Hey what's up guys here, this is a MacBook Air M1 is a most popular laptop it's the most popular mac really and it has been for a while this change is just a nice little refresh it's a little update to bring it up to speed with 2020 you remember the changes from the 16-inch MacBook pro from a couple months ago that made it so great that stuff that I was asking them to also bring down to the 13-inch MacBook pro well they brought some of that down to the MacBook air here first so to start the new magic keyboard this was the the big change we were all waiting for getting rid of the butterfly switches and moving back to scissor switches which are more reliable have more travel feel better to type on they're just straight up better in every way it's still backlit it's still the same size and everything but now it's just miles better to type on matter of fact I've been using that 16-inch MacBook pro a lot over the past few weeks because of the new keyboard and it's been excellent so I guess just generally good to see apple basically silently admitting fault by slowly removing butterfly switches from the rest of their lineup and this keyboard also has the separate escape key no touch bar on the MacBook air of course and then the touch id fingerprint reader is separated off in the corner and still works really quickly to unlock and wake up and sleep and the inverted t arrow keys are also back everybody's favorite the specs also got an update now to Intel's 10th gen chips and iris plus graphics it's a good performance boost this the MacBook air has never been a powerhouse and it still isn't but it also never really has needed to be so this is a good update to catch it up to speed you can get a quad-core chip in a MacBook air now for the first time and the iris plus graphics are saying they can deliver up to 80 faster graphics performance in graphics, So I can only really just rely on benchmarks for now but yeah the numbers say good things and yes that means it will also now support pro display XDR now I don't know how many people set up include a MacBook air and a pro display XDR but hey if that's you now you're covered they also went ahead and doubled the base storage to 256 gigs now and you can go up to two terabytes for the first time on a MacBook air which is nice and uh you can also do eight or 16 gigs of ram which puts it right on par with the Samsung galaxy s20 ultra that's a weird comparison but they're also now still saying you'll get all-day battery life they say 11 hours of battery life, It still should get pretty good battery life and that is pretty much the meat of it like they really haven't changed when you think about it that much about the MacBook air it's still the super thin laptop lightweight machine, this machine is Awesome. Thanks for watching.
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