At its thickest part, towards the rear of the laptop, it’s just 13.1mm thick, and towards the front of the laptop this narrows to just 3.5mm. Moving on, Apple retains the sloped design of their MacBook Air, leading to this MacBook having a similarly variable thickness. The MacBook Air for its part was seldom loud, but for whisper quiet there’s no topping fanless. This also means that the MacBook is silent, containing no motorized parts and the only moving parts being the keyboard keys, the trackpad, and the screen hinge. Otherwise all real heat dissipation is carried on by the aluminum case itself, which in turn is made practical by the use of the ultra-low power Core M processor. There are no fans or even vents on the laptop to move heat or hot air the closest thing that comes to a vent is the grating at the top of the laptop, above the keyboard, which houses other items such as the speakers. For the MacBook in particular it serves two goals for Apple, the first being to give the device a premium feel, but the second is to serve as a means of cooling the MacBook.įor one of the biggest changes in the MacBook compared to the MBA is the fact that this is a completely fanless design.

The all-aluminum unibody design continues to impress and holds up well even with the MacBook’s smaller form factor. This leads to the new MacBook having all of the contours and finishes we have come to expect from a MacBook family laptop. The end result is a laptop that looks and acts almost exactly like a smaller MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro. And yet at the same time Apple has retained more or less all of the stylings that have come to define the modern unibody MacBook family design.

As we’ve mentioned before, the big promotional point for the MacBook is how small it is. In terms of overarching design, the MacBook is both treading new ground and much of the same.

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