Review on 13.3" Laptop Apple MacBook Air 13 Mid 2017 1440x900, Intel Core i5 5350U 1.8 GHz, RAM 8 GB, LPDDR3, SSD 128 GB, Intel HD Graphics 6000, macOS, MQD32, silver by Micha Spodymek ᠌

The review will be unusual, aimed more at web application developers, so it will be replete with technical terms and obscure words. I’ll immediately write my verdict for a wider audience: in terms of the combination of characteristics, this laptop is definitely worth taking. It cost me up to a rise in price and a share of 59,000. Key requirements: 1) High autonomy, light weight. 2) Availability of everything necessary for developing software for Mac OS (PHPStorm, Vagrant, Nginx, MySQL, node. Js, etc. ). 3) The presence of native Windows software without the need to run it through emulation (Microsoft Office, SketchUp Make, Katalon Studio). 4) Support for all the most popular browsers on the market (Safari, Chrome, FF). 5) The ability to fully simulate iOS and Android smartphones for mobile development and testing in mobile browsers. My daily work environment looks like this: Skype, Viber, Telegram, Evernote desktop applications included; 1-2 running projects on PHPStorm; 2-3 active virtual machines. The bulk of the work goes to Chrome, where 20-40 tabs are open. Multiple Excel/Word documents can be opened. In this mode, the battery lasts with a margin from 8 am to noon. At lunch, the MacBook is put on charge, and it lasts for the second half of the day, until 8 pm. Under such a load, performance does not drop, however, at the time of caching or assembling projects, the device heats up quite noticeably, and the cooler for forced cooling is turned on. The killer feature in the form of a full-fledged simulation of the entire line of Apple mobile devices in XCode does not work that quickly - there is a lack of hardware power, and in general the machine is hard to cope with, but you can work. For the comfortable development of web applications, I have enough Air capabilities, one might say, back to back. I can't say that I'm disappointed with this, but I deliberately didn't take the Pro due to a significant number of hardware problems, in particular, with the keyboard.