During todays press event, Apple revealed a super thin 12 inch MacBook. The New Macbook offers an all-new 2304×1440 resolution 12″ screen, and reengineered keyboard that runs nearly the entire width of the machine, the New MacBook has a tiny footprint, yet the thinnest screen housing ever on a Mac. A 1.1GHz version with 256GB will sell for $1,299 and a $1,599 model bumping the processor to 1.2GHz and 512GB storage. A 1.3GHz version was also announced but not priced. It’s the first fanless Mac, with a miniaturized logic board only 1/3 the size of the 11″ MacBook Air, and most of the rest of the internal space occupied by batteries. The CPU is a low power Intel Core M processor, which can turbo-charge up to 2.9GHz in the 1.3GHz model, with 9 to 10 hour battery life depending on what you’re doing. It’s 24% thinner than the prior 11″ MacBook Air, and weighs only 2 pounds, In addition to a traditional silver color, it’s being offered in gold and space gray colors for the first time in the MacBook family. A new keyboard re-engineering which features a butterfly mechanism for keys that are more precise and accurate than before, as well as thinner, with individual LEDs to backlight every key. The touchpad incorporates Force Touch and has the Taptic Engine built in for feedback. As predicted, it doesn’t click, there are 4 force sensors inside. Using OS-level software, the sensitivity can be adjusted to determine how much pressure you want the computer to detect as a click. This is also the first Mac with one data port, USB-C. The reversible connector supports everything via adapters, supporting power, USB data, DisplayPort, HDMI, and VGA. A headphone port and twin noise canceling microphones are also built in, along with a large unified speaker grille above the keys. The New Macbook will be available on April 10
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| Gold and Space Gray color options |
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Butterfly mechanism for the keyboard
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| 24% Thinner |
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| USB-C |
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