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 Amazon has released

another streaming device.

All right, we've already
got the Fire TV Cube,

plus we've got the Fire TV
Stick, the Fire TV Stick Lite,

the Fire TV Stick 4k.

And now introducing the
Fire TV Stick 4k Max,

Yes, I got it.

confused yet?

Yeah, you should be.

So first of all, Amazon take it easy.


All right, that's enough
devices, it's enough.

And second of all,

let's find out if it's worth upgrading.

If you've already got a Fire Stick,

is it worth upgrading to the new device?

Well, that's what we're
gonna find out today,

so let's dive in.

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So the Fire TV Stick 4k Max, how is it?

Well, right out of the box,

it is almost exactly the same
as your other Fire Stick 4k,

if you've already got one.

It looks the same as the
other Fire Stick models.

It's got all the same things
included in the package.

They are including in the package,

the new second generation remote.

It's pretty much the
same as the old remote,

I guess one extra button
here and well, okay.

A bunch of extra, more colorful buttons.

Basically, it's the
same as the old remote.

They're just selling some
ad space on it, okay.

But what they're really selling
with this Fire Stick 4k Max

is the guts of it.

The internal hardware that is beefed up,

and it's supposed to give
you a better experience

than you've had with
Fire Sticks of the past.

The two things that they're
advertising on the new Max Stick

is first of all, a faster stick, okay.

So it's going to be more responsive,

easier to make your way
through the menus to type,

to, you know, talk to, we don't
say her name lest she wake.

And the other thing they're advertising

is Wi-Fi 6 compatibility.

So if you're not familiar,

I'm not gonna get into
the technical stuff.

You can watch Juan's
videos here on this channel

to learn more about Wi-Fi 6,

but basically it's faster
and more efficient Wi-Fi

in your home.

And of course with these bumped up specs

comes a slightly bumped
up price tag as well.

It is starting at a price of $55 online.

Now that'll fluctuate,

I'm sure they'll have
deals around Christmas time

or prime day, whatever, but yeah,

they're retailing it for 55 bucks.

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Now it's a little bit tricky
because they're still showing

the sticker price of the
regular Fire Stick 4k at $50.

So this is only a $5 price difference.

In reality though, there's
always deals going on.

So you can always get the Fire
Stick 4k for, I don't know,

usually 35, 40 bucks, something like that.

Especially right now, I
think it's really cheap,

but the, yeah, the Fire
TV Stick Max, 4k Max,

gosh, this is gonna get really annoying.

It is going for 55 bucks.

So yeah, it is a little bit
more than you would spend

on the previous generation device.

So is it worth it?

Does it deliver on what it advertises?

And the answer there is, yeah.

Yeah, it kinda does.

I mean, it's not advertising
a giant quantum leap forward.

Everything about it is the
same as far as the menus

and you know, how the remote works,

everything is very, very similar

to what you're already used
to with your Fire TV devices.

But yeah, it does kick
up the speed and notch,

both in terms of the, the
experience in the menus,

the interface, and with that
Wi-Fi 6 capability as well.

As far as setup goes, like I said,

this is very, very similar
to other Fire TV devices.

So if you've already used one in the past,

you'll be able to just kind
of port your information

over from there, you'll be just fine.

If this is your first device then, yeah.

I mean, you'll go through
a little bit of setup,

putting in passwords for Wi-Fi
and all that sort of thing,

but it is very, very simple to do.

Once it's up and running,

and it did take me a few
minutes to get through setup,

you know, downloading and
installing all the updates

and stuff.

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But once I was in, yeah,
the responsiveness,

the speed in the menus
was noticeably quicker.

It was much quicker than we
got on the Fire Stick 4k,

certainly much, much
quicker than the Fire Stick.

And it's about what I would
expect from the Fire Cube.

Which makes sense, the tech
that they are advertising here

bumps up three key areas.

First of all, your CPU, that's
your central processing unit

that determines basically the
speed of the entire machine

and the components within it.

And the CPU now goes from 1.7
gigahertz up to 1.8 gigahertz.

It may not sound like much, but yeah,

that is a decent boost of power

for a device as simple as this one,

this isn't a desktop
gaming computer after all.

The GPU, the graphics processing
unit gets a bump as well

from 650 megahertz up to 750 megahertz.

Now this'll be most noticeable if you do

something like gaming on your Fire Stick.

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If you're just searching
through the menus,

Yes, it will make it
a little bit smoother,

little bit more pleasant to watch,

but it's not going to be a huge jump

for people who are just
doing very, very basic things

on their Fire Sticks.

It also gets a bump in
Ram from 1.5 gigabytes

on the base 4k model, to now
two gigabytes on the 4k Max.

So with specs like this,

it doesn't quite bring it in
line with the Fire TV Cube,

but yes, it is much better

than the other 4k Fire Stick Model.

Now, with all these bumped up specs,

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you might expect a
little bit more of a jump

in terms of your viewing experience.

You probably won't get one there.

Once you're actually into your
content, watching your shows,

you're still getting the
same 4k HDR Dolby vision

that you've got with
the other Fire Stick 4k.

So if you're looking for
a bump in picture quality

in your content, you're not
really going to get that here.

What the bump in the tech specs does

is allows you to get
to that content quicker

and much more pleasantly.

Maybe you're still
using an old Fire Stick.

I know I've got one packed
away here somewhere,

but when you plug in those old sticks,

it's amazing how slow they
are, how much the lag time is.

Every time you push a button
on the remote, you know,

trying to type is a nightmare.

So the actual experience
of getting to your content,

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of navigating the menus
much, much cleaner,

much faster, much easier.

So is the bump in specs
worth the bump in price?

Well, this one's kind of a toss up.

Yes and no, I could really go either way.

It is very nice to have a
quicker, more responsive system.

So if you're on your Fire TV
or your Fire Stick every day

and you're using it a bunch
and you're getting fed up,

it's getting a little bit slow,

it's getting a little bit clunky,

then a refresh might be in order.

It might be worth it to you then.

If you're just fine with
your experience now,

and you're wondering, hey, you know,

should I, should I bump it up?

Yeah, maybe give it some time,

let yourself get annoyed with
your current Fire TV Stick,

and then you can bump it up
to this one at some point.

Because frankly, the regular Fire Stick 4k

is a perfectly good device.

You're not getting a huge
bump in performance here.

You would see a big bump,

if you were going from the
regular Fire Stick to this one

or the Fire Stick Lite to this one,

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you would see a massive
boost in performance.

But if it's just going one
notch higher from the 4k

to the 4k Max, I, probably
save your money for now

and just watch for it to
go on sale at some point.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on it.

I hope this helps you make a decision.

Let me know in the comments if it did,

or if you have any other questions.

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