{"id":2353,"date":"2018-01-18T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2018-01-18T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:10:31","slug":"5-ways-macbook-air-changed-notebooks-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/5-ways-macbook-air-changed-notebooks-forever.htm","title":{"rendered":"5 ways the MacBook Air changed notebooks forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MacBook Air’s tenth anniversary in January 16th, to commemorate the birthday, we are looking for the latest MacBook Air the most important trend setting function. Whether you have a notebook computer, are different from MacBook Air, its effect is very easy in the notebook computer today is see.<\/p>\n

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Here are five trends in laptops that the MacBook Air killed for good.<\/p>\n

It killed optical disc drives<\/h3>\n

The original MacBook Air was one of the first high-profile premium laptops to hit the market without an optical disc drive. Sure there was an attachment you could buy \u2014 and you could always use Apple<\/a>\u2019s remote disk feature \u2014 but excluding the optical drive was important for a couple reasons.<\/p>\n

Not only is it extremely rare to find a laptop with an optical drive these days,\u00a0it signaled to other manufacturers at the time that people would actually buy a laptop without an optical drive. With more software available online and iTunes shaking up the music industry, the MacBook Air was a marker that we were on the way to leaving behind optical drives for good.<\/p>\n

It killed removable batteries<\/h3>\n

Remember back when you could just pop your laptop\u2019s battery out and slot in a new one when you were running low? Yeah, we can barely remember those days either. It\u2019s been so long since user-removable batteries were a standard feature that they seem almost quaint now.<\/p>\n

The MacBook Air was one of the first high-profile laptops to omit a user replaceable Apple a1278 laptop battery\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>and at the time it was a\u00a0very<\/em> controversial decision, as noted in our original review. If you\u2019re wondering if the risk paid off, just check to see if the laptop you own today has a removable battery.<\/p>\n

It tried to kill your ports<\/h3>\n

Apple has long been engaged in a war against superfluous ports, and the original MacBook Air was no exception. Without an SD Card slot, and with its single USB port hidden under a bizarre metal flap, the MacBook Air tried to cut out the unnecessary clutter which dominated laptops at the time.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t quite work out. Apple eventually backpedaled and included an SD Card slot on the MacBook Air \u2014 and did away with the flap. Even still, the amount of ports we have on laptops today has been drastically reduced. For good or for bad, we have the MacBook Air to thank.<\/p>\n

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It almost killed thick laptops<\/h3>\n

Of course thick laptops are still around, but the overwhelming majority of them are thin, light, and wedge-shaped. That wedge design pioneered by the MacBook Air still lives on in laptops like the Dell<\/a> XPS 13. It\u2019s easy to see why.<\/p>\n

By shaving down the form factor in the right areas, manufacturers have managed to give their laptops the appearance of a svelte build without sacrificing performance or cooling capabilities. Laptops have only continued to get thinner and lighter \u2014 and the MacBook Air really started that trend.<\/p>\n

It almost killed bad hinges<\/h3>\n

Take another look at the Dell XPS 13, the archetypal modern laptop. It\u2019s got a wedge shape, a nice thin build, some premium materials, and one under-appreciated feature brought to us by Apple. The hinge that mounts the MacBook Air\u2019s display to its chassis is located on the back-edge of its body, rather than on top.<\/p>\n

This means the lid won\u2019t open enough to lay flat, but it means you don\u2019t have those unsightly plastic hinges taking up unnecessary real estate. Sure, they\u2019re still around in some laptops, but the overwhelming majority of laptops today feature the integrated hinge pioneered by Apple and popularized by the MacBook Air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MacBook Air’s tenth anniversary in January 16th, to commemorate the birthday, we are looking for the latest MacBook Air the most important trend setting function. Whether you have a notebook computer, are different from MacBook Air, its effect is very easy in the notebook computer today is see. Here are five trends in laptops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[774,917],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-knowledge-base","category-laptop-batteries-tips","category-tech-info","tag-apple-a1278-laptop-battery","tag-apple-a1281-laptop-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}