The former can be addressed with a hub or dongles if needed, while the latter comes with extended four-year warranty coverage under Apple’s keyboard replacement program. The two knocks against the new MacBook Air are its limited ports (just two - both USB-C) and the fragile “butterfly” keyboard. To sweeten the deal even further, until September 26 Apple is throwing in a free pair of Beats Studio3 wireless headphones worth nearly $350. Students can score a new MacBook Air featuring a 13.3-inch Retina display with True Tone, 8th generation dual-core Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, 128GB SSD and a Force Touch trackpad for $999.
There are ways around the Windows issue, but this is really best considered a macOS laptop.
Always a top choice because of its price, style and long battery life, the newest MacBook Air is indisputably one of the best laptop choices for students - so long as you don’t need to run Windows-only applications.
Last fall Apple finally upgraded the ever-popular MacBook Air, then tweaked it again for 2019.
