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The Pro’s starting price is $1,299, which gets you 256GB of speedy storage. There is also a Touch ID button on the right. This touch-sensitive strip features app-specific shortcuts and buttons, although it may be on the way out.

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The MacBook Pro also comes with Apple’s Touch Bar instead of the row of function keys. We recorded a huge 21 hours for video playback and 16 hours for light web browsing. The M1 chip’s ability to stay cool under pressure also means it can massively extend the Pro’s battery life, even beyond that of the Air. While there is no guarantee it will operate silently, we never heard it spin up once during our review, not even when it was being pushed to the limit. Unlike the Air, the Pro comes with a fan. While those on the Air are by no means bad, they are not on the same level as the Pro’s audio setup. Its speakers are also a joy to listen to - rare for a laptop. It also beats out the Air for contrast (1470:1) and Adobe RGB compliance (91%), making it much better for creative users. Its screen is rated for 500 nits of brightness, which we found to be 485 nits in our testing. If performance was not a clear win for the MacBook Pro 13, its Retina display and speakers are. In some scenarios, the extra GPU core over the entry-level Air will help in terms of performance. It was also faster at exporting videos in HandBrake. It did still pull ahead in some areas during our testing, such as the multicore test in Cinebench R23, where it held a sizeable lead of 7,547 to 6,680 over the MacBook Air. As we mentioned in the MacBook Air section, the Pro’s performance lead has evaporated thanks to both laptops using the same chip. Weirdly, performance is not one of those areas. The difference between the two is no longer so pronounced - in many ways, it is razor thin - but there are still some instances where the Pro is the better option.

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The phenomenal upgrade the M1 chip has brought to the MacBook Air puts the MacBook Pro in something of an awkward spot. In almost all consumer use cases, 8GB of UMA memory will be plenty. You can choose between 8GB or 16GB of memory, although this uses a unified memory architecture (UMA), which makes it much more efficient than standard laptops at using its onboard RAM. The 512GB model is $1,199, the 1TB version costs $1,399, and the 2TB model is $1,799. What about storage? And how much does the MacBook Air cost? Well, you will get 256GB of storage in the $999 entry-level MacBook Air. If you need a laptop for color-sensitive work, you should consider the Pro over the Air.

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It hits 100% of the sRGB gamut and 79% of Adobe RGB - that is a little higher than most Windows laptops, but below the MacBook Pro’s rating. It has strong ratings for both color accuracy and contrast (1.:1, respectively, both of which are better than average).

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There is no Touch Bar - you instead get a full row of function keys and a Touch ID button on the right-hand side for logging in and confirming purchases.Īs for the Air’s Retina display, Apple rates it for 400 nits (although our testing set it slightly lower, at 389 nits). The keyboard is Apple’s Magic Keyboard, which boasts improved travel and reliability over the butterfly keyboard. Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsĮlsewhere, you get classic Apple design with the MacBook Air, including a rock-solid aluminum body and top-notch build quality. All that extra power efficiency means the Air lasted 18.5 hours in our video-playback test and 15.5 hours with light web usage.

If you love your laptops to be absolutely silent, this is a major draw. The M1 chip is so power-efficient that Apple has been able to cool the Air completely passively, while still enabling it to post some truly beefy performance numbers. What is even more remarkable is that the MacBook Air does all this without a fan. It finished slightly behind the Pro in the Cinebench R23 benchmark but beat it in our Geekbench 5 test - in fact, the MacBook Air’s single-core score was one of the highest Geekbench 5 results we have ever seen, with only the M1 Mac Mini and the 24-inch iMac pushing ahead. In HandBrake, it was 12 seconds behind the Pro, while still posting a very speedy score in its own right. That’s because when we reviewed the M1 MacBook Air, we found its performance was on par with the MacBook Pro 13 (also outfitted with the M1). Who is the MacBook Air right for? Interestingly, the M1 chip means many of the same people who want a MacBook Pro will love the MacBook Air. That used to mean you had to sacrifice performance for portability, but the M1 chip has changed all that in a huge way.

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The MacBook Air is a superb choice Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsĪpple’s MacBook Air has always been the laptop to go for if you want a lightweight, portable machine.

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