15-inch MacBook Air Review: Far More Affordable than Pro

[Music] Apple finally has a 15-inch MacBook Air and for most people that's going to be the large screen MacBook that you should buy so apple has a really big lineup of MacBooks now like they've had for years and to catch you up on it there is a MacBook Pro Line that's really expensive that starts at two thousand dollars which has a lot of nice display and

Port options and much faster processors but you're gonna have to really pay up for that but there are also IMAX Mac minis the Mac Studio and the MacBook Air right in the middle they all have these M1 and M2 processors which are really fast so processing for me is no longer that much of an issue but Apple didn't have a large screen laptop that was in

its affordable part of the lineup before you had to get that 13-inch MacBook now there is a 15 inch model and I think as back to school shopping kicks in or anybody's looking for an affordable alternative that's not an iMac I think this is it so let's catch you up on what's new here not a whole lot so the M2 13-inch MacBook Air which came out

last year that I bought I love it here it's basically the same product but with a 15.3 inch screen there are also better speakers and that's about it so there's not a lot to catch up on which is a little bit surprising if you were hoping for a new processor or some other new exciting things here for that you'd want to go to the MacBook Pro

Line but here you are getting a lot of features at a pretty affordable for Apple price this starts at 12.99 which really is a little bit less than I was expecting for a 15 inch laptop from Apple now again a lot of the features on here are pretty similar to what you had on the 13-inch MacBook Air the display 15.3 inches and that's the biggest feature

here it feels a lot bigger in x to the 13. that's what happens with screen sizes and it's the sort of thing where if you set it on a desk you do feel like you can use more apps at the same time I find when I'm working on the 13 inch air I tend to be a one app user with a little bit on the side

this I feel like I can do a little bit of that multi-pane action stuff it has the same liquid retina display that apple had on the air before which is really good quality it's not mini LED like on the pro line which really does pop but for all uses that I've had it's a really good display there still is a notch on the top it doesn't

bother me though because I don't know the Apple uses that menu taskbar on the top in that area anyhow and for the most part Computing fills the screen below it would it be nice if it filled even more and there was no Notch yeah but that's what's going on right now it's a little bit weird because Apple doesn't have any face ID camera here it's just

there's a notch but there is a 1080p webcam which is perfectly good and a bit better than previous gen Max for doing video chat so the design it's thin it's as thin as the MacBook Air 13 inch I didn't feel shocked by it but it is very nice although it does make the laptop feel wide I mean this has big 15 inch laptop Dimensions going on

here there's extra space on the side of the keyboard and so you're going to need a slightly bigger laptop sleeve or a bigger bag to carry it in now let's talk about ports which I consider part of the laptop design Apple did not increase the number of ports on this laptop compared to the 13-inch model which is a little weird considering this is a considerably bigger

laptop there are still just two USBC type Thunderbolt ports and they're on one side along with a magsafe charger and on the other side there's a headphone jack two is perfectly fine if you have a port extender but you could have put more ports on this and you could have at least put a port on the other side of the laptop that's super frustrating the MacBook

Pro yes there are ports on both sides plus there are other types of ports like HDMI you are saving money on this I guess because if they had put more ports and done other things they probably would have increased the price feel of this laptop is great as far as the keyboard goes but again I don't really like when there's a lot of extra space on

the side of the keyboard I like it a little more compact the trackpad is tremendous though a lot of space they are for the trackpad Apple promises 18 hours of battery life about for this laptop there is a magsafe charger port there is a 35 watt brick that comes with it you can also pick a fast charging brick instead that doesn't have the two ports that

the 35 watt does and you know for me these MacBook airs in the past few years have had astounding battery life really really good I haven't put this one through its complete Paces yet but I have not worried about battery there's no fan on this so I don't have to worry about it getting hot in my lap so far it's been performing really well the price

equation that's where this model gets really good 12.99 at the entry level gets you eight gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage 14.99 gets you eight gigabytes of RAM as well but 512 of storage I found that eight gigs of RAM works perfectly well for my everyday use on these MacBooks that run the M series processors but you'd probably want to upgrade to 16 gigs

to ensure speedier performance so that's going to bump it up a bit but here's the thing this is 200 more than the 13 inch air at the entry level model but at the step up models only a hundred dollars more than the equivalent 13 inch air so it's really not a big price jump for the screen do you want to pay a hundred dollars more for

a bigger screen as my wife said it's really nice if you're sitting it on a desk that you can get that extra screen space but for me taking a laptop on the go I really like the 13 inch model the 13-inch model by the way dropped 100 on its base price recently and also the errors tend to be on sale quite a bit I imagine that's

going to be the case here too this does have a processor that came out last year there's no M3 here does that mean that you're safe well Apple doesn't have an M3 processor yet there are faster m2s on their Pro Line of Max I find the M2 is tremendously powerful yes it is a year old but I feel like apple made its processor so fast right

now that they're going to be fine for a while and the choice is up to you but I'm really happy that I bought the 13 inch air just six months ago I like this price for a Macbook I feel like this is the territory I want to go in I would not want to pay a thousand dollars plus more for a pro model that's thicker even

if it has a bigger and nicer display so that's my thought on the 15-inch MacBook Air right now which I feel rolls in as again an option that represents the best laptop that Apple has right now I wish it had more ports but what can you do that's a story for 2023 if you have questions and comments below please leave them there and make sure to

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