This renewed Apple MacBook Air has everything you need if you’re okay with an older MacOS experience at a dirt cheap price. It’s the perfect size to take on your commute, to the local coffee shop, or when you’re heading to class.Īll Amazon Renewed products are fully inspected and tested with a minimum 90-day warranty, so you can be sure you’re getting something more reliable than you would when buying a refurbished product from a dodgy source.
Combined with up to 12 hours of battery life, you can easily use this all day long.
A resolution of 1440 x 900 provides more than enough definition at 13.3 inches, and remember that this is a highly portable device, too. While it isn’t a Retina display like that on later models, it still looks great, offering a sharp picture and excellent image quality. 4GB of memory may be low elsewhere, but with MacOS, you’ll still be able to work and multitask reasonably well.Īnother feature that really stands out with this renewed Apple MacBook Air is its 13.3-inch screen. That’s because MacOS is designed to use its hardware to the fullest, ensuring you get the best experience from whatever hardware it’s working with.
While that may sound low for a regular Windows laptop, that’s more than sufficient for a basic MacOS machine. At its heart is an Intel Core i5 processor along with 4GB of memory and 128GB of solid-state storage. It’s ideal to pair up with other Apple devices, all while feeling supremely portable thanks to its 13-inch size. For the money, you get to see exactly how well you get on with MacOS without breaking the bank. If you’re dipping your toe into the MacBook world, this Amazon-Renewed Apple MacBook Air is a great starting point. Renewed Apple MacBook Air (2014) - $222 Riley Young/Digital Trends
The controller is a Samsung PCIe 3.0 x4 AHCI Flash controller with the markings S4LN058A01. Photo courtsey of our friends at iFixit.*Īt the component level, we see Apple has opted for Samsung components once again, as they did in many other notebooks including the drive inside our dissection of the MacBook Air (July-2011). It offers a 121.33GB usable capacity as indicated by System Information, as well as TRIM support. Our review model includes the 128GB SSD option aptly named the Apple SSD SM0128G. The storage comes in capacities of 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB depending on the MacBook chosen but it can be configured up to 1TB of PCIe-based flash. The new features include 5 th generation Intel core i5 and i7 processors, the new force track pad, an additional hour of battery life, and of course what is most interesting to us here at StorageReview, Apple claims that the new flash is twice as fast. There were a few other announcements as well including the re-launch of the MacBook (which was discontinued in July of 2011 in favor of the MacBook Air) that is thinner than the MacBook Air. The MacBook comes with Apple’s new butterfly-mechanism keyboard and new force track pad. More of an interest to us was the new MacBook Pro 13” and its new features including a new Samsung SSD inside. Most notably was its new smart watch, the Apple Watch (or colloquially referred to as the iWatch by its fans and detractors alike). A few weeks ago Apple held an event in San Francisco to showcase the new additions to its product line.