{"id":28418,"date":"2020-03-18T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28418"},"modified":"2020-11-27T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:38:59","slug":"macbook-air-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/macbook-air-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Air 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/03\/18\/2020-macbook-air-announced\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2020\/03\/new-macbook-air-has-more-to-love-and-is-now-just-999\/\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=22615719\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2020\/03\/new-macbook-air-has-more-to-love-and-is-now-just-999\/\"><p>Apple today updated its MacBook Air lineup with faster processors and graphics, a scissor switch Magic Keyboard, a lower starting price of $999, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The new MacBook Air features Intel's latest 10th-generation Core processors, including up to a 1.2GHz quad-core Core i7 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.8GHz, resulting in up to two times faster performance compared to the previous generation. And with Intel Iris Plus Graphics, the new MacBook Air delivers up to 80 percent faster graphics performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>A 256 GB SSD for $999 is a big improvement.<\/p>\n\n<p>In retrospect, I kind of wish I had waited for this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backlon\/status\/1240278886912425984\">instead of<\/a> buying a 16-inch MacBook Pro. I love the speed and the larger display, but the oversized trackpad and the Touch Bar annoy me on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/2020-mac-hardware-rumors\/\">2020 Mac Hardware Rumors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/14\/the-16-inch-macbook-pro\/\">The 16-inch MacBook Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/macbook-air-2019-and-new-13-inch-macbook-pro\/\">MacBook Air 2019 and New 13-inch MacBook Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"macbook-air-2020-update-2020-11-27\">Update (2020-11-27): See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/03\/2020-macbook-air-review\/\">Jason Snell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/03\/20\/2020-macbook-air-benchmarks\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/03\/20\/2020-macbook-air-reviews-and-unboxings\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2020\/03\/the_2020_macbook_air\">John Gruber<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=22640230\">Hacker News<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/03\/23\/apple-mac-custom-configs-price-increases\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/03\/macbook-air-teardown-finds-positive-progress-for-repairability\/\">Samuel Axon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/03\/26\/hands-on-2020-macbook-air\/\">Juli Clover<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/04\/06\/stern-macbook-air\">Joanna Stern<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (Apple, Hacker News): Apple today updated its MacBook Air lineup with faster processors and graphics, a scissor switch Magic Keyboard, a lower starting price of $999, and more. The new MacBook Air features Intel's latest 10th-generation Core processors, including up to a 1.2GHz quad-core Core i7 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.8GHz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-03-18T21:13:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"205eb18e-3cac-4b7e-b98f-d207b0f8fbca","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-11-27T18:39:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIF6xjjysS365j9IHsPj7yg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[423,30,1173,100,1666,1434,1150],"class_list":["post-28418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-15","tag-touch-bar","tag-trackpad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30851,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28418\/revisions\/30851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}