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this is the new mac mini from apple
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running the m1 chip
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and i know i know this is not a
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chromebook and you all come to our
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channel
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to watch videos about chromebooks but
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hear me out this computer and
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m1 chip inside is an important device
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because it shows us
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what an arm processor is truly capable
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of so
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let's dive into a couple of the details
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about this mac mini and why i think
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everyone should be excited about the
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future of arm processors
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forward slash chrome unboxed so we
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bought this mac mini a couple of weeks
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ago because we were in the process of
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shopping around for a new editing
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machine
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to replace our 2016 macbook pro because
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it was just
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getting really sluggish but then we saw
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apple's keynote where they confirmed the
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new line of macs were indeed going to be
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running an arm-based
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system on a chip and so at that point
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i was sold and part of the reason i was
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sold was because of the price
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this mac mini cost us about thirteen
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hundred dollars which
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is a lot cheaper than the other option
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that we were considering which was a
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mac pro trash can style and we were
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going to end up spending probably around
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three thousand dollars to get that
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desktop
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and then the reviews started coming in
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and we were blown away at how good these
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chips appeared to be
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based on those early benchmarks so we
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decided to make the move
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partially because we needed a new
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editing machine and it looked like
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final cut was going to run really well
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on this machine
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but also so that we could test an arm
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processor that was claiming this type of
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performance
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all right so let's take a step back here
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for a second what exactly is arm
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arm is basically the company that
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creates and designs the processor
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architecture
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and then sells licensing to other
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manufacturers like
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qualcomm and samsung it's pretty likely
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that the smartphone that you have or the
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tablet that you use
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is powered by some sort of arm chip and
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we've seen chromebooks with arm chips
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like the
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lenovo chromebook duet but robbie has a
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whole separate video on
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arm chips so we'll link that one below
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but this mac mini and the other laptops
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that apple announced
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are the first arm chips that are getting
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this sort of performance and it's mainly
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because apple has a full licensing
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agreement with arm so that they could
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really build this chip
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exactly the way that they wanted and
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they weren't using some sort of like
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off-the-shelf processor from arm like
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other manufacturers do
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so really from the ground up this chip
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was built to run
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the latest version of apple's operating
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system and it works extremely well
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especially with apple software like
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final cut and it's because of all of
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this
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that we were so excited about this
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device so all right
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that's why we bought the mac mini now
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let's talk for a second about the specs
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we purchased the mac mini with 16 gigs
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of ram and one terabyte of internal
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storage
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everything is integrated on this chip
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what they call a system on a chip or an
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soc
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so we decided to get the most ram
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available since we knew that we weren't
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going to be able to upgrade any of the
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internals in the future has
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good connectivity it looks really nice
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on the desk it's small
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it's out of the way and it has kind of
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that typical apple design aesthetic
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that you would come to expect with an
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apple product but this isn't a review
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and
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you can find all sorts of great reviews
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out there so let's get down to the real
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world test that we ran to determine
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whether we were going to keep this
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device
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or have to go buy some sort of intel
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based editing station so here's what i
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did
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i took the exact same project that had
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some graphics
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multiple clips some color grading and
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was about seven minutes long
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and i copied that over to the new mac
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mini from the macbook pro
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and then started the export at the exact
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same time i made sure the macbook was
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connected to power
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and both machines didn't have any other
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applications open during
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this experiment and i could tell
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right off the start that the m1 was
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gonna
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probably do a pretty good job because at
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one minute it was already at
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twenty percent of the export and the
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macbook was at about
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two percent the macbook did catch up a
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little bit about five minutes in when
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the macbook was about
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35 and the mac mini was around 63
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and then the mac mini got to about 10
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minutes and it was already at 84
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and i looked over and the macbook is at
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59
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and then boom at 1008 the mac mini
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finished the export and then i waited
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and i waited and then the timer hit
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20 minutes and we were at 83 on the
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macbook 22 minutes
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86 25 minutes about 88 and then finally
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at 2506 the macbook finished the export
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so yeah the m1 mac was about two and a
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half
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times faster than the macbook pro at
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exporting the exact same
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project the file in the end was the
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exact same size and i had the exact same
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export settings
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so i was pretty much blown away at this
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point but
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why does all of this matter and why am i
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telling you about this here on the
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chrome unbox channel
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well this experiment is a testament to
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what arm is capable of when it is built
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from the ground
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up the way that this m1 chip has been
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built
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and you can go look at other people who
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are talking about these chips and how
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impressed they are and
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i would say most reviewers are getting
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similar results to what i
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experienced so the question is what what
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would it look like if google decided to
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make their own silicon there's been some
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rumors we've heard murmuring
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that maybe this is happening but what if
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what if google decided to make an arm
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chip that was built from the ground up
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for chrome os a processor built
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specifically for chromebooks
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what would that look like i think it'd
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be pretty awesome
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and this mac mini has me pretty excited
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about that possibility
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