Category: Computer

The incredible M1 Chip is designed for powerful performance, it delivers more efficiency but with simplicity. This new MacBook Air has an inbuilt 5-Nanometer process technology that ensures amazing performance. The M1Chip also features unified memory architecture (UMA), high bandwidth, low-latency memory, and faster video and image processing. The addition of an 8-core CPU is what makes MacBook Air 2020 the best MacBook ever. With maximum 18-hour battery life, the best 13-inch Retina display, Touch ID, and double storage capacity it sure beats any other Apple product. The new MacBook Air is now available in Space Gray, Gold, and Silver. It also features the new 720p FaceTime HD Camera with crisper and sharper image quality. MacBook Air has Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 ports and perfectly supports Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6. Also, the best quality stereo speakers with wide stereo sound support are a dream come true for every Gaming amateur.

Our thinnest, lightest notebook, completely transformed by the Apple M1 chip. CPU speeds up to 3.5x faster. GPU speeds up to 5x faster. Our most advanced Neural Engine for up to 9x faster machine learning. The longest battery life ever in a MacBook Air. And a silent, fan less design.

M1 has the fastest CPU we’ve ever made. With that kind of processing speed, MacBook Air can take on new extraordinarily intensive tasks like professional-quality editing and action-packed gaming. But the 8‑core CPU on M1 isn‘t just up to 3.5x faster than the previous generation2 — it balances high-performance cores with efficiency cores that can still crush everyday jobs while using just a tenth of the power.

Display

Retina display

13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2560-by-1600 native resolution at 227 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors

Supported scaled resolutions:

• 1680 by 1050
• 1440 by 900
• 1024 by 640

400 nits brightness

Wide color (P3)

True Tone technology

Chip

Apple M1 chip

• 8-core CPU with 4 perform­ance cores and 4 efficiency cores
• 7-core GPU
• 16-core Neural Engine

Battery and Power

• Up to 15 hours of wireless web
• Up to 18 hours of Apple TV app movie playback
• Built-in 49.9‑watt-hour lithium‑polymer battery
• 30W USB-C Power Adapter

Charg­ing and Expan­sion

Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

• Charging
• DisplayPort
• Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
• USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
• USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)

Memory

8GB

8GB unified memory

Configurable to: 16GB

Storage

256GB

• 256GB SSD

Configurable to:

• 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB

Key­board and Track­pad

Backlit Magic Keyboard with:

• 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 function keys and 4 arrow keys in an inverted-T arrangement
• Ambient light sensor
• Force Touch trackpad for precise cursor control and pressure-sensing capabilities; enables Force clicks, accelerators, pressure-sensitive drawing, and Multi-Touch gestures

Touch 

IDTouch ID sensor

Operat­ing System

macOS

macOS is the most advanced desktop operating system in the world. macOS Ventura makes the things you do most on Mac even better, so you can work smarter, play harder, and go further.

Accessi­bility

Accessibility features help people with disabilities get the most out of their new MacBook Air. With built-in support for vision, hearing, mobility, and learning, you can create and do amazing things.

It’s a hybrid device based around a folding 17.3-inch 2560x1920px OLED display of 4:3 aspect (when fully opened) and 500 nits of brightness. When fully unfolded, it can stand on its own kickstand and work as a monitor – a nice combination for office work, combined with the Bluetooth keyboard.

The Zenbook 17 Fold OLED can also be folded at 120 degrees and used with the Bluetooth keyboard – a way to still enjoy its 17.3-inch display in full – or by making the bottom half of the display act as a virtual keyboard.

Finally, the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED can be used as a conventional laptop with a magnetically-attachable physical keyboard and only half of its display at 12.5-inch and 1920x1280px. And if you just fancy a tablet, the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED can be used in the hand, though at 17.3-inches it is a bit big.

The Zenbook 17 Fold OLED runs on Windows 11 and is powered by Intel’s i7-1250U processor with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM. This is Intel’s 12th-gen hybrid architecture with 2 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. Graphics are handled by Intel’s Iris Xe. There’s a 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD – the latest and fastest storage around.

There are two USB-C ports on the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED – both Thunderbolt 4 with support for both display output and charging, which tops out at 65W. There’s also a 3.5mm audio jack. Inside, there’s a 75Whr 4-cell battery that’s good for up to 9 and a half hours of screen-on time. The Zenbook 17 Fold OLED weighs 1.5kg – huge for a tablet but very reasonable for a 17.3-inch device.

Asus ZenBook 17 Fold OLED Specifications:

• OS: Windows 11
• Utility: Business
• Thickness: 8.7 mm Slim
• 1.65 kg Light
• 1-Year Warranty
• Display: 
  • 17.3 inches Largest
  • 2560 x 1920 pixels Good
  • 185 PPI Average
  • Touch Screen
  • Anti Glare
  • 4:3 Aspect Ratio
• Performance:
  • Intel Core i7, 12th Gen
  • Deca Core
  • 12 MB Cache
  • Intel Iris Xe Graphics
  • 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM Small
  • 1 TB SSD
• Connectivity:
  • Thunderbolt
  • Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v5.0
  • 2 x USB Type-C
  • 5 MP Camera
  • Inbuilt Microphone
• Battery: 4 Cell Battery

The price of the Asus ZenBook 17 Fold OLED laptop is Rs. 555,555 for the sole Intel Core i7 variant with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.

While it might not seem so at a first glance, Acer has much improved the 2022 Nitro 5 series in quite a few ways compared to the previous generations. They’ve tweaked some of the design lines and ergonomics, included some good screen options, beefed up the power settings and the cooling module, added up a 90Wh battery, as well as updated the internal specs to the latest available today. These make the Intel configuration reviewed here a powerful implementation in its class, and a proper alternative for what is still most likely the better-balanced AMD variant also available in this chassis.

In the past, Nitro’s offered excellent value in most markets, with one of the better price/features-performance ratios in their niche. In the last two years, though, Acer didn’t quite keep up with the competition and the Nitro lineups lost some of their competitive advantages.

With the 2022 generation, Acer has slightly aesthetically redesigned the Nitro 5 series, updated the IO and screen options, bumped the hardware to the latest Intel/AMD and Nvidia specs available to date, and also updated the cooling module and the battery.

Acer Nitro 5 (2022) Specifications:

• Design & Build: Plastic Build
• Display: 15.6 / 17.3″ IPS panel, up to 100% sRGB, 144/165Hz refresh rate
• Resolution: QHD / FHD resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio
• Keyboard: Chiclet-style backlit keyboard (1 / 4 zone RGB)
• Processor:
  • Intel: Up to 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H
  • AMD: Up to AMD Ryzen 7 6800H
• RAM:
  • Intel: Up to 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • AMD: Up to 32GB DDR5-4800 RAM
• Storage:
  • Intel: 2x M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD + 1x SATA HDD
  • AMD: 1x M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD + 1.M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD + 1x SATA HDD
• Graphics: Up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (8GB GDDR6 VRAM)
• Audio: 2x 2W speaker (DTS:X Ultra audio)
• Battery: 58 Watt-hours 4-cell Li-Ion battery
• Power Supply: 180 / 230W power adapter
• Webcam: 720p HD IR with Windows Hello
• Connectivity: Killer AX1650i (Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth 5.1, Killer 2600 Gigabit Ethernet LAN

Acer Nitro 5 (2022) is available in the Nepali market which bears an Rs. 139,000 price tag for Core i5-12500H, RTX 3050, 8GB RAM, and 512GB SSD.