Move over to the left and you'll find the MagSafe 2 connector, a second USB 3.0 port and a 3.5mm headphone / mic jack. On the right, you get a USB 3.0 port flanked by Thunderbolt on one side and an SDXC card reader on the other. There's still just the one color option, the matte, raw-aluminum color that looks clean and lovely out of the box, but, as we've seen, can be scratch-prone. It also retains its impressive overall feel, with a very stiff chassis that does not flex and a keyboard tray that can stand up to the most vigorous of typists.
Though its thin-and-light crown may be long gone, the Air is still a very sleek device, the sort that may leave you peeking in your bag one more time before you leave home to make sure you didn't forget your laptop.
CHARGER FOR MACBOOK AIR 13 INCH LATE 2013 PRO
These specs were nothing short of amazing a few years back, but today, devices like the Samsung Series 9 and Sony VAIO Pro 13 manage to be even thinner and even lighter. It's 12.8 inches wide, 8.9 inches deep and weighs just a hair under three pounds (1.35 kg). This 13-inch MacBook Air maintains its wedge-shaped profile, a maximum of 0.68 inch thick at the back tapering down to a 0.11-inch terminal edge at the front. Is this the result of priorities being committed elsewhere? Or, is it simply a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? We'll let the reader decide on that front, and while we tend to lean toward the latter option, the net result is the same: we won't spend an awful lot of time describing this now-familiar machine. That's in part because of the success of the MacBook Air - we see them popping open on trains and airplanes all the time these days - but largely this is thanks to Apple not significantly revamping the design for nearly three years, a period over which we've seen radical changes on the PC side of things.
What once was a fresh and exciting design has now, it must be said, become rather familiar. Is the unchanged design the result of priorities being committed elsewhere? Or, is it simply a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"?
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