IF YOUR EYEBALLS are aching from the horrid blocky pixels in your MacBook Air’s non-HD screen, rejoice. After much speculation and anticipation, a brand new, super-skinny MacBook with a Retina display has finally arrived.
Apple announced the new MacBook today, and in true Apple fashion, it does things differently. A lone USB-C port will handle the charging, data input and video out. So how will users recharge an iPhone and the laptop at the same time? Buy these adapters from Apple of course!
There’s a 12-inch Retina display that runs at 2,304 x 1,440 resolution. The panel itself is just 0.88 millimeters thick. Inside, the new laptop has a dual-core Intel Core M that’s configurable up to 1.3 GHz (the base model is 1.1Ghz) with an Intel HD graphics 5300 chip. Bluetooth 4.0 is on-board, as is 802.11ac networking.
The base model with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD will cost $1,299. A 512GB SSD option will cost $1,599. These new computers ship April 10. They’ll be available in silver, space gray, or gold. (The gold one actually looks really nice.)
At the product announcement in San Francisco, Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller joked, “It’s filled with batteries!” The new laptop has 35 percent more battery life than previous MacBooks (Schiller didn’t say exactly which model he was comparing it to, but the message is that battery life has been improved). The company claims nine hours of wireless web browsing and ten hours of watching movies. It consumes only five watts—that’s incredibly power efficient for a laptop.
As rumored, Apple has done away with traditional USB ports. In terms of I/O, the new MacBook features only one, reversible USB Type C port. This one port handles charging, video output, and data transport. Curiously, this means Apple is taking a step back from the MagSafe-style adaptors it moved to years ago.
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