welcome everyone I'm Ricky Finn Tech Talk and I have a very exciting unboxing
and first look at the brand new 2019 MacBook Air from Apple so I went into
Apple regent street store London I had a little look handle play I've never had a
MacBook Air before in a channel so I thought why not grab one and let's
actually delve in and have a look at this MacBook Air we're gonna get it
unboxed we're gonna get it set up and I'm gonna give you my first impressions
on the front here as you see as always from Apple nice clean clear packaging
you have a white background and then you have this side profile view of your
MacBook Air and just how thin it is and the thinness is one of the points of me
buying this product is because of all the traveling I do I need something to
just put in my bag that I can take very quickly on the go with me I know it's
gonna last me all day and it's mainly for social media and content actually
creating posts that I'm gonna be using this product we've got side profile view
here and you've got your two Thunderbolt three ports and that is your USB C as
well but one other connection and that is your headphone jack you're gonna see
on the other side on the actual side of the product itself it's got a MacBook
Air just reminding you of what it is and of course you have an Apple logo and
this normally tends to be in the color you chose so turn into the back let's go
through the key specs and the key details that we have on here so as you
know Apple have a range of different options that you can choose and select
from their online store I just went for their base model to see what the MacBook
Air is all about so it's a 13.3 inch diagonal retina LED backlit display with
a two-tone technology so that's really improve there's something new coming to
that it has four million pixels everything is gonna look pinpoint sharp
the resolution is 2560 by 1600 everything that you have your processor
as I said it's the base model so it's a 1.6 gigahertz dual core Intel Core i5
with four megabytes of l3 cache and then it can be turbo-boosted up to 3.6
gigahertz as 8 gigabytes is 20 133 megahertz lpddr3 SDR ram coming to
storage is a hundred twenty eight gigabytes of pci based SSD you have an
Intel you HD graphics 6/17/2013 support high-speed IO and video outputs you have
your headphone jack with stereo speakers also
built into this is touch ID you have the ability to use touch ID to unlock and
pay with Apple pay you have a backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor so
Wi-Fi is 802 11 AC and then you have Bluetooth 4.2 so no Bluetooth 5 on this
model FaceTime HD camera which is at 720p then also it comes with
pre-installed Mac OS underneath that you then have the size and then the weight
and the weight for this is 1.25 kilos of really light weights that you can just
put in my bag so coming back around Apple doesn't require you to use a knife
anymore there's a little pull tab down here to the bottom right hand corner
what I'm going to do is just pull that off very slow reveal there so the box
comes off see that's inside just for a second that's on top is your brand new
MacBook Air like I said I've never had ones I'm really intrigued to see what
it's like to use on the channel so first one is a USBC cable to USBC cable and
this is for mainly charging your device or you could potentially use this to
charge other USBC capable devices you have some literature here so designed by
Apple in California it's inside your literature you're gonna find MacBook Air
this is gonna just be a little fingertip guide here without highlighting key
features then you then have some Apple stickers that are actually in the space
grade coloring hiss or something really different haven't seen that before
you then have MacBook Air essentials and then you have safety and warranty
information there as well underneath you're gonna find a UK three-pin plug
and this offers 30 watts of charging so taking these together slot these
together there is your UK three-pin plug for charging as you'll notice there is a
USB C connection here as you do have a USB C to USBC cable for charging your
device here is the Space Gray model it is so thin and so lightweight a like I
said never had one so I'm looking forward to experiencing it so we've got
that
get rid of that so as you can see on the one side you've got your headphone jack
here then we fly around to the other side on this side you've got your two
Thunderbolt three ports or USB C ports you got nice shiny Apple logo there in
the middle and then what we're going to do is lift up the lid and boot is up and
go through the setup process and then I can give you all the key information and
key features about this brand-new MacBook Air
okay so lifting the lid for the first time I think it automatically boots so
you do have a bit protection on here for the screen yes it does
so we're greeted with the Apple logo that so we do have an accessibility
option there which is really key for me as you know I do have an accessibility
need so that's really important to look at then you have a touch ID just place
your finger bit like how you used to touch ID on the actual iPhones and the
iPads that used touch ID I think touch ID is gonna be coming back
to the iPhones and iPads which is really cool cuz I prefer that to face ID touch
ID is now ready then find it's asking you to choose your look as this is using
Mac OS Mohave it has a dark theme or a light theme or you can choose where it
integrates and changes throughout your day the choice is yours I'm gonna go for
a dark thinks it's easier for me to see and just look that so much easier so
we've got our true time display here so if I'd toggle this here you can
hopefully yeah it's picking it up on the camera you can definitely notice a
difference there so I really like using the true tone display so setting up your
Mac so now our MacBook is all set up and ready to go let's go through the key
details and key features and potentially why you would choose this over something
else so first of all the display that's what you can be looking at majority of
the time so it's a 13.3 inch high resolution display it's a Retina display
from Apple's so that used to be on the MacBook but now it's on the MacBook Air
as they have ditched to that MacBook line previous generation MacBook Air
would have had 48% you were colors compared to what you're gonna see on
this model so that's really impressive also you have a two-tone technology
built in we see on our iPhones and our iPads so if I just show you what that
