M1 MacBook Air vs Intel MacBook Air: ULTIMATE Comparison

We compare the Intel MacBook Air to Apple's new M1 MacBook Air to see if it’s worth upgrading by testing everything from Benchmarks & Thermals to x86 Gaming, Logic Pro & Battery Life!

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In this video, we compare the $999 Intel MacBook Air from 2020 to the NEW $999 M1-powered MacBook Air.

They both have 8GB of Memory and 256GB of SSD storage, but the differences you’ll see in this video are SHOCKING!

We charged both of these MacBooks up to 100% battery, then we maxed out the display brightness and continued to run a TON of performance benchmarks.

We started off by taking an initial thermal reading using our thermal camera attachment for the iPhone, before comparing Geekbench 5’s CPU & Graphics Metal tests.

We then ran the Cinebench R23 stress test and kept a close eye on the CPU temperature, the wattage being used and the fan speed on the Intel MacBook Air.

We also show how well the M1 MacBook Air performs while NOT having a fan at all.

We then tested x86 Rosetta Chrome browsing performance using YouTube and Speedometer 2.0, before showing the Safari browsing performance which is optimized for Apple Silicon.

We also compared the difference between thermals for Zoom Web Conferencing on both MacBook Airs, before running the Logic Pro Music Production benchmark.

Wondering how iPhone and iPad games run on the new Apple Silicon MacBooks? We tested that out as well, including controller support!

Finally, we finished off with League of Legends x86 Rosetta 2 emulated gameplay on the M1 MacBook Air compared to the Intel model, and the difference is nuts!

The battery life differences will blow your mind at the end!

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Timestamps ⬇️
Intel vs M1 MacBook Air - 00:00
Initial Thermals at Idle - 1:22
Physical Differences - 1:57
Geekbench 5 CPU Test - 3:56
Geekbench 5 Graphics Test - 5:22
Webcam and Mic Comparison - 5:47
Cinebench R23 CPU Stress Test - 6:29
Thermal Throttle Testing - 8:15
Zoom Web Conferencing Test - 9:36
Web Browsing Performance - 12:56
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test - 14:00
GFX Gaming Benchmark - 15:17
iPhone and iPad App Gaming Test - 16:06
League of Legends Gaming Test - 19:44
Logic Pro Music Production - 22:07
Battery Life Comparison - 25:28
Should you buy the M1 MacBook? - 26:31

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Were you surprised by the difference in x86 Rosetta Gaming and Logic Pro test? What about thermals? Comment below!
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[aneeshsagiraju]

1 min of silence for all those who bought intel model just before m1 was released

[BenjaminWeeb]

I haven't seen domination this bad since Brazil lost 7-1 to Germany.

[mo-ez]

Boy this is called DETAILED COMPARISON!!

[bw]

Glad you used Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. No one uses that outside of the USA

[kereamohau]

As a musician, I really appreciate you showing Logic pro. No tech YouTuber ever shows this

[Smart.Potato]

Apple: uses less watts
Me: so this was Apple’s Environmental plan all along.

[alimomen]

I sold my 2020 i5 MacBook Pro for the 8GPU Core Air. Best decision ever. This thing is incredible. It truly is the dream computer. Light, silent, super fast.

[zhuochengtan]

intel thought they could be just a monopoly and people would just wait for them. Turns out time waits for no one.

[migueltobar]

Him: Sell your MacBook Air (intel)
Also him: Do NOT buy an intel one
Me: Who is going to buy it from me now?

[NiffirgkcaJ]

Damn, I wasn't even thinking about getting Macs in the past, but this really is tempting, a monumental step by Apple I must say.

RIP Intel

[SizarReviews]

absolutely great video, well done guys, can't wait for the MacBook pro 13 vs the MacBook air

[ember]

Has anyone seen a better review and content? like seriously, this channel deserves more than just the 500k target.

[beamboy]

People who disliked this video got the early 2020 MacBook Air 😄

[mlosuno]

AMD to Intel: "We're going to make you look like fools in the PC world"

Apple to Intel: "Care for some salt in those wounds?"

[realx]

I've only had my MBA M1 for two days and I'm just overwhelmed at how excellent this machine is. There were no exaggerations in this video, I fully concur with everything said. It was only days ago that you would have been the laughing stock of any tech community if you said you were getting a MBA for gaming, video and audio editing. Keep in mind Apple is just getting started with it's M1 chip. Very good video by the way.

[thetechnerd]

Omg, and I thought I was screwed when I bought the 15 inch 2019 MBP before the 16 came out lol.

[awesomebrotherhood]

Apple weren’t joking about it when they mentioned 3x 4x etc etc

[corgikun]

God bless you for using degrees Celsius
"May the Goddess smile upon you"

[aureliusxvincent]

$999 with an intel i3? C'mon apple that's a scam.