(Image credit: Future) MacBook Air (M1, 2020) review: Power and performance Apple may not be a brand you often associate with value for money and ultra-competitive prices, but as the new MacBook AIr proves, maybe you should.
We actually reviewed the £999 model, and we were incredibly impressed with the results, and that version undercuts competitors like the Dell XPS 13 by quite a bit. So, for budget-conscious creatives, the MacBook Air (M1, 2020) is an easy recommendation. That higher specced version features similar specs to the MacBook Pro M1 model, including an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU, but the Pro has a smaller SSD of 256GB, and is £50 more expensive. The extra GPU core should give the MacBook Air a decent performance bump when it comes to graphically intensive tasks, and the extra storage space will be very welcome for digital creatives who need to store lots of large files. You can also buy a more powerful model for £1,249, and this comes with an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU, 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Also, since she was using iTunes with her iPhone already most of her music could be redownloaded to the Mac which also made things a bit easier for her.Impressively, Apple has launched an updated laptop for the same price it was asking for the previous model – which itself was actually cheaper than the 2019 version! While the MacBook Air certainly can’t be described as a budget laptop, it still remains excellent value for money – more so, in fact, due to it offering improved specs at the same price. That made it easy for her to move into her new Mac with just a 32GB flash drive. When my sister finally dumped Windows she was using Google Mail so all her contacts and email info was on Google. Plotinus refers to formating the drive in a way that both Windows and Mac OS can read/write to it but no matter how the drive is formatted the Mac will be able to copy the files from it.
If you aren't concerned about keeping your mail and contacts it is also easy just to use an external drive or a flash drive to copy stuff from one computer to the other. I strongly recommend that if you choose this method that you use it the very first time you start up your Mac. It is a novice friendly way to transfer your stuff - documents, pictures, music, contacts, and email from the PC to your Mac. Hands4 has posted a link to an article about Apple's PC migration assistant.
0 kommentar(er)
