READ NEXT: M1 Apple MacBook Pro 13in (2020) review - a stunning debut M1 Apple MacBook Air (2020) review: What you need to know And yet, somehow, despite shaking everything up, Apple has still managed to produce a laptop that not only competes on a level playing field but leaves its rivals in the dust. Thanks to the new Apple M1 Chip, it now has more in common with smartphones than with the Windows laptops it competes against. In fact, you’ll barely notice the difference from a usability standpoint.īeneath the surface, however, it’s utterly, completely different. It runs the same operating system as before and it’ll run the same applications too. Not because it does anything particularly special or looks particularly new it’s miraculous because it does the same old stuff. The M1 MacBook Air is a miraculous laptop.