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2010 MacBook Air Review and Box Content + Benchmarks

2010-10-29
hey whats up youtube elric Faris editor-in-chief over here at the YouTube channel called tech of tomorrow my alternate Channel well a few days ago I brought you guys a little opening thing of the new MacBook Airs that were hitting the market so today I'm going to actually show you what's inside the box this new macbook air how well it performs and how it competes against its other competetive the macbook pro so we went over a few things again we'll go over it's got a unibody design it's made of aluminum it's very light it has an SSD drive built in to the unit instead of having a standard hard drive so this may make it seem very fast because you'll be able to access programs faster using an SSD Drive so for gaming this is a good thing now it also is coming between nine hundred ninety nine dollars and coming out at about fifteen ninety nine so far what we've seen is battery life is about five hours and standard running mode and about 30 days is supposed to be the idle standby time haven't had it for 30 days so can't really tell you that one as of yet so inside of the box of the new macbook air we get the macbook air itself we also get the charger now the battery is actually built into the unit so there's no actually separate battery and also the OS comes on a thumb drive since there's no optical drive you know option in the unit for those of you wondering cuz ship with ilife 11 and the latest mac OS it also sizes in very thinly at 0 point 682 1.1 inches the unit that we're looking at today is the 11 inch one and this one has a 1.4 gigahertz intel core 2 duo processor with 3 megabytes of shared level 2 cache it also has 2 gigabytes of onboard 10 ticket six megahertz ddr3 sdram it's got 64 gigabytes of flash storage this one has an 11.6 inch digital LED backlit high resolution glossy widescreen display that has a 1366 x 768 pixel resolution this model features the nvidia geforce 320m graphics processor with 256 megabytes of ddr3 sdram which is also shared with the main memory it also has a built-in insight video camera like most macs it has two external USB 2.0 ports a headphone jack with built-in stereo speakers it also has a main display port Jack ok so here we're going to take a look at the benchmarks from just the performance scores as numbers go it's not as fast as the macbook pro but it will seem faster a lot of people do to the SSD RAM and the fact that it has the SSD when you play games and stuff this is going to be a pretty fast machine so don't really take all these scores as your final decision point because actually are just on what I would call the usage test playing games actually works really good so the numbers don't count them all into your equation because the thing really does run pretty well so we've seen the specifications we've seen the scores we've talked about the features so what this really thing is is it's really an over-the-top netbook because this thing is just really lightweight and for a thousand dollars at 11.6 inches it's a little bit pricey but there are some really cool things about it a it will play your games so to me this is kind of like a really like introductory kind of gaming Mac thing you know so it does fit that criteria so you know it's very light weight it's very portable the storage on it it's pretty fast thousand bucks a little bit pricey but really for those who are traveling probably the number one greatest feature of all is that when you take this thing to the airport you don't have to take it out of your bag that's an excellent feature so at the end of the day here at Tech tomorrow I give this thing a pretty badass award it's 999 bucks but like i said it's very lightweight portable can play games has a lot of cool stuff so thanks for watching for those of you are Mac heads out there you'll be pretty cited out there for you pc guys who hate keep it to yourself it's just another review
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