Apple announces new MacBook Air with improved keyboard, faster performance, and more storage

Image: Apple Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is no longer the company’s only laptop with a reliable keyboard. This morning, Apple announced a revamped MacBook Air laptop with an improved scissor-switch keyboard, branded as the “Magic Keyboard,” that ditches the controversial butterfly mechanism of the previous-generation model. It has the same 1mm of keyboard travel as the 16-inch Pro. The new Air also offers double the performance, according to Apple, featuring 10th-gen Intel processors up to a 1.2GHz quad-core Core i7. It comes with twice the storage as the prior machine — now starting with 256GB. And Apple says it delivers 80 percent improved graphics performance, as the Air now features Intel Iris Plus Graphics. The 2020 MacBook Air has a base... Continue reading…