Apple MacBook Air Keyboard and Trackpad: 9.5/10 Toss either laptop in a bag and you won’t be able to tell them apart. In terms of weight, the Air’s 1.25 kg is a smidge short of the Pro’s 1.37 kg, making the two of them practically the same weight. The trackpad and top-mounted speakers are a bit smaller than those on the 13-inch Pro, and you have that signature wedge, but everything else is basically the same.
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The rest of the design is very similar to the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models. Also, the display size is still the same at 13.3 inches, but the smaller bezels mean that the 2018 Air is more compact. You get the new Butterfly keyboard (3rd gen), speakers on top and of course, that gorgeous new display with bezels measurable in cm and not inches. Image: Anirudh Regidi/tech2Ĭompared to last year’s Air, the new one looks modern. The new Air is (L) a bit thinner than the old one (R) and has far fewer ports. The Air survived all this only because it was a brilliant design and exceptionally well built, a quality that is rare to find in even Apple's fast, modern new MacBooks. Apple has also pushed the Air towards the mainstream by bringing down its price and moving most of the cutting edge tech to its more expensive MacBook Pro line. For one, laptop makers of every type started aping the Air’s design elements: narrow wedges with chiclet keys are now so common that they hardly elicit comment. In the decade that followed, the Air went from high-end Ultrabook to mainstream workhorse, but it still endured, and there are several good reasons for that. Of course, it had its issues, and it was expensive ($1,799, if memory serves me right), but it heralded an exciting new future. In an age of inch-thick laptops weighing a proverbial tonne, the svelte Air was something extraordinary. No tech enthusiast of a certain age will ever forget that moment when Steve Jobs pulled the very first MacBook Air from an envelope.Īt the time, the Air was a revelation.
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