MacBook Air with M1 gets official, boasts 18h of battery life
Apple's first Mac using its M1 chipset is the MacBook Air with M1. This probably shouldn't come as a huge surprise, as the MacBook Air is the most popular Mac and the world's best selling 13-inch notebook. The design seems to be unchanged from the previous generation, but it drops the Intel processors and jumps straight into M1 territory.
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This means you're getting a fanless, fully silent laptop, with what Apple claims is up to 3.5 times the CPU performance of the previous-gen Air and up to 5 times faster graphics. The SSDs are said to be two times faster too.
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Aside from the much improved performance, you're also getting better battery life. For browsing the web on Wi-Fi, the new MacBook Air will last you for up to 15 hours, while if you just play video offline, it will go on for 18 hours. That's 6 more hours than its predecessor, and the longest ever battery life in a MacBook Air. Apple also says you will be able to video call twice as long as before on one charge (without mentioning numbers here).
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The laptop's 13.3-inch 2560x1600 Retina Display now supports the P3 color space and has 400 nits of brightness, as well as True Tone tech. There's Wi-Fi 6 on board, Touch ID is still in, and you have two Thunderbolt ports with USB 4 support.
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The MacBook Air with M1 pre-orders have started today from $999, while for educational customers it will be $899 and up. The entry-level model comes with an M1 chip with 8 CPU cores and 7 GPU cores, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. For one extra GPU core and double the storage space, you'll have to pay an additional $250.
The laptop runs macOS Big Sur, and will become available next week in Space Gray, gold, and silver.
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- Ghost
- 02 Jul 2023
- gWQ
I know this comment is bit old but OP was not far off. https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/18/apples-move-to-m1/#:~:text=He%20estimates%20that%20M1%20chip,the%20entry%2Dlevel%20MacBook%20Pro.
- DSB
- 20 Jul 2021
- KSi
this is the first time I bought MacBook , I am really surprised with the performance. one of the best....
- Anonymous
- 10 Dec 2020
- PTF
Just some Jealous Apple Hater that can't accept apple made an industry leading chip and put it in a laptop, just like in an iPhone. You would be sure that intel sells more chips, and they use 10nm instead of 5nm, and that is cheaper. Plus, I...