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Here is how I justified the MBP over Air (Youtube)

crawfish963

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This post is just for fun, but hear me out! The price difference between the base MBA M1 and base MBP M1 is ~$300 USD depending on current deals. With that, you get the Touch Bar, which some love and some hate. However-the Touch Bar allows me to skip through YouTube ads, which I would need to give Youtube $11.99 USD/month for their premium ad-free service. I refuse to do this because I'm too cheap.

Assuming I keep this M1 MBP for 3 years, which is about the average number of years I keep one before upgrading, I would have paid $431.64 for Youtube Premium. By getting the MBP for only $300, I saved $131.64.

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crawfish963 said:
I would need to give Youtube $11.99 USD/month for their premium ad-free service.
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Just an FYI you can use a VPN to sign up for YouTube Premium via India and pay way less. I use the student discount and pay about $US1.10 per month. Some people don’t like to bypass geo restrictions which is cool, but if you’re not one of them it might be worth a look so you can have best of both worlds.
 
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Just an FYI you can use a VPN to sign up for YouTube Premium via India and pay way less. I use the student discount and pay about $US1.10 per month. Some people don’t like to bypass geo restrictions which is cool, but if you’re not one of them it might be worth a look so you can have best of both worlds.
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Interesting. Do I have to VPN into an Indian server every time I want to watch Youtube? That would be a deal breaker for me.
 
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Do I have to VPN into an Indian server every time I want to watch Youtube?
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No, only to subscribe to Premium and then never again. You’ll see your normal YT feed and recommendations. I think I’ve read if you use YT Music you’ll see Indian recommendations but I don’t use that so it’s never affected me.
 
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crawfish963 said:
This post is just for fun, but hear me out! The price difference between the base MBA M1 and base MBP M1 is ~$300 USD depending on current deals. With that, you get the Touch Bar, which some love and some hate. However-the Touch Bar allows me to skip through YouTube ads, which I would need to give Youtube $11.99 USD/month for their premium ad-free service. I refuse to do this because I'm too cheap.

Assuming I keep this M1 MBP for 3 years, which is about the average number of years I keep one before upgrading, I would have paid $431.64 for Youtube Premium. By getting the MBP for only $300, I saved $131.64.

Justified.
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Adguard blocks youtube ads and it's free.

There's also another app called Freetube. Blocks all ads and prevents youtube from tracking you while doing that.
 
crawfish963 said:
This post is just for fun, but hear me out! The price difference between the base MBA M1 and base MBP M1 is ~$300 USD depending on current deals. With that, you get the Touch Bar, which some love and some hate. However-the Touch Bar allows me to skip through YouTube ads, which I would need to give Youtube $11.99 USD/month for their premium ad-free service. I refuse to do this because I'm too cheap.

Assuming I keep this M1 MBP for 3 years, which is about the average number of years I keep one before upgrading, I would have paid $431.64 for Youtube Premium. By getting the MBP for only $300, I saved $131.64.

Justified.
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I had no idea the Touch Bar could do that! That's very cool! I'm not sure it'd be the reason I'd use to justify 2-port 13" Pro over Air, but it's not like there aren't other reasons to do that.
 
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crawfish963 said:
This post is just for fun, but hear me out! The price difference between the base MBA M1 and base MBP M1 is ~$300 USD depending on current deals. With that, you get the Touch Bar, which some love and some hate. However-the Touch Bar allows me to skip through YouTube ads, which I would need to give Youtube $11.99 USD/month for their premium ad-free service. I refuse to do this because I'm too cheap.

Assuming I keep this M1 MBP for 3 years, which is about the average number of years I keep one before upgrading, I would have paid $431.64 for Youtube Premium. By getting the MBP for only $300, I saved $131.64.

Justified.
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To be honest, one of the reasons i wanted the MBA over the MBP is the lack of touch bar. I have a 2018 MBP that i am trading in. The touch bar is unreliable and gimmicky. I wanted to like it but it was more of a headache than it was worth. I really hope Apple considers dropping it in the future. It's very nice having a top row of physical buttons again that can't freeze
 
MBHockey said:
To be honest, one of the reasons i wanted the MBA over the MBP is the lack of touch bar. I have a 2018 MBP that i am trading in. The touch bar is unreliable and gimmicky. I wanted to like it but it was more of a headache than it was worth. I really hope Apple considers dropping it in the future. It's very nice having a top row of physical buttons again that can't freeze
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I'm actually intrigued by the touch bar. Granted, my only experience was a 30 min test drive but I kind of liked. I realize it is pretty divided on who likes it, but I have not heard about the unreliability. Are the freezes common?
 
Booji said:
I'm actually intrigued by the touch bar. Granted, my only experience was a 30 min test drive but I kind of liked. I realize it is pretty divided on who likes it, but I have not heard about the unreliability. Are the freezes common?
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in my experience over the last 2 years it gave me an issue, either freezing or not responding to touch inputs, at least once or twice a week. easily the most unreliable and un-apple piece of apple hardware i have ever used.
 
Touchbar never freezes or misbehaves for me, and I use it everyday. May depend on what else is running on the computer.
 
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