this right here is the brand-new MacBook Air and I am really excited to check it
out because the last model I actually liked a lot I kind of considered
switching to it for a little bit actually but it had two really big
problems for one it only came with a dual-core processor so like multitasking
you can basically just write it off you know like you go to screen record
something you guys probably don't try and do that but I try and do that all the time and it just doesn't do it you
open too many tabs and the whole thing gets kind of bogged down in general
multitasking just not a great time this also has their new magic keyboard which
apparently solves the problem of the last one which for one it was just bad
no one liked it and for - it was really unreliable and like you know a speck of
dust gets in there and breaks so let's take a look at this one we ended up
going for the i-5 model so that's a quad core the entry is at $1000 which is
going to be tempting for a lot of people but I think you should stay away from it
because you get an a3 that's only a dual-core which you know you can do it
but you're going to have such a better experience if you just go with the quad
core so here it is I believe that this
model right here cost us $1400 u.s. we
also went with these 16 Gigabyte upgrade and 512 gigs of storage so it should be
a very competent little machine assuming you know it's cooled well and lives up
to my expectations let's check it out so
we have this little tab here I was
actually hoping to slay this open with a knife but oh that feels good too
I don't normally you have to actually take the wrapping off of these things normally this shipping and receiving
guys do it it's a real treat
oh that smells really good
I don't know what it is but certain like materials that different manufacturers
use for their laptop packaging this one just smells fantastic we've got the left
actually let's leave that for a second laptops they're designed by Apple in
California welcome to your MacBook Air MacBook Air automatically starts up when
you lift the lid setup assistant helps you get up and running I believe that
this is just 30 watts which at the same
time this thing is just gonna sit power anyway so I imagine it's fine
USB-C I quite like that they've gone with USB-C for these like they've done
it for a really long time but you know it's always nice that they keep on doing
it maglev was of course awesome but it's not standard so take your battles where
you can win on my guess who those things that Apple just really nails like the
feel of this cable is just so good like there's just some rubber on it really
liked it it's probably my favorite well it's my favorite since the HP Spectre
that one was braided and also really good get this plugged in actually probably don't even need to plug it in
this thing probably has battery already in it Apple just always absolutely nails
the look of their laptops I don't know what it is about this there's like
really nothing going on with the design but it just really exudes like premium
quality all of the metals are so solid
like you can press here you can press up here it's not moving at all no matter
what you do I think that they even patented the type of unibody design that
there is on this so you actually can't get that kind of build quality no matter
what you do can you one-hand it yes
and here it's already starting up just
look so good the bezels are a lot larger than what you'd find on like the x360 or
the new Dell XPS 13 it's not a
deal-breaker and I actually kind of like
the slightly more bezel not because of the look of the bezels but because of
the amount of wrist rest area that you yet so like if we look here hey okay I
guess we're setting it up okay we'll be back in a second when this is a setup
laptop we're on to setting up touch ID which is one of those things where I
really like it but also I kind of don't so on Windows machines the best that you
can get right now is I our face detection so you open it up it sees your
face and then boom you're in like on the new XPS 13 it has both touch and IR and
I've never used the touch at all like
maybe once that said touch ID does have
some stuff that Windows machines just don't have so like if you're using Apple
pay you can just hit touch ID you don't have to enter a password or anything
like that or say that like you have several people using the computer one of
them can just go up touch the touch ID and next thing that you know you're
logged in you don't have to worry about you know actually signing in and out
it's a pretty awesome system I just wish that they also had facial recognition
the stiffness of the screen is great like in one of the videos that I did
recently kind of moved the screen like this and was like it's really wobbly but
who does that and I saw in the comments someone was like why do you even do that
test we have to do that test because people like Apple get it right you can
try and do as much as you can to this and it's just not going to flex the
whole chassis no matter where you press there is no deflection at all this thing
is just a freaking beast well it's really small it's not really a beast but
it's very solid
based off like several seconds of typing
I have to say actually like this quite a bit I do kind of wish that there is a
bit more than the one millimetre of travel but that's it I'm pretty sure
that I could get used to it really fast the old switches that they
had they were like snappy but in a way that made you kind of have to bottom out
and I found that my fingers were getting tired really fast where is this right
here it's a bit softer and I feel like that I could really get motoring on it
again Apple just always nails the build quality thing so one thing that a lot of
laptop manufacturers don't quite get right is the key consistency between
like all the different switches so maybe like say the J key might move just a
tiny bit more than like K or L or whatever or the amount of force required
to hit it is just a tiny bit different from what I've seen here every single
switch feels exactly the same and that's the sort of thing that you need if you
want to like really get typing fast without any errors as for the trackpad
it's just great it's absolutely massive and Apple always pushes trackpads
forward which I guess at this point they kind of have to because they don't have
any touch screens which is pretty unfortunate these days so getting used
to macOS just kind of sucks the last time that I did it
I actually had no problems at all after like three days it's one of those things
where you think it's going to matter until you actually do it and then you
realize that it's just a computer you
just kind of do your work once you've gotten used to it let's just take a look
at the screen here I have the XPS 13
this has actually been my daily driver for about the last week I'm going to
really face these two off in the full review because they both seem friggin
awesome looking at both of these screens they both seem really awesome the one on
the Dell is not the highest end model that you can get there is a 4k version
for this but why do you need 4k screen
on a 13-inch laptop I do really like the
tiny bit of extra crispy mnestheus Matt cook air though so it's a 2560 by 1600 P
display which is just a bit more than 1080 but not quite to 4k so it's a
really nice middle ground where you get that extra little bit of resolute without it just being totally stupid
where you have to have your face like here for it to make a difference the
last thing that I want to check out here are the speakers so according to Apple
they kick ass and if the MacBook Pro 16 inches anything do off they probably
really do those one thing the MacBook Pro are really good let's just boot up
some crab brave here the good old classic sound test I'm gonna try and
sink these two
so those sound really good just listening to right now let's switch it
over to the XPS 13 oh those are just
worse these aren't bad speakers but there's just so much more depth and
detail in the max one guy oh yes this
just has a bit of refinement to it that you really don't get in the towel
there's the MacBook Air oh no no
absolutely not okay the actual air
absolutely takes it with speakers wow that's crazy though there's just these
little little speakers here how do they
make that much noise with them it's amazing they're going to kill Bluetooth
speaker sales if they keep on getting this good geez so I'm really excited to
you know really put this through the paces I think that the one thing that it
might be lacking is power but at the same time how much do you care if like
you know you're thin and light can blaze through I don't even know what you're
trying to do on this that would need a whole bunch of power so I think it's
gonna be a pretty intense competition so I'm really excited to test out you know
the new MacBook Air the new Dell XPS 13 the new Spectre x-360 because really if
any single one of these had dropped a year ago it would have been without a
doubt the best thin and light on the market yeah so yes that's the one thing
that this might have problems with are just thermals I think it's entirely
passively cooled so if it can't quite keep the CPU in check
maybe you have to get the MacBook Pro 13 inch depending on when that comes out
and if it has the magic keyboard and stuff it probably will but we don't know
yet anyway I'm really excited for this comparison
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