From £999
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Apple has made its cheapest
laptop cheaper, more powerful
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fter its resurrection a few
years ago, the MacBook
Air has reclaimed its
throne as Apple’s cheapest
laptop, but this new version drives
home that price isn’t everything
anyway. It’s also simply one of the
most useable laptops you can buy, and
nails the core stuff that makes a laptop
a comfortable, reliable companion.
It starts from £999/$999, which is
the model we’re testing. That’s a
price drop compared to previousProcessor 1.1GHz dual-core Intel
Core i3 / 1.1GHz quad-core Intel
Core i5 Memory 8GB Storage
256GB/512GB Screen 13.3-inch
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versions, but nothing has been cut
for that – in fact there have been
various upgrades.
The base model includes 256GB of
storage instead of the 128GB that the
last Air came with. Meanwhile, the
next model up, which costs
£1,299/$1,299, gives you a quad-core
processor instead of dual-core, and
doubles the storage to 512GB.
Both models come with 8GB of
RAM, which is fine for standard use,
but if you want to really future proof
it, or plan to work with very large
documents, stepping up to 16GB (the
maximum) would be a safe plan.
The new entry-level Air’s
processor is an Intel Core i3 dual-coreMacBook Air