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hi I'm Scott Stein and what I have here is the 2012 11 inch MacBook Air now the MacBook Air has been around since the fall of 2010 and hasn't changed it design one bit now on the other hand it is still really attractive to look at in fact it's seen its offices a lot of people were looking over my shoulder to see what exactly this was because it is smaller it is slimmer it's kind of like your Mini Cooper cool convertible laptop that just seems a little smaller than possible for a macbook and the performance to its credit is really about the same level as a 13-inch MacBook Air it's point 1 gigahertz slower in the base core i5 configuration which you're not going to notice and there's been a bump up in speed thanks to 3rd generation Intel processors that are now in all macbook products you can also get the same RAM configuration the same storage as you could in the 13-inch model what you're losing here is an SD card slot which might matter to a few people and more importantly battery life this lasts 2 hours less on a battery charge than the 13-inch model that being said I've almost 5 and a half hours of battery life is really good and will do just fine for a lot of people but it's not that 7 hours plus that you're gonna see on the 13 inch on the other hand you're going to be saving $100 on this for the equivalent configuration so some people looking to get the cheapest MacBook possible well this happens to be it the lowest end model of the 11 inch MacBook Air is $9.99 now that sounds like a great value if you're looking to buy a general use laptop unfortunately this one is still saddled with a 64 gigabyte SSD that's really too small for most people I mean come on once you have your II mean your based operating system installed and apps you're not going to have more than maybe two thirds of that space available and it's gonna go like that but if you are you know hooking up an external drive maybe you can get by with it I would pick the 128 gigabyte model at minimum the good news is that that version is 1099 this year $100 less than last year's 1199 but you still want to probably consider upgrading also consider that the RAM and SSD in here are either impossible to upgrade or very very difficult to upgrade so choose your configuration carefully if you take this thing all the way up to its maximum configuration you're gonna be laying down 2,000 $149 that is a lot of change you could get a Retina Display MacBook Pro for that amount of money but know that if you're spending in that lower end of the scale for the 11 inch chair you're getting a machine that is performing at the scale of a regular Ultrabook a larger screen laptop it is every bit as fast it feels great and this keyboard has made no compromises it is an edge-to-edge full-size keyboard that you can find on any other macbook like the MacBook Air the trackpad is a little bit smaller but that's what they've really made a great effort to fit in here that you're getting ace a large bezel around this 11.6 inch screen but don't worry about that keyboard it's gonna feel great now what's changed since last year well that slight bump up and processor speed a little better battery life USB 3.0 ports one on each side and that's about it there's also a different charge ports so you're gonna have to use different cables the one that came with this MacBook and you may have to buy an adapter if you're hooking up to other MagSafe accessories that you have in your home which is annoying what hasn't changed well a lot the size and shape at two point three eight pounds is about a pound heavier than the Retina Display iPad so really not that heavy at all and you guys still got the same Thunderbolt connector here overall it's exciting it's still very sexy but four people are going to be using this as their all-around laptop that low storage and we're gonna have to pay up to upgrade to and the fact that it's got a smaller screen and a smaller battery life may tilt you over to wanting to get a macbook air in the 13-inch variety instead I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the 11 inch 2012 MacBook Air