WEBVTT 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:16.199 haha right you guys saw the title where I said I'm unboxing the MacBook Air 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:19.600 clearly that was a lie this is the ASUS 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:21.240 Zenbook 13.3 in Ultra I no I'm just 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:24.720 kidding I actually am unboxing the MacBook Air but before you hit the 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:30.080 dislike button it's for a very good reason it's so that I can compare it 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.840 against the ASUS Zen book so the Mac 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:36.360 book air yes it's been out for a little while this is the second generation 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:42.559 product let's have a look at the overall spec of the machine that I have here in 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:44.200 the lab today this is uh you know what 00:00:42.559 --> 00:00:49.239 it's not going to be quite a fair comparison between the MacBook Air and 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:57.000 the ASUS Zenbook because in terms of the overall spec the MacBook Air is actually 00:00:52.239 --> 00:00:59.359 not quite up to Snuff it is a core i5 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:03.360 versus a core i7 processor on the Zenbook 00:01:00.559 --> 00:01:10.439 it has they both have 2 56 gig ssds um they are both similar in terms 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:13.840 of the size in terms of the form factor 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:16.080 the amount of RAM but the MacBook Air 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:22.799 has Thunderbolt which the Zenbook does not and what was the other thing that 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:25.360 was sort of missing that I felt was not 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:28.840 quite as good about the MacBook Air yeah I think that was pretty much it so 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:35.240 basically um yeah it's got only a core i5 instead of a core 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:36.560 i7 and yeah has a built-in FaceTime 00:01:35.240 --> 00:01:43.280 camera which I think what they mean to say is webcam and then software called 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:46.479 FaceTime pre-loaded on the machine but 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:49.360 you know I just just nitpicking right um 00:01:46.479 --> 00:01:54.600 okay so hello inside the MacBook Air we find um typical Apple documentation very 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:59.200 simple very slick very beautiful they're so good at this congratulations you and 00:01:57.240 --> 00:02:02.479 your MacBook Air were made for each other I really hope I wasn't made for a 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:07.119 MacBook Air because I think that's really you know um selling myself short 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:11.239 a little bit here uh you can click anywhere you can pinch to zoom you can 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:14.920 rotate images you can scroll up or down switch between full screen apps using 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:20.440 three fingers and um Mission Control using three fingers up so yes you have a 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:25.720 multi-touch touchpad with gestures and all kinds of good stuff like that 00:02:21.959 --> 00:02:27.760 excellent so here's ready set up go and 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:31.840 life with your MacBook Air and problem meet solution neat 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:37.800 okay well you know what let's just put that aside for now what else we got here we got your Apple onee limmited warranty 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:45.319 um that's another thing that's not going to be quite as good about the MacBook Air is the warranty is not as long of a 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:50.840 period compared to the ASUS notebook all right I believe the battery is 90 days 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:56.760 but go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong on this one here guys it's a one year on 00:02:53.800 --> 00:03:00.640 the product itself and then 90 days on the 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:09.159 battery I really wish I could find it this is taking so long yes 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:11.120 no yes I think so okay whatever all 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:16.519 right what else we got here um this is another thing apple is so good at and 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:18.080 that is creating power bricks that don't 00:03:16.519 --> 00:03:24.560 suck um although I'm a little bit confused by 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:26.120 this oh cool okay so you can either see 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:30.640 I I really don't know Apple products that well so I apologize here guys but 00:03:28.959 --> 00:03:33.879 check this out you can do this one of two ways so you can plug the wall wart 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:37.840 directly into the wall which would be not ugly very elegant very nice and then 00:03:35.959 --> 00:03:42.159 you plug in your little magnetic connector to your MacBook Air which is 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:47.200 also very elegant very beautiful or you can go ahead pop this baby out throw 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:52.879 this in here and you can plug it into the wall you have a nice long cord now 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:54.640 more reminiscent of a of a PC style cord 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:59.000 but we're going to go with the more the more elegant solution since that's 00:03:56.239 --> 00:04:04.120 clearly what today is all about because we are doing a MacBook Air Unboxing so 00:04:02.200 --> 00:04:11.040 part of the unboxing process is the removal of the plastic so let's go ahead 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:12.680 and unpeel this bad boy so here we see 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:17.880 Apple's trademark gorgeous aluminum finish and 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.400 really not enough can be said about it if you've seen an apple you pretty much 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:26.000 know what I'm talking about so you got that beautiful anodized aluminum 00:04:23.479 --> 00:04:30.600 aluminum remember is lighter than most metals but still retains the necessary 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:36.199 