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Was anyone else cringing during this video at both the host's constant unnecessary outbursts, but also the way he haphazardly stripped a $16K Studio? It was obvious he has experience and yet went out of his way to act unprofessional. I seriously doubt every screw made it back into that Studio. Can't wait for iFixit's calmer teardown video.

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Give him a break. He's probably doing his best to make money out of his channel.

Of course he wants to draw attention, and that's fine. People understand he's acting, besides doing a professional work.

Probably the interesting thing will be if we ever get videos of deep hardware fixes of these. Like the “I bought 5 broken PS5s to fix for this video”

Meh. It is a $4K machine, not $16K. And a million views on a YouTube video (which this one is approaching and sure to exceed) can get you up to $40K in ad revenue. Somehow I doubt think the possibility of screwing up when putting it back together is too scary to him.

> And a million views on a YouTube video (which this one is approaching and sure to exceed) can get you up to $40K in ad revenue

1 million views on YouTube is closer to $3-$4k in Ad Revenue (If you are lucky)

Not $40k

It depends on your viewership breakdown. The average is lower, but top creators who target viewers in expensive markets have reported those numbers on the high end.

Apparently the money in tech review is in affiliated marketing and not ads. I've seen people pulling 200K a year with around 100K subs.

> but also the way he haphazardly stripped a $16K Studio

the version they tore down is $4k and even the maxed out version is $8k, don't know where you got $16k figure from

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio/20-core-cpu-48...

They bought 3 separate systems with montiors. Easy to see how it got to the $17k+. It's explained within the opening minutes of the video

> a $16K Studio

he stripped one machine, the OP comment implies a $16k machine

And I provided info to clear up the confusion, so not sure what the confusion is.

This part of the statement “stripped a $16K Studio”

Yeah, this is the kind of content I try to avoid. Being shouted at by a guy who uses the word 'literally' in almost every sentence isn't my idea of enjoyable content.

Max Tech is... really something. I stumbled upon a few of his videos a few years ago and thought it was a parody of JayzTwoCents/LinusTechTips channels, but... nope. Guy is a real gem of modern YouTube and algorithm pandering.

Fun fact: it’s not a single guy, it’s actually two guys who look and sound similar.

I’m surprised more YouTube channels haven’t capitalized on twin presenters. Twice as much content per filming hour.

It's pretty embarrassing watching a grown man lose his cool repeatedly just because there's a cap over a CPU and some memory that are mounted on the same PCB.

This guy is kinda... I'm surprised the headline isn't QUANTUM COMPUTING MAC CONFIRMED.

The video was excruciating for this very reason. Very obnoxious bro-culture presentation.

What’s up with not using an electrostatic mat and wrist bracelet to prevent discharging onto the electronics?

In my experience of having touched components and had static discharge, modern components (at least on PCs) are designed to handle it. I worked for a systems builder and none of the assemblers used grounding straps and had no issues. It seems like they have something in the traces to protect the critical components from static, probably to reduce RMAs from custom builders. That's not to say it can't happen though.

I think static straps are important.

I used to work at a fabless semiconductor company, Aeluros (bought by Broadcom) in 2002-2007, and one of our analog designers, Arnold Feldman, Ph.D., who designed anti-static circuitry for a large graphics card mfr, religiously wore anti-static straps when he was in the lab.

In fact, all the designers (they were all Ph.D.s from either Stanford or Cal) wore straps in the lab.

I asked him once why he wore a strap because until that company I had been haphazard in my use of a strap when I worked on the guts of PCs. He said that even though I might not have caused a failure, the chip might be degraded.

I now wear a strap every time I work with bare circuit boards.

Yup, degradation is the silent killer. It may work this time, but maybe a few months or years down the road it will suddenly fail.

This is fascinating, I didn’t know this was a thing. I always ignored the static strap, based on what I’d heard/seen that it was no longer strictly necessary.

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