Apple Releases New MacBook Air Notebooks
Apple yesterday unveiled an all new MacBook Air, the first of a next generation of notebooks which will replace mechanical hard disks and optical drives with Internet services and solid state flash storage. Available in 11-inch and 13-inch models and weighing as little as 2.3 pounds, the new MacBook Air is Apples lightest and most portable notebook ever. MacBook Air uses the same solid state storage technology as iPad to deliver instant-on responsiveness, up to seven hours of battery life and up to 30 days of standby time. Starting at $999, the affordable MacBook Air defines the next generation of MacBooks. The new MacBook Air is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors and NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics for those that are curious.
With its precision aluminum unibody enclosure, the new MacBook Air measures an incredibly thin 0.11-inches at its thinnest point and 0.68-inches at its thickest, and weighs just 2.3 pounds for the 11-inch model and 2.9 pounds for the 13-inch. Like iPad, MacBook Air was designed from the ground up to use flash storage exclusively. Apples custom-designed flash storage is 90 percent smaller and lighter than a conventional notebook hard drive, contributing to MacBook Airs mobile, featherweight design. MacBook Airs flash storage also provides faster data access and is more reliable than notebook hard drives due to its solid state design.
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