![]() ![]() This MacBook Air out-muscles every laptop in its class while lasting a full day on a charge. ![]() Those bold claims Apple made about the M1? They weren't exaggerations. I'll start by saying the new MacBook Air is an improvement over the previous model in every way, bringing monumental performance and battery life enhancements. Yes, Apple's long-awaited transition away from Intel and into the ARMs of custom silicon has arrived, and the new chip blows us away. The latest MacBook Air ushers in a new era for Apple with its custom-made M1 chip. It's amazing what a new heart can do for a laptop. ![]() Note that, in February 2018, we switched from Laptop Battery Test 1.0, which surfed the web at a lower, 100 nits of brightness, so scores have gone down to reflect the more aggressive (and realistic) test. See our recent Asus Zenbook 14 (Q409ZA) OLED review, which didn't make this list, but still has relatively long battery life. These laptops can be anything, from premium consumer laptops to business laptops to even gaming laptops, yes, gaming laptops, like the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, which achieved more battery life than the 16-inch MacBook Pro thanks to its AMD Ryzen CPU. Read our best of CES 2023 article to see the future of tech. We're talking more than 13-14 hours of endurance, which should more than suffice for that cross-country flight, a long day of meetings or multiple, back-to-back classes. Using our Laptop Mag Battery Test 2.0, which involves continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness, we've identified the laptops with best battery life on the market. Fortunately, there are plenty of notebooks that go the distance. ![]()
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