Both this and the Macbook Air M1 model are available to buy from sellers such as Best Buy. However, free upgrades such as the Big Sur OS are available if you want to customize and possibly even improve your laptop. Since it’s a new Macbook Air, it can be quite pricey, with features such as the solid state drive, built-in webcam, and the Intel Iris Plus graphics processor that can mainly contribute to the price. Also, unlike the Dell laptop’s chassis, which is made of plastic, this chassis is made of aluminum. It also weighs 2.8 Lbs., making it much lighter than the Dell G5 15 5590, which weighs 6.13 Lbs. It’s as slim as it is due to having a solid state drive instead of a traditional hard drive, and it only has Thunderbolt ports. This slim, space gray laptop has very little room for loose components to travel within the chassis. If you need a good laptop with a long battery life, then check out our Apple Macbook Air 13. However, both laptops have gigabit wireless connection speed, offer fast file transfer speeds and device charging speed as well as wide-ranged device compatibility. In comparison, the Dell has 3 different ports: Thunderbolt, SD card reader, and audio/microphone combo jack. While there’s not much variation, these ports are up-to-date at the time of this review and offer the fastest file transfer and device charging speeds available for those ports. This assortment of ports consists of only two Thunderbolt ports. Turning off the backlight keyboard function, not letting the screen get too bright, and making sure that you avoid opening too many programs at once are some of the more effective ways to achieve this. There are ways that the user can adjust their settings to ensure that the battery can last that long. The battery life of this laptop is about 12 hours before it has to be recharged, similarly to the Dell Latitude 7490 laptop. Get a laptop with a larger screen after reading our Apple Macbook 16-inch review. Because of this and the Retina display, it can be used for tasks such as video editing and Apple TV. Both the M1 chip and M1 model can compete with processors such as the Intel Core i5, and even the Intel Core i7. This Macbook is available with an Intel core i3, an Apple M1 chip, a single core Intel processor, and more, but the laptop itself also has a new M1 Macbook Air model.

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