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hey guys Boston my voice might be gone but what is this is the MacBook Air why does it still exist in 2013 surprisingly Apple released a new version of the MacBook Air this week it's a pretty minor upgrade but for computer that's essentially been around unchanged since 2010 that's not bad what's interesting about the air is that this is actually still one of the most popular Mac's that Apple sells so well they have updated most of the other more modern Macs I think a lot of people look at the air and say yeah that's all I need some side we get the air itself now to be fair this design really has not changed since 2010 but it's still a nice looking laptop so it's all metal and it's maybe not quite as nice as something like some of the newer Mac books but this is not an old terrible piece of hardware at all one nice thing that hasn't changed is MagSafe so while there are a lot of advantages to going with USBC and thunderbolt there's something really nice about having a magnetic cable that if you say trip and fall over your cable and yet I'm looking at you can open up the air and you should see that it looks very familiar now that's not a huge downside so the keyboard the trackpad especially the build quality does feel good and especially in 2010 this was pretty solid but when you're buying a laptop that literally came out today it looks exactly the same as something that came out seven years ago you've got a problem the first thing that jumps out to me when using this air is how bad the screen is so well some things from 2010 hold up pretty well that TN panel definitely does not so it is a 13.3 inch display with a 1440 by 900 resolution low but not the end of the world however the color and especially the viewing angles here are terrible I mean look at this you can barely see it I get straight you can kind of see it a little bit but it's so bad like for a thousand-dollar laptop this should be a deal-breaker so to put things in perspective this is the LG grant I'm going to be doing a video on this soon but this is also a thousand dollar laptop and when you look at the screen on this compared to the MacBook Air it's not even close now if Apple wants to keep selling the MacBook Air in 2017 by all means go ahead there are legitimate advantages to having a MacBook like this still around but besides that they have not updated the screen in this many years and it looks this bad is crazy if this screen was on a 200 laptop I would complain about it on a thousand-dollar laptop no to be fair it's not all bad with the MacBook Air so this is the new 12-inch MacBook now this is kind of a successor to the air and that is a very small and thin laptop and when you put it side-by-side with the air you'll see that it is a much much smaller laptop it's definitely not perfect though so this is the USB C port well that's a nice thing to have on a laptop it is the only port on the 12 inch macbook now that can cause some big problems when it comes to using one single port to not only charge the computer but connect to an external monitor connect to USB accessories it all has to happen to the single port wears on the 13-inch air and that is not a problem this guy has a mini DisplayPort that also doubles as sender bolt to a full size USB 3 SD card reader and on the flip side you have one more USB 3 port as well as the MagSafe power adapter so while the MacBook Air is not the perfect laptop it definitely is not dongle life ready there has seen update for 2017 but the upgrade is incredibly minor so it's gone from 1.6 to a 1.8 gigahertz Core i5 processor does the same egg whites of memory and 128 cakes of SSD storage what hasn't changed is the actual processors inside so the air is still rocking a 15 core processor whereas furniture all the mac books and most Windows laptops these days on the seventh gen it really feels like an upgrade just to say hey look guys we can put the 2017 badge on it now take a look good performance and the air has definitely fallen behind so not only is it slower than the 12-inch MacBook which has a much lower power core entry processor it's also much slower than the LG gram which is about the same price but has a much newer Core i5 - beefier performance is not the be-all end-all for the MacBook Air one of the other big advantages here is battery life so with the way that the 13-inch is spiked with its fairly large battery you should expect around 14 hours on a charge which is really solid the only issue is other laptops such as the Graham have absolutely caught up to that number one area where the air definitely does hold up is with the keyboard and trackpad so the keyboard itself actually still feels pretty decent i slightly prefer what you get on the newer Mac books but I do think a lot of people like the extra key travel and the trackpad is good so again it's not quite as new and quite as nice as some of the newer force touch trackpad well I still feel like this is the better tripod than pretty much any Windows laptop you can buy when it comes to actually using the air it does feel reasonably snappy so yes if you look at it compared to something else on a benchmark it's not going to be as fast for more basic usage like web browsing which honestly is probably what everyone does on MacBook Airs anyway it does feel pretty good the screen definitely does let it down but besides that it's a pretty solid machine the value proposition with the MacBook Air is a little bit weird so in one hand it's $300 cheaper than any other maxes that you can pick up on the other it hasn't really been thoroughly updated in quite a few years it also only comes with a 128 gigabyte SSD in the base configuration now if this is just your Facebook machine and sure that can work out but other than that once you start upgrading it it just doesn't make any sense the MacBook Air with a really impressive laptop when it came out in 2010 however if you're buying a new laptop in 2017 it just doesn't make sense so what do you guys think about the MacBook Air let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one