The gaming laptop’s touchpad on the other hand…. The clicking is way harder to control and the scrolling and gestures aren’t even in the same league as the Air’s. The xps touchpad is also good, but its too small and honestly, I’ve never been able to feel super productive on it without a mouse. I never thought I would operate a laptop over an extended period of time without a mouse, but dang is the airs touchpad nice to use. However, Windows face recognition is still better for opening the laptop up in my opinion. I also really like using TouchID to open the laptop and to login to websites as its very fast and secure. Also, this Air gives the option to have 16GB of Ram while still costing less than a high end windows equivalent. But with this new Air, they finally expanded the storage and made it a quad core.
In the past, I kind of hated on MacBooks because I thought they were overpriced for what you got, and I did not want a Butterfly keyboard. Everything also just seems so well optimized by Apple. Yes, I have spent much of my life near computers, but I’ve never used Mac OS, yet I already feel like I can use this laptop close to its full potential. Everything is just so intuitive and easy to use. I also found myself using the Dock (bottom bar) much more in Mac OS than I do on Windows. I still have the Office Suite on here for school work, but it’s so nice also having messages and a native Unix based machine. My first impressions with Mac OS is that it is simply cleaner and easier to use. I wanted the Air so I could have a nice programming and every day laptop for the next 4-6 years (I know I won’t last longer because I love my new technology).
I currently also have a 2015 Asus gaming laptop as well as the dell xps 13 I mentioned above (planning on selling the xps if everything goes fine with the air).
Quick note on storage and iCloud, it costs $1 a month for 50GB and $3 for 200GB of storage which means after 5 years you’d pay $60 and $180 respectively for that extra flexible storage - iPhone, MacBook, iPad - so think carefully before actually upgrading the ssd size which is a $200 upgrade for 256GBs more. I have been using windows laptops or desktops for about the 15 years of my life, and I wanted the Air simply because of Mac OS - for the ease of programming and connectivity with my iPhone and apple watch. I’m in my final year of my Bachelor's with 3 programming internships under my belt and will be working full-time as a data engineer post graduation. I am coming from the perspective of a CS / Programming / Data Engineering Student. Throughout this review I will compare with a dell that has an 8th gen i7, 16 GB RAM and 512 SSD that originally was $1750, but I got for a little cheaper than this Air. I got the i5 model with 16 GBs of Ram and the 256GB SSD ($1179 w/student discount).
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