MacBook Air Review

Chris Hardwick joins Kevin Pereira in the Gadget Pr0n review of the new MacBook Air from Apple. Weighing 2.3 lbs, the Air features a high-res LED display, multi-touch track pad, NVIDIA 320M graphics and more, but is the sleek look worth the $1,000 price tag? Find out.

What You Need to Know

• This is one of the thinnest, if not the thinnest, 11” laptops we've ever seen
• The MacBook Air ranges from .10” to .75” thick
• It’s super light at just over 2 lbs.
• It has 2 USB ports (rather than one on the original Air)
• There is no Ethernet or SD card slot
• The keyboard is great; it's widely spaced and as easy to type on as any other thin-and-light we've used, but we do kind of wish it had the backlight like other MacBooks
• The track-pad is where the air really shines; it's huge and easily the best multi-touch pad we've used with shortcuts like pinch and zoom, swipe to navigate, and rotate (Apple has this technology down to a science)
• The 11.6” widescreen LED display looks amazing, too and you'll have no problem watching high-def video on it for long periods of time.
• Apple has beefed up this generation of the Air with up to 4 GB of RAM, NVIDIA’s 320M graphics, and 128 GB of flash storage
• Boot time is amazingly quick at only 15 seconds, so this is definitely the fastest start-up we've ever seen on a laptop of this size
• Games like Portal and Team Fortress 2 look just as good as on other netbooks we've tested
• Overall, this Air surpassed our expectations when it came to performance?

 Price

• The MacBook Air starts at $1,000

 Overall Rating

• 4 Seals of Approval Out of 5 (How do we rate gadgets?)

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