In some situations direct lighting bright lights sun light or a glare can shine directly on the light sensor on the macbook pro or macbook air and when this happens the illumination indicator and controls become locked.
Does the macbook air have a light up keyboard.
To set your keyboard brightness to adjust automatically.
To make it less bright press f5.
The june model included a free upgrade to mountain lion.
The original macbook air and the beloved 2010 redesign boasted apple s equally beloved og scissor switch keyboards.
Macbook air 2020 review.
If you get the 2019 air keep in mind that the keyboard will break at some point in the next few years and if it does getting it replaced will take between a few days and up to two weeks depending on where you live and whether your local apple store performs the repair in site or has to send the laptop off to the next repair facility.
It s a couple of hours behind those devices in all our tests including light web use nine and a half hours video playback 10 hours.
Cupertino california apple today updated macbook air the world s most loved notebook with faster performance the new magic keyboard twice the storage and a new lower price of 999 and 899 for education.
The macbook air has always been known for being super thin light it weighs just 2 8 pounds and powerful.
Select the adjust keyboard brightness in low light checkbox.
Turn your mac keyboard s backlighting on or off.
So what if any difference does it all make.
Press the decrease keyboard brightness key until the keyboard is no longer lighted.
Adjust the mac light sensor.
The macbook air that came out in june does have a backlit keyboard but i suspect you do not have that model since your post says you re running lion.
The macbook air is known for its battery life and the 2019 version keeps up that proud tradition.
Adjust the brightness manually.
From the apple menu choose system preferences then click keyboard.
To make the keyboard brighter press f6 on your notebook s built in keyboard.
The 2018 redesign though well that was saddled with apple s hugely controversial butterfly keyboard.
Apple invented the category of super thin laptops with its first macbook air back in 2008.
If your portable mac has a backlit keyboard you can adjust the level of backlighting.
The macbook air isn t bad but it can t quite keep up.