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Could you do some video edit tests thanks

If only the Air had real speakers on the sides like the 16” pro. Speakers on the 2019 sound way better than the Air M2. They have all that empty space on the sides of the Air it looks bare without the speaker grills

WHY DOES EVERYONE SKIP TAKING OFF THE FRONT PLATE in these videos, I want to see how it's done!

I like how "Trashcan" was imbedded to its name

Sharing the internet over FW was pretty genius for your use-case :)

Would be good to mention the OS version on each. For best results, I'd install Catalina on the 2019, as I believe that Big Sur onwards, Apple has been doing some funky stuff that cause the intel macs to run much slower, progressively.

The first computer i ever used. Back in the 80s ag primary school.

The 15inch Macbook Air M2 256gb has a slower ssd because it is single channel my m1 512 gb memory m1 had a faster hard drive than my m2 15 inch macbook air. It's slightly disappointing when looking at the benchmark but in real world use, I don't think I have really seen a difference. If you have the 512 gb macbook air M2 you will have faster read write speed because they will go over two channels instead of one. I wanted the new M2 because of screen size only. Any used M1 will have pretty much indistinguishable performance between them and M2. Granted the M2 is better on paper, it's just hard to feel the difference unless the seconds really add up and you are doing intense video/photo editing or something of that nature.

Racing days is a good looking racing game for ppc.

Theres also a PC app that lets you view your pocket pc display on your PC called CEDISPLAY

Does anyone know how to invert the theme? Like the Samsung omnia pro. Black background & white text with grey boxes?

What model is this?

Since m2 air is fanless, when thermal throttling occurs during sustained load, at tht time, is m2 air better than 2019 pro?

Very good tutorial which makes me think I could attempt this. However; your final statements have convinced me to save the time and money, and invest in a newer model (even if it’s used) and save myself the aggravation. Thanks so much!

Ok you get an intel xeon server. What is the difference from an IBM,Dell or HP equivalent other that Running osx?

a big thing today... that 2019 can be had for $500 vs 900-1000+ for the m2. I love the m series, but that 2019 might be a good pickup.

Good job.

Very clear and understandable comparison. I have both machines and struggle to determine which is best for editing video using iMovie.

i got mine for free i work at recycaler

You are lucky you had a replacement for the hard drive XD

world need this kind of Videos , keep going , and Thanks

Random question, I recently made similar upgrades to my 2,1 Xserve and after I upgraded to Big Sur, the activity lights on the front panel of the Xserve stopped working. My question is are they working for you? I saw in the video they were active while booting into the installer but I couldn’t see them at any other point.

that mic makes you sound very muffled. use a yeti

Keep going! Good work

I love the content but it's hard to want to stay watching, you should work on that bud.

your voice is very creepy

I just picked up a mint 16" MBP 2019 i7, with 16GB ram and 500GB drive. In Canadian dollars, I paid $800. A comprably spec'd Macbook Air, with the smaller display and same ram/SSD size, would run around 2k. So for half the cost, I'm happy to run a machine that's roughly 2/3rds the value of a newer Air. Also, I would have avoided the i9 and stuck with i7. Thermal throttling can make the i9 perform worse than the i7, so I've read. When the M4 Air comes out, now that I will get excited about and move up. You predicted support dropping for the 2019 laptop in 2024. Not going to happen so quick. My 2015 lasted me 8 years before Apple dropped support. I would expect the 2019's to be easily supported into 2026.

The Airs with minimum specs (8GB RAM and 256GB hard drive) are constrained to only one data channel (PCIE I believe?), meaning that the entire machine is IO bound in terms of compute. Once you step the drive up to 512GB this limitation should disappear, meaning the actual performance constraint at that point is the amount of RAM.

Thank you so much for this review! It's so clear and well made!

Love G4 Acrylic era!

Have a link for the battery? Great vid!

Where is Part 2?

thank you, sir

compares a sub-par 256GB drive in base Air, which is probably single chip, with 2 or 4 chip 1TB ssd in older machine. No comparison. Also, 8 vs 16GB of ram can also impact the drive.

good video bro

Awesome, exactly what I needed. My 2013 pro died and I was weighing whether to fix it or not

I have one of these. Just trying to find if there's acctually a modern day use for it. My PC's of that same era can rock DOS/98/XP games. This G4 has ancient production tools (AV recording and editing), but nothing that my modern laptop cannot do much better. What would be the use of this machine today?.. again, I have the exact model in this video, the MDD, 3 hard drives, maxed memory, 2 processors, cinema screen, round speakers. What could be its use?

My cousin helps when he was a child he's a good fixer that he know a lot of questions to fix computer like thousands So I can repair a big bus it was called eclipse Gemini but it took a lot of time to fix the tires wheels on the moving parts there have to fix all of them more and more and more and more and more it took 24 hours very good

I think my mum has having but you got broken so I fixed it so it can work again my mum was so happy😊

I can see the iMac battery it's very strong remember to not touch it gives you electric shock

I plan on buying the i9 2019, because I can use the Windows better on it, and I have some games I want to play on it.

Thank you very much for this! Most comparisons out there on CZcams don’t consider gpu’s performance, I don’t get it… Also, from M2 launch, Apple uses just one nand chip ssd for base models (256Gb) what makes them slower. (But M1 256Gb is 2 nands, putting M1 MB Air as a king in price comparison to any other.)

my question is ... are 16GB RAM enough for VM windows machines ... I got a 32GB RAM on a 2017 imac with i7 and use VMware Fusion with 12GB RAm on windows 10pro I think about a used M1 Macbook pro with 32GB RAM or even more and a 2TB SSD - IF I can find a good one OR a new MacBook AiR 15" with 24GB RAM and the 2TB SSD

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

what disk is what you need? I have a Mac OS 9.2 retail this that does not contain this.

What RAM did you use for the upgrade?

So, I am getting an Intel I9 Macbook Pro from 2019 for free from someone in my family. As that is obviously the best option you could get, I wonder how long it will take until I feel the need to replace it with something faster? Probably easy to wait until M4 will be out or M3 will get cheaper? Never had an Apple device before so can't wait to see how it does.

Do you think the next MacOS 15 will support this machine in October 2024?

Thanks. very helpful. I have the 2019 MacBook Pro and was thinking of getting an M3 MacBook Air. Now I think I will.

Yea I would need 24gb ram and 2tb which makes it mid 2000’s. Still better than3500 for a MacBook m3 pro chip. I used to need it for game dev stuff so the fans in my i9 were useful, but now it’s just music DAWS so not too demanding. Just wanna be able to run more plugins and this will be less hot, less loud, and last longer