Shadowing Practice: The M5 MacBooks are nuts.. - Learn English Speaking with Video

Oh, so I bought another Apple laptop.

It's the M5 Pro model with a bunch of RAM.

But why?

Well, first, I have a desktop PC that's pretty powerful.

I built it like two years ago.

And I have an M1 Pro MacBook Pro.

Why not just use the desktop PC?

Well, because I'm not always in the same location,

so I need a laptop.

But why not a Windows laptop?

Or what's wrong with my M1 Pro MacBook?

That one's gotten pretty slow for what I need it for,

which is just mostly video editing.

The M1 MacBook was a base model,

which means 512 gigs of storage and 16 gigs of RAM.

And this has really started to show inside of Premiere Pro.

I don't really care about export times, none of that.

The only thing I care about is timeline performance.

When I press space and there's a two second delay between my playhead starting to move,

that's extremely annoying because I press space multiple times every minute.

So those two seconds of delay adds up to an entire minute

that I have to wait in between playing and pausing the video that I'm editing.

And why not use proxies?

They're essentially like super large files that make editing way faster because it's like a more compatible format.

Well, because they're super large files and my old MacBook only had 512 gigabytes of free space.

This is how big proxy file is for 26 minutes of recording.

90 gigabytes and my recordings are usually like five hours long.

I could use something like an external hard drive

or SSD to edit off of but then there's not enough ports, it's slower.

I don't want to deal with that.

But why not Windows?

Well because Windows sucks.

Why not Linux?

Because Premiere Pro, the editing software that I use, doesn't exist on Linux.

So there's no other option.

It's either macOS or Windows macOS has their fair share of annoyances,

for example the animation speed when switching virtual desktops.

This is how long it takes.

Boom, boom.

That's when it fully switched.

You can do it faster if you set up keyboard shortcuts,

but for me it's super annoying that the animation speed increases the more your displays refresh rate increases.

Yes, it's very smooth, but don't make me wait.

Linux has this animation speed slider where you just drag it and all animations across the entire operating system become much faster.

That's such an amazing feature that I wish Windows and macOS would have.

Windows also has an annoying desktop switching animation,

but instead of it taking long,

there's just a massive delay between when you click the keyboard shortcut and when the display switches.

Anyway, let's pause on the virtual displays and come back to why Windows sucks.

It's mostly just file explorer.

When I edit videos, there's a bunch of files involved and I have multiple explorer windows open.

It's nice that it now has tabs, which is cool.

I hate the Explorer.

For example, half the time when I start my computer,

the Explorer just completely crashes.

It's just black screen and I have to go into the task manager and manually click run task and start file explorer.

What is that about?

A lot of times it shows that my folder is empty,

but it's actually not.

If I refresh, boom, everything appears.

Sometimes this happens to my mouse.

I mean, it could be because I've messed around with my graphics card inside of Linux,

so maybe there's some bug here.

But still, this never happens on Mac.

There are a fair share of things that annoys me about Mac OS,

but let's focus on Windows now.

When using a bunch of different apps that are in full screen,

when you switch back to them after a while,

it just goes to the corner.

Why?

And then you have to like resize them back up again.

This happens all the time because I have like Premiere open,

VS Code open for creating animations.

And when I switch back and the window is just super tiny in the corner,

that just wastes a bunch of time of me like messing around and putting it all back.

But probably the worst thing about the Explorer is the lag.

It's incredibly laggy.

The amount of time I just have to wait while my mouse spins around until it loads something,

the working on it message, and Finder on macOS.

Whenever you search for something, it's almost instant.

I mean, most normal people probably rarely use the Explorer,

but I use it every single day because I edit videos.

Half the time, it's also not responding.

Sometimes I'm just unable to drag a file.

It just doesn't work.

When switching virtual desktops, the text at the bottom blocks me from opening up my taskbar,

which is stupid, but like, why?

It just makes for a very clunky editing experience.

There's some things that I dislike about the Finder as well,

probably this one the most.

When you select a bunch of files and try to drag them to a new tab,

sometimes it just puts you back into the previous tab.

I hate when that happens.

Sometimes the Finder crashes too,

but way less than File Explorer.

There's also an annoying Google Chrome bug where it just keeps showing this stupid message and doesn't let me click anywhere else.

You just have to click OK like 10 times and then you're able to interact with your computer.

For some reason, some apps tend to just completely break the entire operating system and everything you do,

like moving folders around or moving windows around,

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becomes delayed by like two seconds.

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And then you have to go in and close every individual app to see which one it is and then,

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you know, maybe update the app.

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In this example, it was the app Linear Mouse.

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So macOS is also not perfect,

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but I would choose it over Windows just because of stability,

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nine times out of ten.

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Here are some other apps that I usually install on every Mac.

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I already mentioned Linear Mouse.

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This one is a must,

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especially if you're coming from Windows.

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It essentially lets you configure your mouse,

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like disable pointer acceleration or change how fast your mouse scrolls for different apps.

