Name: MacBook Air 2018 - Is It Enough? (MacBook Air 2018 - Is It Enough?)
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And for $1,200, there's been a lot of controversy

and on top of that, just exactly what's inside this thing.

So, of course, the question is how powerful is it really?

Interestingly, there's only a single processor option

This is an 8th generation Y-Series processor,

which does give it a dual-core chip with hyper-threading.

And the clock speeds actually aren't all that impressive.

It has a 1.6 gigahertz base and a 3.6 gigahertz boost,

a far cry from a lot of the quad-core systems

that you can often find at this price point.

So there's some interesting things with this chip.

something I've never seen in any kind of Intel chip yet.

And also interestingly, this is a 7-watt TDP.

So what that means is that most of these Y-Series processors

are used in things like the 12-inch MacBook.

And, originally, I was actually told at the Apple event

So let's open it up and see what's actually inside. (laughs)

I thought we had to, like, clarify that I heard a loud fan.

It's usually a pretty good indicator there's a fan inside.

Take this off and immediately we see that there is a fan.

So what's kind of interesting about the MacBook Air

this year is that this is one of the smallest fans

Now, this is actually not strictly necessary.

If they would have gone for a slightly lower-end

Y-Series processor with a lower, like, 5-watt TDP,

for example, the fan would not have been necessary.

But on the flip side, that means that you're really reliant

So say you were in a very hot environment.

where even a small fan like this should make

a big difference, and it gives you the added benefit

which will give you a little bit more performance.

I will say, it is a very, very clean layout.

So not only do we have the Trackpad here,

but we also have our three battery cells.

And what's interesting about this battery is that,

at least based on the rumors, and certainly taking a look

is that unlike most MacBook Pros that are current

where you kind of have to replace a large chunk

of the laptop to be able to get rid of the batteries,

and then we've got what is a pretty small motherboard,

and I assume that's probably our T2 chip underneath here.

So this is actually very similar to some of the SoCs

but this handles a lot of the sort of lower-end processes

on the MacBook, including encrypting the SSD,

There's a lot of very smart things that are on the iPhone

that all run from this tiny, little T2 chip.

All right, so with the computer put back together,

4301 on single-core and 7725 on multi-core.

It is an upgrade over the last generation MacBook Air,

but it is not a big upgrade over, well, much anything else.

I mean, sure, it's decent as a dual core,

Next up, we have the Geekbench compute test.

Now, it is one of the Intel UHD Series GPUs,

so it's probably not going to be anything crazy,

Maybe they added two more numbers to the last one I tested.

Now, to be fair, I'm running Metal right now,

So that's a fair bit over the 615, and that's closer

to what you would find with the full UHD 620 graphics.

I've gotta say, we're just getting in the video,

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