FIRST TEST APPLE MACBOOK AIR (M1)
Some zing in the Air
Call out the instigators, because after ditching Intel for its own M1 chip Apple reckons the revolution’s here – and with the new MacBook Air, you know that it’s right tasty
[ Words Natalya Paul ]
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A n Apple financial report is always met with a degree of eye-rolling inevitability, but its latest added raised brows.
The total sales of Macs for the 2020 financial year hit a new record of $28.6billion, with the majority taken up by its supremely popular MacBook laptops… which does beg the question: If it ain’t broke, why dump Intel?
The Californian tech giant has switched to its own ARM-based M1 processors for its latest MacBooks, with the promise that the arrival of Apple Silicon would make a monumental difference to the performance of its computers. So with Apple’s most affordable laptop, there really is something in the Air, but has the decision to rejig its insides been the right one?