No longer the poor cousin of the Pro series or the 12-inch MacBook, the new MacBook Air brings the slimmed down notebooks back in contention (and into the spotlight) with a major redesign that upgrades the Air to a 2018-spec while still retaining the iconic wedge-shaped design. That said, the years of being frozen in time have given the Windows competition plenty of time to catch up and surpass the original ultraportable, and the new pricing puts it square in the league of even more potent offerings from Dell, HP and Microsoft.
Ironically, the Air’s biggest competition – at least for the Mac faithful - will likely be the MacBook Pro without Touch ID, which is available for just a little bit more and will likely see better seasonal discounts from retailers. For some though, the original Air is “personal computing love”, so if you’re considering the jump to the 2018 Air, here are some definitive answers to some of the questions you may have.