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eh what is up guys in Kibby HD here and this is the new MacBook not macbook pro not macbook air just the new macbook and it is insanely thin so like literally too thin for normal batteries too thin for any ports too thin for a normal trackpad even too thin for a backlight for the Apple logo I took a closer look at this freakishly thin new laptop today and these are my impressions so right off the bat it's the thinnest and lightest laptop I've ever seen weighs in at 2 pounds which is actually a full pound lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Air and yeah it's just 13 millimeters thin at its thickest point which is again ridiculous you pick it up and you wave it around and it's kind of hard to believe there's an entire machine in there now you can't go this thin in a laptop without making some sacrifices and Apple has kind of tried to turn these sacrifices into features at least for some of them so first of all it's too thin for a normal rectangular battery cells so they've used contoured battery cells which are essentially stacked sheets of battery to fill out the space that makes sense next it's too thin for the backlit Apple logo that you see in the rest of Apple's laptops so you get a reflective one with no backlight that we already have on you know the iPhones and the iPads already so kind of a bummer for some people but that also makes sense now this MacBook is also too thin for any sort of depth in the keyboard so Apple keyboards I mean they didn't really have much travel to begin with but this new MacBook keyboard has a new double-sided key switch called butterfly switches which are supposed to help with the typing experience and make keystrokes feel more even when pressing on the edge of the keys I didn't notice much of a difference in my brief use but that's something I'll have to use more but either way you look at it these are really thin keys with a very low travel so this MacBook is also too thin for ports seriously it's rocking only one a single USBC port on one side and an audio jack on the other so through this USB C port you do both power and all your data so charging and if you want to do both at the same time you'll have to use some sort of an adapter in fact you'll probably need multiple adapters there's no way around this one this is the biggest inconvenience of the new MacBook and if you ever need a plug-in even so much as a mouse or a flash card reader let alone a display or anything bigger it turns this simple elegant machine into like an octopus with adaptors for arms and the other thing this laptop is too thin for is a normal moving trackpad so there's literally not enough room to have a track pad that can mechanically click so Apple has a large glass surface where the trackpad normally is and then underneath it they have a vibration motor kind of like the one you have in your phone and it's a pressure-sensitive surface so when you press a bit harder on it it clicks or at least it feels like it does it feels exactly like a mechanical click from a normal MacBook trackpad and it actually fooled me into thinking it was actually moving but it's not if you turn off the effect it's just like pressing down on a metal sheet so you don't feel anything move kind of like a magic trick so with this pressure sensitivity you also get something called force touch so it's sort of like a third click action you have regular clicks then right clicks and then force touch so force touch is sort of like a more info button you press down hard on like a piece of text to expand and get a dictionary definition or where you can force touch on an address to get an Apple Maps listing etc so you get the idea you can also use it to fast-forward through a video in QuickTime so the harder you press the faster you scrub which is a neat little demo you can press down and it will click multiple times even though it's clearly not moving overall I was pretty impressed with how well this trackpad worked and Apple has been doing trackpads really well for years now so we could say it's a risky move for them to change it but it's really impressive now the one thing this laptop was not too thin for was pixels they packed a high-resolution display into this guy and it looks really good so good in fact that this guy thought it was a touch screen for some reason have a say it's a Retina display and it comes in at 23:04 by 1440 pixels on a 12-inch panel it's a bit of an odd resolution but I can promise you it looks really sharp really bright very vivid colors with fantastic viewing angles are great it's an awesome display I don't even need to spend more time with it to be able to tell you that so all in all this is clearly Apple's sexiest laptop ever no doubt but mostly because of just how thin and light and ultra portable it is in fact it reminds me of that whole Ultrabook category it's rocking an Intel Core M dual-core processor clearly it is not a powerful machine at all you don't expect to edit videos or photos on this thing don't expect any graphic design it's really more of a glorified tablet connected to a keyboard sort of feel that's really what the internals are actually a whole ton of battery and then the computer parts itself can fit in the palm of your hand it's fanless so there are no moving parts and it's silent and of course with no upgrade ability and the starting price at $12.99 who will like this so it's an awesome note-taking machine you know if the keyboard holds up students will like it it's supposed to have an eight to ten hour battery life with the typical web browsing and like I said very lightweight tasks that it's designed to do so it's really just for everyday people looking to kick back and have a super-thin laptop to do whatever and I guess that's Apple's target demographic in a nutshell there are plenty of other things I could complain about like it's only a 480p webcam on the front like really not even 720p and for $15.99 of an upgrade price you still get half a terabyte of storage and eight gigs of RAM and it's still a dual-core so you know people are going to talk about that but people won't be buying this laptop for the power they'll buy it for how pretty it looks and then they'll deal with all the adapters and sacrifices you made to get there so if you're thinking about it keep in mind well number one that the full review and comparisons with other machines is in the works and number two this is a first gen product so keep the second gen in mind because you know Apple already has thanks for watching this first hands-on an impressions video and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace