can to save money if possible this would be a much simpler and less useful video if I just put in the top of the line everything from every Apple product line that would be a lot less work on me too so maybe maybe we should do that instead for starters we need some kind of way to communicate with that cloud or teammates or just watch funny cat videos on the internet and obviously if we are in an apple ecosystem we need an iPhone there are a ton of skus out there on the Apple website for these darn things we could go as small and as cheap as possible and get the iPhone 12 mini or we could go as big and expensive as possible and get the iPhone 14 pro Max well we're not going to do either of those today personally I value battery life over everything else in a cell phone yet I also don't think the 14 lineup improved on enough to make it the de facto choice so for the cell phone pick today I'm gonna go with the iPhone 13 Pro Max this might be the best overall cell phone ever made seriously it's got it all it's got the high refresh rate screen the technology spec hoarders love it's got battery life that lasts longer than anything else other than the 14 pro Max this is just amazing the cameras are great if you are somebody that uses this as your primary camera or more likely if you are a regular person your only camera accessory support is robust and there are a ton of options for customizing your iPhone in many different ways from cases to Chargers to camera rigs that's pretty that's pretty cool actually when we look for the price on this thing unfortunately we can no longer buy the iPhone 13 Pro Max directly from Apple you can still buy the iPhone 13 regular or 13 mini if you want but the pros have been totally supplanted by the new lineup so checking Amazon it looks like we can buy a 13 Pro Max for about 920 to 950 bucks for Savings of about a hundred and fifty dollars now that's not the craziest deal out there but every little bit helps right I still think that's pretty good okay we got the phone phone locked that was the Locking futuristic locking sound once we move on from the iPhone we do need a device to actually get some work done yes for some the iPhone or any smartphone is all you really need to do to check email pay bills Etc but at some point at least for me you got to sit down turn on the computer to get access to easier to use Enterprise software much like the iPhone we've got a ton of options for Apple computers today you could go the minimalistic route and get the M1 Mac Mini which is yes today still the best value computer probably ever made you could then go to the bigger more robust Max studio which for a power computer has a fantastically priced base model laptops are pretty popular too and you could get either a very small M1 MacBook Air or a gigantic M1 Max MacBook Pro 16. I'm looking to thread the needle on value power performance and all of that jazz so this one actually ended up being a harder Choice than I thought but at the end of the day I think the best overall computer in the Apple lineup from an ecosystem perspective is the 14 inch MacBook Pro I really thought about putting the M1 MacBook Air here you could probably consider the two essentially tied for performance but the body design of the 14 inch MacBook is what pushed it over the edge for me this MacBook is just perfect there's almost no other way to put it it can be configured to have the power of the biggest baddest laptop that Apple makes it's not that much bigger than the smaller portable options it has ports for days one of the best screens on any laptop and you can get this for a serious deal directly from Apple okay let's I got a little too excited there let's step back and unpack this a little bit for the price yes brand new from Apple this comes in at 19.99 and for that you'll get the 8 core M1 Pro processor 14 core GPU 16 gigabytes of unified memory and a 512 gigabyte solid state drive that's pretty darn good especially when you look at other base models that Apple has but you can also get this refurbished from them for 1709 and it goes from I think it goes from a pretty good deal to the best deal in power laptops it is the best power laptop the crazy thing about the MacBook Pro 14 is it's the one computer that Apple makes that seems to just get better and better with time we've seen from the M2 machines what is pretty much coming on the future and those entry level machines just don't have the same capabilities that this does and when you spec them to compete here this is still better for less or the same money physically why this one over the MacBook Air is because the 14 inch model and the same thing happens for the 16 inch if you want a bigger option is it has all the ports that I personally look for in a laptop it's got full size HDMI it's got four separate Thunderbolt ports magsafe version three which I could take relief and even a full-size SD card slot that's seriously incredible that you can get all of those ports on a MacBook it wasn't that long ago that we all every single one of us that talk about Apple products we gave up on ever getting anything other than USBC on a MacBook and now this exists and it's awesome I could and have in the past gone on much longer about the MacBook Pro 14 and if you want you can see my videos doing just that if you like but let's move on to the next part of the ecosystem and I have said this in previous ecosystem videos but I think you could easily stop right there you've got your phone and you've got your computer that's all a company is going to give you if you work for them and 99 of things are done with these two devices but as I've also said in previous videos I do think there are a few other things that while not capitalized required do make life just a little bit better overall when you look at it from an overall ecosystem perspective and the biggest