John Siracusa

It has Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6, so the standards are, you know, fine.

It's not Wi-Fi 7, but whatever.

But it is Bluetooth 6.

I think they use like a MediaTek chip or something.

It's not Apple's N1 in there.

Again, saving money because whatever chip they use is presumably cheaper than the M1.

The camera is 1080, no center stage or desk view.

Also, no indicator light on the camera.

It's a little green light that, you know, turns on next to the camera when the camera is recording.

Instead, they're just relying entirely on the software thing.

The little, you know, FaceTime-ish icon that appears in your menu bar when it's going on.

That's a weird one to cut.

I don't know what the security implications of that, because Apple used to brag about how there's no way in software you can disable the green light.

Obviously, there's definitely a way in software where you can disable the thing in the menu bar, I would presume, although maybe system integrity protection and all sorts of stuff tries to stop that, but we'll see.

Sound, again, dual speakers, dual mic array instead of three mics from the MacBook Air.

Does not support spatial audio with dynamic head tracking on AirPods, which is fine with me because I hate that feature.

Yeah, I wish.

I always turn it off.

The battery, as Marco said, is 36.5, which is 32% smaller than the MacBook Air's 53.8.

So that is a big, because again, this is the same size computer and there's essentially a third less battery in it.