Macbook review

  hi everyone Aarav here for phyic and this is the 2020 MacBook Air and it's been in constant use since its releasein my house and so I wanted to share how it's been overall what it's like to usehow its thermals are and also what my daughter thought of it since she's beenusing it for school and things like that and so the first thing is its design andthe design is classic MacBook Air although it has gained a little bit ofthickness because they've added that new scissor style keyboard that's sort ofnew but old again we have this wedge shape which is really nice prettytypical at this point of many laptops and we have a 3.5 millimeter   

headphonejack on one side on the back we don't have anything else and then we have twoThunderbolt three ports their full Thunderbolt three ports so you could usethem with a display or you could use them with an e GPU and game somegraphics performance if you wanted to edit some video on this or somethinglike that and so this is really nice it is a little bit heavy but notnecessarily as heavy as an iPad pro with a keyboard for example but it's not muchdifferent than the MacBook Pro if you're looking for size compared to the 13 inchversion now the overall build of course is typical MacBook Pro it's very strongand the logo does not light up I get asked this all the time but they removethis quite some time ago I think in 2016 they removed the light-up logo from mostMacBooks and replaced it with just stainlesssteel so it looks pretty good but you won't have that light that's classic Macand now inside this is where this makes the biggest difference as far as using aMacBook  

so if you're familiar with the butterfly keyboard that we had for aboutfour years Apple replaced it in 2019 with theMacBook Pro with a revised scissor switch and if you're someone that reallydidn't like the old keyboard you'll probably love this keyboard it has greattravel on all of the keys they work great   

they're back lit and for those the attouch type this will be fantastic so just pressing the keys like normal the sound pretty good let me open notes here so just like in my other videos where Itype hi how are you today so if I type hi how are you today and so it sounds pretty quiet comparedto the the butterfly keyboards it's much nicer to type on it has great feedbackwhen you're pushing down you have good resistance and just in general this is agreat keyboard now one of the things I like most about this keyboard is notjust the feedback that we get from the keys but also the physical buttons atthe top I much prefer these to the touch bar now some people might prefer thetouch bar but it's something I never use on macbook pro so we've got ouradjustment for everything from the keyboard to the backlight of the displayand our volume it's just super easy to use and then of course we have touch IDwhich is great it works well and then a huge trackpad which works just like thetrack pads on any other MacBook at this point the display does go fairly brightbut it's not as bright as others and I wish they would add a lot of brightnessso you could comfortably use this while you're outside it does work fine butit's not as bright as some others when you're outside so you can see it it's aRetina display it's just as high-quality as any of the other Mac books but itdoesn't have all of the color gambits that you get with the MacBook Pro as faras variable refresh rates and all those things so for our MacBook Air usercoming from the previous MacBook Air to this one the display will lookphenomenal but if you're coming from say a 2016 MacBook Pro to this it'll lookabout the same you probably won't notice much of a difference but it isn't asgood as the newer MacBook Pros it's very slight it depends on what you're doingbut most people will be fine with this display no I wanted you to be able tohear the speakers on the MacBook Air because they're pretty good they're notas good as the 16 inch MacBook Pro but they have a phenomenal sound for whatthey are and they go nice and loud so let me go ahead and turn this up we'llgo to my channel and then you can see a montage where  

I did a camera comparison between all of the 20/20 iPhones so let me go ahead and play that for you againare really nice cameras but let me show you some samples comparing them alongwith some video now hopefully that gives you an idea ofthe overall sound quality I think they sound phenomenal there like I said notas good as the MacBook Pro but most people won't even notice that they gonice and loud loud enough that they're too loud for most people to listen tosustain so they're great that way now the question I probably get asked mostabout when it comes to the MacBook Air is how does it perform when it gets hotor how are its thermals does it throttle the CPU a lot because it's not superfast this is the quad core i5 version with eight gigabytes of RAM and theIntel iris + graphics so it's not the top of the line it's the one I wouldnormally suggest for most people now overall speed and usability is fine if Igo to something like Safari go to Apple it's nice and fast loading different webpages it has no issue with that if you wanted to do some light editing withFinal Cut Pro it will handle 4k video it will handle most tasks with ease howeverit is going to get a bit warm and so 

