Over the past couple of months, I've been using one of the new Apple MacBook Airs based on Apple's proprietary M1 processor, and I've been very impressed. It has proven quite speedy in day-to-day use. Apple has done a surprisingly good job at getting applications to run on the new silicon.

What's really worth talking about with the new MacBook Air is Apple's M1 processor. This is Apple's proprietary design, which takes some of the items already used in Apple's A14 Bionic processor (used in the iPhone 12) and processors for the iPhone and iPad and expands them. Apple's processors use the ARM instruction set, but Apple designs its own cores for both the CPU and GPU.

The M1 has 4 high-performance cores and 4 efficiency CPU cores, 7 or 8 GPU cores, and what Apple describes as a 16-core 'neural engine.' It is clocked at 3.2GHz and built on TSMC's 5nm process. I've been using the basic $999 MacBook Air, which has 8GB of RAM and 256GB of flash storage, and a 7-core version of the GPU; as opposed to the $1,249 model with an 8-core GPU and 512GB of storage.

I've tried ARM-based processors before—such as in the Lenovo Flex 5G—and found great battery life, but limited performance and compatibility. The good news about the M1 is that Apple seems to have kept the battery life, but has also done surprisingly well at performance and compatibility.

With Mac OS 11.1 (Big Sur), the M1-powered MacBook Air can run three classes of applications: native applications designed for the processor; Intel-applications that run through the Rosetta 2 emulator; and applications designed for the iPhone or iPad. I've tried all of these. (Note that Big Sur does not support 32-bit legacy apps, like Office 2011, but really those applications should have been upgraded long ago.)

Of course, all of Apple's native applications, such as Mail, Safari, and FaceTime are now native, and these were quite responsive. I was able to run native versions of the core Microsoft Office applications, Zoom, WebEx, and Firefox. All of these worked as expected, and seemed quite snappy.

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For applications that haven't yet been ported, you can use the Rosetta 2 emulation mode, though when you install them you get a pop-up telling you that you are using software designed for Intel processors. In this fashion, Photoshop worked well enough, though it wasn't quite as responsive as it is on Intel-based machines. Adobe says a native version of it, and the other parts of the Creative Cloud client applications, are coming soon. (Lightroom is available in a native version.) I'd be skeptical of Rosetta for things like video editing or gaming, but for daily productivity work, compatibility isn't a problem. Note that most high-end gaming titles are not available on macOS, but there are plenty of older and casual games available.

Theoretically, you can also run iOS and iPadOS apps on the new MacBook as well, but few of these seem to be available yet. (Of course, many of those apps are optimized for touch use, which the Mac doesn't support, so they'll need some updating.)

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So how fast is the MacBook Air and the M1? In PCMag's tests, the new MacBook Air did phenomenally well on GeekBench, but I'm not sure how relevant that is, as there are differences in the architectures (such as cache amounts and SMT) that may impact benchmarks more than real-world applications. But it was also quite impressive on the native version of Cinebench (R23), and while not as impressive, still quite good on Cinebench R15, the Intel version run through emulation. It was slower than other Macs on the Intel-based Photoshop benchmark, though the results were still comparable with most Windows notebooks without discrete graphics. Swiss pdb viewer software. (PCMag goes into more detail here about how the M1 does on different applications, including gaming.)

Of course, what matters is how it works in the real world. In my use, all of the native applications seemed quite impressive, and while emulated applications like Photoshop weren't as snappy, they ran well enough. I was pleasantly surprised to see that a very large spreadsheet I often use for testing completed in 39 minutes, faster than I've seen on any Windows-based laptop, including the notably larger ThinkPad X1 Extreme (where it took 44 minutes).

With numbers like this, Apple's new M1 proves to be more than competitive with the latest Intel and AMD mobile processors. It's a huge change from the last time Apple tried to design its own laptop processors, back in the PowerPC era. Some of this is now due to the fact that TSMC's 5nm node is more dense and more efficient than Intel's 10nm node, but some has to be due to the design itself—Apple has gained a lot of experience by designing chips for phones and tablets.

Also, the MacBook Air has a 50 watt-hour battery, and in its tests, PCMag got an amazing 29 hours of battery life. I didn't get nearly that, but it did make it through a full day on a charge with some battery to spare.

Machine Details

Beyond just the processor, the new MacBook Air doesn't look very much changed from previous models. With a 13.3-inch, 2,560-by-1,600 display, it measures 0.63 by 11.97 by 8.36 inches and weighs 2.8 pounds, very good for this class of machine, if no longer special. Compared to some of the newer designs I've seen lately, the bezels around the screen are a bit larger, but not enough so that it makes a huge difference. The 400-nit IPS display looks great, with a wide color gamut. For reasons I still do not understand, Apple does not offer a touch screen option, which I do find useful in Windows laptops.

The MacBook Air has two USB-C/Thunderbolt ports on the left side of the machine, which are also used for charging, and a headphone jack on the right. Of course, I wish it had more ports (HDMI in particular would be useful) but it's better than some Apple laptops that just have a single USB-C. In use as my desktop, I mostly used a dongle with an HDMI port so I could add an external monitor and a USB-A port for an external keyboard and mouse. (Since I use more Windows machines than Apple ones, I admit I changed the mouse direction settings.) As usual for Apple laptops I've used, I found the large trackpad to work quite well. Apple has updated the keyboard from the last one I used, and though it's a little shallow, I thought it was actually quite good.

The MacBook Air was fine on video conferencing. The internal 720p webcam was quite good. Of the machines I've tested recently, the only one I'd rate better would be on the Surface Pro 7, and then not by much. The audio from twin speakers on either side of the keyboard sounded quite good. It doesn't have the noise cancelling features of the latest high-end Windows notebooks, but for a basic consumer notebook, it's very nice.

It lacks some business features. There's no physical webcam cover, no LTE or 5G option, and no option for some of the features often used in enterprise management. (While many enterprises do have some Macs, they typically manage them separately from mainstream

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