Marques Brownlee

"So it can push a 16-inch MacBook Pro across a table with rubber feet down"

"My Pixel 10 can now airdrop to any Apple device I want. So, I just need everyone who has a Pixel 10 to understand that you can AirDrop now. It just works."

"I was just scrolling top rated phones on Amazon a couple days ago and I saw this one has gotten incredible ratings"

"This is the Acer Aspire 16. Super popular laptop in this segment. It's actually discounted recently, so I got it for 550 from Amazon... feels like a pretty good value."

"I've been benchmarking a $6,000 16-in M5 Max MacBook Pro, and the results are just getting ridiculous. It has multi-core CPU performance at the top of the charts for every Mac ever."

"This is the new Dell XPS14. I used to really like XPS computers back in the day. Some of my oldest computers were XPS's... I bought this one, and this thing is really nice."

"But I have been using this phone for about a week now, and the more I've used it and the more commentary I've seen about it online"

"if I miss a Slack notification, I have the phone face down, I have this specific icon show up on the Matrix"

"this is also my first time using the playground, which is the community-driven store on the web where people can make even more insane custom widgets"

"I like the Nothing software clearly. It's got good character. I'll find myself missing some of the Nothing home screen features"

"You've got Waze, you've got the ChatGPT app, the Google Home app."

"In my Nothing Phone 3a/3a Pro review, I said the phone would be getting six years of software updates"

"This is the MX Master 4. This is their newest. Turns out they're great. They're silent. They have really good software. It's gotten the job done, and it's definitely going to age a lot better than the previous MX Masters."

"It's called the Rainy 75 keyboard. This is actually the newest edition. It's a rock solid super heavy keyboard. This is the Rainy 75 Light. It's one of the better priced items of this entire setup."

"This is the Artisan Ninja FX mouse pad. I like the color, the shape, the texture, the firmness of it. I have a mouse pad over here on the right for my mouse. And I have a second one over here that I've had for years."

"I have a mouse and a magic trackpad. This is the USB-C one. I use the wireless trackpad and the mouse at the same time for sides scrolling on the timeline usually."

"This is a Belkin 3-in-1 charger. It can charge a phone here with a magnet. It can charge another phone here without a magnet. Two Chi wireless chargers and one Apple Watch charger."

"These are my Sennheiser HD 650s, and I wear them a lot during the day. I like these a lot because I wear them a lot and they are very light and comfortable and they're open back and they sound really good."

"So, this is a pair of Yamaha HS8s. I've had these forever. I love these things. They're good for just general reference listening, video editing, audio editing, but also just for music listening."

"This is my Opal C1 webcam plugged into one of the ports on the back of the monitor. I'm not going to review this webcam cuz I invested in the company."

"So, this is made by Grovemade. I mainly keep like smaller items in here, cables, SIM card removal tools, pens, flash drives, a Sharpie, stuff like that. It does exactly what it's supposed to, and I like the way it looks."

"It's the Herman Miller Embody, and it's one of the best investments I've ever made. Super comfortable. I had one back in college. I'll probably have one for the foreseeable future."

"This thing here, it's called the Next Desk Air Pro. I got nearly a decade ago, happens to work perfectly. This is like my forever desk. This thing is like a rock."

"This brings us next to the displays that I work with every single day, which is the Pro Display XDR. There's two of them. I've had a dual monitor set up forever."

"It's because of the way I've edited in Final Cut Pro for like the last decade. So you can blame Final Cut Pro for this, but I have a mouse and a magic trackpad."

"This is the M2 Ultra Tower Mac Pro. I got it I think this is now 6 years ago and it was like 12 $13,000. This is probably going to be one of the first things to go."

"Same thing in Cinebench. It's right around M1 levels of performance."

"Geekbench on my MacBook Neo is over 8 and a half thousand multi-core."

"We are all the way at OnePlus 15 now, which solid phone. I've been daily-ing it for a couple months."

"I have actually mostly been sticking to the iPhone 17 Pro in Orange and not the Max."

"It never lets you pick a better source like the Apple Watch that I'm literally wearing in that review"

"It's basically erased any imperfections and kept the horizon locked. You couldn't tell I was upside down at all."

