hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the brand new MacBook Air this
has been a long time coming a lot of people have wanted an upgraded one with
a Retina display so that's what we've got now let's take a look at the specs
that I picked up now as you can see it's the 13-inch 13.3 inch 2560 by 1600 1.6
gigahertz dual-core but a turbo boost up to 3.6 gigahertz eight gigabytes of RAM
and 256 gigabytes of storage this comes in at $1399 now keep in mind that price
may seem a little bit steep but if you're comparing it to something like
the surface pro series the surface pro 6 that's only $100 cheaper and you don't
get a keyboard with that one and it's very similar specs 8 gigs of ram same
storage although that does have expandable where this doesn't let's go
ahead and open this up and I picked this one up in Space Gray let me move this
aside I picked this one up in Space Gray and I'll set that aside and what you get
here is USB C 2 USB C like you'd expect and then you've got a charger in the box
this one is a 30 watt charger you could technically charge out an iphone fast
charge with it I guess I'm going to rip that to take it apart but it's a USBC
adapter and then in here we've got space grey stickers to match and then we've
got our information or literature so let's set this aside and open this up
and take a closer look so let's go ahead and open this up
and before I open this let's do a quick size comparison between the 12 and the
13 inch MacBook Pros so we've got the 12 inch and 13 inch so to give you an idea
of size the MacBook Air is here the MacBook Pros underneath you'll see that
in a moment this is the 12 inch MacBook and if you take a look at the sides this
is the MacBook Pro MacBook Air and MacBook on the other side we still get a
headphone jack but only the pro gets the extra Thunderbolt ports so let's set
these aside and take a closer look at the air so I'll open it up here and one
thing this has that's really nice is we've got our fingerprint sensor here it
just turned on by itself we've got a fingerprint sensor the latest generation
keyboard some people love it some don't I actually find that I can type pretty
quickly on it due to the larger key space and we have a larger trackpad
compared to the old air so we'll wait for this to boot up and then we'll get
it set up now after I set this up I'm going to run a Cinebench and a Geekbench
on it just to take a look at and see what it's capable of based on just those
numbers that's not real world use necessarily but it gives us an idea once
we get past the network setup we'll click continue
I'm not going to transfer anything from this Mac to another one or from another
one to this one so we'll set up the Apple ID we have to agree to the terms
click agree select a password it's going to set up iCloud and that might take a
moment we can use the iCloud keychain do ok for that or click continue we can set
up Siri and everything else we'll wait for it hey Siri is set up I used that
feature all the time turn on filed out with all disk encryption just click on
continue and then we have touch ID so we set it up just like you'd expect
click continue and we can set up Apple pay we can do that later and then you
can pick light or dark mode and we'll click continue and we should be at the
desktop in just a moment now the keyboard is just like you'd think it's
the shallow travel keys just like before and they do have a little bit less noise
than some of the older ones but overall it's not really much different so if
you're used to typing saying one hand typing since I have the camera right
here but I think you get the idea of the sound so it's pretty good I'm not
terribly loud but a different sound for a MacBook the trackpad is nice and big
not as big as some of the others on other macbook pro models but it's plenty
big especially if you're coming from a previous MacBook Air and you can press
anywhere on it for it to actually work so since it's not actually moving
although it feels like it is you can tap anywhere and you've got all this room to
pinch and zoom or whatever you want to do now the battery inside of it should
last about 10 hours we'll have to see it will take a while and it's also more
easily replaceable it's modular this time around according to Apple
now the MacBook is completely set up I wanted to wait for all the background
activity to stop to make sure the CPU wasn't doing anything initially it had
to sync a bunch of cloud documents and things so now that that's all done let's
go ahead and run a Geekbench it was a little bit warm and the fans were
running at full speed I think before but now it's nice and cool I've given it
time to cool down so let's see what the benchmarks are now the Geekbench has
finished we've got four thousand two hundred and sixty-four the single core
seven thousand eight hundred and one for multi-core now for most people this
isn't going to be something that they'll pay attention to on a MacBook Air this
is probably going to be used for school and a lot of people in college but let's
go ahead and run a Cinebench as well so let's open that up and run that again
I'll give this a moment to cool down so we should be ready to go let's go ahead
and run a CPU benchmark and then we'll check out OpenGL as well the CPU
benchmark concluded and you'll see it's 254 and that puts
it below a core i7 is we would expect down here but let's go ahead and run the
OpenGL benchmark now now I can hear the fans running and it's not very loud at
all you can easily talk over it it's not a droning noise or anything so it's it's
pretty quiet so it looks like it just finished here
let's take a look we've got thirty three point one three frames per second so
it's pretty good let's do one more tenth test and let's take a look at the actual
disk speed so let's go ahead and try the disk speed test and you'll see it's
getting about a thousand megabits per megabytes per second right speed read
speed is about 2,100 megabytes per second so about a thousand in 2000
that's pretty fast for an SSD so not as fast as some others but that's plenty
for a macbook air but let me know your thoughts about the new macbook air in
the comments below when i do a full review of this is there anything
specifically you'd like to see that you're not finding anywhere else let me
know in the comments below and I'll see if I can do that as well
oh by the way this screen looks fantastic it may not go as bright as
some of the others but it's pretty bright overall though it's Apple's
Retina display which looks great again let me know what you think in the
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always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time