The Air is still made of aluminum, but Apple has made a point to say that this new chassis is made of 100 percent recycled aluminum-most of it culled from the shavings generated during the manufacture of other Apple products.
It's the sushi knife of laptops, honed on one side and impeccably precise. The 2018 model is somehow thinner and lighter than the first MacBook Air, with a slightly shrunken footprint. Plus, when you look at the old MacBook Air versus this new one, there are obvious physical differences.
Apple is still selling the old Air for $999, but that one runs on a processor that hasn't seen a speed bump since June of last year. At its base, the new MacBook Air is $200 more than the old MacBook Air, which was the only Apple laptop to sneak into the lineup at just under $1,000. It creeps up to $1,399 for a model with 256 GB of storage, which is the Air most people will want to get if they have a moderately full library of local photos, music, or videos. The new MacBook Air starts at $1,199 for a configuration with 128 gigabytes of SSD storage. Apple has heard the calls for a newer, better MacBook Air, and it has answered.
