Work, stream, and create with the M1 MacBook Air (2020) — a refurbished model with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD — for just $515.

It has an 8-core CPU that Apple says is 3.5x faster than Apple’s last Intel-powered MacBook Air. That’s a massive power boost. My favorite thing about the M1 MacBook Air is the fact that it ...

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In 2020, the MacBook Air was one of the first three machines to make the switch from Intel processors to Apple Silicon in the form of the M1 chip. In 2022, it was joined by an M2 model.

Apple launched the first MacBook Air 17 years ago today, captivating customers with a groundbreaking design that set new ...

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Apple shipped the M1 MacBook Air in 2020 with an older design that was used with Intel chips and the current design wasn’t introduced until the M2 chip upgrade in July 2022. Apple isn’t ...

Apple says the New MacBook Air is up to 60 percent faster than the model with M1 and up to 13x faster than the fastest Intel-based one. Apps like Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe Photoshop ...

That’s because it still uses an Intel chip and not Apple silicon, meaning performance and features just won’t be the same. While it’s far from state-of-the-art, the M1 MacBook Air ...

including both the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but also in terms of what sort of chip you want to run, starting with the slightly older M1 chip which is harder to find, to the higher-end M3 chip.

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York ...