MacBook Air with M1-soc has passive cooling and battery life of up to 18 hours

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Apple has announced its first Macs with its own chips. Both the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13 “and the Mac mini are equipped with the M1-soc with ARM cores. The chip does not require active cooling in the MacBook Air.

Apple’s new MacBook Air is the first device with the M1-soc that Apple unveiled on Tuesday. The soc contains eight CPU cores and a GPU with up to eight cores. The laptop has a maximum of 16GB of ram and an SSD with a capacity of up to 2TB.

According to Apple, the battery life is up to eighteen hours when watching video. That’s an increase of six hours over the predecessors with Intel processors. The M1 chip has a low consumption, which means that active cooling is no longer required in the MacBook Air.

Apple also claims to improve the 13.3 “screen of the MacBook Air. That screen has a larger color gamut and can display the P3 color space. The MacBook Air has USB 4 connections with Thunderbolt support and a Type-C connector Apple also provides the laptop with Wi-Fi 6.

MacBook Pro 13 “and Mac mini with M1-soc

Apple also presents a MacBook Pro 13 “with M1-soc. It has active cooling and can therefore work longer at high clock speeds. The Pro model has a battery life of up to 20 hours when watching video and 17 hours when browsing. a Mac mini with the M1-soc.

Apple gives the new MacBook Air a starting price of 1129 euros. For that amount, buyers get a variant with 7 GPU cores, 8GB ram and a 256GB SSD. The MacBook Pro 13 “with M1-soc costs at least 1449 euros and has the same amount of memory and storage, but 8 GPU cores. The Mac mini is available from 799 euros.

The new Apple products with M1-soc can be ordered immediately and will be released next week. The corresponding operating system macOS Big Sur will be released this Thursday.

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