Apple’s MacBook Air M1 is the perfect mix of power and portability. Read our review to find out why.
Thin design, but feels dated
As before, the base of the laptop is a “wedge”, with the front considerably slimmer than the back, but balanced with small “feet” underneath. On the left side, you’ll find two USB-C ports that are USB 4.0 compatible, and on the right-hand side, you’ll find just a headphone jack. With an 8 core CPU, the M1 MacBook Air is three-and-a-half times faster than the prior Intel version, which opens up more opportunities for budding creatives, or even more accomplished ones, to use the laptop for image manipulation or video editing.
As we noted in our M1 MacBook Pro review, Apple’s also got compatibility sussed when it comes to the M1. As your apps aren’t necessarily M1 optimized, the MacBook Air uses a translation layer called Rosetta 2 that kicks in the first time you open an app, in the background. You won’t notice it, but it recompiles your app to make it run on M1, and you’ll see no performance loss because of it.
If you’re used to the fans in prior Mac models spinning up when trying to complete more demanding tasks, you’ll be pleased to know that the M1 MacBook Air doesn’t have fans. That means it’s silent when running, and while there is a question over how this will affect it in the long run, Apple is using an aluminum heat spreader that dissipates the heat internally. So, if you’re editing video in Final Cut Pro, you’ll be able to do so without cranking up the volume.
There are some complaints though, with some users stating that 8GB of RAM may be insufficient for more complex projects – and we’d tend to agree. While the 8GB version we tested is breezy in the majority of tasks, anyone looking to take on larger scale edits of photos and video may want to look at the MacBook Pro instead.
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