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When Steve Jobs first pulled the Apple MacBook Air out of a manila envelope, the laptop Apple touted as the worlds thinnest instantly turned media pundits into starry-eyed zealots. At that point, no one knew what features it had, what parts it ran...
Still the thinnest and best-looking ultraportable. Bright screen. Comfortable keyboard. Best graphics performance in its class. Extremely lightweight.
Depleted feature set. Downgraded to a low-voltage processor. Only 2GB of memory with this configuration. Lacks higher-resolution screen options. Slow spinning hard drive. Battery life hasnt improved.
The Apple MacBook Air (Nvidia 9400M GT) is a specimen of unsurpassable beauty, but upgrades of a few parts internally wont be enough to win over converts to Mac...
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Sturdy aluminum build, Fast SSD, Good graphics performance, Multitouch trackpad, Illuminated keyboard...
Short battery life, Limited port selection, Very expensive...
One of the thinnest, sexiest ultraportables ever makes its return in grand style. The updated Apple MacBook Air may keep the same svelte appearance and sturdy aluminum unibody build as its predecessor, but under the hood lies a faster processor, a powe...
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by James Galbraith, Macworld.com Though Apple announced a second generation of the MacBook Air in October of last year, a shipping delay, some surprising benchmark scores, and a little event called Macworld Expo kept us from publishing our review of th...
Weighs three pounds; full-size keyboard; bright display; greatly improved graphics power.
Slower than much more affordable Apple laptops; unswappable battery; single USB port; no video adapters in box.
Though not for everyone, Apple’s MacBook Air can still boast about its status as the world’s thinnest notebook computer, only now, with a 33 percent performance gain, the tradeoff between size and speed is not as great as with the first genera...
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On the outside, the new MacBook Air 1.86 GHz is identical to the first generation of Apples extremely lightweight laptops. Inside, its quite different, offering a new and faster processor, upgraded video circuitry, a faster frontside bus, speedier RA...
Light and sleek, Greatly improved graphics power over original Air...
Unswappable battery, Single USB port...
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electronicsme.com Updated: 2011-07-30 06:10:08
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Apple takes the Sub Notebook category to a whole new level with the Apple MacBook Air MB543LL/A. Weighing only 3 pounds, the Air was built not for the mass public, but instead with certain people in mind. With a 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 gi...
I really wonder when they sat down and started designing this laptop what the thought process was. Even in the Sub Notebook category, most laptops have more inputs and at the minimum a DVD burner. Now, I could say that they were trying to keep costs do...
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We've spent a bit of quality time with the new MacBook Air, and while there's little on the surface to denote a change, Apple did quite a bit under the hood to turn this into a serious laptop -- of sorts. Full disclosure: we (meaning a certain Paul Miller...
Much faster than earlier version, Improved boot time, mini DisplayPort plug...
Fixes problems that shouldn't have been, Could use a 3G option, Still very expensive...
Overall, we'd say we highly recommend the MacBook Air to that particular sort of person who can deal with all the remaining caveats, but we really wish Apple had gotten some of this overheating stuff under control the first time around -- and that the fir...
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Thin as ever, the latest Apple MacBook Air offers up to twice the storage and snappy performance.I really like Apple's newly revamped MacBook Air, which got extensive under-the-hood updates last month. And I really, really like the apparent speed boos...
If the first MacBook Air was a revolutionary take on the Apple laptop line, this is an evolutionary step - which is exactly what you'd expect from a second-generation release. Aesthetically, the two generations are virtually the same; technologically...
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When the MacBook Air first launched, nobody could deny it was physically impressive. Well under an inch thick, it was a visual delight to anybody who saw it. Ironically, any disappointment was saved for the owners themselves: the payoff for those mar...
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by Jason Snell, Macworld.com On the outside, the new MacBook Air 1.86GHz is identical to the first generation of Apple’s lightweight laptops. But inside it’s quite different, offering a new and faster processor, upgraded video circuitry, a faster front...
Weighs three pounds; full-size keyboard; bright display; greatly improved graphics power.
Slower than much more affordable Apple laptops; unswappable battery; single USB port; no video adapters in box.
The question is this: Is it worth spending between $1,799 and $2,499 for a MacBook Air, as opposed to between $1,299 and $1,599 for a MacBook? In addition to the $500-$900 price difference, you’ll give away an extra USB port, an optical drive, some...
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wired.com Updated: 2011-07-30 06:10:48
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This 3-pound sliver of a computer is truly breathtaking to look at. But here a good processor and 2 gigs of RAM dont translate to speedy performance, and aside from WiFi and Bluetooth, the only connections are a single USB port, a headphone jack and a...
battery life - more than three hours. Competitive price.
Lack of connectors a real problem. Some devices hard to wedge into the flipdown USB port. Disappointing performance. Pokey hard drive.Clock Rate: 1.8 Mhz Hard Drive: 80GB (4200rpm ATA). with optional 64GB flash RAM: 2GB...
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Apple certainly knows how to design a good looking product. I’ve been using the MacBook Air for a few days now and its the lightest, thinnest and possibly the best looking notebook I’ve ever used. Starting with the aesthetics, the MacBook Air is a sig...
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tbreak.com Updated: 2011-07-30 06:10:53
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Apple certainly knows how to design a good looking product. I’ve been using the MacBook Air for a few days now and its the lightest, thinnest and possibly the best looking notebook I’ve ever used. Starting with the aesthetics, the MacBook Air is a sig...
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Our initial review of the MacBook Air was based on its stock £1,199 configuration, which features a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 80GB of storage provided by a 1.8in traditional hard drive.Since then, we've obtained two 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo...
The public reaction to the MacBook Air has been fascinating. Our original conclusion could probably be boiled down to “it's good for people it's good for, and not for people it's not” – this appeared to be a Rorschach test for readers, since we've rec...
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First things first - the MacBook Air took no one by surprise. We all knew, based on the reports churning out of the rumor mill, that Apple had a subnotebook up their sleeve, and all signs were pointing at MacWorld 2008 for it’s introduction to the wo...
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theonbutton.com Updated: 2011-07-30 06:11:12
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Two weeks of watching someone pulling a laptop out of an envelope on TV can leave an impression on the mind. So I was glad to see a complete absence of said stationery in the Apple store MacBook Air display.I start giving the Air a good look over. 0.7...
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Externally, the new MacBook Air hasn't changed at all since launch. Internally, however, it's significantly more powerful. This latest update shows the difference between being thin by starvation and being thin through exercise. To recap: th...
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