looks like I did show you during the setup as well so if we just go
two settings in so inside settings you have an option here for true tone and
you should be able to see it shift a little bit maybe it's gonna be hard with
the lighting that I have here there's more with a white background you're
gonna see that really shift and change and warm to your lighting or cool
depending what lights and options that you're using and that's a really good
thing that I like to see on my iPad I use it a lot on my iPad pro so to turn
technology automatically adjusts the white point of your display to match the
color temperature of your environment with a Retina display you're gonna get
razor sharp text clarity so what does that mean that means when we go into
Safari down here at the bottom and I've loaded up the Geekbench results for mine
but if i zoom all the way in you can see it's really clear and really pinpoint
and easy to read so if I just go back there I've got a quick Geekbench result
so our single core score was four thousand three hundred and forty four no
multi-core score there of seven thousand nine hundred and forty three this is
actually beating my MacBook Pro on both sides easily and my MacBook Pro was a
mid 2014 now so please bear that in mind it's nice to know that this machine is
more powerful than my MacBook Pro but it's the base model of 20:19 MacBook Air
bear that in mind so as you'll notice if you look around your screen here the
borders are 50% thinner than before with screen going right to the edge that
means your content is going to be pushed right to the edge as possible whether it
being black instead of silver on the previous models that's more helpful as
well it doesn't distract you so much then you have touch ID so touch IDs
built into the power button here so if I stepped away for a while come back lift
the lid it's not gonna ask me to input my passwords I can actually just give
that a little tap then and that will open it up also you could use this for
Apple pay through iTunes and through other websites that require Apple pay
that's really helpful I'm looking forward to using that so much more and
constantly just typing in my passwords also you can always use iCloud keychain
any way to store your passwords or one click and then you're in but touch ID I
think it's just going to make it so much quicker over time the updated 2019
MacBook Air also comes with Apple's t2 security chip so your security is always
key to Apple and your privacy is as well with it all being stored on the chip
inside it's not sent off to anywhere else only you know your information
which i think is really key so talking about key let's move on to the keyboard
so the keyboard has been a source of an issue
Apple recently yes this is still using that butterfly mechanism in the
keyboards for Apple has put that new layer of mesh on it then to try and help
prevent dust getting in and then sticky keys and having issues with your key so
from Apple the latest generation MacBook gain keyboard features are butterfly
mechanism providing a four times more key sensitivity than scissor mechanism
with greater comfort and responsiveness and individual LED backlit keys with an
ambient light sensor help you type in low-light environments obviously where
the bright lights that I have here that's not possible but later on I'll do
some night shots and I'll send them through Instagram and through Facebook
as well also that's new to me that wasn't on my macbook pro is a force
touch trackpad so that means that I can press up here I can press down here it
depends where I want to press obviously you have the multiple different gestures
and movements that you can do on the trackpad that you can set up in settings
so if we move into settings again one thing I do like if you shake you can get
a nice big area there that really helps me with my vision
so in settings here you can go into trackpads so inside trackpad here it's
giving you little tutorials along the sides that you can do then you have
different options along the top as well you can pick and choose what you want to
do which is really helpful up to you you pick and choose the ones that you want
to make best for yourself obviously this trackpad is larger it's
20% larger than previous generation making it more easy to flow over and
more easier to use the force touch trackpad lets you interact with your Mac
in a variety of ways based on subtle differences in pressure you have precise
control and uniform response no matter where you click the trackpad as well as
plenty of room for multi-touch gestures like pinch and zoom your fingers will
feel right at home obviously if you're used to a different way or use a mouse
or use a separate trackpad or separate Mouse that's fine that's up to you I'm
looking forward to delving in and using this one because that's new to me I'm
interested to see how well it works in how well it feels the MacBook Air is
versatile in a sense of upgrades so you can go up to 16 gigabytes of memory go
up to one terabyte of SSD storage it weights 1.25 kilo so it's really
lightweight it does have an Intel Core i5 processor in there and then obviously
you have Wi-Fi Bluetooth and it's blue 24.2 instead of actually bluetooth i it
is only fifteen point six millimeters thin and that is absolutely unbelievable
I can't believe that if you do have any questions or queries as I'm going
through this please drop a comment down below so when it comes to battery life
and this is the thing that I need I'm traveling all the time if I go to London
it's a long day so I'd like to do some work on the train while I'm out and
they're having a coffee or having a drink with friends or then maybe on my
way home I want to do a little bit work so with up to 12 hours of battery life
the Mac air is your day-in day-out diamonite you can check emails browse
the web shop online write documents watch videos manage spreadsheets and
more all without plugging in there same here if you're taking a transatlantic
flight line up your films because the MacBook Air is ready to play up to 13
hours non-stop so when I fly to Los Angeles go and visit family that is
about 12 and a half hours flight so I could take this with me line up my
movies line up my TV shows some music on there but if I just want it to watch
video that's up to 13 hours is really impressive and I'm really looking
forward to really pushing it to its limit so when the MacBook Pro and also
the MacBook each to the USB 3 for fundable 3 which is USB see everyone
complained she needed dongles you needed adapters to be honest our world is