"I've just been airdropping things back and forth, like pictures, and it's just been working."

"If you thought you were being slick by watching Instagram reels on your Meta AI glasses like I am right now"

"If you thought you were being slick by watching Instagram reels on your Meta AI glasses like I am right now"

"I wouldn't crown it necessarily the absolute best set of smartphone cameras, but I would still crown it the best overall most fun smartphone camera shooting experience that I've ever had."

"This is the world's first ultrasonic chef's knife and I had to try it. So I got my hands on it. The handle will send shock waves through the knife blade at 30,000 times per second."

"I use a tool that I've talked about in the past actually on my Mac called Raycast. And it's awesome."

"Siri is bad, okay? But it is actually pretty functional at like the extreme basics, right? When you're just asking a simple factual based question like, 'What is the weather in Raleigh?' it can typically do okay at that."

"They said, no problem. We take PayPal. So, I had to open up PayPal on my computer, send the money to Vertu"

"By the way, no generative AI is being used to create this video. Just a whole lot of Blender."

"I showed the AnTuTu benchmark score for each of these phones next to each other"

"This car here I've been driving for the last two weeks is called the Xiaomi SU7. This is a $42,000 car that feels like a $75,000 car if it were made here in the US"

"I wish YouTube would bring annotations back. Do you guys remember the annotations feature?"

"This is a real 16 by 9 10-inch landscape tablet that you can literally fold and put into your pocket. It just makes so much more sense than the square."

"This just happens to be the only Samsung phone that they'll let you run Samsung DeX on its own, without being connected to a monitor."

"It was Galaxy S25 Ultra for a long time and then it was Pixel 10 Pro for a long time and now lately it has been OnePlus 15 in my pocket."

"People always want to know also what's the phone that I used the most during the year, which I mentioned in a previous video, but I will say it was Galaxy S25 Ultra for a long time."

"There were a bunch of other foldables that I saw and one other one that I actually daily drove this year for an extended period of time and it was this one, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. And this one is really nice. While using it closed, it's basically all the goodness of just a regular Pixel 10 Pro."

"This car also happens to have wireless Apple CarPlay and it's nice. I think it is the biggest, nicest window of wireless CarPlay I have ever seen in a car"

"I can go play Il America by Wolf Gang Gartner on Spotify and it hears that by Wolf Gang Gartner now playing on Spotify."

"So, I went on Twitter and Threads this past week and asked you guys for your hottest takes and got quite a few of them."

"I have Relay for Reddit, which is a paid app. There's not that many good Reddit apps anymore for obvious reasons, but I do pay the five bucks a month for this one."

"There's another app called Flighty, which is, as someone who's flown quite a bit lately, one of the most useful apps of all time. It basically just pulls the data directly from the source and often notifies me before the airline app would."

"What Athlytic does is takes the information from the Apple Watch and from Apple Health, aggregates it all and gives me a lot of that same information that the Whoop would. I like Athlytic."

"This one here is called Neuecast. I use Pocket Casts most of the time, but Neuecast is one that I found that might replace Pocket Casts for me. It's a really clean layout and just shows me my most recently updated podcasts from all the ones I'm subscribed to."

"My authenticator app is Authy, that's a great iPhone app."

"CARROT, over on the left is my new weather app of choice. Essentially what CARROT did was clone the Dark Sky layout that made it so good, but then also gave us a whole bunch of customization with other stuff, like weather sources."

"I also still use Pocket Casts for all of my podcasts on the go. There's a bunch of different podcasts apps, but that's the one I've stuck with."

"Notion is the one that we use at the studio for keeping track of everything."

"It's kind of like a nice, cross-platform Airdrop and file sharing app, but it's actually more than just Airdrop because it can do it wherever your devices are. So I can Blip something to someone across the country if they have an account. It's super useful for file sharing, link sharing, all that stuff."

"I use the Raindrop.io app to save links and I use that because the Pocket app also died this year. I used to use Pocket all the time for this and now it's gone. So I use Raindrop.io for the exact same thing."

"Copilot is a finance tracker app and then Superhuman for email."

"I basically live in the TickTick app. It's how I remember to do anything in life."

