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hi I'm Scott Stein and this is the 2012 13 inch macbook air now while this may not be as cool is that 15 inch Retina Display MacBook Pro this is probably going to be the macbook you're going to want to buy at a starting price of 1199 it's a thousand dollars less expensive than that big fancy macbook pro and the feature set and size are a lot more portable a little under three pounds like always and some faster performance as well as better battery life although overall this is not really a huge jump up from what we saw last year there are improvements and when you're dealing with that price drop it makes it a better purchase over all the other differences here are really under the hood nothing that you can see USB 3.1 stead of USB 2.0 hard definition webcam on top and you know it's still missing Ethernet you have an SD card slot as before you got the backlit keyboard and not really much else that's new so maybe you feel like it's not a tremendous surprise in the laptop you don't have any options for storage other than SSD for instance although you can upgrade that now to 512 gigabytes of storage but for a lofty five hundred dollars more than you'd be paying for the top-end model they keep in mind the RAM is fused so you may want to upgrade that at point of purchase for a lot of people they're going to want that larger screen and maybe the SD card slot and the better battery life this tested out at about seven and a half hours on our test which is pretty spectacular it's going to last you a good long time for just about anything they want to put it through did I say there were no changes to the appearance of this macbook air there is one small one it's this AC adapter connector here magsafe 2 which replaces last year's magsafe there's a new connector cord that comes with your macbook air it's a little more jutting out here and it's a wider connector that attaches here important part is that it's not compatible with your older magsafe cables as you can see you'll need to buy a 999 adapter to make sure that it does I'm Scott Simon that's a look at the gradually improved but still really good 13-inch MacBook Air you