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haha right you guys saw the title where I said I'm unboxing the MacBook Air clearly that was a lie this is the Asus Zenbook 13.3 inch all tried now I'm just kidding I actually am unboxing the MacBook Air but before you hit the dislike button it's for a very good reason it's so that I can compare it against the Asus Zenbook so the MacBook Air yes it's been out for a little while this is the second-generation product let's have a look at the overall spec of the machine that I have here in the lab today this is you know what it's not going to be quite a fair comparison between the MacBook Air and the Isuzu Zenbook because in terms of the overall spec the MacBook Air is actually not quite up to snuff it is a core i5 versus a core i7 processor on the Zenbook it has they both have 256 gig SSDs they are both similar in terms of the size in terms of a form factor the amount of RAM but the MacBook Air has Thunderbolt which the Zenbook does not and what was the other thing that was sort of missing that I felt was not quite as good about the MacBook Air yeah I think that was pretty much it so basically um yeah it's going only a core i5 instead of a core i7 and yeah has a built-in FaceTime camera which I think what they mean to say is webcam and then software called FaceTime pre-loaded on the machine but you know I'm just a nit picking right ok so hello inside the MacBook Air we find a typical Apple documentation very simple very slick very beautiful they're so good at this congratulations you and your MacBook Air were made for each other I really hope I wasn't made for a MacBook Air because I think that's really you know selling myself short a little bit here you can click anywhere you can pinch to zoom you can rotate images you can scroll up or down switch between full screen apps using three fingers and you Mission Control using three fingers up so yes you have a multi-touch touchpad with gestures and all kinds of good stuff like that excellent so here's ready set up go and life with your MacBook Air and problem meets solution neat okay well you know what let's just put that aside for now what else we got here we got your Apple one-year limited warranty that's another thing that's not going to be quite as good about the MacBook Air is the warranty is not as long of a period compared to the Asus notebook all right I believe the battery is ninety days but go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong on this one here guys it's a one year on the product itself and then 90 days on the battery I really wish I could find it this is taking so long yes no yes I think so okay whatever alright what else we got here um this is another thing Apple is so good at and that is creating power bricks that don't suck along a little bit confused by this oh cool okay so you can either see I'd I really don't know Apple products that well so I apologize there guys so check this out you can do this one of two ways so you can plug the wall wart directly into the wall which would be not ugly very elegant very nice and then you plug in your little magnetic connector to your MacBook Air which is also very elegant very beautiful or you can go ahead pop this baby out throw this in here and you can plug it into low you have a nice long cord now more reminiscent of a of a PC style cord but we're going to go with more the more elegant solutions since that's clearly what today is all about are doing a macbook air unboxing so part of the unboxing process is the removal of the plastic so let's go ahead and unpeel this bad boy so here we see apple's trademark gorgeous aluminum finish and really not enough can be said about it if you've seen an apple you pretty much know what i'm talking about so you got that beautiful anodized aluminum aluminum remember is lighter than most metals but still retains the necessary strength for use as building material in consumer electronics magnesium is another option in fact that's been done in the past I think Toshiba did it maybe it was Panasonic one of them has done it with with a thin and light style notebook but the problem with magnesium it is highly flammable so aluminum does not have that particular drawback here we have a blue piece paper protecting the 13.3 inch screen and you know what let's do let's do overall form factor a little bit things that Apple does right well everyone loves the chiclet keyboard personally I don't but everyone else seems to love the chiclet keyboards I like a little bit more tactile feedback but I am NOT the mass-market they do their layout right though so their Delete key is wide their shift is wide their return is wide their other shift is why their tab is wide everything is wide they have properly laid out arrow keys and the overall keyboard feel and spacing is excellent that is why people buy these machines another thing Apple has figured out no one else seems to be able to is huge touch pads that are somewhat proportional to the size of the screen in terms of their shape so we've got a nice wide screen large size multi-touch touchpad that is going to make your user experience better we've also got our Web MD popstar Facebook FaceTime FaceTime camera up here and let's go ahead and check out the overall thinness oh yeah oh this is going to be even better than usual I'm going to do my iPhone thickness comparison so there's my thickness comparison on the top so that is the screen and then here is my iPhone thickness comparison to the bottom of the MacBook Air just like that then we're going to take the whole thing and do the thickness comparison just like so so the whole thing is very very thin the form factor is outstanding as you guys are probably already aware since I am NOT the first person on YouTube to check one of these out here we have an SD card reader we've got a USB slot and we've also got a I believe that's a thunderbolt port moving along to the back we've got makes blacks look looking hinge we've got some rubber well more like plastic plastic feet here they're going to keep you the the rounded bottom from creeping along the table we've got our power connector a USB 2 port a headphone port and that is pretty much it not a whole lot - this thing is they're very easy to open up the cover though due to the the shape of the lip right here so you can just pick it up just like that and let's uh go ahead and turn it on if I can figure out how to do it sweet I love how they still make that noise alright so actually one more thing I wanted to go through really quick is the expect comparison between the MacBook Air I have and the Zen book I have so the Zen book is one hundred and fifty dollars cheaper and instead of a 1.7 gigahertz dual-core Core i5 processor this one has a well if I can find it 2677 mi7 I don't even know what frequency that is um yeah I got nothing here guys so it has a 256 gig SSD it has a wireless LAN Bluetooth this guy has four gigs of ram 256 gig SSD 13.3 inch LED backlit 1440 by 900 display they both have integrated HD graphics built-in webcams I'm assuming this one as a webcam chinglish for the main language tirado return okay headphone port Thunderbolt port Wireless and Bluetooth 4.0 yeah they both have bluetooth backlit keyboard and ambient light sensor pre-installed Mac OS X and iLife and size and weight is here cool okay so that was pretty much my unboxing of the MacBook Air don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our boxing's reviews and other computer videos especially if you want to stay tuned for my Zen book coverage coming soon okay so we have the specs now the core i7 is actually just 100 megahertz faster so that's a 1.8 gigahertz a regular speed and a 2.9 gigahertz turbo and actually one more thing to wait so the Asus is 1.3 kilograms and the MacBook Air is 1.35 kilograms so the Asus ultrabook is actually lighter as well as its other advantages