"I actually have the Arc Search here, the Arc browser app, which I no longer use on the desktop because they're kind of not paying attention to it anymore. But it is still kind of useful to have mobile sync from a couple of spaces I have set up."

"Windows has felt like a weak link and every single Windows laptop will have to suffer for it... it's just lacking the super premium feel that wins everybody over."

"I have been using this phone for a couple weeks now, and there are some things about it that are actually better than a regular phone. I hate to admit it, but also there are absolutely some things about it that are not worth it."

"you can watch Zack from JerryRigEverything's video because he also got one and he took those screws and took them out"

"This is a good minimal phone, especially for the price. It's undercutting the competition by, from what I can tell, quite a bit."

"In trying to make my point that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was really, really good"

"Shout out to the base iPhone 17 for finally stepping up to the plate and doing all the things that the base iPhone should. Flagship chip, really good cameras, great software obviously, but also the new promotion display, a massively upgraded selfie camera, some kind of sweet new colors. It's actually a good deal this time around."

"The MacBook Neo, which is one of the best deals in tech in a long time, 600 bucks and more efficient and more capable and better built than almost every other laptop in that price range."

"Two of the most compelling new budget phones available right now. The 4a is where it's at."

"If you want the best possible display to complement the MacBook Pro for that one cable plugin and come to life desk setup, it's this one."

"These are incredible. I think they're better than AirPods Pros... as of right now, these are the ones to beat. My favorite wireless earbuds 2026."

"That's genuinely really sick! This is a hardware-level control over the pixels on the display that can be turned on or off whenever."

"Quick Share works natively like with AirDrop. If you have Apple devices and Google Pixels, they can file share between them and it's kind of sweet."

"Pixel 9a has got to be on anybody's list who's after a more compact option. This is a 6.3 inch screen and they did a lot of things. Still great software from being a Pixel. Really good cameras on the back."

"What they've ended up with is a phone that feels crazy. It feels impossibly light. It looks impossibly thin. It kind of resembles a piece of jewelry in many ways, but also really appeals to the minimalist in me. It's just one of those phones that feels so good in the hand and is so impressive."

"I think my favorite OnePlus phone of all time would be the OnePlus 7T Pro. That thing I genuinely believe I could still use today and be totally happy with."

"Circle to Search is one of the absolute most useful AI features to me of the entire last 5 plus years where you can circle whatever's on your screen."

"I think Gemini on Android phones is already really good. They've looped in now a lot of the old Google Assistant features. So Gemini as a product is really good."

"this is Epic Spaceman, one of my favorite creators and of course a massive help with this video"

"This is a really big phone that is really loaded with features. First of all, it's a 6.9 inch phone, so basically as big as a phone gets before as a tablet, but it also feels like the most phone you can get if you're trying to maximize everything. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which is shaken out to be the most powerful chip of the year."

"For $279, this phone is modular, cheap, and fun. They built a phone that feels like it's literally double the price. This is a 6.8 inch 120 Hz screen that's actually good-looking and bright. There's a 5,000 mAh battery, so the life is actually pretty good."

"This is a device that's actually starting to make foldables make sense to me. For the right person who knows what they're getting into, this can be worth it."

"This is the Fairphone 6, a phone that looks relatively normal, but that's the point because this just so happens to be the most repairable, the most sustainable, and most modular phone basically of all time. And that is no small feat."

"This is a 6.8 inch screen size and packs in a huge triple camera system on the back, including a 200 megapixel telephoto sensor. There's a ton of RAM and storage. There's a custom button. They put the camera control in there from the iPhone. And there's a giant 7500 mAh silicon carbon battery, which is ridiculous. It's an awesome phone."

"If you deleted all the slab phones in the world somehow and made me daily drive something that folds, it would be this one. Not because it's the thinnest or has the best specs or the best cameras. It doesn't. But it's just it's the most rock solid across the board and usable as a daily in every way."

"This phone feels as good as anything they've made, and that's a good thing. Like, it's got a huge screen. And it's got a really, really big battery, decent cameras, decent software, headphone jack. This is one of the best phones under $200."

