Apple didn’t increase the size of the battery, either. It’s worth nothing that it didn’t really allow Apple to make the laptop any slimmer the old Air was only 7 hundredths of an inch thicker at the wide end but 5 hundredths of an inch thinner at the small end.
The new butterfly-switch keyboard, with its low travel and noisy clicking, is a downgrade from the old scissor-switch keyboard.ĭepending on who you ask, this is anything from a side-grade to a major downgrade. It’s the same one you’ll find in the new MacBook Pro, complete with the silicone membrane that helps keep dust out and makes typing a little quieter (it helps, but it’s still too loud). That means the old keyboard with its scissor-switch mechanism, universally hailed as one of the best on any laptop, has been jettisoned in favor of the ultra low-profile third-generation keyboard with its butterfly-switch mechanism.
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Would it have killed Apple to put a single USB-A port on the right side? Still, at least there are two Thunderbolt 3 ports rather than just the one on the 12-inch MacBook, so you can charge your laptop and still plug in other stuff.Īll other aspects of the MacBook Air have been brought into line with the rest of the modern Mac laptop line. The fact of the matter is, almost everyone who buys the new Air is going to have to shell out for at least one dongle Remove non-product link, if not more. Isn’t it odd that Apple sees value in a “legacy” connection like a headphone jack, but not in USB-A ports? It would be easier to forgive Apple’s USB-C zeal if it was consistent across all its products, but the iPad and all iPhones still come exclusively with USB-A cables in the box. From podcast microphones to game controllers, most everyday peripherals still expect a USB-A connector. Did your digital camera come with a USB-C cable? No? Neither did mine. All your thumb drives probably have USB-A connectors. It’s easy to understand Apple’s intention to drag the world kicking and screaming into the USB-C era, but it feels premature, particularly on its least expensive mass-market laptop. Two Thunderbolt 3 ports are better than one (on the 12-inch MacBook), but there’s no reason to ditch USB-A entirely. Both USB-A ports are gone, as is the SD card reader. The new MacBook Air has two 40 Gbps Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left side and a headphone jack on the right, and that’s all. USB-C charging is convenient in a “you only need one cord” sort of way, but there is almost no old-school Mac laptop user that doesn’t have a dozen stories about how the magnetic breakaway charger saved it from certain doom when someone tripped over the power cord.Īpple is all-in on Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C now. One of the things we loved about the MacBook Air was the MagSafe charging connector.
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The new MacBook Air (top) has almost the exact same dimensions as the 13-inch MacBook Pro (bottom), save for a tapered front edge. This shaves off about a quarter pound of weight: it’s 2.75 pounds, instead of three pounds for the 13-inch MacBook Pro and old MacBook Air. The back edge is just a hair thicker than the MacBook Pro, but it tapers down toward the front in the familiar wedge-shaped fashion. It’s almost exactly the same dimensions as a 13-inch MacBook Pro, in fact. The slimmer bezels give the whole system a smaller footprint than the old Air. The new Retina display looks great, and the thinner, black bezels are a huge improvement. It’s the look you know from every other Mac laptop, and while it’s not quite as edge-to-edge as the best non-Apple laptops, it’s a huge improvement. Those wide, silver, 2010-era bezels around the display have shrunk buy half and are now black, with the glass going all the way out to the edge of the lid.
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