Apple MacBook Air - Mid 2019

The perfect combination of portability and style. This is a great laptop that copes well with web browsing, word processing and basic photo editing. The True Tone technology and price drop is an added bonus, but it's still not for those on a limited...

Now available at a lower entry price of £1,099/$1,099, the MacBook Air is an appealing if little-changed laptop.The big news for long-time Air enthusiasts is that the keyboard is. well, still not perfect, but at least better. The depth of travel...

What might look like an almost non-upgrade of its 2018 predecessor is quite a lot more: the 2019 Air has graduated and waved goodbye to its younger MacBook brother, fixed up its keyboard wrongs in the process of growing up, and becomes an altogether more acceptable workhorse than ever before.

The MacBook Air (2019) is a great option for light computing, and excellent for portable office work or students. Apple's cheapest laptop doesn't feel it at all – it's a fast and capable machine. Just choose your amount of storage carefully.

The 2019 MacBook Air is a sleek laptop with good endurance, but it could use more speed.

While a solid entry with an excellent new screen, the 2019 MacBook Air's dual-core processor is starting to feel underpowered. Even with a lower entry price, it’s still very expensive considering its light starting specification and pricey upgrades.

The combination of the svelte design, lower price, and slightly improved specs will likely make this the preferred option for many, many users - especially with the lack of the 12-inch alternative.

The 2019 edition of Apple's MacBook Air is cheaper and has a slightly richer feature set than its solid predecessor, making it a decent ultraportable for buyers who won't perform many resource-intensive computing tasks.

The MacBook Air (2019) improves on the previous version in very minor ways.

What made that classic MacBook Air so special is that it cut through all those caveats for so many people and did it consistently for so many years. 2019’s MacBook Air is good, but it hasn’t yet earned the title of The Default Laptop. After all, for $200 more, you could get a MacBook Pro.