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Product Details
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Integrated Graphics, 13.3 inch LED Display
- Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard Operating System
- 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
- 120 GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (4200RPM), 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM
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Product Description
MacBook Air continues to redefine what’s tenable. Just 0.16 inch at its thinnest point, 0.76 inch at its thickest instant, and a mere 3.0 pounds, it’s still ultrathin and ultraportable. And now, pushing the performance limits of ultraportable notebooks, it features a faster 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 1066MHz frontside bus, 2GB of DDR3 recollection, and 6MB of L2 cache, so you can be as productive on the road as in the office. Offering ample storage, MacBook Air comes with a 120GB dictatorial drive that uses less power and provides enhanced durability. Its advanced NVIDIA processor brings you dazzling, high-speed graphics, delivering a graphics performance boost up to 6x that of the autochthonous model. Unlike other ultraportables, MacBook Air doesn’t compromise on features users nurse b like most about: the display and the keyboard. It includes a bright, 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen expose, a full-size backlit keyboard, a spacious Multi-Touch trackpad, and a built-in iSight camera. Engineered for the wireless area, MacBook Air also comes with 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, and Remote Disc to deliver unique wireless versatility.
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With the MacBook Air, Apple has created the world's thinnest laptop--measuring an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest tip (and 0.76 inches thick overall). Apple brings its vaunted multi-touch technology, found on the iPhone, to its laptops with the MacBook Air, enabling you to touch, swipe, or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or harmonize an image via the oversized trackpad. And the MacBook Air embodies Apple's continuing environmental progress with its aluminum rail, a material highly desired by recyclers, a mercury-free LCD display with arsenic-voluntary glass, and brominated flame retardant-free material for the majority of margin boards as well as PVC-free internal cables.
Despite the its slender shell, the MacBook Air doesn't skimp on the specifications. It includes a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen spectacle, full-size and backlit keyboard, and a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing. This MacBook Air (working model MC233LL/A) is powered by a custom-built 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, which provides an optimized, multithreaded architecture for improved multitasking conduct. And it features the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor, which delivers famous 3D game play with up to five times faster graphics performance than the previous formation. Other features include 2 GB of RAM, a 120 GB hard disk drive, Wi-Fi connectivity via 802.11a/b/g/n standards, Mini DisplayPort video create (for DVI and VGA connections), and up to a 5-hour battery life.
Amazingly thin at just 0.16 inches at its thinnest and 0.76 inches at its thickest call attention to, the MacBook Air weighs just 3 pounds. |
It comes pre-loaded with Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system--an operating system especially-designed for the advanced technology inside--and it also comes with the iLife '09 entourage of applications, including iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, and iTunes.
With the trackpad's Multi-Provoke technology, you can pinch, swipe, or rotate to adjust an image, zoom in on passage, or advance through a photo album. |
The MacBook Air includes a vibrant 13.3-inch LED-backlit air and a full-sized keyboard (see larger image). |
Design The thinness of MacBook Air is impressive, but even more imposing is that fact that there's a full-size notebook encased in the 0.16 to 0.76 inch of trim, sturdy anodized aluminum. This svelte, 3-pound laptop has a vibrant, dynamism efficient 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, and its capacious trackpad offers multi-touch gesture support for pinch, reel and swipe--making it more intuitive than ever to browse and rotate photos or zoom into web pages in Safari. It also features a full-dimensions keyboard that's backlit, making it ideal for dimly lit environments such as airplanes, studios or convention halls. It includes a built-in ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the cheer of the keys as well as the display brightness for optimal visibility.
One of Apple's most celebrated innovations is the MagSafe power adapter connector, which offers a engaging connection instead of a physical one. So, if you happen to trip over a power cord, you won't send the MacBook Air flying off a board or desk--the cord simply disconnects, without damage to either the cord or the system.
Intel Insides 2 Duo Processor
Custom-built to fit within the compact dimensions of the laptop, the MacBook Air is powered by a 1.86 GHz Intel Quintessence 2 Duo processor with a super-fast 1066 MHz front-side bus (FSB), and an enormous 6 MB of Smart Cache, an L2 hide that can be shared between the cores as needed. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores evidence; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will enunciate better overall performance.)
The Intel Core 2 Duo's 128-bit SSE3 vector motor handles 128-bit computations in a single clock cycle, accelerating evidence manipulation by simultaneously applying a single instruction to multiple data. And its two technique cores are designed to share resources and conserve power, helping it to about higher levels of performance since it uses fewer watts. And with 4MB of shared L2 cache, the MacBook Air is a multi-tasking hideousness. With such substantial L2 cache, data and instructions can be kept close to the two processor cores, greatly increasing engagement and allowing the entire system to work more efficiently. And, because the processor cores share the L2 secrete, either can use the entire amount if the other happens to be idle.
