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Technical information
Brand Apple
Operating system macOS Big Sur
CPU manufacturer Apple
Screen size 13.3 Inches
Computer memory size 8 GB
Processor count 8
Graphics processor manufacturer Apple
Model name MacBook Air
CPU model Intel Core i5
Resolution 2560 x 1600
About this item
Apple-designed M1 chip for a giant leap in CPU, GPU, and machine learning performance
Go longer than ever with up to 18 hours of battery life
8-core CPU delivers up to 3.5x faster performance to tackle projects faster than ever
Up to eight GPU cores with up to 5x faster graphics for graphics-intensive apps and games
16-core Neural Engine for advanced machine learning
8GB of unified memory so everything you do is fast and fluid
Superfast SSD storage launches apps and opens files in an instant
Fanless design for silent operation
13.3-inch Retina display with P3 wide color for vibrant images and incredible detail
Costumers Product Reviews
Pros
- It's astonishingly fast.
- Huge battery life. Totally silent, never gets hot and has no fan.
- You can easily extend the screen onto an iPad for an extended desktop.
- For iPhone users, it integrates with that so you can get messages, facetime, phone calls.
The biggest problems with laptops are battery life, heat, and speed.
This has all 3 covered and then some. Without a fan. It lives up to the hype reviewers are giving it, and as an everyday laptop, and the cheapest base model, it's a leap ahead of laptops from the likes of Intel. Previously the Air has been known to be hampered on the above problems but all of that has gone away with Apple Silicon. Don't let the 8GB Ram fool you, with the M1 Chip memory is handled differently, and although it's shared with the GPU (7 core in this model), the efficiency of apps means you can churn through multiple tasks that can be compared with machines several times the cost. As of the posting of this review, there are lots of apps that aren't optimised for M1, but still run well under "Rosetta 2", which translates apps designed for Intel. iPhone & iPad apps also run (though many developers have opted out), which is janky, but works in a pinch. This is early days of Mac OS Big Sur, and the transition has been surprisingly smooth. It's actually hard to adjust from laptops that slow down and drain battery with just a couple of apps open.
This sounds like an ad, but if you're not convinced, go try this in an Apple Store, the best way to explain it is to put a keyboard on an iPad, keeping its snappiness, memory efficiency and battery savings. The only drawback is the ports, but those used to the dongle life won't mind for the benefits.
Yes there are cheaper laptops, but this is an exceptional all-rounder. If you're on the fence, push the button, you won't regret it.
Cons
- MacOS is pretty poor for some basics.
- It feels surprisingly heavy. Maybe it should be called the MacBook Iron (I'm too used to an iPad Pro I guess)
- It's not a touchscreen.
My Wife's Huawei MateBook Pro is better in almost every respect: a better, higher res, touch-screen, equally high-quality build, more ports, thinner, and cheaper for the same spec (RAM and storage). But it only runs Windows of course.
- Siri on the Mac is a joke.
One of Apple's best features that has made it attractive to Windows users in the past, has been the ability to run Windows software either like a dedicated Windows computer (using Bootcamp) or actually in MacOS using Parallels. It's worth understanding you can't do either with the new M1 chip - and are never likely to be able to. As someone else commented, it's frustrating just how many times you're asked to enter passwords on MacOS (machine password, or Apple ID password (different things). And this computer has a touch ID, so why does it ask for any passwords when it has a fingerprint ID?
I was concerned that 8GBytes RAM would not be enough, but the speed of the CPU and particularly the SSD means that, so far at least, I've not noticed any slowdown with a lot of heavy-weight apps running, and a browser with dozens of open tabs. I use Edge (native M1 version) as I find it a better browser than Safari - better zoom control, better memory management, a thing called Collections and everything syncs across all my devices (phones, Windows and Macs). But Safari is fine, maybe even faster.
Battery life seems about 12 hours real-world use, maybe more (web browsing, mail) with mid-brightness. Much better than any other laptop I've ever used.
MacOS is poor when it comes to things like window management. If you're coming from Windows, especially if you're a power-user, there's quite a lot that's backwards compared to Windows. (e.g. photo management, basic file management (the Finder), windows behaviour, Alt-Tab support - all are better handled on Windows than MacOS).
It's OS is buggy, despite having OS update twice in the last 10 days (now on OS 11.2). For example I have a short-cut on my backdrop. If I touch this file, to try and delete it, or right click on it, it hangs the entire machine (Finder again) so that even the menus, and keyboard stop working. Getting out of this requires some advanced & hidden stuff (new users would never find it, meaning you have a totally hung machine, and no way out).
Usability Tip: Scale the screen using System Preferences > Display > More space. Also install an app called SmoothScroll if you use a mouse and want trackpad-like smooth scrolling. And there's an app called AltTab that brings much better app switching Alt-Tab support.
Siri really sucks on MacOS. Having been used to Siri on the iPhone and Alexa, it's shocking to see a conversation like this:
Me: 'Hey Siri, set a timer for 10 minutes'
Siri: "Done"
15 minutes later after no timer went off...
Me: "What timers are set?
Siri: "It's 13:18" (the current time. It didn't understand me.)
Me: "What timers are set" (really clearly time)
Siri: "Sorry, I can't help you with that here" (I have no idea what 'here' means)
Me: "How long on the timer"
Siri: 'Sorry I can't help you with that here"
Me: "Can you set a timer?"
Siri: "Done" (but I didn't tell you how long to set a timer for)
Me: 'Why can't I set a timer?" (being hopeful)
Siri: "OK, added"
Setting timers is one of the most common things that people use Siri for (look it up), but the fact it has absolutely no idea how to do this, is pathetic. (Siri on the iPhone, Amazon Alexa, and Cortana on my PC understand me perfectly when asking anything to do with timers.)
And Apple go on about how good this computer is for machine learning. Well there's no sign of that with Siri.
And if you have an iPhone anywhere near, they don't seem to know not to fight with each other. So my Mac is playing (Apple) music, and I say "Hey Siri, turn up the volume'. The Mac, playing the music ignores you - the iPhone, which is doing nothing, says it has turned up the volume. This is just so dumb.
Here's another I just tried: "Hey Siri, play Station to Station by David Bowie"
Siri: "I can't create a station for that".
So in summary, a flawed machine (mostly Apple software flaws) that's out of date in some ways (no touch screen, too-few ports, relatively heavy and thick, large bezels compared with the best modern Windows laptops). But unparalleled horsepower from the ARM M1 chip - its speed, battery life with no fan or heat is simply leagues ahead of anything else. So if you want a very fast, very long battery life, quiet laptop - then it's great. But just be prepared, especially if you're a Windows user, for a frustrating user experience managing the software.
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