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what's new for this year in the air well not that much I'm van Ackerman and this is the 2015 update to Apple's MacBook Air now I say I have the 2015 MacBook Air right here the 13 inch version but you know it could be the 2014 or 2013 frankly it's kind of hard to tell this is a laptop that is look the saying for several years now the only real changes have been internal every year gets updated with Intel's latest processor maybe a couple other little tweaks here and there this time we're moving to the Intel fifth generation Core iSeries processors also known by the codename Broadwell to get faster performance well no not really is the price different now still starts at $9.99 the only real change here is that we get a nice battery life boost last year's version ran for about six and a half hours on our video playback battery drain test this version again the stock $9.99 macbook ran for 18 hours which is really amazing on a much more challenging test where we were streaming HD video over the internet non-stop ran for more than 10 hours which is still great which means that this is pretty much you know an all-day laptop no matter what sort of strenuous task load you put on it on the downside because this thing is not evolved very much you still have some of the dated things that it started to bother us about the air the screen is a lower resolution screen 1440 by 900 not even a full HD screen or the better than HD retinas down screens that the other MacBooks have and you have this big thick and a silver bezel around the side you have a lot of dead space here the screen is inset from it doesn't have that edge to edge glass over the display if you want something that's like super slim and super fancy of course there's always the new 12-inch MacBook which has that higher resolution display and that cool edge to edge glass over it but it's more expensive only has that one single USBC port if you want something that's more powerful and more of a you know stay in the office work laptop there's the MacBook Pro the 13-inch model is also excellent battery life is not as long but you do get a lot of ports and connections and again that higher-risk screen with the edge to edge glass but if you want to spend less than that and have an all-day system I think for mainstream stuff you can still get away with using a MacBook Air it's not going to be the head it once was but all-day battery life and a low price really do count for a lot I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the 2015 Apple MacBook Air