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this right here is the brand-new MacBook Air and I am really excited to check it

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out because the last model I actually liked a lot I kind of considered

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switching to it for a little bit actually but it had two really big

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problems for one it only came with a dual-core processor so like multitasking

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you can basically just write it off you know like you go to screen record

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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

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open too many tabs and the whole thing gets kind of bogged down in general

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multitasking just not a great time this also has their new magic keyboard which

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apparently solves the problem of the last one which for one it was just bad

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no one liked it and for - it was really unreliable and like you know a speck of

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dust gets in there and breaks so let's take a look at this one we ended up

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going for the i-5 model so that's a quad core the entry is at $1000 which is

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going to be tempting for a lot of people but I think you should stay away from it

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because you get an a3 that's only a dual-core which you know you can do it

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but you're going to have such a better experience if you just go with the quad

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core so here it is I believe that this

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model right here cost us $1400 u.s. we

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also went with these 16 Gigabyte upgrade and 512 gigs of storage so it should be

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a very competent little machine assuming you know it's cooled well and lives up

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to my expectations let's check it out so

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we have this little tab here I was

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actually hoping to slay this open with a knife but oh that feels good too

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I don't normally you have to actually take the wrapping off of these things normally this shipping and receiving

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guys do it it's a real treat

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oh that smells really good

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I don't know what it is but certain like materials that different manufacturers

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use for their laptop packaging this one just smells fantastic we've got the left

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actually let's leave that for a second laptops they're designed by Apple in

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California welcome to your MacBook Air MacBook Air automatically starts up when

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you lift the lid setup assistant helps you get up and running I believe that

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this is just 30 watts which at the same

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time this thing is just gonna sit power anyway so I imagine it's fine

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USB-C I quite like that they've gone with USB-C for these like they've done

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it for a really long time but you know it's always nice that they keep on doing

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it maglev was of course awesome but it's not standard so take your battles where

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you can win on my guess who those things that Apple just really nails like the

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feel of this cable is just so good like there's just some rubber on it really

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liked it it's probably my favorite well it's my favorite since the HP Spectre

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that one was braided and also really good get this plugged in actually probably don't even need to plug it in

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this thing probably has battery already in it Apple just always absolutely nails

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the look of their laptops I don't know what it is about this there's like

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really nothing going on with the design but it just really exudes like premium

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quality all of the metals are so solid

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like you can press here you can press up here it's not moving at all no matter

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what you do I think that they even patented the type of unibody design that

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there is on this so you actually can't get that kind of build quality no matter

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what you do can you one-hand it yes

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and here it's already starting up just

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look so good the bezels are a lot larger than what you'd find on like the x360 or

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the new Dell XPS 13 it's not a

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deal-breaker and I actually kind of like

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the slightly more bezel not because of the look of the bezels but because of

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the amount of wrist rest area that you yet so like if we look here hey okay I

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guess we're setting it up okay we'll be back in a second when this is a setup

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laptop we're on to setting up touch ID which is one of those things where I

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really like it but also I kind of don't so on Windows machines the best that you

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can get right now is I our face detection so you open it up it sees your

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face and then boom you're in like on the new XPS 13 it has both touch and IR and

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I've never used the touch at all like

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maybe once that said touch ID does have

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some stuff that Windows machines just don't have so like if you're using Apple

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pay you can just hit touch ID you don't have to enter a password or anything

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like that or say that like you have several people using the computer one of

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them can just go up touch the touch ID and next thing that you know you're

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logged in you don't have to worry about you know actually signing in and out

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it's a pretty awesome system I just wish that they also had facial recognition

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the stiffness of the screen is great like in one of the videos that I did

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recently kind of moved the screen like this and was like it's really wobbly but

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who does that and I saw in the comments someone was like why do you even do that

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test we have to do that test because people like Apple get it right you can

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try and do as much as you can to this and it's just not going to flex the

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whole chassis no matter where you press there is no deflection at all this thing

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is just a freaking beast well it's really small it's not really a beast but

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it's very solid

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based off like several seconds of typing

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I have to say actually like this quite a bit I do kind of wish that there is a

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bit more than the one millimetre of travel but that's it I'm pretty sure

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that I could get used to it really fast the old switches that they

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had they were like snappy but in a way that made you kind of have to bottom out

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and I found that my fingers were getting tired really fast where is this right

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here it's a bit softer and I feel like that I could really get motoring on it

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again Apple just always nails the build quality thing so one thing that a lot of

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laptop manufacturers don't quite get right is the key consistency between

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like all the different switches so maybe like say the J key might move just a

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tiny bit more than like K or L or whatever or the amount of force required

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to hit it is just a tiny bit different from what I've seen here every single

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switch feels exactly the same and that's the sort of thing that you need if you

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want to like really get typing fast without any errors as for the trackpad

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it's just great it's absolutely massive and Apple always pushes trackpads

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forward which I guess at this point they kind of have to because they don't have

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any touch screens which is pretty unfortunate these days so getting used

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to macOS just kind of sucks the last time that I did it

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I actually had no problems at all after like three days it's one of those things

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where you think it's going to matter until you actually do it and then you

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realize that it's just a computer you

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just kind of do your work once you've gotten used to it let's just take a look

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at the screen here I have the XPS 13

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this has actually been my daily driver for about the last week I'm going to

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really face these two off in the full review because they both seem friggin

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awesome looking at both of these screens they both seem really awesome the one on

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the Dell is not the highest end model that you can get there is a 4k version

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for this but why do you need 4k screen

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on a 13-inch laptop I do really like the

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tiny bit of extra crispy mnestheus Matt cook air though so it's a 2560 by 1600 P

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display which is just a bit more than 1080 but not quite to 4k so it's a

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really nice middle ground where you get that extra little bit of resolute without it just being totally stupid

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where you have to have your face like here for it to make a difference the

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last thing that I want to check out here are the speakers so according to Apple

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they kick ass and if the MacBook Pro 16 inches anything do off they probably

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really do those one thing the MacBook Pro are really good let's just boot up

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some crab brave here the good old classic sound test I'm gonna try and

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sink these two

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so those sound really good just listening to right now let's switch it

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over to the XPS 13 oh those are just

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worse these aren't bad speakers but there's just so much more depth and

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detail in the max one guy oh yes this

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just has a bit of refinement to it that you really don't get in the towel

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there's the MacBook Air oh no no

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absolutely not okay the actual air

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absolutely takes it with speakers wow that's crazy though there's just these

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little little speakers here how do they

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make that much noise with them it's amazing they're going to kill Bluetooth

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speaker sales if they keep on getting this good geez so I'm really excited to

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you know really put this through the paces I think that the one thing that it

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might be lacking is power but at the same time how much do you care if like

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you know you're thin and light can blaze through I don't even know what you're

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trying to do on this that would need a whole bunch of power so I think it's

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gonna be a pretty intense competition so I'm really excited to test out you know

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the new MacBook Air the new Dell XPS 13 the new Spectre x-360 because really if

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any single one of these had dropped a year ago it would have been without a

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doubt the best thin and light on the market yeah so yes that's the one thing

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that this might have problems with are just thermals I think it's entirely

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passively cooled so if it can't quite keep the CPU in check

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maybe you have to get the MacBook Pro 13 inch depending on when that comes out

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and if it has the magic keyboard and stuff it probably will but we don't know

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yet anyway I'm really excited for this comparison

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so get subscribed to a Linus tech tips for that get subscribed to a short

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