Macbook Air 2020 review: the best Mac for most people

Would you upgrade?

1.1 ghz? 0:49

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Absolutely no one, besides The Verge, is asking Apple to add a touchscreen to their MacBooks. No one.

7:01 ??? New review on the iPad Air??

Which color do you think is the most attractive?

Are those Verge socks??

*iPad pro

Thanks for the real world review! Regarding battery life, i think if you run safari instead of chome, you might get a few more hours. How about the i7 version? Any benefit to i7 vs i5 even with the thermothrottling?

Blaming the laptop for the battery life is not a great idea. Chrome making macbook airs deplete in battery way faster than is normal and then showing off their chrome book line with better battery life (while using chrome for both) seems like an interesting place to be profit wise don’t you think. Use safari and if you ever need something that safari can’t do, use chrome briefly then quit it again. Or use the new edge which runs on chromium and in my experience gets better battery life than chrome ever can

Why buy quad core i5 and not dual core i3?

Becca is officially genius

“iPad Air”

only if it is half the price

What is the advantage of a quad core processor for the extra $100?

Nice socks, Nilay!

Touchscreen on laptops is like adding cereal to a bowl of milk. It is plain wrong.

I’ve been using my Haswell MBA for what feels like forever. Finally time to upgrade

Why would you need touch on a Mac?

I’ll be joining for computer and software engineering soon. So I’m planning to buy a macbook. But i don’t know which one to go for. Macbook air or Macbook pro? Hope anyone could help me. Thanks

Dieter tested the new iPad Pro, not iPad Air

What ipad air? Hahaha

This or 16 inch pro for all around family laptop?

Was looking forward to this review until I saw Nilay doing it. Should of been Dieter, he’s a better reviewer.

Why put a headphone jack when most of the phones and other devices they make don’t use that headphone jack so if you have a iPhone and a MacBook Air u need different headphones 🤦🏾‍♂️ would rather had a regular usb

Great job Nilay! And Becca, please directing Bohr videos too 😁. His mic and camera position is so sad

98 percent of people don’t video edit much if ever and if they do, it’s not their entire workflow. If that was the case, they wouldn’t by this machine. They would have a MacBook Pro. So great for covering this topic like all tech reviews but most people don’t have your workflow.

Bold of you just leaving that line of coke on your table while filming

How many toilet paper rolls I need to exchange this one? 200 rolls enough?

Is it worth paying so much money for a laptop to use Chrome and Zoom? Come on, I can do that on my phone, this is ridiculous. You should try to review usage that can be only done on a laptop.

1:00 sick socks brah

You have a lovely home.

The touchbar is missing simply because it would cost a lot more to produce the machine and therefore hike up the price. Touchbar would even require an ARM chip inside the machine to control it and adding to the cost.

The battery issue is primarily due to heavy use of zoom. Apple would have obviously assumed people won’t be making such heavy use of it while rating their batteries.

It was almost perfect accept the mic, But it’s a fun background.

Nilay! Or anyone else out there, what’s the name of Nilay's Apple Watch band? Anyone know?

ok pro tip about the touch bar, when watching Hulu in the browser (safari i think) you can use it to scrub through and essentially skip the mid roll ads. but yea otherwise touch bar bad

That London Calling poster is 👍👍.

Is the new MacBook Pro going to be above 1700 as the base price

Mac mini late 2018 or new 1 base model or the base air? Want to power a screen but worried that laptops will always run hot while using a screen……

So those ppl like us who has bought macbooks with those horrendous butterfly keyboards are doomed!!
WTF Apple??!

That microphone!

Damnnnn, I bought my Air Nov last year, I want a trade in lol

Idk what to do is the iPad really ready to replace a laptop yet with the new keyboard or for now is a laptop Bette r