I do most of my power-user stuff on the desktop rather than on a portable, but I do occasionally need to leave the office and hit the road-and the M1 MBA is going to be a great traveling companion. But I am going to talk about what it has been like to own it for a few days and how the device fits into my life. I'm not going to tell you why you should buy a MacBook Air, or how it might work for you. (This is also why it's in kind of an intermediate configuration, rather than stock or maxed out like most review devices-I bumped the RAM up to 16GB and the internal storage up to 1TB, because that's what I wanted.)īecause this is my device, I'm coming into this review from a slightly different perspective than some of the other publications doing MBA reviews. I've written this as quickly as possible after receiving it, but I had to wait for the device, which is why you all had to wait for the review. The MacBook Air being reviewed here is my personal device, which I bought shortly after the unveiling event. Apple declined our request for any model of M1-powered laptop.
One of those went to Samuel for him to write up, and the other went to Jim for him to do his silicon analysis.
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