![]() ![]() Combined with the new, streamlined Mission Control, it’s now easier than ever to create and manage multiple desktops – which, if used sensibly, make the 12in MacBook capable of some pretty serious multi-tasking. The new Split View feature joins two full-screen apps side-by-side, and dragging the split down the middle allows you to select how much space each app gets onscreen. Indeed, the recent arrival of OS X El Capitan helps make the most of every one of those 3.3 million pixels. I preferred the extra desktop space afforded by the More Space setting in OS X, as it felt a touch cramped with scaling left at the default size, but it’s easy to tweak the setting to best suit your individual needs, or indeed the limits of your eyesight. ![]() The high pixel density causes little in the way of practical problems, either. And despite the fact that the pad sits a mere couple of millimetres below the spacebar, it never caused any accidental clicks or errant cursor movements – it just works. Once you get used to Force-clicking documents, pictures and hyperlinks in Safari to bring up quick previews in OS X, it becomes something you instinctively miss on a Boot Camp installation of Windows 8. It is wider, if a little less tall, than that of the 13in MacBook Pro. The Force Touch trackpad is far less likely to divide opinion. In short, if you are considering the MacBook then I strongly advise you spend some time in your nearest Apple store trying the keyboard out – I suspect it’s a love/hate thing. Developer Marco Arment, in his review of the MacBook, described the keys as feeling clicky, “ almost like the iPhone’s Home button”, and there is something in what he’s saying. However, anyone used to using a mechanical keyboard, or indeed any other keyboard at all, may find that the MacBook keyboard takes a lot of getting used to. A feather-light yet crisp dig of feedback leaves no doubt as to whether you’ve hit a key or not, and I was soon typing as comfortably and quickly as on my long-suffering office ThinkPad. Each of the backlit keys is 40% bigger, and although they have very little travel, that’s something I very quickly got used to. ![]()
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