Name: Should You Buy a $500 MacBook Air?
Uploaded: 2020-03-20T01:52:36.000Z
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So you may have seen our video last year,

But my question is, does it actually make sense

And fun fact, this is actually the exact laptop

Thankfully video quality has improved a lot since then.

The good thing is the design actually doesn't feel

So you're still getting the solid aluminum chassis

which feels good even by today's standards.

And you have to remember, the MacBook Air

So, even though it might not be quite as thin

than the vast majority of laptops out there.

Again, it's like $500.00 on eBay right now.

So where you can really tell the MacBook Air's age

The 11 inch Air is rocking a 1366 by 768 panel.

The bigger issue though, is that it's going to be

And the viewing angles leave a lot to be desired.

Honestly it kind of feels like a budget two,

maybe three hundred dollar laptop that you would buy today.

it's not exactly going to be a deal breaker,

but when you're picking up a MacBook Air in 2018,

the low quality screen is definitely something

something that hasn't really aged too much,

It's got good spacing, it's still going to be back lit.

and a newer MacBook trackpad is going to be

that you actually can't click on the front,

as opposed to the Force Touch that you get

And maybe it's just going to be a little bit smaller.

Besides that, you're getting every little bit

of the functionality, and every bit of the smoothness

by a fourth generation Haswell processor.

although I did opt to upgrade this one to the i7.

Mostly because I actually used to do video editing on this.

But for the most part, the performance is really

not going to be too far off a modern laptop

in more normal, less super demanding tasks,

like, ahem, don't try to game on your MacBook Air.

Or don't try to do 8K HDR RAW editing on it.

is a lot of these MacBook Airs only had four gigs of RAM.

Something that I did not do to my MacBook Air,

when I ordered it back in 2014, is upgrade the SSD.

Now to be fair, it is going to be a PCIe SSD.

Pretty much any SATA drive that you find today,

you better have lots of external hard drives around,

Now believe it or not, I actually used to edit

pretty much all of my videos when I was on the go,

But, things have definitely changed since then.

So instead of shooting on a DSLR at 1080p

and it's going to require a lot more data

and a lot more processing power to work with.

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Should You Buy a $500 MacBook Air?

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