2/14/2023 0 Comments New mac air release date 2018![]() You won't find Face ID on this device (it's still sequestered to iPhones and iPads), but including Touch ID brings a much-loved feature to a much-loved laptop. Apple also added new colors to the lineup and will offer the MacBook Air in silver, space gray, and gold.Īpple opted not to put its full Touch Bar on the new MacBook Air, but instead it carved out the Touch ID fingerprint reader and stuck it on the top-right corner of the keyboard. ![]() Its tapered profile, with the widest point at the back, feels familiar and sturdy, and now the device is made of 100-percent recycled aluminum. Despite the various ways Apple managed to shrink the device, it still felt like a MacBook Air in my hands. The Air is noticeably heavier than the 12-inch MacBook (2.06 pounds), but I appreciated the weight of it when I picked it up. It's still a sleek, all-metal notebook that's 10 percent thinner than the old model and weighs just 2.75 pounds. But the stale, circa-2010 design is almost gone now (keyword almost), as the new MacBook Air takes notes from its more expensive siblings. The MacBook Air began showing its age long before the 12-inch MacBook and the new MacBook Pros entered Apple's laptop lineup. ![]() That changed today with the introduction of the new MacBook Air (which includes updates like a Retina display, Touch ID, and Apple's butterfly keyboard) and a new Mac mini (which got a big spec bump with quad- and hexa-core processors). Today's event brought the biggest hardware changes that both devices have seen in a long time, and yet they still have a lot in common with their predecessors-and that's a good thing. ![]() Further Reading Apple updates MacBook Air with Retina display, Touch ID
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