![]() Though Apple changed the internals, the 2013 model is aesthetically no different from previous years. Can Apple’s aging laptop keep up with the latest Ultrabooks? You’ve seen this before The design of the current Air dates all the way back to late 2011. Then again, the lowered price may be necessary. Though perhaps not innovative, this is still significant, as computers rarely receive new hardware and a price drop simultaneously. ![]() Apple also dropped the 11-inch model with 64GB drive in favor of an 11-inch model with a 128GB drive (without increasing the price), and also lowered the price of the 13-inch Air to $1,100, a price drop of $200. While the new architecture is the Air’s most significant update, it’s not the only one. The Apple MacBook Air was the first laptop on the market to offer a dual-core 4th-gen processor, and, at the time of this review’s publication, still has few PC peers. “Just” may be too weak of a word, however, because the hardware update consists of Intel’s new Haswell architecture and the 4th-generation Core processors based on it. Instead, Apple has just upgraded what’s inside. ![]() Retina, considered an obvious upgrade by some, didn’t make its way to the Air, nor was the chassis itself redesigned. ![]() Low-resolution display with no option to upgradeĪpple’s WWDC 2013 gave us a revised MacBook Air, but the revision didn’t go as far as expected.
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