addition I would have to make to this sort of bare bones kit are the airpods Pro 2 holy crap I love these headphones these might be the best thing that Apple's released in all of 2022 they are that good yes they are fairly pricey coming in at 249 dollars but team I gotta tell you I think these are worth every penny I've used mine in a ton of meetings so far I've also used these as my gaming headphones when I'm raiding in WoW classic and yes I play Wrath of the Lich King way too much I've used them on probably 100 miles of running so far and on four separate flights these are the best headphones I've ever owned I know that airpods are hit and miss when it comes to fit for some folks but these fit my ears great they sound great and what's best of all what really just makes these for me and so much better than the airpods generation one is the noise cancellation is now good enough for a commercial plane ride so I no longer need to bring my air pods and my over-the-ear set of Sony headphones when I travel I used to have to bring two sets of headphones because the airpods just weren't enough this is enough and it's so good and I don't even I don't have the technical chops to explain why these are so good but whoo boy so good plus I found that the battery life to be great and these have some really nice quality of life improvements over previous airpod iterations chief of them being I like the little charging sound scene that's a little speaker on your headphones I like the little charging sound it makes when it's properly seated it's silly yes but I like it moving on to another thing that I think is absolutely not needed but it makes the overall ecosystem better especially if you work with physical people more often than not I would honestly add the new standard 10th generation iPad into the mix as well I know I haven't fully made a video about this yet because I'm still working through it but I like this a lot more than I thought I would and I know that this iPad has gotten a ton of flack on the internet recently because it is more expensive than previous standard iPads but I still think the standard iPad is the best teleconferencing slash collaboration tool on the market for those that don't have big permanent conference rooms the 10th Generation standard iPad comes in at 449 dollars and spec wise it's pretty much equivalent or worse than an iPad Air 4 but as a tool the really big thing that it has unlike every other iPad is it has its front-facing camera set on the horizontal top and not the vertical top for me again for me this is worth the price of admission until other iPads have included this feature you get that super ultra wide angle camera but in an actually useful position for work as opposed to an up the nose configuration on everything else again an ecosystem has to have a use and not just be a random assortment of options and I do absolutely think that the 10th generation iPad is the best overall as a tool in other tablet ways it works fine but it's uninspired seriously why is this screen not fully laminated accessories right now might be harder to get for a short while as third party spin up their knockoffs but here soon there should be just as many options as for other regular iPads and yes the camera here is just hard to beat I think the last thing I would add to an overall optional part of an apple ecosystem is is an Apple Watch I mean it is the last thing I would include on a system like this one because what we've designed here today all of its functions are covered somewhere else but being able to move some of those functions to your wrist it's a really nice quality of life add-on to your workday I personally use the Apple watch Ultra because I bought one to make videos about and it's my favorite Apple watch Ever it's not a tool that I would recommend here though I think in this system we've built today the Apple watch SE makes an awful lot of sense it comes in at 249 dollars and basically does all of the same work slash school stuff as the series 8. you will miss out on blood oxygen monitoring and some of the newest Fitness features but you get all the same notifications as the more expensive options and it's really the notifications that I'm aiming for with this system if you are like me and you like running or other sports you'll still get GPS tracking and workout monitoring and that's essentially the bread and butter of what owning an Apple Watch is all about so we've distilled the greatest value and the most useful parts of the gigantic Apple product Library into a single eco ecosystem so let's see how much this will run us 950 ish dollars for an iPhone 13 Promax Seventeen hundred nine dollars for a refurbished MacBook Pro 14. 249 dollars for the airpods Pro 2 449 for the iPad gen 10 and 249 dollars for an Apple Watch SE for a grand total of 360.06 oh that is I mean that is pretty darn expensive but remember this wasn't an exercise in the cheapest Apple ecosystem I do have videos on those this is an exercise in what I think of as the best value ecosystem there are more expensive options there are cheaper options this is the best value but what about you what do you think is the absolute capital B best ecosystem that Apple makes let me know in the comments below and if you like this video click here to see the actual cheapest ecosystem click click click click click click click thanks for watchingoh it certainly looks like the yearly Apple release window has closed on 2022. we've gotten a ton of new stuff this year some has been kind of meh yet some has been really really good so if you were looking to buy some sweet new computers phones tablets Etc going into 2023 what comprises the best overall ecosystem that Apple makes let's find out for starters personally I think you need to have a reason to buy an ecosystem like there is no point in buying all of this stuff if