When we reviewed the 2018 MacBook Air—a newly renovated version of what had been an aging laptop—we found it to be good, but not great. It brought the venerable ultraportable up to modern times with a Retina display and Thunderbolt 3, but it also ratcheted up the price, switched to a disappointing CPU, made the keyboard a lot worse, and tossed aside USB-A and MagSafe.
With the just-announced revision of the MacBook Air, it seems that Apple is listening...at least a little. It addresses several of our biggest gripes with the previous model, though not all of them.