MacBook Air lasts up to an incredible 12 hours between charges. So from your morning coffee till your evening commute, you can work unplugged. When it s time to kick back and relax, you can get up to 12 hours of iTunes movie playback. And with up to 30 days of standby time, you can go away for weeks and pick up right where you left off.*

Whatever the task, fifth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors with Intel HD Graphics 6000 are up to it. From editing photos to browsing the web, everything happens ultrafast. And all that power is encased in an incredibly thin 0.68-inch unibody design that weighs only 2.96 pounds.

Instantly connect to an 802.11ac base station including AirPort Extreme or AirPort Time Capsule and experience wireless performance up to 3x faster than the previous Wi-Fi generation. 802.11ac also delivers expanded range, so you can work more freely than ever.

The SSD storage in MacBook Air is up to 17x faster than a 5400-rpm notebook hard drive. So everything you do is snappy and responsive. MacBook Air even wakes up fast, thanks to SSD storage and fifth-generation Intel Core processors.

macOS is the operating system that powers everything you do on a Mac. macOS Sierra introduces Siri to Mac along with more ways to enjoy your photos, shop securely online, and work seamlessly between devices.

Thanks to compact SSD storage in MacBook Air, there s plenty of room for a big battery. Working together with the power-efficient fifth-generation Intel Core architecture, this battery can post some impressive numbers. MacBook Air gets up to 12 hours of battery life on a single charge. That gives you all-day power for surfing the web or watching iTunes movies. Put MacBook Air to sleep for more than 3 hours, and it enters standby mode to conserve battery life for up to 30 days.

MacBook Air is powered by fifth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. This ultra-efficient architecture was designed to use less power and still deliver high performance. Which means not only can you do whatever you want you can keep doing it for longer than before. In addition, the Intel HD Graphics 6000 processor offers advanced performance you ll especially notice with games and other graphics-intensive tasks.

MacBook Air supports ultrafast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. When connected to an 802.11ac base station including AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule wireless performance is up to 3x faster than 802.11n Wi-Fi.2 And your Wi-Fi range improves as well. With Bluetooth technology, you can connect MacBook Air to Bluetooth-enabled devices like speakers and headphones. Even without all the wires, you re totally connected.

Part of what makes MacBook Air so responsive is that it s designed entirely around SSD storage. Not only does this make MacBook Air much lighter and more portable than traditional notebooks, it also provides faster access to data. Available in capacities up to 512GB,3 this PCIe-based SSD storage is up to 17x faster than a traditional 5400-rpm notebook hard drive.4 So when you flip open MacBook Air, it s ready to go right away. Even after a month in standby mode, the screen springs to life.

Connect your MacBook Air to your devices and displays with a Thunderbolt 2 port that s twice as fast as the previous generation. But that s not the whole story. MacBook Air also comes equipped with two USB 3 ports, so you can connect the latest USB 3 devices and all your USB 2 devices as well. With just a few connections, MacBook Air transforms from an ultraportable notebook to a complete workstation.

Make FaceTime calls from your MacBook Air to an iPhone 4 or later, iPad, iPod touch, or another Mac running FaceTime for Mac.

The Multi-Touch gestures in macOS make everything you do on MacBook Air more intuitive, direct, and fun. And the spacious Multi-Touch trackpad is perfectly designed for them, whether it s a three-finger swipe to activate Mission Control or a four-finger pinch to see all your apps in Launchpad. Gesture responses are smooth and realistic. So when you re scrolling up and down a web page or swiping from one full-screen app to another, it s almost like you re touching what you re seeing.

Click
Press down anywhere to click. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, tap the trackpad.

Double-click
Press down two times anywhere. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, double-tap the trackpad.

Tap to zoom
Double-tap the trackpad with two fingers to magnify a web page or PDF.

Two-finger scroll
Slide two fingers up or down the trackpad to scroll through documents, websites, and more.

Swipe to navigate
Flip through web pages, documents, and more like thumbing pages in a book.

View Mission Control
Swipe up on the trackpad to get a bird s-eye view of everything running on your Mac.

As incredibly compact as MacBook Air is, it still manages to fit a full?size keyboard that makes typing as natural as it is comfortable. And the keyboard is backlit, so you can type with ease in even the dimmest light. A built-in ambient light sensor detects changes in lighting conditions and adjusts the display and keyboard brightness automatically. From a seat in a sunny caf to a seat on a cross?country red?eye, you ll always have the perfect lighting for any environment.

iCloud stores your content and lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and more from whatever device you re on. So if you take a picture with your iPhone or make changes to your meeting schedule on your iPad, iCloud makes sure everything appears on your Mac, too. And it works both ways create a to-do list on your Mac and you can make edits to it on your iPhone.