you're just going to browse the internet at the house if that's you buy the M1 Mac Mini ecosystem video over so I'm going to slant this at the student office worker because I am a fairly prolific office worker myself I'm assuming you need to be able to work on specific applications transfer files between colleagues and peers and stay connected to whatever Cloud instance your work or school uses for Knowledge Management I'm also going to include some older Tech in here where I can to save money if possible this would be a much simpler and less useful video if I just put in the top of the line everything from every Apple product line that would be a lot less work on me too so maybe maybe we should do that instead for starters we need some kind of way to communicate with that cloud or teammates or just watch funny cat videos on the internet and obviously if we are in an apple ecosystem we need an iPhone there are a ton of skus out there on the Apple website for these darn things we could go as small and as cheap as possible and get the iPhone 12 mini or we could go as big and expensive as possible and get the iPhone 14 pro Max well we're not going to do either of those today personally I value battery life over everything else in a cell phone yet I also don't think the 14 lineup improved on enough to make it the de facto choice so for the cell phone pick today I'm gonna go with the iPhone 13 Pro Max this might be the best overall cell phone ever made seriously it's got it all it's got the high refresh rate screen the technology spec hoarders love it's got battery life that lasts longer than anything else other than the 14 pro Max this is just amazing the cameras are great if you are somebody that uses this as your primary camera or more likely if you are a regular person your only camera accessory support is robust and there are a ton of options for customizing your iPhone in many different ways from cases to Chargers to camera rigs that's pretty that's pretty cool actually when we look for the price on this thing unfortunately we can no longer buy the iPhone 13 Pro Max directly from Apple you can still buy the iPhone 13 regular or 13 mini if you want but the pros have been totally supplanted by the new lineup so checking Amazon it looks like we can buy a 13 Pro Max for about 920 to 950 bucks for Savings of about a hundred and fifty dollars now that's not the craziest deal out there but every little bit helps right I still think that's pretty good okay we got the phone phone locked that was the Locking futuristic locking sound once we move on from the iPhone we do need a device to actually get some work done yes for some the iPhone or any smartphone is all you really need to do to check email pay bills Etc but at some point at least for me you got to sit down turn on the computer to get access to easier to use Enterprise software much like the iPhone we've got a ton of options for Apple computers today you could go the minimalistic route and get the M1 Mac Mini which is yes today still the best value computer probably ever made you could then go to the bigger more robust Max studio which for a power computer has a fantastically priced base model laptops are pretty popular too and you could get either a very small M1 MacBook Air or a gigantic M1 Max MacBook Pro 16. I'm looking to thread the needle on value power performance and all of that jazz so this one actually ended up being a harder Choice than I thought but at the end of the day I think the best overall computer in the Apple lineup from an ecosystem perspective is the 14 inch MacBook Pro I really thought about putting the M1 MacBook Air here you could probably consider the two essentially tied for performance but the body design of the 14 inch MacBook is what pushed it over the edge for me this MacBook is just perfect there's almost no other way to put it it can be configured to have the power of the biggest baddest laptop that Apple makes it's not that much bigger than the smaller portable options it has ports for days one of the best screens on any laptop and you can get this for a serious deal directly from Apple okay let's I got a little too excited there let's step back and unpack this a little bit for the price yes brand new from Apple this comes in at 19.99 and for that you'll get the 8 core M1 Pro processor 14 core GPU 16 gigabytes of unified memory and a 512 gigabyte solid state drive that's pretty darn good especially when you look at other base models that Apple has but you can also get this refurbished from them for 1709 and it goes from I think it goes from a pretty good deal to the best deal in power laptops it is the best power laptop the crazy thing about the MacBook Pro 14 is it's the one computer that Apple makes that seems to just get better and better with time we've seen from the M2 machines what is pretty much coming on the future and those entry level machines just don't have the same capabilities that this does and when you spec them to compete here this is still better for less or the same money physically why this one over the MacBook Air is because the 14 inch model and the same thing happens for the 16 inch if you want a bigger option is it has all the ports that I personally look for in a laptop it's got full size HDMI it's got four separate Thunderbolt ports magsafe version three which I could take relief and even a full-size SD card slot that's seriously incredible that you can get all of those ports on a MacBook it wasn't that long ago that we all every single one of us that talk about Apple products we gave up on ever getting anything other than USBC on a MacBook and now this exists and it's awesome I could and have in the past gone on much longer about the MacBook Pro 14 and if you want you can see my videos doing just that if you like but let's move on to the next part of the ecosystem and I have said