hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the 2020 MacBook Air and in this
video I'll unbox it I'll set it up and then we'll run some benchmarks take a
general look around it and see what it's got to offer and so you'll see this is
the packaging this is the 13-inch MacBook Air let's go ahead and take the
wrapper off it now you can get a base configuration of a 1.1 gigahertz dual
core i3 or you can go all the way up to a core i7 quad core 1.2 gigahertz with
16 gigs of ram and 2 terabytes of storage this is the base in between
model that's $1,299 with a 1.1 gigahertz quad core i5 so let's flip it over so
you can take a look at the specs this is a 13.3 inch LED backlit display 2560 by
1600 pixels 1.1 gigahertz quad-core the turbo boosts up to 3.5 gigahertz eight
gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of pcie-based storage it also has the Intel
iris plus graphics and two Thunderbolt 3 ports so let's go ahead and open it up
and take a closer look so we'll remove it from the box here and it's got that
normal suction that you get with an apple box so you can't remove it very
quickly and here is the MacBook Air now before we look at this let's take a look
at the accessories in the box you don't get a whole lot for this amount of money
you do get some design by Apple in California literature you've got your
MacBook Air the typical this Quick Start Guide you've got a little warranty card
and some space grey stickers to match it does come in silver as well now let's
set that aside you also get a USB C 2 USB C power adapter and the power
adapter for this is a 30 watt power adapter so this is stuck here a little
bit but it's a 30 watt power adapter and it allows you to charge your your
macbook pro and you'll see 30 watt right there so it's just USB C no Thunderbolt
on that but set this aside and take a closer look at
the MacBook Air and this is the MacBook Air and like I said it's Space Gray
you've got a little silver Apple in the middle and then on one side you have two
USB sea ports on the back it's just metal on the other side you have a 3.5
millimeter headphone jack and that's it on the bottom you've just got four
rubber feet and then the screws to open up the bottom so let's go ahead and open
it up open it up here remove the piece of paper that comes with it and
immediately it boots up now what's different about this is it has better
speakers we'll take a closer listen to those in a minute it has better
microphones and it has the new scissor keyboard that the MacBook Pro 16 inch
gets and so this keyboard has a lot more travel it should have a lot more
feedback I'll take a closer look in a minute when I try heiping on it but
let's go ahead and set up the OS now I'm at the main setup screen and the
language I want is English so I'll click Next and then I'm based in the United
States and it auto selected that for me so I'll click continue and then I'll
select my Wi-Fi network and connect and I don't want to transfer any information
but you could do this now or do it later we'll click continue and now I need to
sign in with my Apple ID once I've signed in with my Apple ID
I'll click agree to the terms and conditions and then I'll click agree
again or else you can't use it now here's my username and then I'll set up
a password now I'll click continue on find my and now we're at Express setup
so I'll go ahead and click continue and then I like to share crash and usage
data with app developers so I'll click continue and screen time I don't really
use I'll just click continue and I'll set it up later and I do want to use
Siri so I'll click continue I'll set up hey Siri later and then do I want to
share audio recordings or not no I don't so I'll click continue and I do use
iCloud so I'll click continue on that I do like to use that and then do I want
to use a file vault disk encryption this is really up to you I like the idea of
it but it seems to cause issues sometimes too so I know a lot of people
that turn this now I'm going to set up touch ID and
that's something I really appreciate on the new Mac so we'll go ahead and click
continue then I'll place my finger on it and we'll just set it up quickly then
we'll keep doing that get the edges of my finger and then we'll click continue
and it's asking if I want to use Apple pay I'll set this up later and we can
set up light-dark or auto I like to use auto since the light mode and dark mode
will change throughout the day so we'll click continue and then you've got true
tone now when I'm editing video and photos I turn off true tone because you
don't really want it because it makes the screen warmer than the reality of
what you're seeing but for now I'll leave it on on this Mac because this is
more for documents and things for me so now here's the home screen and you can
see all of the different applications I'll go into system preferences and I
like to turn it on so the dock moves a little bit so let me set this up I want
it to magnify some and so when I move my mouse cursor over it the applications
kind of magnify in a little bit and then I like to get rid of a lot of these
things so let me do that and then I'll come back in just a moment and we'll