moving to a USBC world anyway now it's taking its time but it slowly is getting
there for me that's not a problem my only problem is but they're only having
2 Thunderbolt 3 ports here one of them taken up for charging I'm not gonna get
bothered by that but with Thunderbolt 3 it combines ultra high bandwidth with
ultra versatility of USBC industry-standard
to create one revved-up Universal port and MacBook Air has two of them that's
ok which is maybe three for Thunderbolt 3 integrates data transfer charging and
video output in one single connection delivering up to 40 gigabytes of 3 puts
which is twice the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 2 so existing devices are
easily connected with the cable or an adapter and Thunderbolt 3 is reversible
so no matter your plug is always going to go in the right way so that's really
key and you don't wanna scratch it up anyway I do love this space gray color I
know what color is mine now for every other model that I go through which
means the iMac 4 is going to be really expensive but the space behind looks
awesome with the latest pro assessing and tuning techniques MacBook
Air sounds better than ever before stereo speakers deliver twice the bass
and 25% more volume than previous generation and a wider stereo sound
creates a massive audio when you're listening to music or watching a film so
I've just pulled up my youtube channel here so let's take a look about everyone
I rescue from Tech Talk and today we're bringing back a compulsion or bercy's
video to the channel so today we're taking a look at the Google pixel 3ax Oh
Jean Lee me9 and the Google pixel 3ei so these are the latest devices I'm
currently testing so I want to bring these three devices together as they're
similar price range with a hundred pounds difference here in the UK the
links will be in description as always fun so as you'll notice the screen is
very bright very bright burns it comes alive it's shown every color really
correctly and thanks to 4 million pixels it should do that
the impressive sight of it though is the sound quality it sounds really good and
it sounds better than my macbook pro as well as I had a 13-inch MacBook Pro the
speakers were sort of hidden away as well so they're not as good as what
these are with open grills on this model so if you use a lot of Apple products
and a lot of Apple services you'll know FaceTime the FaceTime camera lets one or
many of your friends and family members see you in high-definition
with three microphones form an array that more accurately captures your voice
for FaceTime calls and dictation and talking to series you have the hey Siri
feature on here hey Siri what's the weather today so it gives me my weather
there and you could ask Siri to open other things
hey Siri open system preferences so it could be used to open applications as
well for you so if you struggle and you want to dictate to your macbook air here
you can and that's a really good thing for me when I create my notes which I've
got above me here that I'm reading off now I can use dictation then to dictate
and with three microphones in a an array it can really then potentially listen
and hear my voice more accurately so this is the first Mac made with a
hundred percent recycled aluminium it has 47 percent lower carbon emissions
compared with previous generation it's made up of six thousand series aluminium
for strength and durability introducing an
aluminium alloy created by Apple that delivers the same strength durability
and flawless finish without mining any new aluminium from the earth is designed
to use shavings of recaptured aluminium that re-engineered down to the atomic
level the result is an enclosure as incredibly
beautiful and strong as any of they have made previously and I think that's a
really good thing then it comes to Mac OS so this is using Mac OS Mojave we are
going to be doing a video with Mac OS Catalina Island on this really soon and
looking forward to seeing how well that works as the public beta version the
latest new update and of course this new machine should be able to run that
without any problems comes to using Mac OS I like the simplicity of it I like
the connectivity of my other devices and it just works with the things that I
wanted to do and that's the thing that I like you have your dock at the bottom
here with all of your applications that you can go through choose and then you
can use gestures here to sort of that would show me multiple windows up here
at the top if I needed it so if I pinch in with my fingers I can see all of my
applications here I can then begin to type if I go back home I can use
spotlight here I can search anything that I need to I'm just so used to the
Mac OS and the way it works it just works for me I use iMovie and Final Cut
Pro in my editing so that works really well I also use Adobe and the whole
Creative Suite as well to create my photos and great different things to
share and also use that on the Mac as well I just find it really easy and
really simple to you my next question is who is this for so as the schools have
just broke up here in the UK same as the colleges and the universities really
soon if you're them moving on to a newer school if you're they're moving on to a
new college or in new university I would say the MacBook Air is for you for
writing notes for taking dictation lessons everything calendar apps
whatever you need this will be for you if you're into very lights video editing
it says it can do it I'm gonna try to edit on here and see how well it go it
is more powerful than my MacBook Pro that does my editing so should be able
to handle it fine but if you're bigger than why I am on YouTube and you do a
lot more fancier sort of editing and stuff like that it's gonna struggle
because it is an inner core machine it will struggle you will need to move to a
MacBook Pro an iMac or it's up to you the level you choose to
go to I wanted to get MacBook Airs I wanted to see how it feels how it looks
how it works to me as a content creator I like to create post all the time I'm
looking forward to using a new keyboard instead of the other keyboards now on my
macbook pro it doesn't have big chunky borders it just looks sleek and slender
and I'm looking forward to seeing how it works if you've enjoyed this unboxing
please do let me know leave a comment down below I want to hear from you and
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description to this absolute beautiful looking MacBook Air 2019 and for me
Ricky I will see you real soon bye for now