Mark Ellis Reviews

AirPods

$119.95 · strongly positive

“These are the AirPods 5. They're 119 quid in the UK. They have active noise cancelling for the first time ever and they are brilliant.”

“We then had the Nothing Headphone A, which are these here, which in my humble opinion have made the Nothing Headphone One fairly redundant because these are 150 quid.”

Logic Pro

“I make music myself so for me that's a really important button. I've been using these to fiddle around on Logic Pro and knowing that the flat EQ is on is quite reassuring because I then know that what I'm listening to is very close to how it should sound.”

“And I'm going to use Mac Whisper for this with Parakeet V3. That's the model it's using locally without the internet to transcribe these videos.”

“We have Mac Whisper for video to text conversion, draw things for images.”

“We then have Mac Whisper, which is used to turn video into text for transcription.”

“FLUX.1 [schnell] (Black Forest Labs, images): downloaded inside Draw Things”

Ollama

“Ollama (the engine)”

“So, for instance, on this MacBook Pro, I have Tail Scale running and this which is open web UI, which gives me a chat GPT style interface that I can start asking questions of.”

“The other one is GPTO OSS which is a 20 billion parameter model. That's about 14 gig and it's open AI's open model. It's there for a second opinion if we need it.”

“The second one is Llama 3.3. That's a 70 billion model.”

GPT-OSS-120B

“We then have GPTO OSS which is 65 gig and 120 billion parameters.”

“Brain FM is basically an app for your iPhone or your Android device that pipes music into your head that can make you more productive. It's not guaranteed obviously, but I can't work without it.”

Mac mini (M6)

cited in 2 videos

“And whereas my tests with the M6 Mac Mini kind of focused on just doing the basics of, you know, chat GPT style stuff internally, with this, we're going to do some much more impressive things.”

Mac Studio

$2,449.00 · cited in 2 videos · positive

“However, I have a monstrously powerful and very expensive Mac Studio here, and we'll be doing some similar tests on this, but also showing you how this fits into a much wider system.”

“BenQ PD3220U Designer Monitor”

“MSI PRO MP341CQ 34” Monitor”

“Benks Magnetic Charging Pen”

Logitech MX Master 3 Mouse

“Logitech MX Master 3 Mouse”

“Paperlike (iPads incl. mini)”

“Paperlike (iPads incl. mini)”

“Satechi M4 Mac Mini Hub + SSD Enclosure”

Tailscale

cited in 2 videos · positive

“I also have Tail Scale on here, which I'll explain later, and a local version of clawed code.”

iPhone Air

$1,149.00 · cited in 2 videos · Mixed — said both good and bad

“Next up, the iPhone Air, which has been my main phone for most of this year until recently.”

iPhone 18 Pro Max

cited in 2 videos · Mixed — said both good and bad

“Okay, so I've been using the iPhone 18 Pro Max as my main phone for the last 2 weeks, which makes this the two week later review.”