Apple lifts lid on new MacBook thats 24 thinner than MacBook Air
After all of the waiting, Apple has finally unveiled a successor to the MacBook Air -- and it comes with a high resolution Retina-grade display.
Apples SVP of Global Marketing Phil Schiller described the new machine as the "most efficient notebook ever created". The 12-inch machine weighs two pounds and measures 13.1mm thick, compared to the 17.3mm MacBook Air � a difference of 24%.
The Retina MacBook Air has a Retina display with a pixel-resolution of 2,304 x 1,440 pixels. Its panel measures 0.8mm thick, making it the thinnest display built into a Mac, according to Apple. Its the first fanless MacBook that arrives fanless and operates silently thanks to Intels Core M CPU inside.
The new MacBooks keyboard uses a butterfly mechanism built of a single assembly and dome switch that is Apple says is four times more precise than the scissor mechanism on the previous MacBook Air, allowing for more precise typing.
It uses a USB type-C connector, which uses a cable a third the size of a standard USB cable. The cable is reversible and provides power, HDMI, USB, DisplayPort and VGA in one connection.
Apple has created the MacBooks battery in sheets that fits the contours of its enclosure, allowing for 35% more capacity in the same amount of space, Schiller noted, and provides nine hours of wireless web use.
The trackpad, which apple calls the Force Touch Trackpad, uses Force sensors and employs what apple calls a Taptic Engine to provide feedback when clicking, and allows you to adjust click feel through software.
It will start at $1,299 the the base model that comes with Intel HD Graphics 5300, 8GB of memory and a 256GB SSD from April 10.
Apple launched the MacBook Air in 2008. It has been one of the companys last devices to get a Retina display after the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, MacBook Pro with Retina and iMac.
