The last
MacBook Air featured two USB - A ports, a MagSafe adapter port, a Thunderbolt 2 port, an SDXC card reader, and a headphone jack.
MacBook Air features fifth - generation Intel Core processors and all - day battery life, yet it's still incredibly thin and light.
The new
MacBook Air features power - efficient fourth generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors that give the 13 - inch MacBook Air up to 12 hours of battery life and up to 10 hours of iTunes movie playback.
All variants of the 13.3 - inch
MacBook Air feature a display resolution of 1440 x 900, while most competitors make due with 1366 x 768.
Not exact matches
The base 13 - inch
MacBook Pro with 128 GB of storage ($ 1,300) or 256 GB of storage ($ 1,500) is for the same kind of person who would buy the
MacBook Air but wants a premium design, better
features, and more «comfortable» performance for basic and advanced apps.
If you must have an Apple laptop but you don't need much power and you don't care so much about fancy displays and
features like Apple's Touch Bar, the base $ 1,000 13 - inch 128 GB
MacBook Air with a 5th - gen 1.8 Ghz Core i5 processor is your best bet - and the cheapest Apple laptop you can buy.
So after knocking off the iPhone and
MacBook Air, Samsung's two Honeycomb tablets will not only
feature similar slick form factors but will actually be thinner than the iPad 2 (by 0.01») and more competitive in price.
If you want windows and widgets and nerd - friendly
features, for $ 200 more a
MacBook Air has double everything, plus UNIX and can run Windows in a box.
The Continuity
feature means you can start writing an email on the mini 3 and then finish it on your iPhone or
MacBook Air running OS X Yosemite.
Here is a test I performed yesterday evening with a
MacBook Air tethered to the LG Revolution via the integrated mobile hotspot
feature:
The same
feature that contributed to my peaceful light a few hours before now gave a clear view of the countertop where my
MacBook Air sat under what I now imagine to be a spotlight of my own making.
Since recent
MacBook Air models both
feature 13 - inch displays and Apple skipped over it in 2016, you have two versions to choose from: The 2015 and 2017 releases.
When it comes to appearance, the
MacBook looks like a marriage between the
MacBook Air and the
MacBook Pro,
featuring a super thin clamshell design and a black bezeled display.
Unlike the
MacBook Pro, the
Air doesn't
feature edge - to - edge glass trim.
Alas, Huawei did unveil a couple of exciting products at this year's show, and the first one is a compact laptop that looks like a
MacBook Air, packs a Pro punch, and
features an all - screen display that's better than Dell's edgeless laptops.
There are no details on what
features an updated
MacBook Air could include, but if Apple is aiming to keep costs down, it could receive minimal updates.
We're looking at
MacBook Air - class CPU performance and
MacBook Pro-class GPU performance, so the iPad Pro ought to be able to handle more multitasking
features with aplomb as Apple sees fit to add them.
The
MacBook Air, made from silver aluminum,
features a tapered design that's wider at one side and thinner at the other side.
The one big
feature that the ATIV Book has over the
MacBook Air is its touchscreen.
If you must have an Apple laptop but you don't need much power and you don't care so much about fancy displays and
features like Apple's Touch Bar, the base $ 1,000 13 - inch 128 GB
MacBook Air with a 5th - gen 1.8 Ghz Core i5 processor is your best bet — and the cheapest Apple laptop you can buy.
Rumours stemming from KGI Securities often reliable analyst Ming - Chi Kuo indicate that Apple plans to release a new 13.3 - inch
MacBook Air that
features a retina 1920 x 1200 display, an upgraded processor, and possibly even a slightly revamped body.
MacBook Air also
features Intel HD Graphics 3000 and offers up to 4 GB of faster 1333 MHz memory.
The 13 - inch
MacBook Air also
features faster flash storage that is up to two times faster than the previous generation.
The
MacBook Air's entry - level model never
featured a Retina display, so we certainly hope the new
MacBook taking its place will.
It's more likely that the new entry - level
MacBook rumored to take the
MacBook Air's place in Apple's stable will
feature one or two USB - C ports and maybe a headphone jack, but that's probably going to be it.
The laptop will be thinner than the
MacBook Air at 10 mm, and it will
feature a 12.3 - inch display.
The new
MacBook Air range
featuring the latest 4th generation Intel Core (Haswell) processors, new graphics, 802.11 ac Wi - Fi and flash storage, all this resulting up to 45 percent faster than the previous generation.
While Apple, as expected, did unveil an ad - supported music - streaming
feature called iTunes Radio, as well as a new
MacBook Air and an upgraded operating system for its Mac line of desktop and laptop computers, most of the two hours were devoted to multiple innovations in Apple's mobile operating system.