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Many will bemoan the lack of a Retina display too, at least as an optional extra. It makes advances in some key areas, most notably graphics performance and faster flash, but these are partly held back by the slower CPUs. The 2013 MacBook Air 11-inch takes Apple's ultra-portable notebook a significant step in the right direction, but it's by no means a great leap forward. Although the better graphics performance and faster flash storage make up for this in most real-world applications, we wish the new chips at least matched the old ones.Īnd sadly, the Retina screen option many hoped for didn't appear.
The 1.3GHz Core i5 processors used in this generation's MacBook Airs have a slower clock speed than their predecessor's 1.7GHz Core i5s. The new MacBook Air is the first Apple computer to adopt the new Wi-Fi ac protocol, which is up to three times as fast as wireless n. Solid state storage is doubled compared to the previous generation, and faster flash storage brings a welcome performance increase. The Haswells bring better graphics too, with the Intel HD 5000 integrated chipset giving a speed boost of up to 40%. You can run it for an entire day on a single charge. The new low-power Haswell processors really boost the MacBook Air's battery life. Unfortunately, there are one or two drawbacks too. The extra microphone aside, the chassis is identical to last year's MacBook Air, though there are significant improvements under the hood. The 2013 MacBook Air refresh is not a radical overhaul.
You can comfortably use a 2013 MacBook Air all day without recharging, regardless of what you throw at it. This is more than double what its 2012 counterpart could manage. In our test, we set the screen brightness to around 50% and streamed the news channel on BBC iPlayer for an amazing seven hours, 15 minutes.
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The off-the-shelf processors are 1.3GHz dual core Haswell Intel Core i5s, though you can upgrade it to a 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 using the custom options on the online Apple Store. The changes to the 2013 11-inch MacBook Air are all under the hood.
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If you lift it by the corner it doesn't creak and flex like lesser, cheaper notebooks, and little luxuries such as the multi-touch trackpad, backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor, magnetic power plug, stereo speakers and the 720p FaceTime HD camera are retained.
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But there seems little reason for Apple to change such a popular and practical design.Īt just 17mm (0.68 inches) at its thickest point and weighing just 1.08kg (2.38lbs), it's so light and portable it's easy to forget it's in your bag. The only difference is a second microphone hole in the left-hand side, with the dual mic setup using adaptive beam forming to reduce background noise. The 11-inch MacBook Air 2013's chassis is almost totally unchanged from last year's model.
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