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hey guys this is Austin today in Brooklyn Apple announced two brand new Macs a Mac Mini as well as a completely refreshed MacBook Air which is helpful when you know you don't update your computers for a few years the last MacBook Air was a big deal it really did change with the way a lot of laptops look and feel even to this day and thankfully we actually finally have a modern version of it you know it's got a Retina display like every other laptop has had for the last few years with a 13.3 inch 2560 by 1600 resolution this looks leagues miles light years weight way better than the last generation MacBook which still had a low resolution TN panel honestly that was the biggest issue with me with using the MacBook in 2018 it just looks so old and dated and has thankfully been fixed this year the rest of the laptop looks a lot like a mixture between the 12-inch MacBook and the 13-inch MacBook Pro on the left side we do get Thunderbolt three ports we have two of them which are thankfully both fully enabled unlike the standard 12-inch Maxwell quit only has USB C and on the right side we still have the headphone jack that joke will make a lot more sense if you watch our ipad video which is live on instagram TV right now which thankfully are unthankful e dropped to the headphone jack for some weird reason you go check that out like in the description or things a little bit more interesting is when you look inside the macbook so now we have a single option for a cpu it is an eighth generation Core i5 processor however it is fanless with only two courses of posta quad cores like most other systems now that is largely due to the fact that this is an incredibly lightweight laptop but still doesn't really give you a lot of options the MacBook Air is not going to be a powerhouse anytime soon the trend continues when you look at the rest of the options there are very few different configurations of the MacBook Air so it does come in three colors silver Space Gray as well as gold but as far as actual specs go you've always got that Core i5 and your only real options are either 8 or 16 gigs of ram and somewhere between 128 gigs of storage all the way up to 1.5 terabytes can we talk about that for a second though 128 gigs of storage that's just not enough in 2018 and sure if you use this as a glorified netbook or something that's very very sort of focused I guess on web browsing I know why would anyone I can't even come up with the reason why anyone would wanna hundred twenty eight gigs of storage the worst part is it's still $1,200 with that 128 gig SSD you want to get something a little bit more usable you have to step up to the 40 on a dollar which does have 256 gigs of storage take a look at the keyboard trackpad speakers and this will look very familiar if you are used to the 13-inch MacBook Pro so it does have the new third-generation butterfly switches they still don't feel amazing but at least these shouldn't get all jammed up with like dirt and dust and stuff and the tripod as always is pretty much as good as it gets I wasn't able to try the speakers in the very loud hands-on area but again if it's anything like that 30 inch it should sound really nice also I forgot to mention it does come with touch ID so it's built into the power button but it does not have the touch bar like the larger MacBook Apple still claims a full 12 hours of battery life which should be pretty accurate the old MacBook Air was definitely an endurance champ and beyond that the actual size of the laptop has gotten a little bit smaller and it actually is noticeably lighter which is impressive considering that the old MacBook Air was definitely light already these MacBook Airs are available for pre-order starting today and they will be going on sale on November 7th starting at that sweet sweet price of $1200 yeah they also still sell the old MacBook Air - if you really want to go old school or spend less than thousand there are a lot of rumors that this MacBook was gonna be cheap right people are throwing are like 800 bucks or a thousand 12-under dollars is not a crazy price I mean it's better than the old MacBook it's just a little disappointing to not see it just a little bit farther down the range probably because the thousand dollar price point is now taken up by the bigger iPad pro so that's actually to be fair it's probably more powerful system moving on to what actually might even be more exciting for me personally is the brand-new Mac Mini if you take a look at it on the outside it looks basically identical and that's true because the chassis hasn't really changed besides they've changed the color over to space grey on the inside though this is a way more exciting system so you guys will remember our last video on the Mac Mini you'll know that it was a little bit underpowered because it was essentially a MacBook Air and a shell however this year we've got actual full desktop processors so it starts out with a quad core Core i3 but you can option this out with a core i5 or Core i7 both of which have six cores to work with that's a lot of power for a little tiny Mac Mini can you feel my excitement because I'm ready the extra power makes a big difference especially considering that there's a lot of other properly Pro level features that you can get with the Mac Mini so starting out with it does have four Thunderbolt three ports so you can easily connect an external GPU so we did see a have a demo of Final Cut running really nice and smooth with the full six core processor tons of memory and that external GPU but on top of that we've got some serious specs - 64 gigs of ram and 2 terabytes of SSD are all options and if you want to go full Linus tech tips on it you can option the Mac Mini with a 10 gig Ethernet port which is kind of a big deal so by the standard it does have a one gig port as well as two USB a a HDMI and those four Thunderbolts but for a hundred dollars to upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet that's a really big deal I know personally for us we're totally going to be using this as our ingest station to be able to now a backup footage but also to dump it to our server just like the area the Mac Mini is available for pre-order and you can pick it up on November 7th however unlike the MacBook Air it's actually a lot cheaper this guy starts at $800 don't let that fool you though because that's what the core i3 you guys she max out the Mac Mini and over 4000 dollars where you throw everything at it including the memory the SSD the whole works oh yeah and that my friends is almost everything that was announced at the Apple event today the other main thing was a brand new iPad pro but we did an entire video on Instagram TV talking about that said let's be sure to go check that out of the link in the description and while you're there maybe take a look we actually been doing a lot of IG TV videos lately