1.1 Tour MacBook Air

The MacBook Air laptops are elegantly designed and incredibly slim and lightweight. But each is also a powerful computer that can handle all your everyday computing tasks with ease. Here you learn about the MacBook Air’s major features from the outside, including its controls, ports, and other features that you use to control your MacBook Air and to connect it to other devices. The various models of MacBook Air have slightly different features, such as screen sizes, processors, memory, ports, and storage.

     A MacBook Air includes the ports you need to connect to other devices, such as external displays, speakers, iPhones, iPads, iPods, disk drives, and more. The specific port you use for any task depends on the devices to which you are connecting your MacBook Air. And some devices have options; for example, you can use USB or Thunderbolt depending on the kind of drive you are connecting.
     The 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air have slightly different types and numbers of ports, but you can easily identify the ports on either type using the illustrations in this section.