On the whole, though, the 2020 MacBook Air is a good all-rounder, even if the price may make you think twice. As long as you have good light, it’s fine if a little grainy but when you compare it to the camera on the iPad Pro, for example, it falls down a lot. In early evening with decent light, the webcam looked a little murky.
The Macbook’s webcam isn’t bad as such, it’s just not as bright as I’d like. Video conferencing has become my social life outside the four walls of my home not only are fitness classes done over the platform, but I’ve “attended” two birthday parties in the past week conducted over Zoom. More limiting was the webcam, which I thought would be better. Unfortunately, unless you have a green screen, you need a quad-core i5 or better, which the basic MacBook Air doesn’t have. One thing it offers is virtual backgrounds. Love it or loathe it, Zoom is a popular service these days. But the 2020 Macbook Air did struggle in one surprising task – Zoom calls. The difference is noticeable, and the keyboard is much more comfortable – and less noisy – to use. That ditched the butterfly in favour of another scissor mechanism. But the new MacBook Air has the Magic keyboard, which came with the 16-inch MacBook Pro. The butterfly keyboard, which replaced the tried and tested scissor mechanism, failed to find favour among Mac fans. In fact, Apple had a taste of it when it changed the keyboard.
It’s a smart move we’ve all seen what happens when tech companies try to introduce change. Apple has found a formula that works and it is sticking with it. The ports are kept to the bare minimum – two Thunderbolt 3 ports and a headphone jack – but the Force Touch (I still dislike that name) trackpad is a decent size. It’s sleek, minimalist and as small as Apple could possibly get everything in a 13-inch device.
There isn’t a huge difference between the new MacBook Air and its predecessors when it comes to looks.
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