![]() Your mileage may vary, but the keyboard in the MacBook is a huge turnoff for me. I'm hoping Apple will boost the little MacBook's potential with Thunderbolt in the future, but we're not there quite yet. Using the same type of USB-C, Intel has worked out a way to get super-fast transfer rates to everything from storage to displays to external graphics cards, along with charging. What could have boosted the functionality of this one port would have been Thunderbolt 3, like we've seen on Windows ultrabooks like the Razer Blade Stealth. But, even now, it's gonna take an investment in inconvenience and adapters if you want to do what most other notebooks can manage. It's a neat thought experiment, and there's no doubt that this is the way things will go in the future. Thanks to the advent of USB-C, Apple got away with using the same reversible port for charging and ordinary I/O tasks. When its design was introduced last year, the MacBook made headlines by sporting only one single, solitary USB port. ![]() Having one port isn't bad, but the situation could be better. In context: this MacBook should make it through a day of work, as long as you don't try to do anything really processor-intensive, and still have some charge left over to tackle Netflix when you get home. ![]() Keep in mind that our PC Mark 8-based test runs in Windows and that if we could do this test in macOS, it'd probably do even better. In our very intensive battery life test, the MacBook soared past the 3ish hour average of many thin-and-light Core m devices, scoring 5 hours and 1 minute. If you think that Apple couldn't cram impressive battery life into the katana-thin MacBook, then you should get ready to eat crow. The MacBook's speakers are seriously good for being so tiny. ![]()
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