"This part actually kind of reminds me of the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, if you remember that phone"

"it appears to just be a single screen that kind of bends over both edges, like a lot of those older Samsung phones"

"This is the same company that also made the G8X, which was right at the beginning of the folding phone era"

"I remember doing a video about this phone, and this thing was nuts"

"the last phones LG did release before they died were the LG Velvet and the LG Wing"

"all the way back to T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone ever"

"It's roughly the same size as a Nexus 6. A little bit smaller, actually."

"you could technically still find your way over to Instagram on the Boox PALMA"

"that's what the original iPhone did, jumping into the already existing world of mobile phones"

"that opens up to an almost 8 in wide screen kind of like a portable iPad mini"

"That's HomePod jumping into the world that already existed of smart speakers"

"this phone has the same ISO HP5 sensor that's in the S25 Edge, 200 megapixels, one over 1.56 in optically stabilized"

"when this all got started 7 years ago with the Galaxy Fold 1, it was really exciting that it folded in half, but there were obviously a ton of compromises back then"

"that's Vision Pro jumping into the world that already existed of VR headsets"

"For context, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is also just under 9 millimeters thin and around 230 gram."

"I took the same picture from every single iPhone from the 17 to the one"

"it can be a progress bar indicator for an upcoming Uber or Google calendar notification"

"it can be a progress bar indicator for an upcoming Uber or Google calendar notification"

"The 4a, this blue one, is definitely the most competitively priced. It's running the Snapdragon 7S Gen 4"

"You can definitely do CapCut any mobile video edits literally no problem."

"This year, I got the M5 chip bump and it's $1,100 to start."

"Yes, it's running an iPhone chip, the A18 Pro."

"Photoshop, a little tougher, but it should be okay."

"Performance-wise, this can handle the edit. Pixelmator, yep."

"Lightroom, yep."

"I suspect Premiere would probably feel around the same."

"The cheapest MacBook you've been able to get for the past couple years has always been a MacBook Air, which typically hovers around $1,000 bucks new."

"On a Mac, there's Safari web browsing and then there's Chromium web browsing."

"Browsing in Chrome will famously fill up those 8 gigs of RAM a bit faster as you open more tabs."

"We already have a Mac Studio now getting more regular updates than the Mac Pro. Mac Pro hasn't been updated since M2 Ultra back in 2023."

"That also birthed the infamous Apple polishing cloth and its constantly updated compatibility list."

"And then they brought it to the iPad. So there's an iPad Pro with nanoexture and that's obviously a touchscreen."

"They dropped a barely updated regular studio display, which is the same design, same stand, same chassis, same 11-year-old panel, 27in 5K IPS LCD panel, but now with the new processor inside."

"I'm sure most people just throw a dbrand case on it and call it a day"

"All of the talking head footage on the latest AutoFocus episode with the Polestar 4 was shot on this S26 Ultra"

"It's the same price as a Mac Mini, which has actually been one of the best deals in tech for a little bit now."

"A lot of students I've seen were trying to undercut a MacBook Air with either going cheaper, refurbished, or with an iPad."

"Think of it like a Chromebook, but the Apple one. Chromebooks have been cheaper and have been just dominating in education."

"There's also an iPhone 17e with MagSafe and double the starting storage and a new pink color."

"The same way they don't let Garmin watches have the same level of integration with the phone as the Apple Watch"

"sandwiched between the pretty underwhelming base S26 and all the fanfare about the privacy screen in the S26 Ultra"

"I think they're better than AirPods Pros... just as far as a performance benchmark goes, these clear it."

"if you're looking at the Sony WF1000XM6s, these are much more geared towards sound quality... everyone knows how good they sound, but that's at the expense of a lot of the other little everyday use stuff"

"And then of course Galaxy Fold, which is super early and risky."

"They also added their own version of Magic Queue, which they're calling now Nudge, which basically lives in the keyboard and gives you suggestions of things to bring in from other apps."

"And there's also some big claimed improvements with Bixby now being LLM-powered. New Bixby could be good."

"Like the Galaxy Note Edge back in the day where like one side of the display curved over the bezel for the first time."

"The Tensor G5 is their latest chip and for years the Pixel has had the A series comes out a little later but it actually has the flagship chip."

"It's covered in a slightly newer Gorilla Glass 7i instead of Gorilla Glass 3."

"It seemed like such a ridiculous omission to take out MagSafe."

