Now, every model gets twoThunderbolt/USB4 ones, but only the mid tier and upper tier ones get an additional two USB3 ports. Other than that, we've got thesame 500 nit peak brightness, 4.5K display, the same 1080P web cam, which I am extremely excited about. I mean, we're getting A,Apple's mobile processing on it, and B, finally decent freakinghardware for a change. And the same microphonearray that apple claims gives us this thing bestin class performance, both from an audio input perspective and actually, oh, yes, there's our, I mean, sort of like adownward firing soundbar. There's all the internalspeakers along the bottom. You get the same headphonejack, power button and all that good stuff. But where they differ, is in the accessories andactually in the internal. Starting of course,with the magic keyboard. If you go with the base model, you do not get touch ID on the top right of your magic keyboard. For my part, I think that's honestlyalready a deal breaker for me for the base model. Touch ID is freaking awesome, always has been and always will be, in my perspective. USB-C to Lightning charging cable. We can put that away for now. Presumably there'll beenough charge to get started, then we... Yes, good old magic mouse. Who needs to be able to use it while you're charging it, if it can be used for hours after only a few minutes of charge? That's the kind ofinterruption to my work day that I need in my life. They have made a consciousdecision not to fix it. This puppy right here, this is the optional upgraded power brick that has Apple's new MagSafe connector. So we just go ahead and... I mean, does it just grab on? Look at that. Wow! It really grabs, doesn't it? And Gigabit Ethernet, and I was really curious how they were doing the data, right? Because obviously this can't just be, you know, 12 volts and ground, right? So there has to be data lines in here. And it turns out that they've got a really clever little kind of triangle shaped guide on two sides of the centerof the MagSafe connector, which means it can only go in two ways. So you've got what is essentiallya reversible connector that's got 12 conductors, which would be enough for USB3? What if it's just Lightning? But is that... I know Lightning isnot quite standard USB2 cause I'm trying to think if that's even fast enough for Gigabit. Imagine being apple and just being able to likeinvent your own standards for things. For those of you wondering about the graphic that I'vegot on here by the way. This is from dbrand,who sent over this iPad, and sponsored this video. And they have... This is gonna be a big launch for them. I can already tell becausethis thing looks fantastic. This is the black color wave for it. But you can see that the overall pattern is gonna have a common theme. And that's that it has thiskind of folded steel look, like damascus steel, which also happens tobear a lot of similarities to the top prestige skin in Call Of Duty. They've got their hollow green one, which I've seen already. I think they have a coupleof other ones coming and man, on pretty much anything, this is going to look absolutely sick. As always with dbrand skins, they are perfection fitted, they've got great guides online that you can use to make sure that your applicationis absolutely perfect. And their
configurator is fantastic. It allows you to see exactly whatever yourdevice will look like with whatever combination of skins and on whatever combinationof surfaces you prefer. So go check them out. We're gonna have them at thelink in the video description. Again, they said theyreally didn't like the look of a black one on this. I think it looks great. So maybe I'm just tasteless, but maybe check out some oftheir other skins for your iMac, if this doesn't do it for you. Well, we're not quite donewith the differences yet. There's two more thatapple tells you about. One, is that the mid and higher tier are available in three additional colors. So you get it in yellow, orange or purple, in addition to blue,green, pink, and silver. And they both come with an 8-Core GPU, rather than a 7-Core GPU. The last difference thatI'm aware of anyway, is that the mid and upper tier one, both come with two coolingfans instead of one. So it is possible thatthat second cooling fan is only necessary becauseof the eighth GPU Core. But it's also possible that there could be slightperformance differences between the base and mid and upper tier. We don't know, we haven't tested it yet, this is the first time on opening it. I guess if I spent the extra, I might as well get a, plug an ethernet cable in, right? I'm gonna sound a little spoiled here, but I have to confess I had kind of forgottenhow small 24 inches is.
It does not feel like a $1,300 starting at computer size anymore. That's interesting. Now I mean, I can seewhy they have a product in this size class, you know, dental offices or whatever, like they need computers too. But yeah, that is nota big display anymore. Look at that. Got my verificationcode on my apple watch. It just works, okay? There's the map of... Not where I am. I'm actually over here somewhere, but don't worry about it. (indistinct) That's what she said. If people can't find their mouse cursor, they just go like this and then it gets big andthen they can find it. Sorry, it's just going through Apple's new secure data storage facility in China. They like built it in collaboration with a Chinese government-run entity. Set up Pace here? Sure, why not. Hey Siri, open the documents folder. Wow, that was so much fasterthan just clicking on it. One really nice thing aboutthe Apple ecosystem is, that default encryption. Look at that. Do you want to use FileVault to encrypt the disc on your Mac? Heck yeah, I do. And whoa, we can set up touch ID. God, touch ID is so amazing. Just pre-pack touch ID on the iPhone. Just make the Apple logoon the back a touch center. Everyone wants it. Whoa! Dark mode. Nice. Neat. Okay, just gonna have to dothe first thing that I do, which is turn off True Tone, because, don't understand why it exists. Now, let's talk about the difference going from this one to the high tier model, cause on their website, they've kind of got good, better, best.
It is pre upgraded from256 gigs of storage to 512. And then you can justtake the mid tier one and upgrade to 512 gigsof storage if you want. And then it will beexactly the same thing. So really there's only two tiers. And just like any M1 based machine, so Mac mini, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, you're going to be limited to a maximum of two terabytes ofstorage and 16 gigs of Ram. Which again, back to, dental offices and the kind of places that you'd be able tofit a machine like this, is honestly probably fine. Cause you're running Safari, right? You're on a Mac. Not running Chrome or anything. Boy, that really is a cleveridea for cable management. Having the network cablejust like run somewhere else, and then they go and ruin it by not putting the USB-Con the bottom of the stand or something like that. God, that'd be awesome. But then you wouldn't be able to put it on a monitor arm which we all know many of these are destined to end up on. So all that's left nowthen is to prompt you guys to make sure you'resubscribed to Linus Tech Tips because the one and only Anthony Young will be putting thisthing through its paces. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.