Upgrade to new M1

[jhawkin1]

Good morning,

I am currently teaching virtually from home and I use my MacBook Air 2018 to share lessons via Zoom and share screen using Google Chrome to present Google Slides, Videos, ect.

I recently purchased a new purchase that should arrive by the end of January and I chose to upgrade to the new 2020 Macbook Air equipped with 8-core CPU and 8-Core GPU, 512 GB, and 16 GB of Memory (RAM).

My current MacBook Air is a 2018, 1.6 i5-Core with only 8 GB of Ram.


My question is: will the purchase exponentially help me present to students without the current issues I would be having with my current make with lagging, video quality, speed, etc?


Thanks!

 

[benobi]

It MAY help. You should feel confident that you have purchased a much more capable machine with the M1 Air. It will be able to handle almost anything you'd like to do. However, the problems you are specifically mentioning may have more to do with your internet speed/connection than with the computer. I would also double check your service provider, router and modem.

 

[jhawkin1]

It MAY help. You should feel confident that you have purchased a much more capable machine with the M1 Air. It will be able to handle almost anything you'd like to do. However, the problems you are specifically mentioning may have more to do with your internet speed/connection than with the computer. I would also double check your service provider, router and modem.

I increased my internet speed to 600mbps...it costed a pretty penny! Hopefully that coupled with increased RAM and M1 will help performance

 

[JLH81]

I increased my internet speed to 600mbps...it costed a pretty penny! Hopefully that coupled with increased RAM and M1 will help performance

I certainly hope you don't teach English classes.......

 

[Apple_Robert]

I certainly hope you don't teach English classes.......

No need to be rude. Many of the forum members are from a different country where English is not the native language. That may be the case with the OP. And even if that weren't the case, you understood what he was trying to convey.

 

[JLH81]

My bad!....sorry about that!

 

[thadoggfather]

I increased my internet speed to 600mbps...it costed a pretty penny! Hopefully that coupled with increased RAM and M1 will help performance

RAM + M1 will help multitasking.

Fanless Apple Silicon design in MBA will help not making it sound like a jet engine on video calls , heat, and sluggish multitasking. Battery life increase will be massive and appreciable too.

600mbps may be wasted if on wireless AC or lower. Need Wifi 6 router, which 2020 M1 supports and your MBA does not.

I have Gigabit, and AirPort Extreme and it tops off at like upper 300 / lower 400 possibly.