And if you’re so inclined, the MacBook also has the TouchBar, which can serve up helpful shortcuts depending on the app currently running. The backlighting underneath the keycaps is bright enough to use in darkened settings, which is good for the hunt-and-peck typists out there. The keyboard backlighting brightness keys (backlighting can be adjusted via a slider in the Control Center) and Launchpad keys are gone, in their place are keys for Dictation (voice-to-text dictation), Do not disturb (turns off notifications) and Spotlight (system-wide desktop search). Apple also swapped out some of the function keys on the Air. The inverted-T arrow keys are separated from the rest of the numbers and letters, making them easier to find by feel. Each laptop has a unibody all-aluminum chassis with the reflective chrome half-eaten Apple on the lid surrounded by a sea of matte aluminum. Both laptops keep their iconic looks with the Air retaining its wedge design and the Pro with sleek rounded corners. Neither the Air nor the Pro are reinventing the wheel when it comes to MacBook design. Each laptop comes with a 13.3-inch, 2560 x 1600 Retina display. The $2,299 version bumps the storage up to 2TB. The $1,899 configuration upgrades the RAM and storage to 16GB and 1TB SSD, respectively. The base model of the MacBook Pro understandably costs more at $1,299 and has the Apple M1 SoC, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Upgrades for this iteration are the same as the 7-core GPU model: $200 for 16GB of RAM, another $200 for 1TB of storage or an additional $600 for a 2TB SSD. If you want the 8-core GPU model, it will cost $1,249 and features an M1 SoC, 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.

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