this in previous ecosystem videos but I think you could easily stop right there you've got your phone and you've got your computer that's all a company is going to give you if you work for them and 99 of things are done with these two devices but as I've also said in previous videos I do think there are a few other things that while not capitalized required do make life just a little bit better overall when you look at it from an overall ecosystem perspective and the biggest addition I would have to make to this sort of bare bones kit are the airpods Pro 2 holy crap I love these headphones these might be the best thing that Apple's released in all of 2022 they are that good yes they are fairly pricey coming in at 249 dollars but team I gotta tell you I think these are worth every penny I've used mine in a ton of meetings so far I've also used these as my gaming headphones when I'm raiding in WoW classic and yes I play Wrath of the Lich King way too much I've used them on probably 100 miles of running so far and on four separate flights these are the best headphones I've ever owned I know that airpods are hit and miss when it comes to fit for some folks but these fit my ears great they sound great and what's best of all what really just makes these for me and so much better than the airpods generation one is the noise cancellation is now good enough for a commercial plane ride so I no longer need to bring my air pods and my over-the-ear set of Sony headphones when I travel I used to have to bring two sets of headphones because the airpods just weren't enough this is enough and it's so good and I don't even I don't have the technical chops to explain why these are so good but whoo boy so good plus I found that the battery life to be great and these have some really nice quality of life improvements over previous airpod iterations chief of them being I like the little charging sound scene that's a little speaker on your headphones I like the little charging sound it makes when it's properly seated it's silly yes but I like it moving on to another thing that I think is absolutely not needed but it makes the overall ecosystem better especially if you work with physical people more often than not I would honestly add the new standard 10th generation iPad into the mix as well I know I haven't fully made a video about this yet because I'm still working through it but I like this a lot more than I thought I would and I know that this iPad has gotten a ton of flack on the internet recently because it is more expensive than previous standard iPads but I still think the standard iPad is the best teleconferencing slash collaboration tool on the market for those that don't have big permanent conference rooms the 10th Generation standard iPad comes in at 449 dollars and spec wise it's pretty much equivalent or worse than an iPad Air 4 but as a tool the really big thing that it has unlike every other iPad is it has its front-facing camera set on the horizontal top and not the vertical top for me again for me this is worth the price of admission until other iPads have included this feature you get that super ultra wide angle camera but in an actually useful position for work as opposed to an up the nose configuration on everything else again an ecosystem has to have a use and not just be a random assortment of options and I do absolutely think that the 10th generation iPad is the best overall as a tool in other tablet ways it works fine but it's uninspired seriously why is this screen not fully laminated accessories right now might be harder to get for a short while as third party spin up their knockoffs but here soon there should be just as many options as for other regular iPads and yes the camera here is just hard to beat I think the last thing I would add to an overall optional part of an apple ecosystem is is an Apple Watch I mean it is the last thing I would include on a system like this one because what we've designed here today all of its functions are covered somewhere else but being able to move some of those functions to your wrist it's a really nice quality of life add-on to your workday I personally use the Apple watch Ultra because I bought one to make videos about and it's my favorite Apple watch Ever it's not a tool that I would recommend here though I think in this system we've built today the Apple watch SE makes an awful lot of sense it comes in at 249 dollars and basically does all of the same work slash school stuff as the series 8. you will miss out on blood oxygen monitoring and some of the newest Fitness features but you get all the same notifications as the more expensive options and it's really the notifications that I'm aiming for with this system if you are like me and you like running or other sports you'll still get GPS tracking and workout monitoring and that's essentially the bread and butter of what owning an Apple Watch is all about so we've distilled the greatest value and the most useful parts of the gigantic Apple product Library into a single eco ecosystem so let's see how much this will run us 950 ish dollars for an iPhone 13 Promax Seventeen hundred nine dollars for a refurbished MacBook Pro 14. 249 dollars for the airpods Pro 2 449 for the iPad gen 10 and 249 dollars for an Apple Watch SE for a grand total of 360.06 oh that is I mean that is pretty darn expensive but remember this wasn't an exercise in the cheapest Apple ecosystem I do have videos on those this is an exercise in what I think of as the best value ecosystem there are more expensive options there are cheaper options this is the best value but what about you what do you think is the absolute capital B best ecosystem that Apple makes let me know in the comments below and if you like this video click here to see the actual cheapest ecosystem click click click click click click click thanks for watching\n"