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Apple has usually reserved large screens for their (expensive) Pro lineup of MacBooks… until now! Apple has finally cracked and given people what they want, a MacBook Air with a screen large enough to actually work on. Will Alex be impressed with this new screen size, or have sacrifices been made to make this work?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 The MacBook Air is great!
0:26 Unboxing
1:26 Weight and size comparisons
3:31 Design impressions
4:48 Sponsor – GoTo Resolve
5:20 Alex hates the notch
6:04 Screen specs
7:29 Keyboard and trackpad impressions/comparisons
9:44 Performance specs
10:16 Speaker and display impressions/comparisons
12:22 Benchmarking – Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14:28 Webcam and Mic impressions
14:56 Teardown and comparison to 13″ Air
16:50 Pricing and overall thoughts
18:30 Outro
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According to the Apple website those ports are Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports.
i dont see any point in flexing the laptop, youre never going to do that. oh yeah becasue a Dell is going to last as long as a Mac? they cannot be compared, Dell is dogshit – get over a tiny notch, theres NOTHING there anyway?!
4:44 Alex is manhandling these
It's cool. I considered buying one a few times. But at the end of the day, it's Apple🤮
actually I don't mind having if a laoptop having a flexiable chassy unless it canot be usable .
New breathable air weights 1.51kg.
Deaigned by Apple
Does the Air lineup not have Stereo sound..?
way less worse
Even though it is not Thunderbolt 4 certified, it supports USB 4 which is the same protocol. It doesn't have support for multiple displays which is a Thunderbolt 4 requirement.
If the average joe can do lateral raises with your laptop, it's light enough.
The notch doesn't matter for most application, because you either got the menu bar on top, or playing videos (and most are not in a 16:10 aspect ratio so you get black bars anyway). The only thing where it prevents you from using the whole screen is when you fullscreen an app, in particular games which tends to put stuff like compass, timers or score counters there…..
can you do a video on the entire lineup of MacBook laptops from apple?
Shame they couldn't get this thing under 3lb, especially with passive cooling
Honestly, it seems cheap to me. You'd probably want the 512 storage, but it's not a deal breaker with 256. The HP is more expensive, slower and smaller. I dont get it. In what world is this expensive?!
I’m an Apple fanboy and I hate the notch. Always have. Such a terrible design, especially because there’s not a trace of Face ID.
Seems fine, not gonna lie tho that webcam looked awful, like the smoothing it did to his face…yikes. When it cut back to the main camera I was like oh thank goodness a human so I have to disagree there, the webcam is probably great but that post processing needs to be updated which at least it can be fixed in software but other than that seems like a fine machine that's well built, except for apples FU screws.
Not sure to get this or the counterpart dell xps 15. Similar price range too.
The notch is unforgivable.
Base storage 256gb continues to be a crime
I have an M1 entry level MacBook Air. I don't game on it, don't see a reason to do so, gaming is what Windows is for. To this day I have not been in a situation where I wanted more than the 8GB of RAM the device came with. I use the laptop for media consumption and light video editing. The one reason I do have a MacBook is the trackpad. The MacBook to this day is the only laptop I do not wish for a mouse the second I start using it. How can manufacturers of Windows laptops anywhere over $800 even justify those crappy diving board trackpads? Did Apple patent theirs so well?
I have the 16 inch macbook pro m1 pro and honestly I think it is the best laptop I ever had and I had a lot of dells and hp. I can't seem to get used to the keyboard that much just because I am used to smaller laptops.
Personally I use the M1 air for programming and with the occasional compiling it never really gets hot since it's work load are just 5-30s builds.
It’s expensive? It’s $100 more than the 13” was a month ago.
Not all that much more expensive? It’s $700 more! It may not be a lot to y’all, but…
ALL MACBOOKS CAN TURN ON WITH THE BOTTOM OFF!! Iv heard this a few times your channel and it’s 100% incorrect… I do it every day on all models.
Is there a Lab test coming for camera quality to fully quantify just how good/bad the camera is? Many manufacturers slack in this area and it would be nice to put some pressure on them to get good scrub. 😅
dang you are going so hard on the air vs the 14 inch pro knowing is almost 1000$ less than the macbook pro, of course it wont be as amazing
My gaming laptop costs 1300 dollars and has twice the RAM and SSD storage WITH a dedicated gpu. Why on earth are people still buying Apple!?
Notch🤮
watching this video on mine rn
0:55 me at this moment
They really don't wanna give us a HDMI 2.1 port on these devices. I freaking hate it so much because of this. I am someone who travels from 1 working station to another one. And not being capable of just plugging in a HDMI 2.1 port but having to have an expensive docking station everywhere I go really frustrating. Probably one of the key reasons I would rather rock a Framework Notebook with 64GB of RAM and all sorts of ports than paying over 2 grands for a MacBook Air that has only 24GB of Ram and 1TB of SSD.
quite good review
Alex farting sounds are amazing
This mac deeply sucks, it has absolutly no interests
Quite light but very heavy 👍
The notch is such a turnoff, I hope they launch a 14" Air without that ugly ass notch soon.
do macbook + lightweight linux mean the best battery on laptops?
I would never buy a device with a notch. Why I got the iPhone SE 2020. Looks horrible and is in the way.
Since I'm not interested in apple hardware, I'm only here to state one thing.
15 inches isn't big. It's normal. 13 is small, 17 is actually big.
The sticker added 0.3 lbs 😀
That black one looks sick.
I sometimes wonder what is the purpose of mac adress when the techy apple stuff still gets into the other LMG channels…
ram is so cheap goes to show how much of a rip off shitshow apple is. joke.