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This also is a great feature.

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Enable universal back and forward,

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If you have this disabled and then inside of something like Finder,

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if you go into like movies and then you want to go back,

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you can't do that with your mouse buttons.

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You have to click this.

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Here I'm pressing the mouse buttons.

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Not working.

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If I enable this, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.

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Now it's working.

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The next one is this one, Carabiner Elements.

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This one lets me configure my keyboard shortcuts.

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See, I have a bunch of custom ones like opening Chrome with Shift-Option-C.

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This app is very good for that.

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Then there's local send, which is essentially just airdrop,

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but not only for Apple devices.

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So if I take a screenshot,

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I can immediately send it to my Windows PC without transferring it over USB or sending an email to myself.

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Well, right now there's no PC here because it's turned off.

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And then I have Setapp,

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who are also sponsoring this video.

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Setapp is a unified marketplace for Mac and iPhone users to discover hand-picked and secure apps.

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You just download and install it once and then you can browse set up for a bunch of useful apps.

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For example, I love this app called Yoink.

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So I'm going to Yoink it and boom,

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it's installing onto my Mac.

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This is a great utility there.

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It's installed.

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For example, if I have a screenshot that I want to import into Premiere and I don't want to go to Premiere,

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then go to my Finder,

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find this thing and then import it.

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I can just do it with yoink because it adds this like extra shelf where I can just place the screenshot,

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go into Premiere and then import it from here.

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Pretty useful.

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If you want to see how your Mac is performing,

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there's the iStat menus app.

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It immediately opens.

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I just click next a few times.

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And there it is.

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Look, there's my CPU temperature,

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SSD usage, CPU usage, and so on.

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There's Clean My Mac, which just removes a bunch of bloat from your Mac.

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And there are hundreds of other amazing apps.

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So you can browse Setapp's marketplace and get single app subscriptions or just get the classic Setapp monthly subscription,

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which is just one subscription for hundreds of apps.

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Go to the description and click on the first link to try out Setapp with an extended 30-day free trial.

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Okay, let's come back to why I like this laptop.

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I think this computer looks pretty cool.

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It's very well built.

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Well, exactly the same like my previous laptop.

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It's just black.

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I like the speakers a lot.

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They're amazing.

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I like the screen a lot.

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It's amazing.

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I also got the nano texture display,

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which I would 100% recommend.

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I think it's so much better than the glossy screen that I had on my older MacBook.

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It's the best matte coating on the display that I've ever seen.

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It's just a joy to look at.

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I'm not sure about cleaning it though

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because Apple recommends only using their own microfiber cloth

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which came in the box with the laptop

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and it does clean it pretty well although you have to scrub pretty hard if what's on your screen isn't dust.

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Like if you're biting an apple and it squirts juices all over the screen.

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Okay then you have to scrub it pretty hard.

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Wait how much does the cloth cost? $20.

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I also like the keyboard.

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It's pretty good.

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Touch ID.

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It's also very good.

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The trackpad, top class.

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The hinge, it's openable with one finger.

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The build quality, it's all metal.

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Now here are the things I don't like.

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The headphone jack sucks because whenever the laptop is charging and you want to plug in headphones,

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there's always going to be some weird electrical noise that you hear through them.

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I know it has to do with some like grounding on the charger,

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which by the way wasn't even included in the box.

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What the hell, that's stupid.

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This expensive ass laptop does not come with a charging brick.

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That's like, God, why?

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Luckily I have one from the previous MacBook,

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but most people don't have a 130 watt charger just laying around.

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Anyway, the headphone issue, I know it has to do something with charger grounding and stuff,

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but I've had other laptops where this wasn't an issue.

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So it's just annoying that it's an issue here

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and I pretty much only use the built-in speakers or AirPods with this computer and not my IEMs,

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which are amazing and I would like to use them more.

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I don't want to hear electricity in my ears every time I plug them in.

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Next thing that annoys me is that there's no USB-A port.

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I know everything is moving towards USB-C,

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but like my mouse is not USB-C.

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My external hard drives are not USB-C.

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All the other ports are amazing,

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they're perfect, but at least for me this is a pretty annoying thing.

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Why does the notch exist?

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It doesn't bother me that much or pretty much at all,

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but why is it there?

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But when When it comes to video editing, it's amazing.

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I was editing on this for like four days,

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then I turned on my Windows PC,

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tried editing there, and oh my god,

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this laptop is just such a joy to edit on.

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Timeline performance is so much better here than on my dedicated Windows PC.

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And that's the thing that I care about most.

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When I first turned on Premiere on this thing

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and just scrubbed one of my timelines and then hit space a couple times,

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I was like, wow, I will love editing on this thing.

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And I absolutely have.

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It has the M5 Pro chip inside.

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I was considering getting the M5 Max and less RAM or M5 Pro with more RAM.

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And after discussing with AI and reading a bunch of Reddit comments,

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I decided to just get a bunch of RAM because turns out Premiere really consumes RAM.

