The 12-inch Apple MacBook is the thinnest, lightest Mac laptop yet, combining the power of OS X with extreme portability. It arrives tomorrow, but we got an early look at the sleek, new machine here in PC Labs, and unboxed it just for you. Check it out in the video above.
The new MacBooks come in silver, space gray, and gold. They start at $1,299 for a 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor, Intel HD Graphics 5300, 8GB of memory, and a 256GB SSD. Upgrade to a 1.2GHZ processor and a 512GB SSD for $1,599.
The 12-inch MacBook sports a 2,304-by-1,440-pixel Retina display that's covered with full edge-to-edge cover glass. At 13.1mm at its thickest point, it's the thinnest Mac Apple has ever made, and 24 percent thinner than the 11-inch MacBook Air. It's housed in an all-metal enclosure, and Apple has integrated the antennas right into that enclosure.
In our review, we gave it four out of five stars, but it lost points for having only a USB-C port, which is not Thunderbolt-compatible, with no adapters included. The new keyboard and Force Touch trackpad are also a bit tricky.
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