Video Processing & Output
Whether you're working on a Keynote performance or watching a movie before you catch a flight, every document, video, and photo on your MacBook Air will look sour on the glossy 13.3-inch widescreen display. With the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor, the MacBook Air changes the regatta and just about everything you do with it. The 9400M provides up to an amazing 4x performance boost over the original MacBook Air. Photos plain in iPhoto quickly, transitions in Keynote are seamless, games play more smoothly, and motion picture and video playback is better than ever before. The 9400M graphics processor shares 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM with essential memory.
The MacBook Air now includes a next generation Mini DisplayPort, which delivers a pure digital timer that can drive up to a 30-inch widescreen display. The Mini DisplayPort is ultra-compressed at just 10 percent the size of a full DVI connector, and is compatible with Apple's 24-inch Movie theater Display. Adapters are also available for using VGA, DVI/HDMI and Dual-Link DVI displays
Painful Drive and Memory
For storage, this MacBook Air comes with a 120 GB Serial ATA hard disk aggressiveness (4200 RPM). The 2 GB of PC3-8500 DDR3 RAM (two SO-DIMMs of 1024 MB) has an industry-leading 1066 MHz expedite, and it maximizes the capacity for this laptop.
Optical Drive
Because of the amazingly thin design of the MacBook Air, an visual (DVD/CD) drive was not included. To install software from a disc, you can wirelessly use or "borrow" visual drives on remote PCs or Macs using the Remote Disk feature. This allows you full admission to an optical drive without having to haul one around. If you want to have an optical drive for blazing CDs and DVDs, you can purchase the optional MacBook Air SuperDrive (sold separately). This multi-order CD/DVD read/write drive is powered by the MacBook Air's USB port, eliminating the need to lead a separate power adapter.
Networking
The MacBook Air doesn't include wired Ethernet networking, and in preference to relies solely on Wi-Fi to connect to your home network as well as wireless hotspots. The built-in 802.11n wireless networking provides up to five times the play and twice the range of 802.11g, but it's also backward-compatible with 802.11a/b/g routers, enabling you to vibrate on the same frequency with the a wide variety of Wi-Fi resources. It works seamlessly with the optional AirPort Maximum base station as well as Apple's Time Capsule Wi-Fi base station/hard stab--both of which include 802.11n capabilities. If you don't have access to a wireless network, you can use an optional USB Ethernet Adapter (sold alone)
Use the built-in Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless technology to link to your PDA or cell phone, synchronize addresses, or download pictures from your cell phone. You can also use a wireless headset for iChat audio chats and VoIP calls as well as rapidly share files with a colleague.
Video Conferencing with Built-in iSight
Subtly placed in the display bezel is an iSight camera, which enables easy video conferencing as well as allows you to of oneself pictures of yourself and create video podcasts. Using the iChat AV application, video conferencing is integrated into your iChat companion list, so initiating a video conference is a breeze. iChat also lets you hang on audio chats with up to 10 people and provides high-quality audio solidity and full-duplex sound so conversation can flow naturally. For video podcasting, you can take down a short clip using the iSight camera, then use iWeb to create a video blog entrance or post your GarageBand-recorded podcast.
Other Features
- Mini DisplayPort in agreement with DVI, VGA, and dual-link DVI connectors (all optional)
- Analog audio output/headphone out (minijack)
- Built-in mono rabble-rouser and omnidirectional microphone
- Integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer mobile provides up to 5 hours of battery life
- Built-in full-size keyboard with 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys, including 12 purpose keys, 4 arrow keys (inverted "T" arrangement), and embedded numeric keypad
- Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (constitutional), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, 800 by 500, 720 by 480, and 640 by 480 pixels at 16:10 light ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 exposure ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio
Expected with the Environment in Mind Apple has worked hard to eliminate many of the toxins that are a common part of computer manufacturing. Apple engineers removed the more than half of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from circuit boards, internal cables, connectors, insulators, adhesives, and more in the MacBook Air.
Because Apple makes both the munitions and the software for the MacBook, they're designed to work together to produce a smarter product that uses less verve. For instance, to reduce energy consumption, the hard drive spins down intuitively when inactive. MacBook Air also decides which processor--CPU or GPU--is best suited to efficiently perform a assignment. The processor even throttles down to save power between keystrokes as you type. The LED-backlit parade in MacBook Air is another feature that plays an important part in conserving energy, consuming 30 percent less power than accustomed LCD displays. And the display is designed to dim when you enter a darkened room.
The MacBook Air meets the stringent low power requirements set by the EPA, giving it Dash STAR certification. MacBook also meets the latest efficiency requirements of ENERGY Celebrated Version 5.0 Specification for Computers before its July 2009 effective woman.