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And I also want to play around with AI, maybe host models locally.

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So that's why I thought more RAM equals good.

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It has 64 gigabytes, which were not cheap.

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And also two terabytes of storage,

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which means now I can freely create however many proxies I want.

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And they're not going to fill up the entire SSD,

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which is so amazing.

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On my previous Mac, I kept moving video files back and forth across different hard drives,

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and it was very annoying.

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Now I can just keep most of it here,

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and once a month, just move everything off to a hard drive.

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Also, one bonus thing that I didn't even consider was that creating animations for my videos,

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which I do with a Python library called Manim,

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that it would render them much faster.

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I rendered out the first one,

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and I was like, whoa,

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hold up a second, that's fast.

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Oh yes, another thing, the Option key.

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I think it's so much better than the Alt key on Windows because you can't really remap the Alt key.

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It always does some like weird function.

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And inside of Premiere, I use a bunch of custom keyboard shortcuts.

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And so I can't really use the Alt key for a lot of them.

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One other very cool thing that the Option key does on macOS is when you hold it and use the arrow keys,

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it jumps your cursor across the entire word.

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This is very useful because you can hold Option

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and click Delete to delete an entire word instead of deleting it like this,

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one letter at a time.

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Of course, you can do the exact same thing by holding control on Windows.

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But since Mac has an extra modifier key,

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the command key, when you hold this one,

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it jumps across the entire sentence,

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which means you can also delete the entire sentence.

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And on Windows, you have to press like some weird home key combination.

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And surprisingly, deleting the entire sentence is very useful, at least for me.

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So on Windows, I made the alt key do the same behavior using auto hotkey.

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Oh, I just remembered.

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The reason I really like this laptop is because when I close it and open it back up again,

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I'm back where I left off.

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And I can technically, in theory,

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do the same with my Windows PC,

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but half the time when it wakes up from sleep,

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it actually restarts for no reason.

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Sometimes I move my mouse,

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I hear the PC fans starting to spin up,

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but my display permanently stays black.

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So I have to reboot the PC and then get back into it again.

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I think the way that Windows handles sleeping and hibernation is just a lot worse than the way Apple does it.

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Even though it didn't come with a charging brick,

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even though the headphone jack is super annoying,

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even though it doesn't have a USB-A port,

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even though there's a notch,

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and some things with macOS are very annoying,

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like not being able to change the animation speed,

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all of that considered, I would still give this computer a 9 out of 10.

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So I like it a lot,

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because it really shines in the category that I care most about, video editing.

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You can't really play games on this thing.

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Well, you can, but no, you can't.

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Okay, goodbye.

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Thank you.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “The M5 MacBooks are nuts.”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: window, app, laptop, bunch. Deze video bevat 286 zinnen en 2656 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:04. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 203 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. Slechts 78% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
annoy werkwoord	/əˈnoɪ̯/	ergeren, vervelen
explorer zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/	verkenner, ontdekker
animation zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/	animatie
desktop zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdɛsktɒp/	desktop
keyboard zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈki.bɔɹd/	toetsenbord, klavier
shortcut zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈʃɔːtkʌt/	sluiproute
gigabyte zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/	gigabyte
headphone zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhɛdfoʊn/	hoofdtelefoon, koptelefoon
charger zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/	oplader
scrub werkwoord	/skɹʌb/	schrobben
proxy zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɹɑk.si/	procuratiehouder, gevolmachtigde
screenshot zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/	schermafbeelding, schermafdruk
subscription zelfstandig naamwoord	/səbˈskɹɪpʃən/	abonnement
import zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɪm.pɔɹt/	import, invoer
install werkwoord	/ɪnˈstɔl/	installeren, aansluiten

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
back up werkwoord		teruggaan
fill up werkwoord		opvullen, vollopen
go back werkwoord		teruggaan
set up werkwoord	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	bereiden, voorbereiden
try out werkwoord		uitproberen
turn off werkwoord		uitzetten, uitschakelen
turn out werkwoord		uitvallen, resulteren

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

I don't want to deal with that.
Yes, it's very smooth, but don't make me wait.
Whenever you search for something, it's almost instant.
Sometimes I'm just unable to drag a file.
Here I'm pressing the mouse buttons.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	has really started · I've messed · I've ever seen
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	tabs, which is · send, which is · gigabytes, which were

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 40 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, hibernation /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈneɪ.ʃən/, nanotechnology /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: keyboard /ˈki.bɔɹd/, scrub /skɹʌb/, browse /bɹaʊz/, gig /ɡɪɡ/, pause /pɔːz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, nanotechnology /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/, taskbar /ˈtæskˌbɑɹ/, trackpad /ˈtɹækˌpæd/, matte /mæt/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gigabyte /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/, configure /kənˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/, gig /ɡɪɡ/, plug /plʌɡ/, glossy /ˈɡlɔsi/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als annoy, explorer, animation.

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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