Earlier this March Apple recently released its newest addition to the MacBook family. Sporting a new design and build, The New MacBook made its debut. Not only does this version have a new and sleek design, but it only has two ports! This was a new radical approach in The New MacBook that captured critics’ eyes.

One of the most obvious changes in The New MacBook is the design. This model comes in twelve inches and is EXTREMELY thin coming in at only 13.1 mm. Expanding from the orthodox silver aluminum design, Apple added Space Gray and Gold similar to their mobile products. They also included a nice screen which sports a stunning retina display with an aspect ratio of 16:10 and a screen resolution of 2304 by 1440 resolution; however, they unfortunately opted to go for a 480p front facing camera instead of the 720p cameras found on other MacBook.

The other major difference in The New MacBook is the addition of the USB-C port. This is the only port besides the headphone port in the whole laptop. The USB-C port acts a door to a plethora of other posts such as HDMI or VGA though the use of new adapters. In addition the ports allows users to plug in USB devices both ways and this ports also acts as the charging port of the laptop. Not only does this sound good, but it is also a universal port (Hence the “U” in USB) so most (if not all) devices in the future will use this port so finding a charger will not nearly be as hard. Unfortunately, it is a shame that apple could not provide a second USB-C on the device because charging and using the port for another task would require a splitting adaptor.

Internally, the device will have 8 gigabytes of ram and a solid state drive with memory starting at 256 gigabytes and going up to 512 gigabytes. The processor it uses is a 1.1-1.2 gigahertz Intel core M processor that can be upgraded to 1.3 gigahertz dual intel core M. This is both a positive and a negative for the device because it will be much less powerful than previous models, but for students who use this as a notebook and media device that does need not very processor intensive work, you do get a longer battery life lasting up to 10 hours (9 hours of wireless web use).

Overall, this looks like a great device for students and that is what it was aimed to be. There is a lot of RAM so the device can handle multitasking very well, it has a fantastic display that makes it ideal for watching videos and movies, it has an improved keyboard, it has great battery life, and it has a tremendous amount of storage. For people looking to use their laptops for more processor intensive tasks (like gaming or heavy video editing), the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro remain the better options due to fact that they have much stronger processors, as well as several ports for doing numerous tasks.