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Unboxing the 2018 MacBook Air. Is the new MacBook Air the best laptop for most people?
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So, here it is. It's the new MacBook Air. This thing has not been updated for so long until now, of course
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This is the new one. The low-res display, the giant bezel, that thing is gone
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I mean, are they still selling it? I don't know. This is the new one. This is the 13-inch form factor
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It's thin and light. It's about 2.75 pounds. The screen is better. Thunderbolt 3 now. This one is spec'd out to the
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nines. Put a 1.5 terabyte drive inside of a system like this. Eighth generation Intel CPU. Pick your
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RAM as well. Eight or 16 gigabytes. It's not going to be the cheapest laptop in the world, but I'd say
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it's fairly competitive and for most people likely going to be the laptop that they're interested in
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It's that kind of balance between performance, portability and price. Look at the new unboxing experience
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Never seen it before. I think Apple's been watching Unbox Therapy. You pull the tab, no blade necessary
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You know what, I gotta give them props for that. You know, a lot of you guys out in the audience are like
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Why are you always hating Apple? Uhhhhhhhhhh! Look, I've been unboxing Apple products since you were in diapers, okay
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I'm gonna give Apple some serious props on the unboxing experience, including that new innovation, because they kinda changed the game
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I'm telling you, your experience with the product, it starts here. So you can fall in love with your brand new MacBook Air. Ahhhh
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Now the weird thing about this product though, you're calling this Air, but you have a lighter laptop that's just called the MacBook
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That one two pounds so it almost a pound more than that And then you have the MacBook Pro 13 inch which is three pounds It only 0 pounds more than this one and a lot more powerful So it kind of a weird zone especially calling it the Air
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Type C cable, no more MagSafe, nothing proprietary and of course it's capable of Thunderbolt 3 as well
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Tiny little power brick. Are they being eco-friendly? That's paper, not plastic anymore
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They claim that this thing is their first one made of recycled aluminum, so it's second-hand aluminum
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Here we go. Ah yes. Space gray, which is the color that you should get
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This wedge shape, kind of iconic. I do have to say, it does feel a bit heavier
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than I was hoping. That seems strange to say. With a 2.75 pound laptop
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my first laptop was probably like 10 pounds. It was a Sony VAIO laptop
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It was terrible. There it is. Okay, very nice. We have the new keyboard now
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very familiar because I also have the new Macbook Pro. You guys know I pretty much use all of these Apple laptops
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Kirk's using a Macbook Pro 15 inch. Will's using a Macbook Pro 15 inch. Jack's using a Macbook Pro 15 inch
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Now this one starts at what? $1,100 bucks? Will? Hilly? $1,200 bucks? Are you sure
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You can find something cheaper, but it ain't gonna have that logo on it
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Cha-ching! All those banks in Ireland, who put that money in there
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You and I. The black bezel is the better idea because it blends with the screen itself
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This was a necessary upgrade. You now have touch ID for logging into the system
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A modern touch, see what I did there? It's kind of a bit thuddy. Some people wish they could get the old keyboard back from the
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MacOS contains a built-in screen reader called VoiceOver. This, this, can we? Does she not know I'm making a video here
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You can click anywhere on the trackpad now and of course it's also very large
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much like the other models that are out there Oh this is cool Alright so from the jump light or dark theme We would take dark Ooh very nice Now they did opt to keep the headphone jack as well Some people are going to be happy about that
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Thunderbolt 3, so lots of expandability. You could drive an external monitor, in fact, even if it's high resolution
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Unlike the 12-inch MacBook, you get two of them here. Man, I totally forgot how many apps they try to jam in your dock
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They upgraded the front-facing camera as well. It's nothing special. It's an upgrade over the previous potato if that's important to you and this one has the crazy 1.5 terabyte
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Storage in it is not a good value at all resolution here 2560 by 1600
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13.3 inches of usable screen space. It's not clacky. You're not really bothering anyone
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There's a little noise to it. I did mention it is backlit also, so it is a backlit keyboard
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very important, but it's not the brightest backlight that I've seen. This is gonna perform somewhere in the same territory
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at least for most tasks, the entry level non-touch bar 13 inch MacBook Pro
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If that's not enough for you, you're still forced to step up to the very expensive versions
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of the MacBook Pro, the quad core versions, the touch bar versions
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This is the MacBook for the average person. It's surprisingly an under-serviced segment
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within Apple's lineup for a while now because of how aged, how old
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that previous generation MacBook Air was. The 12 inch MacBook that existed as another option
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was probably too small for the average student, let's say. You need a little bit more real estate for day to day use
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But the crazy part about this product is even though it's the MacBook
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Apple should have made a long time ago, it's the MacBook for most people
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Apple themselves doesn seem that excited about it They all about these new iPads so much so that they saying those iPads outperform most laptops And in some circumstances you could even make the argument that those iPads are in some
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ways more powerful than this. It's a bit bizarre. Apple is of course reluctant to offer up a touch screen option
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But based on Apple's marketing to this point and their presentation, it seems like they're
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making this almost reluctantly. When in reality, the future they want to push is more contained
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Contained within the iOS environment. Because that environment has more restrictions on it
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On what you can and can't do. From a software perspective. Apple has its hooks a little deeper in you in the iPad universe than they do in the MacBook universe
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They'd be like, take that thousand bucks. Forget about the entry level MacBook Air and pick up the iPad Pro
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I've tried to live life that way. and there inevitably is something that you can't really do
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And if you only have $1,000 or just over $1,000 to spend on either of those two devices
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it just would be hard for me to recommend that you go the iPad route unless you have some very specific reason for doing so
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Nonetheless, the MacBook for most people, it's the 2018 MacBook Air. So therefore, the only thing to do, the responsible thing to do
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is to try to live life in Apple's universe entirely. Stay tuned for the next video
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I do have the new iPad Pros. You tell me in the comments, what's your instinct on this
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Your intuition, where do you think it's gonna go? Which would be more useful for your $1,000
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A dedicated laptop with a keyboard, a screen, something that flips open like this
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Or do you gotta reach out and touch it? Does it have to be an iPad? Does it need a pen
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I wanna know your thoughts. iPad or MacBook
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