Today is the day we're announcing that

the Mac is transitioning

to our own Apple Silicon. It truly is a

historic day for the Mac.

>> It's officially been 5 years since Tim

Cook walked out on stage and announced

that Apple is ditching [music] Intel's

x86 chips and going allin on ARMbased

Apple silicon chips for the Mac. So,

after five generations from M1 to M5 on

this 2-month-old 14-in MacBook Pro, was

Apple right? [music] Did Tim Cook make

the right choice? And did Intel's x86

start to die like I predicted 5 years

ago, at least [music] for the laptop

market? Well, the best way to do that is

to compare a modern, highquality Windows

x86 laptop to Apple's new M5 MacBook Pro

to see how Apple's big bet is paying

off. And holy smokes are you about to

have your mind blown. This right here is

the new Dell 16 premium laptop.

basically the new XPS [music] sporting

one of Intel's best x86 laptop chips,

the 16 core Ultra 7255H,

as well as 32 gigs of RAM, 1 TB of SSD,

and Nvidia's latest RTX 5070 GPU. And

this thing's currently pretty expensive,

$3,200.

But yes, it does come with a pretty dang

nice 120 Hz OLED 400nit display with

nice and thin bezels and a really great

design overall. And believe it or not,

I'm going to do the craziest thing ever

and compare this x86 laptop to Apple's

base M5 MacBook Pro, packing just 10

cores for both the CPU and the GPU, half

the RAM, so 16 gigs, half the SSD, so

512. And this thing is currently on sale

for $1,350

on Amazon. So essentially, it's a 14-in

David versus a 2.4 times more expensive

16in Goliath. So let's jump right into

it. First off, we have the SSD speeds.

And here you can see that the MacBook

has a huge upgrade in terms of the SSD

now being faster than the Dell 16

Premium. And same thing for the right

speed with an even bigger lead. I mean,

these new SSDs that Apple put in the M5

are really, really fast. Now, moving

over to CPU performance with single core

in Geekbench 6. Holy crap, guys. 52%

faster single core performance on the

M5. That is absolutely mindblowing. This

essentially makes the laptop feel a lot

more snappy for things like opening up

basic apps and also web browsing, which

I did test. Speedometer 3.1. It's a web

browsing benchmark. And here, basically

60% faster or snappier web browsing on

this base M5. I then tested web design

in Figma. This is a project provided to

us by our partner 500 designs, one of

the best studios out of California. And

here the Dell 16 Premium did take a lead

being 10 seconds faster. But then moving

over to multi-core performance and

Geekben 6. Somehow this base MacBook Pro

with the base M5 just 10 cores versus 16

[music] is faster in terms of multicore

performance. Now I know what you're

going to say. That's just Geekbench. Why

don't you just go ahead and run

Cinebench? Well, I did the 10minute CPU

multi-core stress test. And guess what?

The M5 MacBook Pro was also faster even

despite its single fan. But now, let's

throw that RTX 5070 in the mix and get

to Geekbench 6 graphics. Comparing Open

CL to Metal, here is where you see the

Dell 16 Premium really, really get ahead

with a lot faster raw graphics

performance. I also tested gaming

benchmarks with 3D Mark Steel Nomad

Light. This is their most recent really

good gaming benchmark. And here we're

getting basically double the graphics

performance, average FPS with that RTX

5070. I mean, the difference is [music]

absolutely insane. And then going into

ray tracing with Solar Bay Extreme. This

is their latest test. Over twice as high

FPS on the Dell 16 Premium. I mean, that

is really impressive. But now, let's get

into the realworld productivity tests.

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Now, getting back to our realworld test.

Let's start with photo editing in

Lightroom Classic. I exported 50 42

megapixel raw photos and here the M5

MacBook Pro has now taken the lead. This

is basically using a lot of graphics

performance to export all these photos

and it's 13 seconds faster than the RTX

5070 which is [music] just nuts. But I

also wanted to test our heavier duty

version of this test doing 500 photos

instead of 50. And this is where the

Dell 16 Premium took the lead. 9 minutes

and 2 seconds compared to 956. So yes,

it is faster, but honestly not by much

considering the huge price difference.

