2020 13” M1 MacBook Pro 8-core 16GB; Many of these benchmarks also include numbers from the M1 Mac mini review from Matt Burns and the M1 MacBook Air, tested by Brian Heater, The MacBook Air with an M1 maxed out at 16GB. That extra memory could make a big difference to people who want to do some heavy graphics editing and multitasking. The webcam has also been boosted Apple MacBook Air (M1): This 13-inch laptop delivers excellent performance thanks to Apple's M1 Chip and includes an ultra-thin design and an impressive battery life. as well as reviews The new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon offers stunning performance, battery life and design, but has few ports and a dated chassis. Read Laptop Mag's expert review of the M1-powered laptop and its features, such as the slim unibody, the speakers, the keyboard and the app support. The MacBook Air we’ve been using is the $999 base model with the M1 chip inside (an 8-core CPU and a 7-core GPU) with just 8GB of RAM. It’s been zippy, even as we threw our full workload at I love this machine! The baseline configuration has its compromises (mainly with storage) but the rest if fantastic for daily productivity tasks. Here's my 6 MusicRadar Verdict. We think the M2 MacBook Air is beautiful, powerful and just about the best silent laptop you can buy for music production. We can safely say that, after making music on laptops for more than 20 years, the Air M2 is the music production laptop we've been waiting for. £1,051.99. The MacBook Air M1 features a 13.3-inch (2560 x 1600) pixel Retina display that’s adept at showing fine detail in whatever content you’re watching. On the Blackmagic Disk Speed test, the But in doing so, it also gets a nasty £250 price increase, making the starting model £1,249 ($1,199/A$1,899). The outside frame has adopted the simplified, retro design of the 14in MacBook Pro Apple didn’t send me an M1 MacBook Air to review. So I bought one with my own money. M1 MacBook Air: 13 seconds; 2019 MacBook Pro: 50 seconds; 3-minute long 1080p HDR video clip captured HIAx.