Apple macbook air reviews 2017 pro#
Having spent a few days with a unit provided by Apple-the midrange $1299 version with a Core i5 processor-I didn’t miss my Pro at all.įull disclosure: I mostly use my MacBook Pro at home, and portability is therefore not a critical factor, so I’m smitten with the idea of someday splurging on a 16″ MacBook Pro.
Apple macbook air reviews 2017 mac#
Once again, it’s clearly the best choice for the vast majority of people who want a Mac portable, many of whom should be just fine with the entry-level $999 variant. These changes, though far from historic, fully return the MacBook Air to its classic sweet spot of style, quality, and value. (That’s with an Intel Core i3 processor unlike the previous Air, this one lets you choose between i3, i5, and i7 chips for varying tradeoffs between price and power.) Just as important, Apple has knocked the starting price back down to $999 and doubled the standard storage to 256GB, making for a much better deal. But like last year’s 16″ MacBook Pro, it sports Apple’s “Magic Keyboard,” with comfier keys and no signs of the butterfly’s fragility. It isn’t that new: it has the same industrial design as the one it’s replacing, and has no all-new features. And the starting price crept up to $1,199 (later reduced to $1,099) vs. But the new version had Apple’s “butterfly” keyboard, which had too little travel for some tastes and worrisome reliability issues. The MacBook Air showed signs of life in 2018 when Apple finally released a model with a retina display. (By then, the lack of retina-a technology that had debuted five years earlier for the MacBook Pro-seemed like a sign that Apple had lost interest in the Air.) Somewhat reluctantly, I sprung for a much pricier MacBook Pro. I wanted a retina display and 1TB of storage–features which the aging Air line didn’t offer at the time. But by 2017, when I was shopping for a new Mac, I’d outgrown the Air.
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