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How to Force Restart a MacBook Air (2018/2019) The MacBook Air will boot up as usual. Forcing a reboot of the Mac is really something you should only do if the MacBook Air is frozen, and not as a regular method of shutting down or restarting a Mac. Apple's next generation MacBook Pro will be equipped with an SD card reader and an HDMI port, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. 'We predict that Apple's two new MacBook Pro models in 2H21 will. A controversial keyboard once present on every Apple laptop is now a thing of the past. The new-for-2020 13-inch MacBook Pro was the last Mac notebook waiting to be updated with the new Magic.

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