When it comes to CPUs, the latest MacBook Air moves ahead of its predecessor by leap and bounds, and the same goes for the Pro 13″.
On the multi-core side, things change quite a bit. So much, in fact, that it can even compare to the MacBook Pro, that is in regards to single-core performance. That’s what matters to us, right? Firing up Geekbench, we can see that this year’s refresh has a pretty respectable score. GPU’s have been upgraded too, and this time it’s the Iris Pro series, not a cheaper subset of graphic cards.Įnough with the design, now let’s talk video editing.
Other than that, CPU’s aren’t the only power-up. The baseline has an i3 processor, but we can upgrade to both i5 and i7 CPUs, the quad-core variant, not dual-core like the predecessors in the past. The available CPUs are from the latest refresh by Intel, the tenth series. Apart from that, we’re getting a price cut of $100 and double the storage on the entry-level. So, could this lightweight and portable laptop be the swiss-knife many filmmakers were looking for? Let’s see.įirst things first: what has changed in this Macbook Air 2020? The most anticipated improvement is the return of scissor switches on the keyboard since now the Air has the same Magic Keyboard we’ve seen on the bigger brother, the Macbook Pro 16″.Īpple seems to have finally backed off from the much-hated butterfly switch design, with great joy for most of its user base. Plus, his reviews are always aimed at content creators, especially video makers and editors. Tech guru Max Yuryev is well known for the comparisons he does and has great expertise in the matter at hand. A few improvements design-wise and a couple of upgrades on the inside: can this be enough to make the Air a feasible choice for video editing? The release may have been a quiet one, but there’s been a lot of noise since: these new machines made a good impression in the entire tech community as the first reviews that are dropping in are pretty positive. In the midst of the global crisis caused by the Coronavirus, Apple has quietly released the new MacBook Air.
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