The new MacBook — available in silver, gold or space gray — has an all-metal enclosure and weighs less than 2 lbs. Just 13.1mm thick, it offers a brand new keyboard, with keys that are 40% thinner than the traditional kind.
There's a 12-inch Retina display with edge-to-edge coverglass and 2304 by 1440 pixels. Apple says it is the thinnest display ever built into a Mac, and that it consumes 30% less energy.
The new MacBook also features a new "Force Touch" trackpad with a glass multitouch surface and a taptic engine. It's unhinged, and its feedback mechanism can be controlled via software.
The Force Touch trackpad will include new gestures which allow users to perform actions based on the context and pressure of a tap or click.
What's inside
The new MacBook uses Apple's latest unibody architecture. It's the first fanless MacBook ever, and uses Intel's Core M processor running up to 1.3GHz.
All of that power only consumes 5 watts of power.
Apple saved a lot of space on the inside of the new MacBook with its new logic board design — using the remaining space for custom-fit batteries. The company says its new contoured cells allow it to have 35% more battery life in the same space.
Apple says it can do 9 hours of wireless web browsing and 10 hours of iTunes movie playback.
The new MacBook has 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0 built in. The vision of the notebook, according to Phil Schiller, is to be "without wires."
The new MacBook will still have one cord on it — a brand new one. It uses USB-C which offers USB 3.0, DisplayPort and power.
Price
Available in silver, space gray and gold, the new MacBook will start at $1299 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
It will start shipping on April 10, and will join the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro line.
Apple also updated its MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina notebooks with faster processors. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina will also get the Force Touch trackpad and longer battery life. The new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina devices start shipping Monday.
Source:mashable