"The iPhone 17 base is actually slightly narrower and slightly taller than the base iPhone 16"

"Inside, it's even the same Tensor G4 chip from last year."

"Welcome to your first look and hands-on with the brand new Google Pixel 10A."

"But in other markets where people can just use WhatsApp and be happy about it, then there's way more hardware competition"

"but this is the Honor Power 2. Yes, it's absolutely a clone of the iPhone, but it's also thinner than the iPhone and has a 10,000 mAh battery"

"I remember when the new OnePlus flagship came out last January, and it made this huge jump from 5,400 mAh straight to 6,000 mAh by going with silicon carbon"

"It had all these flagship specs with the latest gen Snapdragon 800 series chip and it was $300 somehow which was unreal."

"There was Pocophones and Sony Xperia phones and Nothing phones and all sorts of stuff in between."

"Some tried to make the transition smoothly and gracefully like Asus with the ROG phone."

"It was running CyanogenMod. So this developer friendly clean no bloatware experience."

"Now they had their own flavor of Android Oxygen OS, which was this super smooth and fast optimized software."

"It's running the same software as other Xiaomi flagships, HyperOS 3 on top of Android 16."

"So this is a Leica camera, but now this is the Xiaomi 17 Ultra Leica Edition."

"I also shot most of my Tesla Model Y performance review on the autofocus channel with this phone in video mode and it looks great."

"I kind of love the circular volume buttons with the plus and minus on them, kind of a throwback to like the 2010s with the iPhone 4 days."

"It's running the same software as other Xiaomi flagships, HyperOS 3 on top of Android 16."

"You might remember a video I did a couple years ago on those Caviar phones. And as ridiculous as those were, you could pretty clearly see their angle for trying to charge so much for a phone"

"I remember seeing that on the Galaxy S9 back in the day and it was pretty useful. Like that was an innovation to control the amount of light hitting the sensor"

"The Snapdragon 8 Elite chip inside is great"

"Windows XP is the most widely used desktop operating system. Good times."

"I was inspired to do this and to make this video by Tom Scott in 2023 he did a video going back over all of his previous mistakes"

"In my Samsung Galaxy S25 review, when talking about why Samsung plays it safe in the US, I used OnePlus as an example"

"OnePlus 13 did end up working just fine with Verizon, like a lot of other previous OnePlus phones"

"And it doesn't really work with every carrier. Like Verizon, you can forget about it"

"In my PowerBeats Pro 2 review, I actually quoted my pre-release briefing in a meeting with Apple and Beats"

"In my Nothing Phone 3a/3a Pro review, I said the phone would be getting six years of software updates"

"In my M4 MacBook Air review, I accidentally called it a MacBook Pro once near the end"

"In my Bionic Ability hand review, I talk about the way that users will control the hand with EMG technology"

"In the OnePlus 13S review, I correctly said up to half a terabyte of storage, but the on-screen graphic accidentally says 1 TB of storage"

"In my Nothing Phone 3 review, when complimenting the display, I mentioned that it has a 1000Hz touch sample rate"

"My AirPods Pro 3 review talking about the new heart rate feature. I said apparently it's using its own algorithms and software"

"In the final section with the Nikon Z9, I said with a 24 megapixel stacked CMOS sensor, semi-stacked officially"

"It's a Snapdragon 8 Elite 4 Galaxy inside. It's obviously only a year old, so still a really great chip."

"This is technically not the first trifold smartphone. This is the Huawei Mate XT that I made a video about back in 2024."

"This is an attachment lens, a Hasselblad telephoto attachment that you put the case on the back of the phone, you attach this to the case, and then this turns into a 10x optical zoom on this already really good 200 megapixel telephoto that takes sometimes shockingly usable really good far zoom shots just for fun."

"This is the Realme GT8 Pro. And you see this camera bump, which kind of looks maybe a little bit generic, but there's two screws on it. It came with a screwdriver so you could pop this camera bump off and change it out to a different shape."

"The phone that I tested this year with the largest capacity battery which is this chunk right here. This is a Dooji S200 Ultra 11,000 mAh silicon carbon battery."

"I also want to give one more shout out to the Vivo X300 Pro. Came out late this year. Also ridiculously good cameras. Really really impressive sensors and huge sensors. Just not quite as refined as I thought they were going to be."

