Apple MacBook Air 13 2019 [MVFM2]

Time for improvements

Apple has long had a tradition — one year they present new breakthrough gadgets in some way, and the next they simply release their improved versions. In 2019, there was nothing much to improve, so the company simply put things in order in the model range and focused mainly on cosmetic improvements.

Retina display with True Tone support

Recall that the 2018 Air had a radically updated display — instead of the old eye-searing matrix, a fashionable Retina came with a high resolution of 2560x1600 and thin frames. In the 2019 model, the display seems to be the same, but with support for True Tone technology, which adjusts the white balance on the screen to the current lighting in the room. This feature proved to be excellent in previous generations of the iPhone, after which it began to be tested in expensive MacBook Pros, and now it has reached Apple's more affordable gadgets.

Slim body, perfect touchpad and fast fingerprint reader

The 2019 Air uses the same thin and light aluminium chassis (16mm, 1.25kg), larger Force Touch glass trackpad, butterfly keyboard, and excellent Touch ID scanner covered in sapphire crystal. Judging by last year's model, the design has both minuses and pluses. The case itself turned out to be strong and cold, the trackpad with recognition of the degrees of pressing force is damn good and allows you to forget about the mouse forever, and the scanner works in a split second. But the butterfly keyboard raises questions again. In older models, they often failed and it is still difficult to say whether this jamb will appear in new models. Plus, there are 2 USB ports again. Yes, these are modern USB-C with Thunderbolt support of the third version and charging, but 2 ports are quite close.

Optimal Iron

In terms of hardware, we have a four-threaded Core i5 of the Amber Lake line with reduced power consumption. Paired with it is 8 GB of LPDDR3 RAM (a low-power DDR3 variation) and a fast 128 GB SSD, which is connected directly to the PCI-E bus, thanks to which it has speed performance several times faster than a regular SSD. The filling here is absolutely identical to last year's model — it does not break performance records, but for everyday tasks it is enough for the eyes. Plus, the battery “does not eat” in vain. Therefore, the new MacBook Air holds up to 12 hours on a single charge.