WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys it's lou from unbox therapy and today we're taking a look at the brand new macbook air for 2013. this here is the 13-inch model but it is also available in an 11-inch form factor if you're looking for something even smaller but they are both incredibly portable and now they've got some performance improvements courtesy of intel has well this is the base model 13-inch with a 1.3 gigahertz dual core intel core i5 processor but it can turbo boost up to 2.6 gigahertz and if you spec this thing out even further up to say 1.7 gigahertz which is the top chip that you can put into it that will turbo boost up to 3.3 gigahertz so some insane figures for such a portable laptop a lot of people were hoping for more performance but the bigger story here is the battery life with intel haswell you can now expect to get according to apple of course up to 12 hours of battery life on this particular model i'm going to put that to the test i'm actually going to do a time lapse video using this for all of my daily activities one day in the coming week probably on monday if you guys want to see it actually leave a thumbs up down below if you want to see my battery test to see what this thing is really capable of it'll probably be a short video like a time lapse i'll try and crunch 12 hours down into like a minute 20 or something i don't know i haven't done a time lapse in a while but anyways let me know down below that you want to see that by leaving a thumbs up let's go ahead and talk about the unboxing it's much like the unboxing of any macbook or macbook pro or macbook air of past you've got a little bit of paperwork from apple including the ever important apple stickers and then you have your power adapter with the power adapters extension cable it features magsafe too so you have a slightly smaller connector than you'd expect to have like on the older macbook pros with the unibody configuration and then you have your power brick on the other end of 45 watt with interchangeable tips so depending on what part of the world you're in you will see the corresponding tips in this particular case we have the north american adapter of course since i am in north america so as i mentioned earlier the big story with haswell is the fact that you can get all day computing on a laptop that is sub three pounds that's really an amazing feat it's something i've wanted my whole life so if you happen to be a student or somebody who travels a lot this is going to be a really really big deal it means you can leave your power adapter at home and really start to recognize the absolute portability of a three pound or sub three pound laptop of course even more if you happen to go for the 11 inch version this thing is razor thin it really boggles my mind every time if you don't get to play with a macbook air on a regular basis you will definitely be impressed with just how thin this thing is on the left hand side is where you will find your power port as well as a usb 3 port a headphone jack and then dual microphones and as we continue to pan down you can really start to appreciate just how razor thin and razor sharp this is on the other side of the laptop is where you'll see your sd card slot as well as another usb 3 and then a thunderbolt port one thing to note is if you go for the 11.6 inch version you will not have that sd card slot so you'll be giving that up for the slightly smaller form factor opening up the macbook air the rest of the hardware is visible now you have the backlit keyboard as well as the nice oversized trackpad i still think apple makes the best track pads in the business you've also got a new graphics card and some other internal changes that we'll get into later if you want to see more details on those let's take a look at the specs below
specs
base model 13-inch comes with a 1.3 gigahertz dual core intel core i5 processor
turbo boost up to 2.6 gigahertz
top chip is 1.7 gigahertz which will turbo boost up to 3.3 gigahertz
comes with 4 gigs of ram and a 320 gigs hard drive
ports include two usb 3 ports a headphone jack and an sd card slot
now let's talk about the performance and battery life with intel haswell you can expect up to 12 hours of battery life on this particular model i'm going to put that to the test i'm actually going to do a time lapse video using this for all of my daily activities one day in the coming week probably on monday if you guys want to see it actually leave a thumbs up down below
i'll try and crunch 12 hours down into like a minute 20 or something i don't know i haven't done a time lapse in a while but anyways let me know down below that you want to see that by leaving a thumbs up
let's go ahead and talk about the unboxing it's much like the unboxing of any macbook or macbook pro or macbook air of past you've got a little bit of paperwork from apple including the ever important apple stickers and then you have your power adapter with the power adapters extension cable
it features magsafe too so you have a slightly smaller connector than you'd expect to have like on the older macbook pros with the unibody configuration and then you have your power brick on the other end of 45 watt with interchangeable tips
so depending on what part of the world you're in you will see the corresponding tips in this particular case we have the north american adapter of course since i am in north america so as i mentioned earlier the big story with haswell is the fact that you can get all day computing on a laptop that is sub three pounds
that's really an amazing feat it's something i've wanted my whole life so if you happen to be a student or somebody who travels a lot this is going to be a really really big deal
it means you can leave your power adapter at home and really start to recognize the absolute portability of a three pound or sub three pound laptop of course even more if you happen to go for the 11 inch version
this thing is razor thin it really boggles my mind every time if you don't get to play with a macbook air on a regular basis you will definitely be impressed with just how thin this thing is
on the left hand side is where you will find your power port as well as a usb 3 port a headphone jack and then dual microphones
and as we continue to pan down you can really start to appreciate just how razor thin and razor sharp this is on the other side of the laptop
is where you'll see your sd card slot as well as another usb 3 and then a thunderbolt port
one thing to note is if you go for the 11.6 inch version you will not have that sd card slot so you'll be giving that up for the slightly smaller form factor
opening up the macbook air the rest of the hardware is visible now you have the backlit keyboard as well as the nice oversized trackpad
i still think apple makes the best track pads in the business you've also got a new graphics card and some other internal changes that we'll get into later if you want to see more details on those let's take a look at the specs below