"Like I know people wanna compare this to Porsche Taycan. This is not Porsche Taycan levels of sporty, but it's like one notch below that, which is still really good"

"But it kinda handles on the same level of Model 3 performance or BMW i4. This is a really capable car"

"Like this actually reminds me of one of the hot takes from last time or like 2 years ago I did this video and someone's take was that the Cybertruck would outsell the Ford F-150 by 2026 which that obviously aged poorly."

"I mean they've been a thing for years from Boston Dynamics back in the day and they've gotten more and more advanced all the way up till now."

"People use Claude and Perplexity and ChatGPT all the time for all kinds of stuff. These things have, you know, in the past few years become super high usage tools and have changed the landscape of business."

"People use Claude and Perplexity and ChatGPT all the time for all kinds of stuff. These things have, you know, in the past few years become super high usage tools and have changed the landscape of business."

"But people don't realize how popular the Ford F-150 actually is. It's been the number one bestselling truck in America for like 46 years straight or something like that."

"And the vacuum is a little Roomba on the ground."

"You've probably seen my video on the Neo, which is a soft cloth little 60 lb humanoid chore robot thing."

"But also Amazon's new Rufus AI powered assistant. And of course, all the game-changing advancements with LLMs that aren't even necessarily assistants."

"Also, things like home automation, if you have HomeKit stuff, that works. Okay."

"these are much healthier than doom scrolling TikTok or Instagram or something like that"

"Microsoft actually requires a dedicated co-pilot button on the keyboard of every new Windows 11 laptop now to be classified as an AI PC, whatever that means."

"It's asking me to use Microsoft 365 and then OneDrive and then all these other services, etc., etc."

"I got a popup ad for McAfee Security on this $2,000 brand new laptop, which to be fair is probably a Dell problem."

"It's asking me to use Microsoft 365 and then OneDrive and then all these other services, etc., etc."

"Apple tried to make before Apple silicon a 12-in MacBook. It was running a 1.1 GHz dualcore Intel processor that throttled if you looked at it for too long."

"That could still be a dozen exploding Note 7s like it was in 2016"

"It's basically like a Spotlight search replacement for Mac because Spotlight has also been dog water for years."

"They're using a Sony IMX906 sensor, which is the same as we've seen in Samsung's A55 and the Honor 200 and a bunch of other sub $500 phones"

"The Pixel 9's fingerprint reader was in fact also ultrasonic. It was still bad and it was still one of my biggest annoyances"

"Really just the fact that the Magic Mouse's design still now in 2025 hasn't changed since I was in high school and it's still like $80 and it still has all the downsides it has from all those years ago is crazy to me."

"this OPPO Find N6 is complete as far as I'm concerned. We've gone through one by one each of the potential compromises of a folding phone and engineered them away."

"You've seen the Dbrand Area 51 skin on my personal MacBook Pro for years now. Not just because they've been a sponsor for a decade, but because it's actually a really good product."

"The extremely popular 5 in 1 power bank which I basically always have on me. And it's Mag Safe compatible, too."

"The tracker card, which I keep in my bifold wallet every single day"

"I've been using these for like, the better part of a year now, and I think they're great. They obviously protect the glass and they're super easy to install."

"Ridge's 5-in-1 magnetic power bank. It's what I use, and pretty much everyone at the studio uses one, too."

"Channel sponsor Dbrand has been cooking on these retro-styled MacBook skins, and I got to say, they look pretty sweet."

"Ridge was started 13 years ago by Paul and Daniel Kaine with one pretty simple goal, gear built better. And that mission lines up pretty perfectly with why I've been working and building with them."

"The main thing to call out is that unlike pretty much every other clear case, the Ghost case is guaranteed to never turn yellow. And dbrand really means guaranteed; they'll literally replace your Ghost for free for life if it ever turns yellow."

"Rocket Money has been the perfect tool to help me do that. It automatically tracks all my transactions in one place."

"There's the new Ridge 2.0 wallet. It's lighter, more modular, comes in MagSafe versions and includes Ridge's industry-leading built for life warranty."

"anyway, thanks to dbrand! I don't know how they get their hands on these things"