- What's up, guys?
Saf here on SuperSaf TV.
And we've got the brand-new 2020 MacBook Air
in the house, nice and early, SuperSaf style.
So a thumbs up for that would be appreciated.
This was just announced a couple of days ago.
Let's go ahead and get it unboxed and take a closer look.
So the box and branding, very similar
to what we've had in previous years.
You can see the side profile of the MacBook Air.
Let's open this up, plastic off.
There we go.
Now, you can see here that I've got the gold version.
There is also a space gray
as well as a silver version available.
And as well as a MacBook Air,
inside the box you do get a USB-C to USB-C cable.
You get some paperwork which does include
some gold Apple stickers.
I love it when things are color-coordinated.
And then we've got a 30-watt charger.
So that's everything that you get inside the box.
Let's get to the MacBook Air.
Plastic off.
And here we have it the, 2020 MacBook Air.
In terms of the design, it looks very similar
to the previous generation.
So we've got the mirror Apple logo.
And this is made with 100% recycled aluminum,
so huge thumbs up for that.
I like that the environment has been considered
when putting this together.
I think it saves like 47% in terms of carbon emissions,
so that's really good.
And size-wise it's also very similar
to the last generation MacBook Air,
so the height and the width is very similar.
Although, this is slightly thicker,
and it's also slightly heavier,
so it's around 1.29 kg,
compared to around 1.25 kg that we had last time,
so still very light overall.
Now, it is slightly thicker
because we've got one big, big improvement this year,
and that is the keyboard.
So this keyboard now has the new scissor mechanism
that we saw introduced on the MacBook Pro 16-inch,
and it feels so, so much better.
You've got around one millimeter of key travel.
Now, the previous generation butterfly keyboard
did get a lot of criticism,
but it looks like Apple is now completely phasing that out,
and they are now adopting this scissor mechanism keyboard.
And I can tell you from personal experience
of using the 16-inch MacBook Pro for a good few months now
that the typing experience on this keyboard
is really, really good.
And I think that's something that
a lot of people will appreciate.
We've also got the inverted-T arrow keys,
something else that a lot of people wanted.
So you can easily feel those there
without having to look.
The trackpad is a Force Touch trackpad,
and it works really well, as expected.
Now, let's take a look at the display.
So as far as I can tell, the display is similar
to what we've had in the previous generation.
So it's a 13.3-inch Retina display
with True Tone technology.
It's got around a 227 PPI pixel density,
and it's got 400 nits of brightness.
It's a really good display overall.
The bezels are not as small as what we've got
on say the MacBook Pro,
but what's really special,
what's had a massive improvement, is on the inside.
So this is the base model which starts
at 999 pounds or $999.
And this comes with a 1.1 gigahertz dual-core
10th-gen Intel Core i3 processor,
eight gigabytes of LPDDR4X RAM, Intel Iris Plus graphics,
and 256 gigabytes of SSD storage.
So that's actually double the storage on the base model
compared to what we had on the previous generation
at a lower price point.
And you can get lots of different configurations, of course.
You can get either an i5 or even up
to a Quad-Core i7 processor, up to 16 gigabytes of RAM,
and up to two terabytes of storage.
Of course, those are going to be higher prices.
And for performance that is going to mean
that you've got up to two times faster performance
with the CPU and up to 80% faster graphics.
So that's definitely quite impressive.
And I think what's most impressive for me
is that the MacBook Air now also supports
the Apple Pro XDR display.
So that's like a 6k display that you're going to be able
to plug in to your MacBook Air.
Now for ports, we just have a 3.5 mm jack
as well as two USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports.
So this is the same as what we've had previously.
And then we've got a Touch ID button here
on the top right-hand side of the keyboard.
Works really well.
Works with Apple Pay, as well.
For the speakers, we do have stereo speakers along here.
They do have 25% more volume and two times more bass
compared to the previous generation.
Of course, they're not on the same level as the MacBook Pro,
which in my opinion has the best speakers,
but these are pretty good.
What's not pretty good in my opinion
is that we've still got the 720p FaceTime HD camera.
I've been doing lots more conference calls recently,
especially considering the situation,
and that's just something that I wish Apple would upgrade.
Well, it's still 720p.
I'm sure it's going to be okay for most people.
And for the battery we do have a 49.9-watt power battery
which should get you through most usage.
Of course, that's going to vary depending on what you're doing.
If you're doing some general web browsing
and Word documents, it's going to last you longer.
If you're doing image editing, video editing,
then it's going to shoot through it much, much faster.
And it's something that I'm going to have
to spend some more time with.
Now, for pricing, as I mentioned it does start
at 999 pounds or $999.
There is an educational discount, so in the U.S., it's $899.
And I've mentioned that is a pretty competitive price point
for Apple, especially when you consider
that the previous MacBook Air was priced higher
and it had half the storage.
So I think this is going to be very, very popular for students,
and I think that's kind of what
this is targeted to, as well.
If you're somebody who's going to college or university,
and you are in the Apple ecosystem,
then I think this is probably going to be a really good option.
That's what I think.
What do you guys think?
Definitely let me know in the comments below.
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Thanks for watching.
This is Saf on SuperSaf TV, and I'll see you next time.
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