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    Review: MacBook Air

    May 15, 2020 5 minutes

    Price: £999 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2VLOew8

    The MacBook Air is Apple’s best-loved and best-selling laptop. It’s thin, light, powerful enough for most people, and it’s the least expensive option in Apple’s laptop line-up.

    Apple finally brought the MacBook Air into the modern Mac era in 2018 with the addition of USB-C, Touch ID, a Retina display, and the removal of MagSafe and USB-A. But that laptop also ditched the old scissor-switch keyboard for the much-maligned butterfly keyboard and boosted the starting price to £1,199 without giving you more storage.

    In 2019, Apple knocked £100 off the price and added True Tone to the display, but that was it. It’s a fine laptop, but not a particularly good deal. This year, with faster processors, double the starting storage, the new Magic Keyboard and a £999 starting price, the MacBook Air is back to being the great deal it

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