Sitting closed, you could almost mistake this for an older MacBook Air-if you didn’t look at the ports and if it wasn’t in the Space Gray or Gold shades that have never before been available on an Air.
16 inches (4.1 mm) thick at the front edge. 61 inches (15 mm) thick at its thickest point, by the back hinge it’s just. And of course the definitive wedge shape, when viewed from the side, remains intact-the laptop is. The edges are curved, of course the top shell gently slopes down to those edges the bottom has the four familiar feet, array of little screws, and the same gentle curves. Anyone who’s carried a MacBook Air around for a few years will recognize all of its curves. Hello, familiar friendīeyond the mere fact that it exists, the most surprising thing about this new MacBook Air is probably that it is deliberately styled like its predecessor. Like its predecessors, it’s not the computer for everyone… but it will probably be the most popular laptop among the (count ’em) six models Apple currently offers. And while this MacBook Air is dramatically different from previous models in many ways, it’s also got a bunch of familiar touches that make it undeniably a MacBook Air. Surprise! The definitive Mac of the 2010s is going to survive this decade. It’s been so long since the last major MacBook Air update, in fact, that most of the “new” features on this device are simply a recap of all the changes Apple has made to other Macs the past few years, finally rolled into this one: a new keyboard, Retina display, Force Touch trackpad, Apple-designed T2 processor, USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, “Hey Siri”, and Touch ID. Just when we thought it was dead, after several years of essentially no updates, the MacBook Air has returned with a new version that’s clearly inspired by the classic design. For the past eight years, its exterior design has largely remained unchanged, as other products have come and gone. In that moment, the MacBook Air went from being a bit of an oddball to being the heart and soul of the Mac laptop line-and since two-thirds of Mac sales are laptops, it’s probably safe to say that the MacBook Air is the definitive Mac of this decade. They were still thin and light, but now they offered two USB ports and a new wedge-shaped design. But the new models-and there were two, at 13 and 11 inches-were entirely different. The previous model was an impressively thin and light laptop (that could famously fit in a mailing envelope), but it was expensive and had a single USB port concealed beneath a weird flip-down door. The iPad was just a few months old, and Apple introduced a new design for the MacBook Air. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. MacBook Air review: Center of the Mac world?
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