[music]

And of course, we had to do 3D rendering

in Blender with Cycles GPU for all of

these tests. Starting off with the

classic BMW, you can see that the 5070

is quite a bit faster [music]

in terms of this test. Like that's what

is that like close to 50% faster. Very,

very nice. It got even better with Party

Tug. That project was literally over

twice as fast in the Dell 16 Premium.

That is a huge impressive difference,

making it so much more worth it to get

this laptop versus the M5. But then I

did something new, something we haven't

done before. I went online looking for a

real Blender 3D rendering project and I

found this from a 3D render [music]

artist, Lasha 3D. This is the swamp

project. We did cycles GPU. This took a

long time. And guess what? The M5

MacBook Pro actually won. 11 minutes and

54 seconds compared to 12 minutes and 4

on the Dell 16 Premium with the 5070. I

don't know how it did it, but the M51,

maybe it's those new advancements with

Blender now supporting Apple Silicon

fully and all the optimizations, unified

memory, but I cannot believe that it

actually won. But then I started zooming

in on both of these laptops on that

swamp project, and as you can see, the

M5 MacBook Pro is perfectly smooth. But

this laptop cannot play it smoothly.

It's glitching all over the place. Even

just looking at a 2D render, which is

crazy. So, as you guys saw in all of

those performance tests, the only area

where this $3,200 laptop really won was

in terms of the graphics and not even

all the tests because this M5 MacBook

Pro only has a 10 core GPU, which Apple

has been doing intentionally, basically

keeping it down because they have to put

that M5 chip in the super thin iPad Pro,

which is just mind-blowing. And of

course, this loses because it's going up

against an RTX 5070, which uses a ton of

power with a lot more RAW graphics

performance. But due to Apple Silicon's

efficiency with unified memory and the

huge boost in 3D rendering that we got

with the new M5 architecture, it somehow

won in that heavyduty Blender swamp

render. And all of this with a $1,350

price tag on Amazon compared to $3,200

of some of the best that Intel's x86 can

offer right now. Not to mention the

resale value difference between Windows

and Mac. Every single MacBook that we've

ever tried to sell on Facebook

Marketplace sells within a week or two,

while we have a huge stockpile of

Windows laptops that just will not sell,

even after cutting the price in half and

even lower. Nobody wants them. No one is

interested. So, at this point, 5 years

after Apple switched to Apple Silicon

for the Mac, it seems like the only

remaining reason why anyone should buy a

Windows x86 laptop is for gaming or for

Windows exclusive apps. Other than that,

Apple has now finally proven their

superiority in the laptop market, and

Tim Cook's legacy is now set in stone.

But the craziest thing of all is that

Intel will now be manufacturing the very

Apple chips that started to kill their

own x86 chips off. Now, with that out of

the way, let me finish off with my

thoughts on the M5 MacBook Pro as an

overall $1,350

package [music] and how it compares to

the rest of Apple's MacBook lineup.

First off, it has a great design, great

portability with a 14-in display, which

is great, but not perfect. Of course,

Tandem OLED is coming [music] soon, but

keep in mind that OLED display is coming

first to the M6 Pro and M6 Max models,

which are redesigned. The next M6 base

model MacBook Pro is not getting a

redesign and no display upgrade at all.

It's going to stay the same, just a chip

update. But comparing performance, the

M5 beat the M4 Pro in some tests like AI

image generation, which [music] was

crazy to see. And the performance of the

M5 is really, really promising for the

M5 Pro and [music] M5 Max MacBook Pros

coming in the spring, and I can't wait

to see it. But for now, the M5 MacBook

Pro for $1,350

is a great choice for anyone considering

switching from Windows over to a MacBook

for the first time since you get great

performance. But if you need more of a

portable laptop for simple things like

business or student work, [music] the M4

MacBook Air for $750 on Amazon is the

best [music]

value laptop of all time. So, I'm going

to leave the links to both of those down

below. And to finish off, let me make

one more prediction. Apple is going to

absolutely skyrocket ahead of everyone

else in the laptop space even further,

especially when they release the

redesigned M6 Pro and M6 Max Pros built

on TSMC's 2nmter process. [music]

That is going to be insane. So,

hopefully you enjoyed this twomonth M5

MacBook Pro review and let me know if

you think Apple made the right choice

down in the comment section below.

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that was a good one. Thanks for [music]

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