Apple's new MacBook Air is here - complete with the new Apple M1, its new Apple Silicon ARM-based processor.

The MacBook Air is now more like a iPad than ever and will be able to run iOS and iPad apps using macOS 11 Big Sur. There's no fan, so it's silent, with around 15/18 hours of battery life. There's also support for USB 4 and Thunderbolt 3. 

Again it has a 13-inch screen (slightly improved), better webcam and again it clocks in from $999/£999. However, the design is pretty much the same - we had expected at least some tweaks. 

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The 8-core CPU performs up to 3.5x faster than the previous generation of MacBook Air, says Apple but with the last generation being Intel-based we need to take such comparisons with a pinch of salt. One interetsing thing is that the machine learning capability is far better - up to 9x. There are faster SSDs, too. 

Just how the new Air compares to the older version will be something we'll look at in detail in an upcoming review.

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Here's the graphic of the capabilities of the new M1 chip. 

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