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April 2015
(79%)
284 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(91%)
3209 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Very thing and light
Cool new Force Touch trackpad
Small size
Lightweight
Quality screen
Force Touch trackpad
The 12-inch MacBook gets a decent boost to performance and battery life
While keeping the same slim
Light premium body. The high-res display and responsive trackpad remain the gold standard. Color options add a fun bit of personalization
Very thin and light
Passive cooling means alwayssilent operation
Very thin & very light
Great Retina screen
Versatile Force Touch trackpad
Lengthy battery life
Top quality screen and touchpad
Design & body
Silent operation
No overheating
Beautiful screen
Fast SSD
Sound quality
Superb battery life
So portable
The future of laptop design
Impressive hardware specifications
Well priced
Great features
Simple and elegant menu system
Terrific design
Clear screen
Surprisingly good speakers
Elegant
Fanless design
Outstanding screen
Surprisingly decent speakers
Good battery life
Awesome touchpad
Great everyday performance
Terrific screen
Amazing portability
Big-sounding speakers
Lovely
Haptic touchpad
Design that borders on art
Thin and feather-weight
Best-in-class touchpad
Excellent display
Beautiful design and clever engineering
Stunning Retina display with slim bezel
Decent battery
High level of accuracy from butterfly key mechanism
Large trackpad
OS X software
Very portable
Stunningly slim and light
Impressive sleek styling in the grey casing
Extremely light and portable
Very good screen
Good backlit keyboard
Though keys only move a tiny amount and it takes a little getting used to
Apple OS X environment simple compare
The editors didn't like
Only one data/charging port
No standard ports
No touchscreen
No TouchID
The single USB-C port will continue to be an inconvenience for many. The shallow keyboard isn't ideal for long-form typing. Other super-slim laptops manage to fit in more powerful processors
Reduced travel on keys makes fast typing harder and less satisfying
New keyboard may not be to all tastes
Single USBC port requires adaptors for current peripherals
Zero internal upgrade potential
Keyboard won't suit everyone
USBC adapters a necessity
Wirelessonly not always possible or desirable
Only one USB connection
So you can't have anything connected and charge at the same time
Anaemic GPU
We want more power
More USB-C extras needed
Can't be your main machine
No universal search
Runs sluggish at times
Expensive
People will miss ports
Noisy keyboard
Limited connections
Lack of ports can be very frustrating
Super-shallow keyboard
By no means a powerhouse
Poor processor performance
Can't handle most games
Keyboard becomes tiresome
Poor value
Not particularly powerful
No traditional USB ports
Single port for everything
So if on charge can't connect anything (such as a USB flash drive) without an expensive adapter
Very shallow key presses take a little getting used to
Incredibly thin, Beautiful Retina display, Great keyboard
Processor-intensive tasks are slow, Laptop gets warm, Only one port for everything
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Published: 2015-04-09, Author: Andrew , review by: arstechnica.com
So thin and light that it out-MacBook-Airs the MacBook Air, Excellent Retina display. You won't even notice that it's not using its native resolution out of the box, Gray, silver, and gold finish options look great and give the MacBook a touch of personal
Performance is a step or two behind recent Broadwell-U Macs, In 1440×900 mode, the integrated GPU sometimes struggles to keep up with the high-res screen, Upgrades are impossible. Everything from the RAM to the SSD is soldered to the tiny motherboard, Med
Enlarge / The 2015 MacBook.Andrew CunninghamThe 2015 MacBook is a much better first take on a new kind of laptop than the first MacBook Air was. The first Air was expensive and slow and not really plausible as a replacement for either the MacBook or the M...
Published: 2015-04-09, Author: Andrew , review by: arstechnica.com
So thin and light that it out-MacBook-Airs the MacBook Air, Excellent Retina display. You won't even notice that it's not using its native resolution out of the box, Gray, silver, and gold finish options look great and give the MacBook a touch of personal
Performance is a step or two behind recent Broadwell-U Macs, In 1440×900 mode, the integrated GPU sometimes struggles to keep up with the high-res screen, Upgrades are impossible. Everything from the RAM to the SSD is soldered to the tiny motherboard, Med
Enlarge / The 2015 MacBook.Andrew CunninghamThe 2015 MacBook is a much better first take on a new kind of laptop than the first MacBook Air was. The first Air was expensive and slow and not really plausible as a replacement for either the MacBook or the M...
Weighing in at just 2 pounds and a hair over half an inch thick (at its chunki...
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Published: 2015-04-08, Author: Mark , review by: Laptopmag.com
Wonderfully light yet sturdy aluminum design, Three color options, Keyboard remarkably fast, Awesome stereo speakers, Strong battery life
Must use dongle to plug in most devices, Pricey
The new MacBook is a fantastically light and compact laptop that delivers a rich display, long battery life and surprisingly strong ergonomics, but it needs more ports....
Insanely light and gorgeous. Superb display, great Force Touch trackpad, ample storage and RAM
Core M CPU isn't as powerful as Core i5, lack of keyboard travel is disconcerting at first. Expensive
It's controversial; it's sexy and built as perfectly as any Apple product. That's the 12" MacBook, a 2 lb. laptop that's sturdy enough to throw in your bag with little care, yet it can get any basic computing task done quickly. The biggest problem with th...
Published: 2015-03-10, Author: John , review by: macobserver.com
Abstract: The new MacBook from Apple is thin, beautiful and colorful. It's also not an excessively powerful notebook computer, given its 8 GB of RAM and the Intel Core M running at 1.1 GHz. But no matter. This new Macbook is designed for people who need a highly po...
Published: 2015-03-09, Author: Paul , review by: technabob.com
Abstract: Apple today unleashed its new 2015 MacBook. The tiny, thin notebook weighs just 2.0 pounds, and is just 13.1mm thick at its thickest point – 24% thinner than the MacBook Air. Its enclosure is built entirely from metal.One highlight of the new system is a...
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