You've got to be joking right? The first photo doesn't even have a power cord attached. The second photo is intentionally cluttered. I know I always keep a small pile of paperclips right next to my laptop as well?!?
Don't buy yourself Starbucks today and instead buy this and end your cable problems.
They are two for $9. Attach them to the end of anything you need to plug in and be done with it.
Take the 2015 Macbook Pro. Add the SD card sticking out. Attach the Magsafe power cord. Attach two USB 3.0 cables. Add a displayport cable for that external monitor (so you get two cords for power and external monitor versus one now.) Don't forget to add a small plant, ruler and a pile of paperclips to clutter up the photo.
The second photo actually shows the beauty of the choices because you can now DETACH all that legacy stuff via one port quickly and move on with your beautiful laptop.
In fact if this were my laptop, I'd have that be a hub instead of something hanging directly off the side and put it somewhere further away. Then I can come in and just plug one cable to my laptop that has power, display and every ugly device that needs a cord to access it in one place.
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David Lee might be disappointed but perhaps that is because he didn't score a Macbook Pro via BH for less than $2400 with 16/500 and the Radeon Pro 455 like I did. The main issue for him seems to be cost and the fact that Adobe makes their stuff run like unoptimized crap.
He declares the build quality is unmatched PERIOD by anyone else out there. The screen and thermals are great. He doesn't measure the SSD speed at all but if he did he would find it twice a fast as competitors and would find the read and write speeds are great versus just read that Dell and others seem to use to cheap out.
He doesn't use FCP at all. While he is pretty good at what he does, the reason this laptop is doing well, and will be grabbed by so many YouTuber's is because of Final Cut Pro. With background rendering and quick exporting, it is often five to ten times faster than Premiere. Plus it is a one time expense versus a monthly subscription. You could say that you shouldn't have to buy specific hardware to run a particular app but that is true of Premiere as well. He notes specifically that what makes Premiere so faster on PC vs Mac is that they have adopted a CUDA via Nvidia for use as a rendering choice for Premiere and thus the very inefficient software becomes somewhat faster when specifically purchasing and using Nvidia cards.
I looked at many of the laptops he featured in his second video you linked. I specifically took a very hard look at the Dell XPS15 which he notes is $1900 with the same features. However when following up on the Dell it took them nearly 6 months of bios and driver updates to get the laptop working right. There are still complaints about coil whine. The USB C ports are found to be working at half speed for no reason anyone has cared to explain yet. (People have even investigated and found there are enough PCI express lanes reserved, etc. Oh and of course everyone complains the battery life is crap and depending upon the reviewer they either got a screen that was decent for color matching or a complete mess.
As I dug into several of the PC laptops, I kept running into issues I don't care to deal with specifically also dealing with the cramped lack of space due to persistent taskbar, in window menus and running on a 16x9 screen. The laptop reviews gloss over the typical sore spots. (Trackpad, terrible speakers, fan noise, etc.)
It isn't worth it.