 I have ice that menu here running and Ialso have Intel power gadget and this can show you the actual frequency thatit's running as far as the CPU frequency is concerned now as you can see overallhere the frequency is at one point one it can turbo boost much higher than thatdepending on what you're doing so if I go back into Safari for example go toApple you're going to see the CPU boost up here and that's completely normalthat's just how it handles things so it will boost the CPU go back down asneeded so if we go and look at the iPhone se for example you can see itboosts back up and goes back down and it stays nice and silent now if you closethis you're going to see this drop back off and you'll see the CPU go back downit's running it only 920 mega Hertz right here so it will go up and down asneeded and some people are concerned with sustained loads how it handles thatso let me go into an application such as Cinebench run this where it reallypushes the CPU so you can actually hear it now we'll run Cinebench and it doesnot run terribly fast on this machine and you're going to get much betterperformance out of things like a mac pro or MacBook Pro of course but for regularuse with documents and things it's fine so let me let this run here I'll let itget warmer and you can see all of the CPUcores are kind of pegged at this point we're running at 1.9  

 gigahertz continually and I'll leave power gadget open as well so we'll get a maxfrequency ids see where it levels off and see how it sustains this temperaturenow the test has been going for a while the fan is running at maximum speed andyou can see here that we're at ninety nine point eight degrees it's hoveringright around 100 degrees Celsius that's completely normal for a Mac while itsounds fairly uncomfortable and very high most Mac's run at this very hightemperature it's utilizing about a hundred percent of the core and we'reaveraging 1.4 gigahertz and so you'll see based on what we have here we'rerunning above the average of the advertised base clock speed so whileit's not super fast it's faster than advertised and it's staying fairly quietso let me let you hear the fan now that we're close to using everything at 100%for a while so it's not super loud it's definitely noticeable 

but it's notsuper loud and you'll see now that this test is completed the clock speeds willdrop as will the temperature it will slowly taper off and we'll be back tonormal and this is completely normal for of this MacBook Air yes it will getwarm underneath here so underneath it's very hot right here in the center youcould hold your hand here but probably not for sustained sustained periods oftime but it's doing the job that it should and as expected and actually athigher clock speeds than advertised so as far as that part goes it's fine nowlet's talk a little bit about battery life because you can get what Appleadvertised under a specific scenario so for example if you're using Wi-Fi  

you'reusing Safari you're on one Safari page and you're at about 70 percentbrightness then you might be able to achieve the optimal battery life mostpeople are going to get about eight hours maybe nine hours with thisdepending on what they're doing if you're using pages and just typingyou'll probably get pretty decent battery life if maybe you're inmovie and watching just that movie that you've already downloaded that'sactually how Apple tests it as well then maybe you'll get that advertisedbattery life but if you've got multiple applications open such as Safari or mailand messages and the App Store and all of these things open like many peopleuse the computer you could get around six hours of battery life but if youhave a plug nearby just plug it in as needed and you're good to goso it just depends what you're what you're doing what you're needing and ingeneral it's a great machine now like I saidbefore my daughter has been using this since it came out and prior to thisshe's using the 2016 MacBook Pro and she's used the older 2011 style  

MacBookAir and so going from the MacBook Pro to this the first thing she mentioned to meis that the keyboard was just so much better she immediately noticed that shewrites a lot of papers or and just writes a lot and also uses Xcode and sheimmediately said that this keyboard is just so much better to use that shewould never go back also she prefers these buttons on the top other thanhaving a touch bar so just like myself I don't prefer the touch bar I'd ratherhave these physical buttons and it seems like she would as well also it's plentyfast even with 8 gigabytes of RAM to run things like Xcode so she's been learningXcode and learning some programming and it seems to run it without a problem nowif you were going to do any heavy coating or compiling or maybe you'regoing to video at it with it regularly then maybe I would get the larger memoryoption or even a MacBook Pro 10th generation but otherwise this one seemsto do the job and this will be the device that my daughter uses for collegeand it handles all of that without any problem whatsoever and the real questionis should you pick this up over the MacBook Pro and what I tell people isabsolutely if you're only going to get the eighth generation MacBook Pro13-inch in fact this has the tenth generation CPU with better graphics init so if you can afford the MacBook Pro with the 10th gen CPU then get thatMacBook Pro but if you're picking between the MacBook Air and the MacBookPro and you can only afford the base MacBook Pro I would pick the heir anyday and so the experience will generally be better yes it might get a little bitwarmer but in general I think it'll be bettermost people and then get what you can afford as far as the RAM if it only haseight gigabytes that's okay I normally recommend 16 gigabytes as long as youcan afford that if not you'll get by with eight if you're only writing papersbut if you want to edit video occasionally or do any of that sort ofwork I most definitely recommend 16 gigabytes of RAM for that or more I'dlove to hear if you picked up a MacBook Air what you think of it I think it's aphenomenal machine it's really what the MacBook Air should have been years agoand we finally have it here and it's fairly reasonably priced depending onwhich one you get but let me know your thoughts about it in the comments belowof course I'll link a wallpaper for you in the description like I normally doand if you'd like this wallpaper 

 I can link this one as well if you'd like and let me know what you think of this keyboard and if you prefer the touch baror not I definitely prefer physical buttons but I'd love to hear what youhave to say in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already though pleasesubscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like as always thanksfor watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time