The display housing now uses the same unibody engineering process as the lower enclosure, milling the casing from a single piece of aluminium for strength and lightness. As you'd expect from an Apple laptop, the screen is gorgeous, with excellent colour definition and viewing angles.
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While it could never match a high-end MacBook Pro for performance, you can open multiple applications, watch high-definition video and even play some modern games. Thanks to its solid state storage and a great new NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics chipset, it's far more capable than the clock speed suggests. The MacBook Air's processor is still nothing to write home about, but there's more to performance than processing power. "As you'd expect from an Apple laptop, the screen is gorgeous, with excellent colour definition." Graphics: Integrated NVIDIA GeForce 320M Chipset.Display: 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen, 1440x900 resolution.So little energy is used that the Air can run for around 30 days in this standby mode, but is instantly on as soon as you open the lid. As always, closing the lid puts the machine into sleep mode, but after an hour it goes into an ultra-low-powered state. Perhaps even more impressive is the new standby mode. This 13-inch model gives around seven hours of WiFi use on a single charge. This uses around 90% less space, freeing up room for a series of powerful battery cells.
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Apple MacBook Air video I Apple MacBook Air pictures: UnboxedĪll the new Airs now boast solid state storage, but the chips are mounted on a card instead of in a 2.5-inch enclosure.
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This new release is still prohibitively expensive, but increased power and a host of technologies developed for the iPad mean even if it doesn't make the mass market, it's certainly an object of desire. Sure, its low size and weight were impressive, but its high cost and relatively low power curbed its potential for widespread appeal. To date, the MacBook Air has been something of a novelty item.