
The bigger trackpad is Force Touch compatible thereby allowing for pressure-based gestures Connectivity.There’s a 20 percent larger trackpad on the 2018 MacBook Air.

The 2017 MacBook Air makes use of Apple’s crowd-favorite scissor mechanism keyboard.Apple says it provides four times more key stability than its scissor mechanism keyboard along with improved comfort and responsiveness.The new MacBook Air features Apple’s third-generation butterfly keyboard.The new Air also has Touch ID Keyboard and Trackpad.It offers on-the-fly data encryption, Hey Siri recognition, and other advanced security measures.The new Air comes with Apple’s T2 Security chip for additional security.However, the new Air comes with up to 16GB RAM while the older model is limited to 8GB RAM.Both variants of MacBook Air make use of LPDDR3 RAM.The older Air is available with up to 512GB storage.The new MacBook Air features Apple’s latest SSD and its available in storage capacity of up to 1.5TB.The previous Air featured Intel’s HD 6000 GPU.The 2018 MacBook Air comes with an Intel UHD 617 GPU.The new Air makes use of Intel’s 7W processor which is not as powerful as the naming scheme from Intel might suggest.In comparison, the older MacBook Air features Intel’s 5th gen Core i5 dual-core processor.The dual-core Core i5 chip runs at 1.6GHz and can Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz.The 2018 MacBook Air comes with Intel’s 8th gen dual-core processor.The old MacBook Air was only available in Silver Processor, Storage, RAM, and Security.The new MacBook Air is available in three colors: Gold, Silver, and Space Gray.Both displays have a 300-nit brightness level.It also has a display glass that goes edge to edge and has 50 percent thinner bezels.Apart from improved clarity, it shows 48 percent more colors.The new MacBook Air, however, comes with a Retina display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels compared to 1440 x 900 resolution of the older panel.Both MacBook Air variants come with a 13.3-inch LED-backlit display.This means at its thickest point, the new MacBook Air is 0.07-inch thinner than the outgoing model.The 2018 MacBook Air is 0.16 to 0.61-inch thick (15.6mm thin), while the older MacBook Air is 0.11 to 0.68-inch thick.

