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One of the biggest additions to come with the 2020 MacBook Air was the debut of Apple’s proprietary M1 chip which was designed in-house specifically for Apple devices. Known as a system-on-a-chip, the M1 is a combination of CPU and GPU along with several other components that are usually separate on the motherboard. This design has brought incredible performance gains over Apple’s previous devices, with M1 laptops crushing vastly more expensive iMac desktops from recent generations in tests. The Air M1’s 8 GB of unified memory and 256 GB internal SSD makes for a surprisingly robust laptop for its size.

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