The 2018 MacBook Air is FINALLY Updated #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin today in

Brooklyn Apple announced two brand new

Macs a Mac Mini as well as a completely

refreshed MacBook Air which is helpful

when you know you don't update your

computers for a few years the last

MacBook Air was a big deal it really did

change with the way a lot of laptops

look and feel even to this day and

thankfully we actually finally have a

modern version of it you know it's got a

Retina display like every other laptop

has had for the last few years with a

13.3 inch 2560 by 1600 resolution

this looks leagues miles light years

weight way better than the last

generation MacBook which still had a low

resolution TN panel honestly that was

the biggest issue with me with using the

MacBook in 2018 it just looks so old and

dated and has thankfully been fixed this

year the rest of the laptop looks a lot

like a mixture between the 12-inch

MacBook and the 13-inch MacBook Pro on

the left side we do get Thunderbolt

three ports we have two of them which

are thankfully both fully enabled unlike

the standard 12-inch Maxwell quit only

has USB C and on the right side we still

have

the headphone jack that joke will make a

lot more sense if you watch our ipad

video which is live on instagram TV

right now which thankfully are

unthankful e dropped to the headphone

jack for some weird reason you go check

that out like in the description or

things a little bit more interesting is

when you look inside the macbook so now

we have a single option for a cpu it is

an eighth generation Core i5 processor

however it is fanless with only two

courses of posta quad cores like most

other systems

now that is largely due to the fact that

this is an incredibly lightweight laptop

but still doesn't really give you a lot

of options the MacBook Air is not going

to be a powerhouse anytime soon the

trend continues when you look at the

rest of the options there are very few

different configurations of the MacBook

Air so it does come in three colors

silver Space Gray as well as gold but as

far as actual specs go you've always got

that Core i5 and your only real options

are either 8 or 16 gigs of ram and

somewhere between 128 gigs of storage

all the way up to 1.5 terabytes

can we talk about that for a second

though 128 gigs of storage that's just

not enough in 2018 and sure if you use

this as a glorified netbook or something

that's very very sort of focused I guess

on web browsing I know why would anyone

I can't even come up with the reason why

anyone would wanna hundred twenty eight

gigs of storage the worst part is it's

still $1,200 with that 128 gig SSD you

want to get something a little bit more

usable you have to step up to the 40 on

a dollar which does have 256 gigs of

storage take a look at the keyboard

trackpad speakers and this will look

very familiar if you are used to the

13-inch MacBook Pro so it does have the

new third-generation butterfly switches

they still don't feel amazing but at

least these shouldn't get all jammed up

with like dirt and dust and stuff and

the tripod as always is pretty much as

good as it gets I wasn't able to try the

speakers in the very loud hands-on area

but again if it's anything like that 30

inch it should sound really nice also I

forgot to mention it does come with

touch ID so it's built into the power

button but it does not have the touch

bar like the larger MacBook Apple still

claims a full 12 hours of battery life

which should be pretty accurate the old

MacBook Air was definitely an endurance

champ and beyond that the actual size of

the laptop has gotten a little bit

smaller and it actually is noticeably

lighter which is impressive considering

that the old MacBook Air was definitely

light already

these MacBook Airs are available for

pre-order starting today and they will

be going on sale on November 7th

starting at that sweet sweet price of

$1200

yeah they also still sell the old

MacBook Air - if you really want to go

old school or spend less than thousand

there are a lot of rumors that this

MacBook was gonna be cheap right people

are throwing are like 800 bucks or a

thousand 12-under dollars is not a crazy

price I mean it's better than the old

MacBook it's just a little disappointing

to not see it just a little bit farther

down the range probably because the

thousand dollar price point is now taken

up by the bigger iPad pro so that's

actually to be fair it's probably more

powerful system moving on to what

actually might even be more exciting for

me personally is the brand-new Mac Mini

if you take a look at it on the outside

it looks basically identical and that's

true because the chassis hasn't really

changed besides they've changed the

color over to space grey on the inside

though this is a way more exciting

system so you guys will remember our

last video on the Mac Mini you'll know

that it was a little bit underpowered

because it was essentially a MacBook Air

and a shell however this year we've got

actual full desktop processors so it

starts out with a quad core Core i3 but

you can option this out with a core i5

or Core i7

both of which have six cores to work

with that's a lot of power for a little

tiny Mac Mini can you feel my excitement

because I'm ready the extra power makes

a big difference especially considering

that there's a lot of other properly Pro

level features that you can get with the

Mac Mini so starting out with it does

have four Thunderbolt three ports so you

can easily connect an external GPU so we

did see a have a demo of Final Cut

running really nice and smooth with the

full six core processor tons of memory

and that external GPU but on top of that

we've got some serious specs - 64 gigs

of ram and 2 terabytes of SSD are all

options and if you want to go full Linus

tech tips on it you can option the Mac

Mini with a 10 gig Ethernet port which

is kind of a big deal so by the standard

it does have a one gig port as well as

two USB a a HDMI and those four

Thunderbolts but for a hundred dollars

to upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet that's

a really big deal I know personally for

us we're totally going to be using this

as our ingest station to be able to now

a backup footage but also to dump it to

our server just like the area the Mac

Mini is available for pre-order and you

can pick it up on November 7th however

unlike the MacBook Air it's actually a

lot cheaper this guy starts at $800

don't let that fool you though because

that's what the core i3 you guys she max

out the Mac Mini and over 4000 dollars

where you throw everything at it

including the memory the SSD the whole

works

oh yeah and that my friends is almost

everything that was announced at the

Apple event today the other main thing

was a brand new iPad pro but we did an

entire video on Instagram TV talking

about that said let's be sure to go

check that out of the link in the

description and while you're there maybe

take a look we actually been doing a lot

of IG TV videos lately