- Hey guys, this is Austin.
Today in Brooklyn, Apple announced two brand new Macs.
A Mac Mini, as well as a completely refreshed, MacBook Air
which is helpful when you know,
you don't update your computers for a few years.
The last MacBook Air was a big deal.
It really did change the way a lot of laptops
look and feel even to this day.
And thankfully we actually finally have
a modern version of it.
You know, it's got a retina display
like every other laptop has had for the last few years.
With a 13.3 inch, 2560 by 1600 resolution,
this look leagues, miles, light years,
way, way better than the last generation MacBook
which still had a low resolution TN panel.
Honestly, that was the biggest issue with me
with using the MacBook in 2018,
it just looked so old and dated
and that's thankfully been fixed this year.
The rest of the laptop looks a lot like
a mixture between the 12 inch MacBook
and the 13 inch MacBook Pro.
On the left side we do get Thunderbolt 3 ports,
we have two of them which are thankfully both
fully enabled, unlike the standard 12 inch MacBook
which only has USB C,
and on the right side we still have
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the headphone jack.
That joke will make a lot more sense
if you watch our iPad video
which is live on Instagram TV right now,
which thankfully, or unthankfully,
dropped the headphone jack for some weird reason.
You should go check that out.
Link in the description.
Where things get a little bit more interesting
is when you look inside the MacBook.
So now we have a single option for a CPU.
It is an eighth generation Core i5 processor,
however it is fanless with only two cores
as opposed to quad cores like most other systems.
Now that is largely due to the fact that
this is an incredibly light weight laptop,
but still doesn't really give you a lot of options.
The MacBook Air is not going to be
a power house anytime soon.
The trend continues when you look
at the rest of the options.
There are very few different configurations
of the MacBook Air.
So, it does come in three colors,
silver, space gray, as well as gold,
but as far as actual specs go,
you've always got the Core i5
and your only real options are either
eight or 16 gigs of RAM and
somewhere between 128 gigs of storage
all the way up to 1.5 terabytes.
Can we talk about that for a second though?
128 gigs of storage, that's just not enough in 2018.
Now sure, if you use this as a glorified netbook
or something that's very, very
sort of focused I guess on web browsing.
I don't know, I can't even come up with a reason
why anyone would want 128 gigs of storage.
The worst part is,
it's still $1,200 with the 128 gig SSD.
If you wanna get something that's a little bit more usable,
you have to step up to the $1,400 version
which does have 256 gigs of storage.
Take a look at the keyboard, trackpad and speakers
and this will look very familiar
if your used to the 13 inch MacBook Pro.
So, it does have the new third generation
butterfly switches.
They still don't feel amazing but
at least these shouldn't get all jammed up
with like dirt, dust and stuff
and the trackpad as always,
is pretty much as good as it gets.
Now I wasn't able to try the speakers
in the very loud, hands on area,
but again, if it's anything like that 13 inch,
it should sound really nice.
Also I forgot to mention, it does come with Touch ID.
So, it's built into the power button but
it does not have the touch bar like the larger MacBooks.
Apple still claims a full 12 hours of
battery life which should be pretty accurate.
The old MacBook Air was definitely an endurance champ.
And beyond that the actual size of the laptop
has gotten a little bit smaller and
it actually is noticeably lighter
which is impressive considering that
the old MacBook Air was definitely light already.
These MacBook Airs are available for preorder
starting today and they will be going
on sale on November 7th,
starting at the sweet, sweet price of $1,200.
Yeah.
They also still sell the old MacBook Air too
if you really wanna go old school,
or spend less than $1,000.
There are a lot of rumors that
this MacBook was gonna be cheap right?
People were throwing out like 800 bucks or a 1000.
$1,200 is not a crazy price,
I mean it's better than the old MacBook
but it's just a little disappointing to
not see it just a little bit farther down the range.
Probably be the $1,000 price point
is now taken up by the bigger iPad Pro.
So, that's actually to be fair,
that's probably a more powerful system.
(laughing)
Moving on to what actually might even be more exciting
for me personally is the brand new Mac Mini.
If you take a look at it on the outside
it looks basically identical and that's true
because the chassis hasn't really changed
besides they changed the color over to space gray.
On the inside though this is a way more exciting system.
So if you guys'll remember our last video on the Mac Mini,
you'll know that it was a little bit underpowered
because it was essentially a MacBook Air in a shell.
However, this year we've got actual full desktop processors.
So it starts out with a quad core, Core i3
but you can option this out with a Core i5 or Core i7,
both of which have 6 cores to work with.
That's a lot of power for a little, tiny Mac Mini.
Can you feel my excitement?
'Cause I'm ready.
- I'm ready. I'm ready.
- The extra power makes a big difference
especially considering that there's a lot of other
properly pro level features
that you can get with the Mac Mini.
So starting out with it does have four Thunderbolt 3 ports
so you can easily connect an external GPU.
So we did see a demo of final cut
running really nice and smooth
with the full six core processor,
tons of memory, and that external GPU.
But on top of that, we've got some serious specs too.
64 gigs of RAM and two terabytes of SSD are all options.
And if you wanna go full Linus Tech Tips on it,
you can option the Mac Mini with
a 10 gig ethernet port, which is kind of a big deal.
So by the standard it does have a one gig port,
as well as two USB, AA's, HDMI and those four Thunderbolts.
But for $100 to upgrade 10 gigabyte ethernet,
that's a really big deal.
I know personally for us, we're totally going
to be using this as our engestation
to be able to not only back up footage but
also to dump it to our server.
Just like the Air, the Mac Mini is available
for pre order and you can pick it up on November 7th.
However, unlike the MacBook Air,
it's actually a lot cheaper,
this guy starts at $800.
Don't let that fool you though
because that's with the Core i3.
You can actually max out the Mac Mini
at over $4,000 if you throw everything at it,
including the memory, the SSD, the whole works.
So, yeah.
And that my friends is almost everything
that was announced at the Apple event today.
The other main thing was a brand new iPad Pro
but we did an entire video on Instagram TV
talking about that so definitely be sure
to go check that out at the link in the description
and while you're there maybe take a look,
we actually have been going a lot of IGTV videos lately.
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