FIRST TEST APPLE MACBOOK AIR (2020)
Tapper’s delight Apple’s smallest and lightest MacBook bounces into the future with a keyboard your fingers will love… plus a lower price and the promise of all-day battery life from R22 000 / myistore.co.za
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f you follow Apple, you’ll know about the controversy over the keyboards on its laptops. From the moment the company introduced a butterfly mechanism to help keep things slinky, reports of sore fingers and stuck keys began to mount. Apple caved, putting improved butterfly keyboards in a couple of
MacBooks (including the previous Air) before returning to a scissorswitch mechanism in the latest 16in Pro. That same excellent keyboard is here on the new Air… and it might just help this laptop re-affirm itself as the all-round machine we have no hesitation in recommending. The world’s most popular Mac has been given a sizeable spec
bump, with the 2020 model delivering up to two times faster CPU performance and up to 80% faster graphics courtesy of Intel’s Iris Plus hardware. The R22 000 base model now comes with 256GB of storage, double that of its predecessor, which means even more movies and photos to stare at on its lovely Retina display. And this laptop is a looker
alright – a lovely wedge of brushed aluminium with a large glass trackpad. Mind you, if you’re open to using Windows, you’ll find slimmer bezels and a better use of space on the Dell XPS 13. The Air also has a rubbish 720p webcam, which matters if video calling is going to be the new norm… but how does the rest stack up?
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