Apple MacBook Air 13 2020 [MVH52]

Finally without a butterfly keyboard

In 2016, Apple updated almost all of its laptop lines and has since rested on its laurels, once a year releasing not so much new products as cosmetic improvements with current hardware. The 2020 MacBook Air 13 could have been skipped if not for one thing, but the Cupertinos gave up and abandoned the damned butterfly keyboards that broke instantly. Instead, the company rolled back to a proven option in the face of the Magic Keyboard.

A face that you recognize from a thousand

The new model looks exactly the same as the previous one, so if this appearance suited you, then this one will not disappoint. There are three body colour options: dark grey, grey and gold. The aluminium body is just as light (1.29 kg) and thin (16 mm). The famous Retina display with 2K resolution is still beautiful: brightness, contrast and colour reproduction are on top here. If you have worked with retinas, it is hardly necessary to convince you of this. Image auto-calibration using the True Tone feature also works great, you rarely pay attention to it, but if you accidentally turn it off, your hand immediately reaches to return it to its place.

Tenth Generation Quad-Thread Core i5 + 512GB SSD

The updated package of the new MacBook Air 13 2020 is as follows: a tenth-generation eight-thread Core i5 with reduced power consumption, in conjunction with which 8 GB work, a high-speed 512 GB SSD and a new-generation integrated video core Iris Plus Graphics G7. In terms of performance, this is an average level of pure water - a bit too much for an office, not enough for serious tasks, for these purposes, take a “plug”. Only heating was unpleasantly surprising, usually Air-books are moderately cold, but here the processor quickly warms up the aluminium plates from below and above.

Pros and cons

Among other branded goodies, it is necessary to note the built-in fingerprint scanner, a high-quality webcam with three microphones, and an excellent branded touchpad with Force Touch support and recognition of degrees of pressing force. It is a pleasure to work on it, but then you don’t want to return to the mouse. The bottleneck has not changed. First, it's expensive. Secondly, you add a couple of USB ports, enough to make money on adapters. Thunderbolt is cool, but the third tiny hole in the case will not hurt anyone. Summing up all that has been said, it seems that Apple has told us the same story that we have heard over the past three or four years. The story is interesting, no doubt, but it no longer causes former delight.