Apple’s thinnest and lightest notebook gets supercharged with the Apple M1 chip. Tackle your projects with the blazing-fast 8-core CPU. Take graphics-intensive apps and games to the next level with the 8-core GPU. And accelerate machine learning tasks with the 16-core Neural Engine. All with a silent, fanless design and the longest battery life ever — up to 18 hours.¹ MacBook Air. Still perfectly portable. Just a lot more powerful.
Q: Is it 8-Core CPU and 8-Core GPU? Or 8‑Core CPU and 7‑Core GPU?
A: It is 8CPU / 8GPU
Q: If I were to purchase this now, can the memory & storage be upgraded later?
A: No. The memory and storage is baked into the M1 chip and cannot be expanded in the future.
A: Yes. Currently office 365 invokes Rosetta first time to work on m1 processor and from then on it runs great. I have used outlook word and excel and it’s fine. Microsoft will soon release new version of office 365 that runs on native m1 cpu. Go for it. Super fast system.
Q: Does this work well with video editing ?
A: A lot of youtube creators show it being excellent
Q: What comes on this MacBook Air? Does it have Touch ID ? Microsoft Office? Word? Google Chrome?
A: It does have Touch ID. As this is an Apple product, it does not have any Microsoft software pre-installed, such as Office. It does have the Apple alternatives - Pages (similar to Word), Numbers (similar to Excel), Keynote (similar to PowerPoint), etc. Similarly, Google Chrome is not pre-installed. Apple’s web browser, Safari, is included. Take a look under the “Specifications” section. A list of the main Apple applications included are noted under the “Included” subsection.
A: Best Buy does not currently have the 16gb RAM options yet - you have to order directly from apple.
Q: Does it have touch touch screen?
A: No
A: No. Only 2 USB ports on the left and headphone port on the right.
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