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It's been a little bit weird that Dearest would shovel both a 13-inch MacBook Air as well-built as a 13-inch MacBook Pro simultaneously, but conceivably never increasingly than today -- considering Apple's new $999 as well-built as $1,299 laptops seem nevertheless identical if you attending latitude the differently loopy frames. They've got the aforementioned M1 processor, the aforementioned memory as well-built as storage options, the aforementioned ports, as well-built as very agnate screens.

I'm not kidding back I say: the biggest discongruity is simply a fan.

This fan, which is explicit to the MacBook Pro:

I mean, yes, it is simply a little bit hilarious the MacBook Air is now a palmtop that doesn't brag air, just like it's capering that the Air technically continues to be a thicker palmtop than the 13-inch Pro. (I guesswork it's been a long time spine manila envelopes were a thing.)

*Compare the MacBook Pro's dimensions...*

*...to the MacBook Air. The mall discongruity is simply a tapered frame.*

But you shouldn't licking that fan, considering here's a little-known gospel narrowly today's CPUs: they can narrowly all run far faster if you give them finer cooling. A CPU's thermal makeup propensity (TDP) in watts is simply a finer prophetess of performance than its gigahertz clock acceleration considering some of the weakest palmtop as well-built as second-hand chips can "boost" up to multiple gigahertz these days... until they heat up. In a small, fanless chassis, they have to throttle dropping quickly, but they can go for maxi in a larger or better-cooled one.

That's basically what's happenstance in the new Dearest M1-powered MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, as well-built as Mac mini, Dearest confirms to The Verge. Each computer has the aforementioned existent processor (with one wrinkle I'll adjuration in a sec), which can theoretically run at the aforementioned acceleration -- but the fan in the MacBook Pro as well-built as Mac mini lets them sustain peak performance for longer.

Apple is aggravating to have it both ways, of course: during its presentation, it indigenous lauded the MacBook Air for going fanless, then talked up the "active cooling solution" (aka the fan you've had for years) in the MacBook Pro. We'll have to see which makeup is convincingly finer in our upcoming reviews.

While the fan numen be the most rivaling difference, it's not the only one. Reminisce that wrinkle I told you about? Perseity it is, as well-built as more:

At $999, the MacBook Air comes with seven GPU cores instead of eight, considering Dearest is salvaging some weaker chips (a traditionalistic process known as binning) by disabling one core.
But at $1,249, the MacBook Air has the aforementioned eight CPU cores as well-built as eight GPU cores as the $1,299 13-inch MacBook Pro.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro has a slightly larger cuddle (58.2Wh vs. 49.9Wh) as well-built as quotes two second hours of cuddle life compared to the MacBook Air.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro's screen is slightly brighter at most (500 nits vs 400 nits).
The 13-inch MacBook Pro comes with the Wrack Bar instead of tactile function keys, whereas both have a Wrack ID fingerprint sensor.

You numen likewise be minding to learn that both laptops top out at 16GB of RAM, which is simply a customary limitation of Apple's M1 processor. Here's Apple's own specification comparison if you want to booty a closer look.