this video is sponsored by skillshare the place to learn all the creative skills you've always been interested in learning the first NUMBER_TOKEN people who join skillshare with my link in the description get a one month free trial of skillshare premium so you can explore your creativity today okay so first off let's talk about the configuration i chose for my laptop i ended up going with the NUMBER_TOKEN inch silver fully specced mNUMBER_TOKEN max model except four terabytes of storage instead of eight terabytes of storage basically i wanted to get a machine that i know will last me for many many years for all of my intensive work i do NUMBER_TOKENk video editing photo editing graphic design work and i wanted to make sure that this machine would be able to handle all of the things i throw at it and not slow down for anything my previous laptop was actually the NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN-inch macbook pro fully specced and that computer actually started showing its age pretty quickly shout out intel and i ended up going with four terabytes of internal storage which is quite a lot because i wanted to have all my files natively on my computer i do use quite a few of samsung's tNUMBER_TOKEN ssds for backing up important files as well as editing certain large projects on the go but usually if i'm going to a coffee shop or i'm traveling i just want to have all my files on my computer without having to bring anything else with me and four terabytes is definitely enough let's talk about the design of this computer it's fully redesigned and absolutely beautiful it kind of reminds me of one of apple's classic titanium power books which were gorgeous machines in my opinion and this has many of the design elements of those laptops it's super thin and light it's beautiful i couldn't ask for more in a portable laptop i'm also a big fan of the keyboard and trackpad situation on this computer the keyboard is absolutely stellar i do a lot of typing with emails typing out point form notes drafting up proposals and this is an absolute joy to type on for hours there's great key travel all the function keys are great to have here no more touch bar nonsense and the power button which is a fingerprint scanner is very fast very accurate huge fan of that and the trackpad for a lot of precise creative complex work you probably wouldn't want to use a trackpad for long periods of time but with this computer it's stellar the trackpad is massive on this machine it's not cramped at all like some other laptops where it's a super tiny trackpad it's hard to do much of anything here it's an absolute joy it's responsive you can click pretty much anywhere i love using this trackpad for editing videos editing photos pinching and zooming in what's also wonderful with this machine is the amount of ports we have here once again we have three usbc ports a headphone jack sd card slot hdmi port magsafe port that's amazing it's also kind of the bare minimum we expect with a laptop but shout out to apple i love having ports on my computer this isn't some super crazy advanced feature but being able to just take out your sd card and just plug it into your laptop with no adapters no dongles that my friends is a lovely lovely
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