John Siracusa

So that is big.

And why is there a third less battery in it?

A, because it seems like they could for power, and B, smaller batteries cost less money.

That's what it comes down to.

Yeah, we'll see.

If it's thicker, it could be millimeters, but we'll see what it looks like when they tear it down.

Up to 16 hours of video streaming, which is 11% less than the MacBook Air, and up to 11 hours of wireless web, which is 26%.

less than the MacBook Air.

So it does take a battery life hit in exchange for that one third smaller battery.

But the battery life still seems acceptable.

So 16 hours for video streaming and 11 hours for wireless web.

It is fine.

But again, if you were hoping this was going to be either an ultra thin laptop or a laptop that had insane battery life because it uses a phone chip, neither one of those things are true.

What is true is it doesn't cost a lot of money, which we'll get to in a bit.

It comes with a 20 watt charger, which should tell you don't expect fast charging of this because it doesn't support it.

So that 20 watt charger will supply, I'm assuming will supply power to this thing as fast as it is willing to take it.

So don't bother trying to get a higher wattage charger.

It seems like it's not going to charge it any faster.

Again, cost savings.

No keyboard backlight, no touch ID on the model of the base model.