MacBook Air 2020 keyboard and trackpadįrom here on out, the only time I want to hear about butterflies is when I'm nervous or taking a nature hike. The keyboard was clear up to a point, but when all the elements of the track came together, there was noticeable brassiness. I got cleaner audio when I started listening to Teyana Taylor’s “We Got Love.” The low-end was distinct as were the vocals. The Air’s pair of top-mounted speakers filled my smallish living and dining rooms with crisp percussion on Jay-Z’s “Lucifer.” However, the guitar and piano were fighting for a cramped soundstage which only made the rapper and the background singer’s vocals sound distorted. According to Apple, the speakers deliver “twice the bass and 25% more volume. The laptop might be light like a gentle breeze, but it can get as loud as a hurricane. However, the Surface Pro and Envy were brighter at 395 and 401 nits respectively. However, the Air was more vivid than both the XPS 13 (111%) and the Surface (97%).Īveraging 386 nits, the Air is pretty bright, outshining the 357-nit average and the XPS 13 (382 nits).

Measuring for color reproduction ability, the MacBook Air reached 113% of the sRGB gamut, which is above our 100% minimum, but below the 122% premium laptop average and the Envy’s 116%. I would definitely recommend keeping TrueTone enabled as the colors seemed a bit muted without the feature.