Apple MacBook Air 13 2020 M1 [MGND3]

New Mac powered by a revolutionary single-chip processor

You have probably already heard that Apple got into the processor race and immediately succeeded in this. And the 2020 MacBook Air was one of the company's first devices to be powered by the Apple M1 APU. This is a single-chip system that houses 8 processor and 8 graphics cores, a neural unit for machine learning, a video core and RAM. Despite the rawness of the software and the use of the emulator, the Rosetta M1 performs marvels of speed, providing performance on par with the Ryzen 7 5800H and Core i7-1185G7. The only negative is that Apple, as always, exorbitant prices for flash memory, so in our modification we had to limit ourselves to a 256 GB SSD drive.

Reaction speed like an Olympic athlete

At the same time, it is damn frisky - Air with M1 turns on in just a few seconds, and the laptop itself wakes up from sleep faster than you have time to lift the display lid. But that's not all. Firstly, the chip boasts a Nordic character and heats up very little. So weak that the active cooling system was actually thrown out of the laptop, leaving a couple of passive radiators. Therefore, the MacBook M1 does not make noise from the word at all. Secondly, the chip, inspired by mobile processors, consumes very little power, which significantly saves battery power: 15 hours of work in browser mode and 18 hours of video playback are normal for it.

The same Air, but with passive cooling

Otherwise, it's still the same thin, sleek, and tidy MacBook Air with a brushed-aluminium chassis and a redesigned scissor-style keyboard that hasn't replaced the ever-breaking butterfly keyboards that Apple has been pushing through for years. The 13-inch Retina display is as beautiful as ever: brightness, contrast and colour reproduction are at their best, and content in 2K resolution impresses with its detail. Image auto-calibration using the True Tone feature also works great, you rarely pay attention to it, but if you accidentally turn it off, your hand immediately reaches to return it to its place.

USB4 ports and upgraded webcam with three microphones

But the equipment has been somewhat improved in comparison with the Air models of the past and the year before last. For example, the webcam is equipped with three microphones for better voice transmission during video conferences, and the built-in speakers make friends with Dolby Atmos. The Force Touch touchpad is able to recognize the force of pressing. And on the side panel there are brand new USB4 ports that support all the goodies of the Thunderbolt 3.2 interface, including charging and the ability to transfer an image to an external monitor.