News & Reviews:   MacBook Air

Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit by its customers within seven states in the United States in regards to defective ‘butterfly’ keyboards on its MacBook laptops. Filed on late Monday night in the federal court in San Jose, California, the tech giant agreed to pay USD50 million or ~RM222.6 million to affected customers.

In the earlier hours of today, Apple held WWDC 2022 to reveal some new products and updates to its software. For laptops, like the new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air that feature the Apple M2 chip. As for software, Apple not only revealed iOS 16 but also a new macOS - macOS Ventura.

As previously speculated, the new Apple Silicon processor M2 was announced at the WWDC 2022. With the new processor, Apple also introduced the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro which are coming soon with it.

Apple's 2022 WWDC event is happening next week. Earlier rumours suggested that it might be where the company will announce its first AR/VR headset due to the source code of the 'realityOS' gotten spotted. However, it's not the case anymore, as many point out that the tech giant will only reveal the machine in 2023.

The latest version of macOS, Monterey, had arrived last week. However, it looks like it might not be an attractive update to some users as they complain that the OS update is bricking their old Macs. Recently, a surge of users took the issue onto various social platforms revealing that their Mac devices are unusable after installing the update.

By now, it's quite obvious that Apple is looking to ditch Intel CPUs for Apple Silicon for its entire PC lineup. We've seen this happen with the MacBooks, Mac Minis, and iMac as well. There are still some products that use Intel chips, but the company will fully transition in 2022.

With Chinese New Year being just around the corner, most of you must have planned to go on a shopping spree during this time as many sales would be held. To bring you some good news, Mac City will be having a sale for most of its Apple products. After the discount, you can get a product like the iPhone 11 Pro Max that comes with A13 Bionic chip for RM3,799, which is a lot cheaper than usual!  

Other than the new iPad Pro, Apple also unveiled the new MacBook Air in Malaysia starting from the price of RM4399 for the Intel Core i3 variant while the i5 variant is at RM5599. In terms of new features, the aforementioned MacBook Air has faster performance, higher storage capacity, and it supports the new smart keyboard.

July 27 seems to be a date to look out for, especially for Mi fans. One of the devices that will be launched is apparently the Mi Laptop, and we have leaked specs of the upcoming machine from Xiaomi.