Hands-on review: Updated: New MacBook 2015

By Gareth Beavis

Apple’s new Macbook is all about style, while still combining it with oodles of power. This is apparently the ‘notebook redefined’ according to the Cupertino brand, and it certainly does push the envelope in one area: the lightness of this thing is insane.

The specs are pretty goshdarn good as well, with the new Macbook coming in at just 13.1mm thin and weighing 2 pounds (or 900g). That’s insane when you consider there’s a battery in there which has 35% more capacity than previous models, and also offers up to 9 hours of web browsing too.

The new notebook comes with a 1.1 GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.4 GHz, 8GB of memory, 256GB of flash storage and Intel HD Graphics 5300. If you want to turn the power up a little, then you can go for 1.2 GHz dual-core option, with Intel Core M processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.6GHz, 8GB of memory, 512GB of flash storage and Intel HD Graphics 5300.

The former will cost $1299 / £1049, and the latter $1599 / £1299… not cheap despite the boosted specs and design. Speaking of which…

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Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac