haha right you guys saw the title where I said I'm unboxing the MacBook Air
clearly that was a lie this is the ASUS
Zenbook 13.3 in Ultra I no I'm just
kidding I actually am unboxing the MacBook Air but before you hit the
dislike button it's for a very good reason it's so that I can compare it
against the ASUS Zen book so the Mac
book air yes it's been out for a little while this is the second generation
product let's have a look at the overall spec of the machine that I have here in
the lab today this is uh you know what
it's not going to be quite a fair comparison between the MacBook Air and
the ASUS Zenbook because in terms of the overall spec the MacBook Air is actually
not quite up to Snuff it is a core i5
versus a core i7 processor on the Zenbook
it has they both have 2 56 gig ssds um they are both similar in terms
of the size in terms of the form factor
the amount of RAM but the MacBook Air
has Thunderbolt which the Zenbook does not and what was the other thing that
was sort of missing that I felt was not
quite as good about the MacBook Air yeah I think that was pretty much it so
basically um yeah it's got only a core i5 instead of a core
i7 and yeah has a built-in FaceTime
camera which I think what they mean to say is webcam and then software called
FaceTime pre-loaded on the machine but
you know I just just nitpicking right um
okay so hello inside the MacBook Air we find um typical Apple documentation very
simple very slick very beautiful they're so good at this congratulations you and
your MacBook Air were made for each other I really hope I wasn't made for a
MacBook Air because I think that's really you know um selling myself short
a little bit here uh you can click anywhere you can pinch to zoom you can
rotate images you can scroll up or down switch between full screen apps using
three fingers and um Mission Control using three fingers up so yes you have a
multi-touch touchpad with gestures and all kinds of good stuff like that
excellent so here's ready set up go and
life with your MacBook Air and problem meet solution neat
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
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
period compared to the ASUS notebook all right I believe the battery is 90 days
but go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong on this one here guys it's a one year on
the product itself and then 90 days on the
battery I really wish I could find it this is taking so long yes
no yes I think so okay whatever all
right what else we got here um this is another thing apple is so good at and
that is creating power bricks that don't
suck um although I'm a little bit confused by
this oh cool okay so you can either see
I I really don't know Apple products that well so I apologize here guys but
check this out you can do this one of two ways so you can plug the wall wart
directly into the wall which would be not ugly very elegant very nice and then
you plug in your little magnetic connector to your MacBook Air which is
also very elegant very beautiful or you can go ahead pop this baby out throw
this in here and you can plug it into the wall you have a nice long cord now
more reminiscent of a of a PC style cord
but we're going to go with the more the more elegant solution since that's
clearly what today is all about because we are doing a MacBook Air Unboxing so
part of the unboxing process is the removal of the plastic so let's go ahead
and unpeel this bad boy so here we see
Apple's trademark gorgeous aluminum finish and
really not enough can be said about it if you've seen an apple you pretty much
know what I'm talking about so you got that beautiful anodized aluminum
aluminum remember is lighter than most metals but still retains the necessary
strength for use as a building material in
consumer electronics magnesium is another option um in fact that's been
done in the past I think tashiba did it maybe it was Panasonic one of them's
done it with a with a thin and light style notebook but the problem with
magnesium is highly flammable so aluminum does not have that particular
drawback here we have a little piece of paper protecting the 13.3 in screen and
uh you know what Let's do let's do overall form factor a little bit things that Apple does right well everyone
loves the chicklet keyboard personally I don't but everyone else seems to love
the chicklet keyboards I like a little bit more tactile feedback but I am not
the mass Market they do their layout right though so their delete key is wide
their shift is wide their return is wide their other shift is wide their tab is
wide everything is wide they have properly laid out arrow keys and the
overall keyboard feel and spacing is
excellent that is why people buy these machines another thing Apple has figured
out that no one else seems to be able to is huge touchpads that are somewhat
proportional to the size of the screen in terms of their shape so we've got a
nice widescreen large size multi-touch touchpad that is going to make your user
experience better we've also got our web I mean sorry Facebook uh FaceTime
FaceTime camera up here and uh let's go
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
iPhone thickness comparison so there is my thickness comparison on the uh top so
that is the screen and then here is my iPhone thickness comparison to the
bottom of the MacBook Air just like that then we're going to take the whole thing
and do the thickness comparison just like so so the whole thing is very very
thin the form factor is outstanding as
you guys are probably already aware since I am not the first person on
YouTube to check one of these out here we have an SD card reader we've got a
USB slot and we've also got a I believe
that's a Thunderbolt Port moving along to the back we've got a nice black slick
looking hinge we've got some rubber well
more like plastic plastic feet here they're going to keep you the uh the
rounded bottom from scraping along the table we've got our power connector a
USB 2 port a headphone port and that is
pretty much it not a whole lot to this thing is
there very easy to open up the cover though due to the
uh the shape of the lip right here so you can just pick it up just like that
and let's uh go ahead and turn it on if I can figure out how to do
it sweet I love how they still make that
noise all right so actually one more thing I wanted to go through really
quick is the spec comparison between the MacBook Air I have and the Zenbook I
have so the Zenbook is $150 cheaper and instead of a 1.7 GHz dual core Core i5
processor uh this one has a
wow if I can find it uh 2677 M i7 I
don't even know what frequency that is
um yeah I got nothing here guys so it has a 256 gig SSD it has a wireless land
Bluetooth this guy has 4 gigs of RAM 256
gig SSD 13.3 in LED back lit 1440 by 900
display they both have integrated HD graphics built-in webcams I'm assuming
this one has a webcam too English for the main language PR the return ke okay
headphone Port Thunderbolt Port Wireless N and Bluetooth 4.0 yeah they both have
Bluetooth backlit keyboard and ambient light sensor pre-installed Mac OSX and
iif and size and weight is here cool
okay so that was pretty much my unboxing of the MacBook Air don't forget to
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tuned for my Zenbook coverage coming soon okay so we have the specs now the
core i7 is actually just 100 MHz faster
so that's a 1.8 GHz regular speed and a 2.9 GHz turbo and actually one more
thing the weight so the ASUS is 1.3 kg
and the MacBook Air is 1.35 kg so the ASUS um Ultrabook is
actually lighter as well as its other advantages