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Apple MacBook Air (80GB) Review

The MacBook Air which we review, represents Apple's concept of a truly next-gen notebook. While it's not for everyone, you still need to check it out.

Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2008) Review

The new MacBook Pro which we review, has discrete Nvidia graphics and LED-backlit display make a practical usability addition to the MacBook Pro.

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We review the new MacBook which has a lot of updates, including Apple's unibody frame, LED-backlit display, and multitouch pad.
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Apple MacBook Air 13.3-inch (Mid-2011) Review

Review: The 2011 refresh of Apple’s MacBook Air packs more power, a backlit keyboard and Intel Thunderbolt into the same ultralight design, further refining what was already one of the best notebooks money could buy.
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Intel’s latest hardware gives Apple’s 11.6-inch MacBook Air a performance boost without biting into battery life.
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Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (2013) review

Another year, another minor update for the MacBook Air. When Apple’s super-slim laptop design debuted, it put PC makers to shame and arguably inspired Intel’s Ultrabook initiative. Now, the competition is starting to catch up. So can the revised Air hold off the Windows horde for another year?
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Apple MacBook (2015) review

The MacBook is beautiful, light and thin, but how well does it hold up in the real world? We took it on vacation to find out.
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If you need some permanent extra storage space on your MacBook Air or Pro, then the TarDisk Pear could be exactly what you’re looking for.
Senior Editor, Computing

Luke Larsen is a Senior Editor at Digital Trends and manages all content covering laptops, Macs, monitors, PC hardware, and peripherals. Around here we call it “computing,” but here’s a good rule of thumb: If it’s a computer or something that plugs into a computer, you found your guy. Oh, and these days, AI too. So much AI.

After getting a degree in music from the University of Oregon, Luke started his career in media hoping to get into music journalism. But when the opportunity arose, he landed in tech and hasn’t looked back since. He has over a decade of tech journalism experience, first joining Digital Trends in 2017 as a native Portlander, happy to join a tech media company that called his city home. Before working at DT, he worked as Tech Editor at Paste Magazine for over four years and has bylines at publications such as IGN, TouchArcade (RIP), and The Oregonian.

In his years at Digital Trends so far, Luke has covered high-profile industry events such as CES, IFA, and Microsoft Build, delivering on-the-ground coverage, breaking news, and first-hand reporting. He’s hosted countless YouTube videos, made podcast appearances, and written over 600 articles.

Some of his earliest tech memories include learning HTML through his MySpace account and trying to play Baldur’s Gate II on his parents’ dusty old beige box. These days, his obsession with technology is in telling stories with tech — in finding the narratives that ebb and flow through both technological advancement and product design, trickling right on down to our day-to-day experience of it. He is convinced that we all spend too much of our time using technology and not enough time thinking about it — cue a healthy dose of navel-gazing and philosophizing.

When he’s not endlessly debating what the best laptop is, Luke spends his days being a dad and a husband. Oh, and when there’s time (which there isn’t), he’s an avid fiction writer, player of designer board games, and still occasionally makes some music.