This Rs 50,000 MacBook Air Runs Windows! Ft. Infinix Air Pro+

Guys, take a look at this. Infinix actually made a MacBook Air lookalike and it's called the Infinix Air Pro Plus. Obviously, Infinix had to have Air in the name but the point to be noted here is that the Air Pro Plus is available for Rs 50,000. For a lower price tag compared to the MacBook Air, what you get is double the RAM, double the storage, an OLED display and definitely more input ports. However, let's try to find out if it's worth buying the Infinix Air Pro Plus in this detailed review. Alright, if you're here for the first time, I'm Aishat, you're watching Alright, now before I tell you about the laptop itself, just take a look at the retail box packaging's design. Now, if you feel like you've seen this somewhere before, well, you have because it is very similar to the design of the MacBook Air's retail packaging. Both these brands want to show how slim their laptops are. Alright, now the Air Pro Plus is made of an aluminium and magnesium alloy, so it definitely feels premium to touch and use. And very importantly, there's very little top lid flex as well and the hinge is pretty good too. It also weighs slower than the MacBook Air M1. It weighs about 1.0405 kgs which is pretty light, you know. But the only problem is that you actually cannot lift it open with one finger. Now, Infinix mentions in their marketing material that it is 4.5 mm thick but that's only when the lid is open, not when the lid is closed. In that scenario, the MacBook is actually 0.4 mm slimmer than Infinix but it doesn't really matter too much to me primarily because Infinix actually has a smattering of ports. But only one Type-C port can be used as a full function port for, you know, both data transfer and charging. Now, that means that you cannot use any of the other three Type-C ports for charging. So, if your full function port gets damaged, then you can't charge the laptop. But once you open the lid, you are greeted by this gorgeous 2.8K resolution OLED panel with 120Hz refresh rate no less. And for Rs 50,000, I think Infinix has gone above and beyond to give you the best display experience. And it's not just a specs monster, mind you. Because it's also plenty bright at 440 nits, you get support for HDR and HDR video playback on YouTube looks fantastic on this display. And even in high brightness mode, the brightness can go up to a very healthy 380 nits which is pretty good. Not only that, you've got a fantastic color gamut support as well. You get 100% sRGB, 100% DCI-P3, 96% Adobe sRGB and 94% NTSC support as well. So, overall, if you look at it, if you want a laptop with the best display under Rs 50,000, you really cannot go wrong with the Infinix Air Pro+. Now, another good addition is the support for Windows Hello facial recognition. So, you get a 1080p webcam and an IR detector as well. And the video quality from the 1080p webcam is actually pretty decent. We kind of liked it. But the only problem that I have with the display itself is that the bezels at the top are slightly too thick. Now, you also get four speakers, two upward firing and two downward firing ones, but the bass response is a little meek. It could have been better. Anyway, take a listen to it for yourself and let me know what you guys think. Now, what I liked about the keyboard is that the key spacing is pretty fine, but the key travel is not that great. Also, it is slightly mushy when you're typing, so you don't get like the best typing experience. But there's also a slight bit of keyboard flex that we noticed, but that could be because the laptop is thin. It's not too much of a problem, honestly. Now, the trackpad is large and it's got very good touch response as well. So, we don't have a problem with that. Plus, you get support for Windows gestures too. But oddly, only the bottom half of the trackpad is clickable and the top half is not. So, if you're somebody who's used to clicking the top half, which I am not, then that would definitely be a problem for you. Now, one thing I must mention is that the keyboard has a Windows Copilot key, but the processor doesn't have an NPU. So, you do not get AI on the machine, obviously. Talking about which, the software is basically Windows 11 Home Edition, and you also do not have bloatware, which is damn nice. Infinix doesn't have bloatware on the phones, it doesn't have bloatware on the laptops as well, which is good. Now, for performance, the Air Pro Plus actually uses Intel's 1334U processor, which is basically the core i5 13th Gen processor. This is a 10-core, 12-thread CPU, where you get two performance cores and eight efficiency cores. You also get 16 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 512 GB of PCI Express Gen 3 SSD. And the read-write speeds are pretty decent, just like how a Gen 3 SSD should perform, it's good. Apart from that, you also get support for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2. If you look at the specs alone, it's fine, but if you look hard enough, you can find other laptops, in fact, thin and light laptops in this price class, with better specs. So, in our testing, the 1334U inside this Infinix laptop actually ran anywhere between 10 watts to 12 watts. So, it was never reaching the 15-watt TDP capabilities that Intel claims that it should. We feel that Infinix might have undervolted the processor at the factory itself, primarily because they would want to keep the thermals in check within such a slim form factor. Honestly, though, if you asked me, it would have been ideal if Infinix could have used, like, the 1335U instead. Anyway, the benchmark figure should give you some more clarity, so let us run through that quickly. So, in Geekbench 6, Infinix's own Y4 Max, which has the i5-1335U, defeats the Infinix Air Pro Plus in multi-core score comfortably. However, the single-core performance is the same. In Cinebench R23, the 1335U sucker-punches the 1334U. The single-core score is 20% lower, and the multi-core is half that of the 1335U. We also ran PCMark10, and the 1334U is 10% slower than the 1335U here as well. Also, if you're a gamer, this laptop might not be for you, primarily because it's not meant to be a gaming laptop. It's a thin and light machine. It's meant to be, like, a productivity machine. But anyway, we tried playing Valorant, and we got about 60 FPS, but, you know, Valorant is not, like, a very intensive game, so we should have gotten 100 FPS at least. But yeah, 60 FPS is what you can expect, and yeah, it's not a gaming machine. Now, while the processor is underpowered, and the performance might not be the best, it's very good at efficiency. Now, despite having a relatively smaller 57Wh battery, what we got was 6-7 hours of usage from this machine. Now, in this price range, we generally don't find laptops giving you 6-7 hours of battery life. We get about 3-4 at best. And considering you also get a very high-resolution display, this is pretty good. Now, in short, what we feel, like, the Air Pro Plus is perfect for somebody like me, who doesn't want to game on the laptop, but wants to do, like, a lot of productivity, like, for example, running Google Docs, or opening multiple browser tabs. For all of that, this is a very good machine. But, if you want a performance beast, then this is definitely not the one for you. See, for 50,000 rupees, I think Infinix has done a fairly decent job, especially with the display, which, for me, is very, very important, because that's where I'm going to be spending most of my time. So, if you want a thinner light machine, which is just around 1kg in weight, and if you want a great display, along with good battery life, this actually could be a good laptop for you to choose. Seriously, the OLED panel itself is enough for me to feel like, yeah, this is a good recommendation. Alright, that was my review of the 50,000 rupee MacBook Air that is running Windows, and I hope you liked it, not just the machine, but also our review. If you did, of course, give us a thumbs up. I'll see you guys in the next one. Until then, keep tracking, and stay safe.