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Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, Latest Model, 8GB RAM, 128GB Storage, 1.6GHz Intel Core i5) - Gold


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Product Summary

  • With a resolution of 2560x1600 for over 4 million pixels, the results are positively jaw-dropping. Images take on a new level of detail and realism
  • The advanced security and convenience of Touch ID are now built directly into MacBook Air. Simply place your finger on the Touch ID sensor and your Mac unlocks
  • The latest-generation MacBook Air keyboard features our butterfly mechanism - providing four times more key stability than a traditional scissor mechanism, along with greater comfort and responsiveness
  • Thunderbolt 3 combines ultra-high bandwidth with the ultra-versatility of the USB-C industry standard to create one revved-up universal port - MacBook Air has two of them
  • With the latest in processing and tuning techniques, MacBook Air sounds better than ever. Stereo speakers deliver twice the bass and 25 per cent more volume

Product Attributes

  • Width: 2.8 inches,
  • Height: 9.1 inches,
  • Weight: 2.8 Pounds,
  • Length: 12.8 inches,
  • Size: 256GB

Brand

Apple


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Product Review Analysis*

Positives

Neutrals

Negatives

44.4% 16.7% 38.9%

Senti score  [61.1%]

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delighted exquisite brilliant amazing superb good good price older expensive confined impressed great clumsy overpriced brilliant design awful keyboard unwarranted arrogance best exquisite keyboad disappointed terrible fault them poor better unwarranted mean

Pros & Cons

brilliant design

"great little lap top typical apple brilliant design"
88.8%

exquisite keyboad

"then i had to buy an old macbook air 2017 which is the latest before they switched to this butterfly nonsense and it is back to the same exquisite keyboad as i was used to on my macbook air 2011"
88.2%

good price

"does all that we wanted and at a good price from amazon and quick convenient delivery with prime"
75.0%

superior machine

"a superior machine"
74.3%

grandchild delighted

"xmas present for grandchild delighted!"
73.2%

many simple things

"after a month's daily use i find myself on google every day searching for how to do many simple things"
70.0%

headset socket

"fantastic screen superb sound and microphone luckily since the headset socket is a non standard size amazing battery life very fast to boot up and close down and of course lightweight despite the metal case"
69.5%

with prime

"does all that we wanted and at a good price from amazon and quick convenient delivery with prime"
69.4%

light weight

"i am impressed with my new macbook air it is light weight and easy to take with me"
65.8%

absolutely loves

"bought for a birthday present for my daughter and she absolutely loves it"
64.5%

great after

"works great after you have keyed in your password!"
63.9%

quick convenient delivery

"does all that we wanted and at a good price from amazon and quick convenient delivery with prime"
63.3%

great for students

"great for students"
63.0%

helping me to learn them

"some of these replace much simpler one key windows operations and their assignment to different functions seems to be entirely random such that neither logic nor intuition is helping me to learn them"
62.9%

windows operations

"some of these replace much simpler one key windows operations and their assignment to different functions seems to be entirely random such that neither logic nor intuition is helping me to learn them"
59.0%

easy to take with

"i am impressed with my new macbook air it is light weight and easy to take with me"
58.9%

built quality is spot

"built quality is spot on"
58.2%

vaunted fingerprint

"the much vaunted fingerprint unlocking?"
56.5%

was very good

"this mac air is as good as it gets the old model i had was very good but this one is far better !"
56.5%

amazing battery life

"fantastic screen superb sound and microphone luckily since the headset socket is a non standard size amazing battery life very fast to boot up and close down and of course lightweight despite the metal case"
53.3%

entirely random

"some of these replace much simpler one key windows operations and their assignment to different functions seems to be entirely random such that neither logic nor intuition is helping me to learn them"
52.1%

biggest surprise

"the biggest surprise though given the idiosyncracies of the macos has been the lack of onboard help"
51.5%
...

awful keyboard

"awful keyboard and catalina doesnt work well with peripherals"
87.3%

fault them

"can’t fault them in any way"
74.9%

unwarranted arrogance

"apple customer service are also very poor with a touch of unwarranted arrogance"
74.9%

overpriced though

"still overpriced though !"
74.7%

payment plan

"the reason i purchased this computer because it had good reviews and good specifications and i hate windows computers and plus it was on a 5 monthly payment plan"
74.5%

catalina doesnt

"awful keyboard and catalina doesnt work well with peripherals"
70.0%

does not respond

"the butterfly system does not work keys get stuck does not respond"
69.1%

minor niggle

"a minor niggle maybe but i am still like a kid with a new toy whilst the old 'toy ' will not be confined to the back of the cupboard for a long while yet"
65.3%

only thing i miss

"only thing i miss is a classic usb plug"
63.0%

gave me the refund

"as always amazon's service superb and they just gave me the refund"
62.2%

known problems

"selling this machines with known problems"
59.6%

hate windows computers

"the reason i purchased this computer because it had good reviews and good specifications and i hate windows computers and plus it was on a 5 monthly payment plan"
58.8%

with peripherals

"awful keyboard and catalina doesnt work well with peripherals"
57.1%

even the mac website

"siri is a joke and has never done a single thing i asked it to do the help menu is tiny and even the mac website is glossy and stylish but has almost no useful info that i can find"
57.0%

what i do n't like

"what i don't like: unlike on the previous macbooks the only ports are 2 own brand specialities so if you want to use usb c sd cards etc for peripherals you will have to buy fairly expensive adaptors and it's hard to find one that does everything so you have a nice minimalist compact laptop but have to carry around a box of accessories"
55.2%

just shockingly

"i mean it is terrible yes the screen looks nice but for the price the specs are just shockingly bad"
53.6%

clumsy affair

"the charger is also a clumsy affair and if you travel you'll need another one of those for eu as it's too heavy to use with a main adapter safely"
53.5%

work keys get stuck

"the butterfly system does not work keys get stuck does not respond"
53.5%

fairly expensive adaptors

"what i don't like: unlike on the previous macbooks the only ports are 2 own brand specialities so if you want to use usb c sd cards etc for peripherals you will have to buy fairly expensive adaptors and it's hard to find one that does everything so you have a nice minimalist compact laptop but have to carry around a box of accessories"
51.1%

months of nightmare

"after 3 months of nightmare i had to return my macbook air 13"
50.5%
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Top positive statements

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Top negative statements

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Positive mentions

Mentioned Object Mentioned in Strength
Amazon
"does all that we wanted and at a good price from Amazon and quick convenient delivery with prime"
63.6%
Apple
"spot on again Apple"
47.7%

Negative mentions

Mentioned Object Mentioned in Strength
Catalina
"awful keyboard and Catalina doesnt work well with peripherals"
70.0%
Apple
"so far so Apple"
64.2%

Emotion analysis

Positive tone

Neutral tone

Negative tone

28.6% 50.0% 21.4%
  neutral 50.0%
  happiness 14.3%
  surprise 14.3%
  worry 14.3%
  sadness 7.1%

* analysis performed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, data for the analysis has been gathered from multiple publicly accessible sources.
** strength is the level of sentiment expressed in a sentence, phrase or keyword. It ranges from 0 to 100%
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last analysis update 2024-11-14