The MacBook Air has also earned the highest rating of EPEAT Gold. The Electronic Product Environmental Test Tool, or EPEAT, evaluates the environmental impact of a product based on how recyclable it is, how much dynamism it uses, and how it's designed and manufactured.
Pre-Loaded with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and iLife '09
Every Mac comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the men's most advanced operating system, and iLife, Apple's innovative suite of applications for managing photos, making pictures and creating and learning to play music. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X alteration and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Swop. iLife features iPhoto, to easily organize and manage photos; iMovie with strong easy-to-use new features such as Precision Editor, video stabilization and advanced haul and drop; and GarageBand which introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar.
Installed software
- Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard (includes Beat Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Talk Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools)
- iLife '09 (includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD)
What's in the Box
MacBook Air, 45W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC go bust enclose plug, power cord, Apple USB Ethernet Adapter, cleaning/polishing the priesthood, install/restore DVDs, printed documentation
Customer Reviews
Very rigorous, but not perfect
I'm a PC, but I'm also a Mac. A Macbook Air (MBA) to be thorough. I'm very much into design so it just made sense. I first considered something like the Dell Adamo, Latitude Z or the HP Covet13, But the Dells were heavily under-powered processor-wise. The HP was crazy strong, but heftier than I would have liked. The Latitude's Euro design gave the MBA's design a run for it fortune, but it starts at over two grand and you'll easily knock on $2500 with the bells and whistles, Yikes! The HP Covet 13 is very powerful and the only ultra-portable with the i7 processor. But for what I'll be using this for, the mobility and bounty is more important to me. The Adamo seemed to match the price and features of the Macbook Air best, but finding that the delineate, feature and price pretty much a draw (I personally thought the MBA had a very small margin on Design), I settled on the MBA because of the fact that I can run Windows 7 as well as Mac OS X(which I also use for different purposes)and the better raise quality. I have to say, the unibody design really makes the thing feel as if it was fixed from one piece of aluminum. There's minimal flex to speak of. Closed, it just feels so perilous in your hands.
The 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor is a lot better than the 1.2 and 1.4 that are accessible in the Dells; more than enough for my usage. This might have been a bit meek had I not already had an Intel Core 2 Quad Desktop computer at place. This also made HP ENVY pointless.
The screen is more than adequate and much better than a netbook. Since it's so light, it indeed can go anywhere a netbook can. The nice Keyboard and trackpad was also refreshing.
The Solid State Intend is also nice, but after some usage, I really don't find them all that different from a standard HD, perhaps a bit faster, but not that noticeable. It irrefutably is cooler and less noisy. Some users have complained about it getting a bit warm, but I'm thinking they've got an HD as an alternative of an SSD.
And now for the few CONs:
No optical drive - since I won't be needing this too often it's not a big deal. I already have an external Blu-Ray Drive that I reach-me-down to install everything. Once that was done, I can only image using it for an occasion Blu-Ray/DVD movie, but even this will be rare, unless I'm in a lodging room somewhere and bore out of my mind.
Connectivity:
No Ethernet, big deal! It's all about wireless!
Unearthly Mini Display port - also not a big deal since I don't imaging connecting an external keep track of to this much.
Only one USB - This one, I admit, is pretty significant. It was a bit of hassle to swap USB devices a bit, but again, I only use multiple devices a troublemaker of times (mainly a USB DJ Console Mixer and an external USB HD containing the music I need to mix). I got a little griffin USB "Splitter" which was nothing more than a very tiny USB Hub, but it did have some trouble getting enough power to the HD from this one USB refuge, so I did have to add a USB power cable to the mix (the audio was clipping heavily during mixing and transition). So keep that in certain if you're planning to daisy-chain three hard drives, a soda cooler and a reading obscure to the USB port- just don't. It works fine with the majority of other (low powered) USB devices.
RAM - Here's the other big CON! While 2GB of RAM will to all intents be ok for now, but I would have loved having the option of adding more. I have 8GB on my desktop and I actually use it (photo and video editing, media fore functions, terminal services, etc.)! While I'm not doing much of that (maybe a little Photoshoping) on this preoccupation, all it takes is that killer application that requires at least 4GB of RAM that I can't use that will drive me nuts!
I have a first generation Macbook Pro from occupation and I always loved the design of it. This takes things to the next level. I'm primarily a Windows drug, and this seems to work a bit more seamlessly with Windows than the Macbook Pro(although with the latest drivers and software updates for bootcamp from apple, it got well-advised b wealthier). It's kinda odd that I went with an Mac to run Windows, but it was a calculated choice. Had I been looking for a full-function laptop, it would have inclined to been an HP or Dell.
2009-12-11
(LA,California) | Helpful Votes: 15 | Rating: 4
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