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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and today we're taking a look at the brand new MacBook Air for 2013 this here is the 13-inch model but it is also available in an 11 inch form factor if you're looking for something even smaller but they are both incredibly portable and now they've got some performance improvements courtesy of Intel Haswell this is the base model 13-inch with a one point three gigahertz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor but it can turbo boost up to 2.6 gigahertz and if you spec this thing out even further up to say 1.7 gigahertz which is the top chip that you can put into it that will turbo boost up to three point three gigahertz so some insane figures for such a portable laptop a lot of people were hoping for more performance but the bigger story here is the battery life with Intel Haswell you can now expect to get according to Apple of course up to 12 hours of battery life on this particular model I'm gonna put that to the test I'm actually going to do a time-lapse video using this for all of my daily activities one day in the coming week probably on Monday if you guys want to see it actually leave a thumbs up down below if you want to see my battery test to see what this thing is really capable of you'll probably be a short video like a time-lapse I'll try and crunch twelve hours down into like a minute 20 or something I don't know I haven't done the time-lapse in a while but anyways let me know down below that you want to see that by leaving a thumbs up let's go ahead and talk about the unboxing it's much like the unboxing of any MacBook or macbook pro or MacBook Air of past you've got a little bit of paperwork from Apple including the ever-important Apple stickers and then you have your power adapter with the power adapters extension cable it features MagSafe too so you have a slightly smaller connector than you'd expect to have like on the older MacBook Pros with the unibody configuration and then you have your power brick on the other end of 45 watt with interchangeable tips so depending on what part of the world you're in you will see the corresponding tips in this particular case we have the North American adapter of course since I am in North America so as I mentioned earlier the big story with Haswell is the fact that you can get all-day computing on a laptop that is sub 3 pounds that's really an amazing feat it's something I've wanted my whole life so if you happen to be a student or somebody who travels a lot this is going to be a really really big deal that means you can leave your power adapter at home and really start to recognize the absolute portability of a three pound or sub three pound laptop of course even more if you happen to go for the 11 inch version this thing is razor thin it really boggles my mind every time if you don't get to play with a MacBook Air on a regular basis you will definitely be impressed with just how thin this thing is on the left hand side is where you will find your power port as well as a USB 3 port a headphone jack and then dual microphones and as we continue to pan down you can really start to appreciate just how razor thin and razor sharp this is on the other side of the laptop is where you'll see your SD card slot as well as another USB 3 and then a thunderbolt port one thing to note is if you go for the 11.6 inch version you will not have that SD card slot so you'll be giving that up for the slightly smaller form factor opening up the MacBook Air the rest of the hardware is visible now you have the backlit keyboard as well as the nice oversized trackpad I still think Apple makes the best track pads in the business you've also got the 720p FaceTime HD camera which is going to come on both the 13-inch as well as the 11 inch model and in terms of screen you're getting actually decent resolution 1440 by 900 native a lot of people were hoping to see a retina model MacBook Air that didn't happen but hey 1440 by 900 is still pretty good and it's a reasonable amount of work space for a 13.3 inch laptop if you go for the 11 inch you're going to get slightly less workspace at 1366 by 768 native so anyways let's go ahead and boot this thing up it wouldn't be an unboxing video without showing you the Virgen boot so here we go I'll go ahead and press the power button and shortly after booting it up I'm going to give you a quick comparison of the latest generation MacBook Air at least a physical comparison up against my 2011 model MacBook Pro which believe it or not isn't going to exist too much longer because we're still going forward with that super macbook pro project in fact the new MacBook I was set to arrive very shortly I believe on the 21st so stay tuned for that project there but anyway guys that wraps up this unboxing I hope you enjoyed it if you do if you did sorry remember to leave a thumbs up down below I'll leave a link in the description if you're interested in pricing and availability on this model or any other macbook air for 2013 thanks as always for watching and I'll catch you guys on the next video later