Most of the Ultrabooks I play with these days try to mimic the FaceTime HD experience by using a 720p sensor. Image quality remains acceptable as long as you're in a room with not terrible lighting. Last year Apple introduced a 720p FaceTime HD camera to its MacBook Pro. Anyone who owns a Cinema or Thunderbolt Display will bemoan the continued use of this configuration. The Thunderbolt port continues to be on the opposite side of the machine from the power connector. Thunderbolt support comes courtesy of a 4-channel Cactus Ridge controller. I still need to grab a UASP enabled USB 3.0 device with 6Gbps SATA support to really stress the interface, but using Seagate's GoFlex USB 3.0 drive and a Kingston HyperX SSD in place of the mechanical drive I'm able to hit around 260MB/s: USB 3.0 performance however is just as good as on the rMBP. A few folks have noticed something similar with other drives on Apple's support forums but the issue doesn't seem to have widespread implications. The hardware is actually detected by OS X, the drive simply never appears to Disk Utility or in Finder. Most devices seem to work fine but Kingston's HyperX Max 3.0 for example wouldn't work, although it worked fine on the rMBP. I have noticed that USB device compatibility is more finicky on the MacBook Air compared to the rMBP. Both ports support the standard and both OS X and the hardware supports the USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP). USB 3.0 is alive and well on the new MacBook Air. While I normally have issues with this usage model on most of the clickpads I use, Apple's implementation is both the exception and the benchmark. I typically keep my thumb on the clickpad, near where the right mouse button would traditionally be, and mouse around with my index finger. Finger rejection is handled extremely well under OS X, accidental clicks are very rare. The clickpad is glass covered which makes it very smooth and comfortable to use. Clicks are easier towards the bottom of the pad than at the top where the hinge is. Apple continues to use the top hinged design on its glass covered clickpad.
We spend so much time pointing out poor clickpads in the latest Ultrabooks that it's important to mention just how good the clickpad is in the MacBook Air. You can either choose to control it on your own or let the ambient light sensor control the intensity of the keyboard's backlight. Apple offers fine grained controls over the keyboard backlight (16 adjustable levels). The 2012 keyboard is nicely backlit, just like on every MacBook Air but the 2010. The power key is functionally no different than the old power button - tap to turn on, hold to power down in the event of a hard lock. The dedicated power button from the older Macs is gone and replaced with a power key that looks like another function key. Apple's keyboard remains one of the best on the market. As Apple has now fully transitioned to this style of keyboard across all of its Macs, I can't really say I have any complaints about it. Key travel and physical feedback are both as good as they can get on a chiclet-style keyboard.
The function keys are half height on the 13 and even smaller on the 11, but there's no sacrifice in key size otherwise.
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You get a full sized keyboard on both the 11 and 13-inch models, with the alphanumeric keys measuring ~15 x 15mm. The keyboard on the 2012 MacBook Air is the same as the 2011 model.
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