New 2018 MacBook Air Shown Off in Unboxing Videos on YouTube

[MacRumors]

Following the introduction of new iPad Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini models at yesterday's event, Apple provided some YouTubers with MacBook Air review units, and the first unboxing videos are now available.

For its last several product releases, Apple has been providing early review units to smaller YouTubers, a strategy that lets us get opinions on the new device from less mainstream sources. Today's unboxing videos provide some interesting MacBook Air tidbits and a first look at Apple's newest notebook.

The MacBook Air features a Retina display with slim black bezels like the MacBook or MacBook Pro, three color options, a slimmer body, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, a 1.6GHz Core i5 8th-Generation Amber Lake chip from Intel, integrated Intel UHD 617 graphics, a T2 chip for security, built-in Touch ID, a third-generation butterfly keyboard, and a Force Touch trackpad.

Full reviews of the MacBook Air from media sites will be shared next week, and the new machines are set to start arriving to customers who placed an order on November 7.

Article Link: New 2018 MacBook Air Shown Off in Unboxing Videos on YouTube

 

[Frign]

These 'reviews' are painfully inaccurate.

 

[macduke]

Now if only we could get some videos of the new iPad Pro which give actual confirmation on which units have 6GB of RAM.

 

[fokmik]

These 'reviews' are painfully inaccurate.

these are not reviews, these are Unboxing's...read the title

 

[Tivoli_]

This unboxing "experience" is getting old. We don't care anymore!

 

[EugW]

Gold Apple stickers.

I want to see Geekbench 4. And see if anyone can ramp up this mythical fan that many seem believe exists in this machine.

 

[cloudyo]

I am pretty sure these "unboxers" have a lot to say about "the colors and stuff".

 

[now i see it]

Who the heck wants to watch somebody pull a product of a box? Unboxing videos are worthless and baffling.

 

[MacFather]

Deleted.

 

[sfwalter]

Who the heck wants to watch somebody pull a product of a box? Unboxing videos are worthless and baffling.

yet they get millions of views.

 

[EugW]

The first woman is pleasant to listen to. The latter two are annoying as hell, stereotypical YouTubers in the negative sense.

This thing should be released years ago. Instead, they created an overpriced fashionable netbook in 2015, that no one wanted or needed.

The main difference between the MacBook Air 2018 and the MacBook 2017 is basically Thunderbolt and an extra port, and the bigger screen.

ie. The MacBook Air 2018 is the 13" MacBook.

 

[newyorksole]

This unboxing "experience" is getting old. We don't care anymore!

Some people do thoughhh.

 

[KPandian1]

Who the heck wants to watch somebody pull a product of a box? Unboxing videos are worthless and baffling.

Unlike the government's direct access to our smartphones to send any message, this site operates on a voluntary basis. You see the topic and click on it to read the content or watch the videos.

 

[elhungarian]

Glad they gave some “smaller” youtubers a chance.

But for me who really wanted to buy this refreshed air, I’m out! I got a chance to snag a 2018 13” TB MBP for €125 more than the air with 256ssd so I chose that. Sad. It could have been the perfect machine for me but I just couldn’t justify the 7w dual core CPU for that much dough.

 

[corebeliefs]

Is a dual-core Air at $1,800 (with Applecare and dongles) really a good decision?

 

[McTool]

Gold Apple stickers.

I want to see Geekbench 4. And see if anyone can ramp up this mythical fan that many seem believe exists in this machine.

Geekbench doesn’t mean that much.

 

[Mike MA]

Unboxing as a profession. Brave new world....

 

[McTool]

Gold Apple stickers.

I want to see Geekbench 4. And see if anyone can ramp up this mythical fan that many seem believe exists in this machine.

Geekbench doesn’t mean that much.

 

[GadgetBen]

Ugh. These people are very annoying.

 

[EugW]

Geekbench doesn’t mean that much.

Geekbench 4 is one of the best cross platform simple benchmarks in existence right now that can be run by anyone without expensive or custom software, etc. Plus it's good to compare chips across similar platforms and technologies. IOW, it would be a decent ballpark test to compare the performance of the i5-8210Y in the MacBook Air to the m3, i5, and i7 in the MacBooks.

The other test I would like to see is Cinebench, but run repeatedly over 10 runs. We already have that data for the MacBooks.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...tained-cpu-load-10-runs-of-cinebench.2073415/

Running Cinebench repeatedly would also cause the fan to ramp up if it actually exists. (I'm still not convinced the MBA 2018 has a fan.)

 

[Amorun]

Gold Apple stickers.

I want to see Geekbench 4. And see if anyone can ramp up this mythical fan that many seem believe exists in this machine.

It actually does, and this could simply be the worst about it: we can get a machine not powerful enough, but noisy enough - the worst from 2 worlds.

 

[fokmik]

Gold Apple stickers.

I want to see Geekbench 4. And see if anyone can ramp up this mythical fan that many seem believe exists in this machine.

i think there is a left fan inside...and it should be for a 7.5W that can go up to 15W

 

[dannys1]

Ugh. These people are very annoying.

The last one is painful.

 

[Black Magic]

Is it fair to say that the MacBook Air and the MacBook are equivalent to the Netbooks back in the day? The only difference is Apple still charges a grand regardless of the crappy specs.

 

[EugW]

It actually does, and this could simply be the worst about it: we can get a machine not powerful enough, but noisy enough - the worst from 2 worlds.

Nobody has confirmed this yet with Apple. A round thing in the picture doesn't definitively confirm the fan.

Is it fair to say that the MacBook Air and the MacBook are equivalent to the Netbooks back in the day? The only difference is Apple still charges a grand regardless of the crappy specs.

No, not even close. I replaced my MacBook Pro with a MacBook. No issues with performance for my business applications. And Retina is great.