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Apple Macbook Air 2018 hands-on

2018-10-30
hey everybody this is dieter with the verbs I'm here at Apple's event in Brooklyn and I am holding the all-new 13.3 inch MacBook Air we've been waiting for this thing for a very very long time so I want to get into it see what we got as you can see the start of the show is the new fully Retina display it's still 13.3 inches but they shrunk the bezels down they also made them black glass and glossy but that means that its overall footprint is smaller than the last generation MacBook Airs but it's full srgb and it has a very high resolution same as the 13-inch MacBook Pro and you could also do some other changes it has this third-generation butterfly keyboard which means that it's a little bit quieter than a Mac older MacBook Pros but it's still pretty slim key travel but you'll also see right there there is a touch lady so much that you can login with your fingerprint and that's great because it's way more convenient typing in your passcode or waiting for your Apple watch to finally connect to it now in order to make that thing work it includes this new team ship which makes everything more secure and also to controls yes see and so on but the real process you care about is the Intel processor it's an eighth generation Intel processor the base model here is a core i5 with eight gigs of RAM and 128 gig SSD and it costs 1199 now this looks quite a bit like the generation of MacBook Pros at UC Merced but it's nice and tapered along the sides so you get that classic macbook air look there is of course a headphone jack and then over on the other side your two ports are USB C and Thunderbolt they both work as Thunderbolt so you're going to lose MagSafe which is going to be a bummer for a lot of people but USB C is a lot more versatile although you are probably still going to have to deal with some dock the last thing I will point out on this thing is the trackpad it is it's huge it's a giant trackpad it's it's just really big it's also using force touch so you can click anywhere on the trackpad and we'll look it works really well so that is it it is the MacBook Air you can go and pre-order it right now it should be shipping I think as soon as next week and again the base model cost 1199 which is a little bit more than I was hoping but it's still a pretty decent price for a MacBook Air that finally finally finally has modern specs you can also see that they've added the speakers on the side just like on the MacBook Pros and they are supposed to be much louder than before the new MacBook Air is going to come into standard macbook colors the gold the space gray and the gray you'll also see that it's got this aluminum finish that are all made of aluminum of course but it's 100% recycled aluminum and it weighs 2.75 pounds which actually isn't that much it's a little bit less than the old MacBook Air although it is more than the quality the other Mac those announced here today was a brand new Mac Mini it looks exactly the same as the old Mac Mini but it has all new modern specs USBC basically everything you were hoping that they would have put in that device so for much more on what's going on here at Apple's event MacBook Air Mac Mini and the new iPad pro definitely gave a lot to the verge
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