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Overview of MacBook Air Models

Topic: SoftwarePublished August 24, 2018
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Apple launched its first MacBook Air in 2008, MacBook Air1. Each year it has upgraded in memory capacity, storage sizes, long battery life and quality of the camera and lot more till their latest edition in 2017, MacBook Air 7,2. Here are some of the popular models of MacBook Air which are widely used by the customers. MacBook Air -13.3” Model
  • The 13.3-inch MacBook Air is built on an aluminium enclosure, and this makes its unibody more stronger than other traditionally built laptops.
  • It provides 128 GB flash storage. Flash storage makes this MacBook a stand out product among the other conventional hard drives. Because these flash storages not only make the notebook thinner and lighter but also provides an extended battery life of 12 hours of web browsing and standby time is 30 days.
  • It got an attractive LED backlight display with a resolution of 1440x900 pixels and 16:10 display gives an enhanced picture quality. This provides more clarity high definition face time calls through built-in webcam and stereo speakers which reduces the background noise.
  • 13.3-inch MacBook Air does not compromise on the ergonomics of the keyboard design which features a full standard size backlit keyboard with a multi-touch trackpad facility to give the user the complete control of the notebook.
  • This type of MacBook Air comes with a Mac OS-X operating system which contains some cool features like auto-save, mission control and Airdrop. Auto-save helps to restore the unsaved file without losing any data. Mission control gives the user a bird-eye’s view of the dashboard and all other applications that are running on the notebook. Airdrop makes it easier to share the documents and files across the computers wirelessly even without a Wi-Fi connection.
  • 13.3-inch MacBook Air comes in a 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 dual-core processor with 8 GB memory and 1600 MHz speed.
MacBook Air 11” Model
  • MacBook Air 11 inch is one of the smallest Mac notebook series with a competitive pricing. It provides good performance and offers an11-hour battery life.
  • It has got a MagSafe 2 port and a standard USB 3.0 port. MagSafe 2 cord automatically detaches from the MacBook if we put any pressure to the cord which provides safety for the MacBook from falling and crashing to the floor.
  • Similar to 13-inch model, it has also got a maximum 8 GB RAM supported with 1600 MHz speed.
  • Unlike 13-inch model which supports the Mac OS-X operating system, MacBook Air 11 inch supports Mac OS High Sierra 10.13 operating system. This OS comes with a lot of cool features like built-in editing tools, faster Safari experience than Chrome and also blocks auto-play mode in video apps.
  • High Sierra OS provides the ability to the user to create a rich and interactive virtual reality games through Metal 2 technology. These are targeted to the developers and even Apple offers the developers an external graphics dev kit to get it started.
In addition to these there are several MacBook Air models, learn more about them to get a fair idea in case if you are planning to buy a MacBook Air product. Also, upgrade to the latest version of the MacBook Air by selling your old Mac products.

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