The MacBook Air as tested was the base model costing £999 with an Intel Core i3 processor, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports in the left side handle power and input, connecting to any number of accessories, drives and displays. One day I hope Apple puts its excellent Face ID system in its laptops to match Microsoft’s excellent Windows Hello system in its computers. It works well as an alternative to passwords, but can only recognise three fingerprints. It is large, precise and smooth: all-round excellent.Ī Touch ID fingerprint scanner is built into the power button in the top right corner of the keyboard. It is very close to being best-in-class, just behind the keyboard on Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3.Īpple’s Force Touch trackpad continues to be the very best you can buy on a laptop.
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The keys feel solid, depress far enough and are fairly quiet as laptop keyboards go. It also has double the key travel at 1mm of depth and a far more satisfying typing experience. It replaces the ill-fated butterfly keyboard and should render troubles with stuck keys a thing of the past. The important new addition is the Magic Keyboard, which is the name Apple gave to the scissor switch mechanism used in its external keyboard. The new Magic Keyboard should relegate the issues of the butterfly keyboard to the past while providing more key travel.
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Processor: 10th-generation dual-core Intel Core i3, quad-core Core i5 or i7Ĭonnectivity: Wifi ac, Bluetooth 5, 2x USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, headphones
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The 1.29kg MacBook Air compares favourably with rivals, but is heavier than tablet PCs such as Microsoft’s 775g Surface Pro 7 (1.13g with keyboard attached). It was a feature restricted to the MacBook Pro in Apple’s laptop line until now.
The 13.3in screen is crisp and beautiful, now supporting Apple’s True Tone technology, which adjusts the screens colours depending on ambient light. If you had a pair of callipers you might be able to tell that the new MacBook Air is 0.5mm thicker and 40g heavier than the old one, but there’s a good reason for that: a new keyboard that’s just a smidgen thicker. The MacBook Air remains one of the sleekest premium-looking laptops available.
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