From the outside essentially nothing has changed. The new 2020 MacBook Air looks just like the revamped machine launched in 2018, except it costs £200 less than its predecessor, with the base model starting at £999.In a world filled with convertibles, 2-in-1s and fancy tablet computers, the MacBook Air stands apart as an attractive design that is the pinnacle of the traditional laptop form. An instant classic.
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. More on that in a moment.
The 13.3in screen is crisp and beautiful, now supporting Apple’s True Tone technology, which adjusts the screens colours depending on ambient light. It was a feature restricted to the MacBook Pro in Apple’s laptop line until now.
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).The Apple MacBook Air is available in silver, space grey and gold starting at £999 with a dual-core Intel Core i3 processor, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.Changing the processor to a quad-core Intel Core i5 costs an extra £100, while the version with the Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage costs £1,299.Various other options are available totalling to a price of £2,249 with everything maxed out.
For comparison, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 starts at £999, Dell’s XPS 13 starts at £1,399 and the MacBook Pro starts at £1,299.
Specifications
- Screen: 13.3in LCD 2560x1600 (227 ppi) True Tone
- Processor: 10th-generation dual-core Intel Core i3, quad-core Core i5 or i7
- RAM: 8 or 16GB
- Storage: 256GB, 512GB, 1TB or 2TB SSD
- Graphics: Intel Iris Plus
- Operating system: macOS Catalina
- Camera: 720p FaceTime HD camera
- Connectivity: Wifi ac, Bluetooth 5, 2x USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, headphones
- Dimensions: 212.4 x 304.1 x 16.1mm
- Weight: 1.29kg.
Comments
Post a Comment