![]() The Macbook Air has never had a plethora of ports, and sadly, that remains true this time around. It still caries the same wow-factor as it did three years ago and is arguably the most gorgeous laptop Apple has ever made. The old adage “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” remains true with the 2013 Macbook Air’s design. While many other laptops have gone on to include touch screens, the gestures on OS X are easily just as useful as a touch screen. You also can’t beat the multi-touch gestures it is capable of doing. The all-glass design makes it very smooth and easy to use for extended periods of time. The trackpad is still the best of any laptop on the market. At first, the keyboard seemed a bet squishy compared to other Macbooks, but that improved during the first few hours of use The keyboard is also backlit, which means working at the wee hours of the morning is no issue. The keys have good feel and are spaced out perfectly. The keyboard is absolutely a breeze to type on. The keyboard and trackpad are also unchanged on the 2013 Air and that’s undoubtedly a good thing. Both of those numbers are incredible design feats, though nowadays, some Windows laptops have managed to be even thinner. 68-inches, while at its thinnest point, it’s. It has a wedge design, meaning that it tapers from back to front in terms of thickness. The Macbook Air weighs in at just under 3 pounds, making it a breeze to carry in a backpack for extended periods of time. Three years later, that’s nearly the same design we’re still looking at here. ![]() Apple reintroduced the Air in 2010 with much better internals and a design that was just as slim and just as gorgeous. It was a classic example of form over function. ![]() When Apple introduced the original Macbook Air in 2008, it was a praised extensively for its design, but fell short in nearly every other category. The only change you’ll find is a second microphone on the left-hand side. It’s great, it’s just not as good as the Macbook Pro with Retina, and for $500 less and much thinner, would you expect it to be? The Design:įrom afar, you wouldn’t be able to whether someone is using a 2012 Macbook Air or a 2013 Macbook Air, as the two are nearly identical in every visual aspect. By no means is the Macbook Air’s screen horrible. If you’re coming from almost anything other than a Retina panel, however, you most likely won’t notice any difference. Colors on the Air aren’t quite as realistic and stunning as on the Retina and the same can be said for the text. It’s nothing that you can’t get use to in a week’s time, but it’s there. Glare is obviously still there, but it’s nowhere near as bad as on the Macbook Pro.Ĭoming from using a Retina Macbook Pro for the past 8 months, there was a noticeable difference with the Air’s display. The glare on the all glass designs can get horrible in the correct lighting, while the aluminum bezel around the Air greatly helps reduce that problem. The Macbook Air doesn’t feature the same edge-to-edge glass design as the Macbook Pros do, which in some cases, is a good thing. Viewing angles were a tad disappointing, with the color quality dropping greatly when viewing it off-center. Real-world usage is what matters.Ĭolor reproduction on the Air is great and the screen is incredibly bright. In reality, however, numbers mean very little. This comes out to 127 pixels per inch, which is far less than the 226ppi on the 13-inch Retina. The 2013 13-inch Macbook Air features the same exact display as its predecessor, which is a 1,440 x 900 resolution LCD panel. The Display:ĭespite the lack of a Retina display, the Macbook Air’s panel is still nothing to slouch at. Keep reading for our full review of the mid-2013 Macbook Air. Assuming, of course, that it can live up to the hype. While it’s not the Retina Macbook Air many of us were hoping for and may look nearly identical from the outside, it’s what’s on the inside that matters. With the mid-2013 Macbook Air, Apple has taken that amazing iPad battery life and stuck in a laptop. It almost always lives up to the expectations set by Apple and can often exceed the marks with lighter usage patterns. One thing the iPad has always been praised for is its battery life. Fast forward a year and Apple has done something similar, but this time with the MacBook Air. When Apple announced the Retina Macbook Pro at the 2012 Worldwide Developer Conference, we noted how it seemed like the company was integrating the selling points from all of its devices into one, with the iPad and iPhone’s Retina display being the main point of interest.
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