Our quick take

Apple MacBook Air (M1, 2020) - 4.5 / 5

Design

  • Dimensions: 304 x 212mm / 41-161mm thick / Weight: 1.29kg Ports: 2x USB-C (USB 4) / Thunderbolt 3, 1x 3.5mm jack Finish options: Gold, Space Grey, Silver

Display

  • 13.3-inch Retina Display, 2650 x 1600 resolution Can drive up to one 6K external display True Tone support, P3 wide colour

  • True Tone support, P3 wide colour

Performance and battery life

  • Apple M1 processor (3GHz; 8-core - 4 perform­ance and 4 efficiency cores) 7 or 8-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine 256/512GB storage (up to 1TB, 2TB) 8GB RAM (upgradeable to 16GB) Battery cited at 15 hours

Apple Silicon app support and macOS Big Sur

  • Support for non-native Apple Silicon apps via Rosetta 2 translator All Apple apps are Apple Silicon-ready Affinity, Google Chrome, Microsoft Office and other key apps have support Others on the way, including full Adobe Creative Cloud compatibility

To recap

There’s the M2 MacBook Air to consider for the performance and design upgrades, but the M1 MacBook Air remains an excellent choice, despite no longer being the latest.