As with previous Air models-and the new Retina MacBook Pro-the new Air’s display suffers much less from glare than the standard MacBook Pro models, which have a large, reflective layer of glass over the entire screen and frame.

With a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels on the 11-inch model and 1440 by 900 on the 13-inch, it’s not a Retina display, by any means, but it’s bright and clear with outstanding colors and viewing angles. The MacBook Air’s feature evolution (click for full-size chart) (The differences? The Air’s F-key row uses half-height keys compared to the desktop keyboards, and its bottom row of keys is ever-so-slightly shorter.) There’s also the large, Multi-Touch trackpad that’s ideal for using gestures in OS-it remains the best trackpad I’ve used on any laptop-and an LED-backlit, widescreen, glossy display surrounded by an aluminum bezel.

The 13-inch Air weighs just under 3 pounds, with the 11-inch version weighing in at just under 2.4 pounds.įlip open the screen, and you reveal a full-size, backlit keyboard-even on the 11-inch model-that uses the same low-profile, flat keys as Apple’s current desktop keyboards. Both the 11-inch and 13-inch Airs are thin wedges of unibody aluminum-just under 0.7 inch thick in the back and just over 0.1 inch thick in the front-though obviously with different footprints: The 13-inch model is 12.8 inches wide and 8.9 inches deep, while the 11-inch Air is just 11.8 inches wide and 7.6 inches deep. Through the Air’s now-six iterations, the laptop’s external design has remained essentially the same.

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