If you're considering Apple's new MacBook Air, here are 7 reasons you should buy the 13-inch MacBook Pro instead

The biggest issue with the 2018 MacBook Air, when I first saw it in person, was that its maximum brightness wasn't bright enough for my eyes.

The MacBook Air screen maxes out at 300 nits of brightness, but the 13-inch MacBook Pro display can get much brighter, and is capable of 500 nits.

The 2018 MacBook Air features eighth-generation processors from Intel, which can achieve Turbo Boost up to 3.6 GHz.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro features older processors — Intel's seventh-generation chips — but they have a better Turbo Boost of up to 4.0 GHz.

The MacBook Pro can also be upgraded to include a beefier Intel i7 processor, in case you want to do heavier tasks like video editing. With the 2018 MacBook Air, you're stuck with an Intel i5 processor, which could struggle under heavy load.

You'd think the MacBook Air would be drastically thinner than its Pro counterpart, but that's not the case.

Quite the contrary; the 2018 MacBook Air is 0.61 inches at its thickest point, and the 13-inch MacBook Pro is actually 0.59 inches at its thickest point, which is slightly thinner than the Air!

(The Air, of course, features a tapered design, so its thinnest point is just 0.16 inches.)

The 2018 MacBook Air weighs 2.75 pounds, while the 13-inch MacBook Pro weighs just a little more than that, at 3.02 pounds. The difference is pretty much negligible.

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All other things equal, given how much time you'll be spending in front of this computer, you'll want its display to be as bright and colorful as it can be. And the difference in display quality between the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Air is pretty noticeable.

For $100 more, you can have the same size computer with a much richer display, and a little more power to boot. Every other feature is nearly identical across both computers.