While this gives it less volume, and a thinner feeling than the 13-inch MacBook Pro, it's actually a tad chunkier at that thickest point, surprisingly. It retains its distinctive wedge shape, and is 0.41mm thick at its thinnest point, and 1.61cm thick at its thickest. The MacBook Air comes in Space Grey, Silver and Gold (which is the best colour).
And there's fingerprint recognition for easily unlocking it. You've also got a lovely big trackpad, as with all Apple machines. We'll cover exactly what that means later, but basically it's removed the only major caveat we had about recommending the MacBook Air whole-heartedly. Apple has moved from its divisive (and reportedly unreliable) 'Butterfly' keyboard to the new 'Magic Keyboard' that debuted on the 16-inch MacBook Pro. The only change in the external design in this machine is also maybe the most important update to the whole machine: the new keyboard. There are two Thunderbolt 3 ports, which also double as USB-C ports – plus a 3.5mm headphone jack. The MacBook Air 2020 has a 13-inch Retina display, which is paired with impressive stereo speakers that are much better than average, and give a good sense of audio separation when you're watching something on it. This will take you to £1,299/$1,299 – the same as the upper-tier model, but you've swapped the storage upgrade for the RAM upgrade. One good option for those who aren't worried about storage is to choose the base £999/$999 version, then to customise it to choose the quad-core processor upgrade and the 16GB RAM upgrade. If you choose the £999/$999 version, you can actually upgrade the processor to the quad-core for just £100 more, which is a great upgrade if you don't want to spend the full amount for the higher model.īoth machines come with 8GB of RAM, which is fine for standard use, but if you want to really future proof it, or plan to work with very large documents, stepping up to 16GB (the maximum) would be a safe plan – it's an expensive upgrade, but you can't add more RAM after you've purchased, so choose wisely. You can also configure it with even more storage (up to 2TB, in fact) or tweak the processor further. This gives you a quad-core processor instead of dual-core, and doubles the storage to 512GB – it's a well-priced upgrade overall, if you've got the extra cash to spend. There is another model, which costs £1,299/$1,299. The new processor also means a graphics upgrade, with Intel's Iris Plus giving a big boost over what was on offer before, which is handy for games or some creative apps. The £999/$999 model includes a dual-core 10th-gen Intel processor that's slightly faster than previous Airs, and includes 256GB of storage instead of the 128GB that the last Air came with.
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