strength for use as a building material in 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:41.160 consumer electronics magnesium is another option um in fact that's been 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:44.479 done in the past I think tashiba did it maybe it was Panasonic one of them's 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:48.720 done it with a with a thin and light style notebook but the problem with 00:04:46.039 --> 00:04:52.160 magnesium is highly flammable so aluminum does not have that particular 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:58.320 drawback here we have a little piece of paper protecting the 13.3 in screen and 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:03.160 uh you know what Let's do let's do overall form factor a little bit things that Apple does right well everyone 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:06.479 loves the chicklet keyboard personally I don't but everyone else seems to love 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:11.680 the chicklet keyboards I like a little bit more tactile feedback but I am not 00:05:09.440 --> 00:05:16.039 the mass Market they do their layout right though so their delete key is wide 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.319 their shift is wide their return is wide their other shift is wide their tab is 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:27.520 wide everything is wide they have properly laid out arrow keys and the 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:29.160 overall keyboard feel and spacing is 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:33.039 excellent that is why people buy these machines another thing Apple has figured 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:37.120 out that no one else seems to be able to is huge touchpads that are somewhat 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:42.479 proportional to the size of the screen in terms of their shape so we've got a 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:46.960 nice widescreen large size multi-touch touchpad that is going to make your user 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:53.680 experience better we've also got our web I mean sorry Facebook uh FaceTime 00:05:49.400 --> 00:05:55.400 FaceTime camera up here and uh let's go 00:05:53.680 --> 00:06:01.120 ahead and check out the overall thinness oh yeah oh this is going to be even better than usual I'm going to do my 00:05:58.919 --> 00:06:06.840 iPhone thickness comparison so there is my thickness comparison on the uh top so 00:06:04.520 --> 00:06:12.360 that is the screen and then here is my iPhone thickness comparison to the 00:06:09.400 --> 00:06:16.360 bottom of the MacBook Air just like that then we're going to take the whole thing 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:22.080 and do the thickness comparison just like so so the whole thing is very very 00:06:18.880 --> 00:06:23.680 thin the form factor is outstanding as 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:27.880 you guys are probably already aware since I am not the first person on 00:06:25.599 --> 00:06:32.919 YouTube to check one of these out here we have an SD card reader we've got a 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:35.160 USB slot and we've also got a I believe 00:06:32.919 --> 00:06:40.160 that's a Thunderbolt Port moving along to the back we've got a nice black slick 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:42.599 looking hinge we've got some rubber well 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:46.160 more like plastic plastic feet here they're going to keep you the uh the 00:06:44.039 --> 00:06:51.960 rounded bottom from scraping along the table we've got our power connector a 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:54.160 USB 2 port a headphone port and that is 00:06:51.960 --> 00:06:58.400 pretty much it not a whole lot to this thing is 00:06:56.599 --> 00:07:01.800 there very easy to open up the cover though due to the 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:05.680 uh the shape of the lip right here so you can just pick it up just like that 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:08.639 and let's uh go ahead and turn it on if I can figure out how to do 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:14.080 it sweet I love how they still make that 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:17.639 noise all right so actually one more thing I wanted to go through really 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:23.080 quick is the spec comparison between the MacBook Air I have and the Zenbook I 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:31.000 have so the Zenbook is $150 cheaper and instead of a 1.7 GHz dual core Core i5 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:34.800 processor uh this one has a 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:38.720 wow if I can find it uh 2677 M i7 I 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:41.440 don't even know what frequency that is 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:49.240 um yeah I got nothing here guys so it has a 256 gig SSD it has a wireless land 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:53.680 Bluetooth this guy has 4 gigs of RAM 256 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:56.039 gig SSD 13.3 in LED back lit 1440 by 900 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:59.800 display they both have integrated HD graphics built-in webcams I'm assuming 00:07:58.159 --> 00:08:05.080 this one has a webcam too English for the main language PR the return ke okay 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:09.039 headphone Port Thunderbolt Port Wireless N and Bluetooth 4.0 yeah they both have 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:14.720 Bluetooth backlit keyboard and ambient light sensor pre-installed Mac OSX and 00:08:11.479 --> 00:08:16.520 iif and size and weight is here cool 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:19.560 okay so that was pretty much my unboxing of the MacBook Air don't forget to 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:25.560 subscribe to lineus Tech tips more unboxings reviews and other computer videos especially if you want to stay 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:31.759 tuned for my Zenbook coverage coming soon okay so we have the specs now the 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:34.719 core i7 is actually just 100 MHz faster 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:41.080 so that's a 1.8 GHz regular speed and a 2.9 GHz turbo and actually one more 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:42.800 thing the weight so the ASUS is 1.3 kg 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:49.600 and the MacBook Air is 1.35 kg so the ASUS um Ultrabook is 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:52.600 actually lighter as well as its other advantages