2020 MacBook Air M1 - Unboxing, Setup and First Look

The new 2020 MacBook Air M1 is here with the new Apple Silicon, the scissor keyboard, better battery life and more. In this video I unbox, setup, benchmark and take a first look at the M1 MacBook Air update that improves on the last major update we had with amazing speed. #MacBookAir #MacBook #Apple #macOS

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***Time Codes***
00:00 - Introduction
00:08 - Price
00:26 - Specs
00:34 - Unboxing
02:29 - Design overview
03:47 - Display
04:12 - Setup
07:54 - WiFi and Bluetooth
08:21 - Keyboard backlight
08:46 - FaceTime Camera
09:30 - Speakers
11:49 - Benchmarks
14:55 - Battery
15:17 - Supported apps
15:37 - Heat
16:36 - Wallpaper
16:51 - Outro
17:11 - End

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Outro Music: “Halos” by Yung Logos - Available in the YouTube Create Audio Library
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[zollotech]

Are you picking up a new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon? Thanks for watching!

[Arsalan_]

its 2023 and I just bought this laptop and I'm extremely satisfied with the purchase. this is also my first matchbook. I was using windows till now and oh boy the battery life and the raw performance of this laptop is insane. love the video and the product. thanks apple and zollotech

[bobby]

Now we only need this with slimmer bezels aka 14 inch display.
It's nearly perfect!

[kiaxoy]

Apple’s “One more thing...”
A new amazing macbook ( in my opinion)

[HarrisonGray]

The startup chime is seriously underrated. I’m so glad they brought it back :)
The chime, along with the glowing apple logo were the two nice finishes to Macs, it’s a shame they didn’t bring back the glowing apple logo now that battery life is much better

(I know you could always enable the chime via a terminal command but it’s nice that it has a real toggle now)

[DarthPorgus]

Got one of these coming tomorrow and all the current reviews seem to show it's still a great machine in 2023. Good stuff!

[MediumRareSteve]

I got it yesterday. Absolutely fantastic machine. Speedy, no fan AT ALL. No intense heating up. Runs everything, from old apps, to optimized, to iOS iPad apps, just spectacular. They really weren’t joking about the instant on feature when opening it up. I used to think the old MBP was fast. Not even remotely in comparison. No hiccups using my Apple Watch to unlock it as with the older MacBook with intel. Everything is just so streamlined now and I love it. Apple sheep for life. Don’t even care. Life is simpler with them.

[marisa]

I just ordered my very first MacBook and this one was it ! I’m so excited for it to arrive

[strokez]

Thank you so much for showing the setup process, I really wanted to see that ❤️

[davidson_oldbull_sectionhiker]

Hi Eric I just picked up my M1 at Best Buy. I decided on the M1 due to a great sale s/b a great up grade for me as I am coming from a mid 2012 MacBook Air. Thanks for you set up video.

[braydenormiston]

Getting a MacBook Air m1 tomorrow and have heard a lot of good stuff about it

[iDeviceSlash]

Ordered mine yesterday💛
I'm really happy and blessed. Thanks mom dad and god.

[ChristianRoberts]

For the keyboard brightness: there is a keyboard brightness controller in the control center at the top of the screen

[dlaythanb]

Wow, those benchmark scores are amazing! I'm looking forward to seeing how the MacBook Pro performs in the future, especially considering it does have the additional cooling fan unlike this MacBook Air.

[rayavishek]

Its great how Zollo mutes the "Hey Siri" Part, so that our own Siri doesnt wake up! :)

[kmhoh]

Just got mine about a week ago. Space Gray, 16GB & 512GB. Loving it. Fast. Great battery life. Major boost to productivity especially with photo editing. Some minor software glitches with legacy Intel apps over Rosetta 2 but generally running way better than on my old 2014 MBA. Thanks for the recommendation.

[kevinknight]

geekbench benchmark was impressive and faster than any other intel mac thank you

[TCSlove]

The best unboxing and setup video ever. He explains almost all the things...

[colinmorris]

This video looked great on my new 2020 MacBook Air M1. I've been using it for 3 days now, as they came out first in Australia. Love the gold colour! The screen is very impressive, as well as the speed and battery life. After a life time using windows PCs, there is a lot to learn here!

[macinman]

One of the things I'm interested in seeing is how support for third party operating systems will turn out in the future. One of the things I love about the Intel Macs is, that I can of course run the Mac operating system, and just about any other OS I want either by VM, or even natively. Both Linux and windows has ARM support already so would like to see where that goes. I've thought about building my own computer for the third party operating systems, however using a mac for this has the nice advantage of running mac os natively without modifications, and windows and Linux also run as long as the right drivers are available. So it's a win win situation. I of course run macOS on my macs, just saying having the option to change the OS is nice.