check benchmarks and things and we'll check out the keyboard now everything is
set up and I want to check out the keyboard because Apple has acknowledged
that most people prefer scissor switches over the butterfly mechanism
now the butterfly switches didn't really bother me that much but now that I've
had experience with the 16 inch MacBook Pro I really appreciate them and I also
really appreciate that there's no touch bar here because I really don't care for
the touch bar now let me go into pages and I'll try typing on it and so let's
try hi how are you today that's usually what I try out and
there's a nice feedback with that and I don't type like most people
and you'll see I can type normal but I I have my own style kind of that works
pretty well so that's really nice we have the Escape key
we've got touch ID now of course and the trackpad is supposedly 20% larger now
before we run any of the benchmarks and take a look at that the keyboard is nice
and everything but let's see what the microphone and the speaker sound like
within here because this still has the 720p webcam which is not so great but
let's see if we can record a little bit of a video here so now you can see I
have the FaceTime camera activated let's go ahead and hit record so you can hear
the difference in audio between my studio mic here and what's coming
through the FaceTime camera and three studio or three mic array on the MacBook
Air and so now you can hear the MacBook Air and I'm not so sure it's that great
but it's definitely something you could use when you needed to record in a room
you're in a pinch and maybe you need to record a podcast or something like that
and of course it's sufficient for things like FaceTime but this 720p webcam is
not so great so now let's take a look at some of the benchmarks we'll go over to
Geekbench 5 we'll run that first then we'll run Cinebench let me make sure
everything is closed out here so we'll run a cpu test and let's see what it
returns and you can see for the CPU we scored 951 for single core and 2464 for
multi-core and this is the quad core processor so you can see one processor
four cores eight threads so let's go ahead and see
what we can get for compute as far as open CL or metal let's take a look at
metal for metal we scored eight thousand three hundred and eighty so these are
the Intel iris plus graphics so hopefully they're a little bit better
now let's run open CL quick for open CL the MacBook Air scored seven thousand
five hundred and twenty two so let's go ahead and see what we can get with
Cinebench now I'll run the CPU test and let's see what we get
Cinebench finished and it scored nine hundred and twelve points now this is
not terribly fast but this should do what most people need it to do as far as
word processing you could even edit a 4k video on it now let's take a look at the
actual disk speed test and see what we get with that
now with disk speed test let's go and hit start and see what we get now
this is the 512 gigabyte version and initially we're getting about 1500 or
1500 megabytes per second right speed and 1199 megabytes per second or one
thousand three hundred and seventeen megabytes per second read speeds so I'm
just letting it run back and forth so about 1,500 right 1,300 read which
usually it's the other way around but that's what we're getting so it seems to
be pretty good it's not as fast as say an imac pro or a Mac Pro or MacBook Pro
but it's plenty fast now when I was running benchmarks the fans spun up to
full speed but they never went above 50 decibels so usually they stuck around 35
to 40 now let's take a look at the speakers now here's one of my latest
videos let me turn up the speaker so you can
hear them I'll turn them up all the way and we'll hit play so the sound is quite
nice and it seems like they should do a nice job when you're trying to listen to
music or just watch a video on YouTube or the internet now the battery in the
MacBook Air is good for about 11 hours of wireless web surfing or 12 hours of
Apple TV app movie playback according to Apple now that's if you're not doing
anything else and probably if your brightness is at about 50% or lower
now the actual battery size is 49.9 watt hours and this is a really nice weight
it's not too heavy and in fact it's about 2.8 pounds so it really should fit
nicely in a bag if you want to carry it around it feels very well built and nice
and solid and of course we still have touch ID which is nice if it needs to be
unlocked quickly or you want to use Apple babe now I really think this is a
great laptop for someone that wants to maybe go to college write documents
maybe you want to use Pages Keynote Microsoft Word and maybe occasionally
edit a photo or edit a video with it you can edit 4k video with these last year's
MacBook Air work just fine with this it's not going to be as fast as a
MacBook Pro or an or something along those lines but it
will be plenty fast if you want to do some light editing and things like that
but let me know what you think of the MacBook Air I'd love to hear if you want
to see a review about this I don't know if I'll do one or not but let me know
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time