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Business travellers taking long flights and students who need it all day for lectures and then throughout the evening for writing an essay will love its all-day power. The battery life is little short of incredible. Final verdictĭespite the swings-and-roundabouts benchmarking results, the new MacBook Air is a definite and significant step up from last year's release.
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Although gorgeous to look at, would it have compromised the battery life to too great a degree? Talking of the Apple online store, if you want to upgrade your MacBook Air it's best to do it here at the time of purchase, since you can't make component upgrades later. The expected Retina screen failed to emerge too, even as a custom option on the Apple online store, but we've mixed feelings about this one anyway. Improvements elsewhere - most notably the graphics and storage - mean you don't notice it all that much, but we wish the new MacBook Air CPUs at least matched the old ones. We dislikedīut why did Apple have to reduce the processor's clock speed? It's down to 1.3GHz, from 2012's 1.8GHz, both dual-core Intel Core i5 chips. The multi-touch trackpad is a great asset too. It's still incredibly light and portable, is very strong despite being thin and has a beautiful backlit keyboard. Key features we loved about previous MacBook Airs haven't gone away either.
The new storage, which is 45% faster than the previous generation, and graphics that are around 40% quicker than before, are also to be commended, as are the switch to Wi-Fi ac and the inclusion of a second mic for reducing ambient noise.
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On a full charge, the new 13-inch MacBook Air is good for 12 hours of general computing, and lasted for nine hours of live video streaming. The Haswell processors are designed to go light on power, and it shows. However, there's one test where the new MacBook Air clearly trounces the previous model. In performance terms, this means it outperforms its predecessor in some tests, but falls behind in others, generally by small margins. The new 2013 13-inch MacBook Air makes some significant improvements on the 2012 model, but the processor's clock speeds are down. If you're sick of lugging a hefty notebook around with you, the MacBook Air could be just what you need.
Most impressively of all, it weighs just 1.35kg (2.96lbs).
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The new MacBook Airs are just as portable as their predecessors too, with a tapered height of 0.3-1.7cm (0.11-0.68 inches), a width of 32.5cm 912.8 inches) and a depth of 22.7cm (8.94 inches).
It's still a 1440 x 900 resolution, 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, with rich, deep colours and good viewing angles. One thing that hasn't changed is the laptop's display.
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It's around 40 seconds slower when encoding our five-minute test movie to iPod format using iMovie, too. The faster graphics enjoyed by the Haswell processors meant that in our Call of Duty 4 test, the 2013 13-inch MacBook Air ran the game at 67.8 frames per second, compared to 59.5fps for the 13-inch, 1.8GHz dual core Intel Core i5 model from 2012. ITunes encoding (USB SuperDrive): 452 secondsĪlthough the processors have a slower clock speed than the previous generation, across-the-board performance improvements mostly make up the difference. At last, you can use your notebook all day long on a single charge. But with the Haswell processors in place, it's absolutely stunning. Since switching to solid state storage off the shelf with the late 2010 update, the MacBook Air has been known for its good battery life. That's significantly better than the 11-inch MacBook Air's 7 hours 15 minutes, and a substantial improvement over the 2012 MacBook Air's 5.5 hours. In our test, in which we streamed the live BBC News channel feed on iPlayer over a wireless network, the laptop lasted for nine hours. The new Haswell processors use very little power, giving the 2013 13-inch MacBook Air and absolutely stunning battery life. Perhaps it would've taken too great a toll on the battery life. Yet we didn't get one on the 2013 MacBook Airs, even as a custom option for those ordering on the Apple online store.
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Packing in such a high resolution it's impossible to distinguish between individual pixels at a normal viewing distance, Retina screens proved extremely popular on recent MacBook Pro and iPad models. Interestingly, the oft-predicted Retina screen never emerged.