The MacBook Air is hardly suited for power users anyway, and this is also the case for the more expensive SKUs with quad-core CPUs. However, you should not do too much multitasking or use too many browser tabs at the same time, otherwise you can notice some slight stutters. The CPU performance is also completely sufficient for this kind of work.
The MacBook Air definitely benefits from the fast SSD and the powerful video decoder in these scenarios. This includes things like writing mails, chats via Skype or Discord, web browsing, playback of YouTube videos or video streaming (like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Disney+). Every user obviously has its own routine, but we did not notice any limitations when we used typical apps during our review period. All the Windows competitors offer much more CPU performance with their 15W CPUs.īenchmark results are one thing, but the subjective performance impression is much more important, especially when you use a device like the MacBook Air, which was designed for casual users in the first place. The performance is not further reduced on battery power. The latter has an advantage of around 35% when you use all cores, but the single-core performance, which is still important in everyday tasks, is actually identical between the i3 and i5. We noticed bigger fluctuations during our review of MacBook Air with the quad-core i5. Our Cinebench Multi loop also results in a similar power usage. The performance also drops very quickly: We see a maximum power consumption of up to 18 Watts (2x 3.2 GHz), but this value drops to just 10-11 Watts (2x 2.3-2.4 GHz) within a couple of seconds. The new Core i3 is a little bit faster than the old Core i5-8210Y in the predecessors, but the advantage is not huge. The base model of the MacBook Air 2020 also gets a modern Ice Lake processor, but the Core i3-1000NG4 only offers two cores (4 threads) compared to the Core i5 and Core i7, so it is closer to the old MacBook Air from 20 in terms of raw CPU performance.
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