MacBook Air New Generation More Sexy

In addition to OS X Lion introduced, Apple also showed off the latest generation of MacBook Air. Interestingly, the new MacBook Air is far more sexy and thin because it comes with screen sizes 11 and 13 inches.

In addition, other distinctive feature lies in the solid state storage technologies, batteries that can last up to 7 hours and 30 hours standby time.

"MacBook Air is the first of a new generation of notebooks that leave traditional storage. This time it supports flash solid state storage," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs, as reported by TG Daily, Thursday (10/21/2010).

"We have taken what we have learned with the iPad, solid state storage, instant-on, battery standby time is amazing, miniaturization and light construction, to create new MacBook Air with an amazing response and mobility, it will change the way we think about notebook, "he said again.

Indeed, the new MacBook Air is thinner than the previous generation, which reached 0.11-inches at the thinnest point and 0.68-inch in thickness, which weighs only 2.3 pounds for 11-inch model and 2.9 pounds for the 13 - inch.

And, like the iPad, the MacBook Air was designed from the ground up to use flash storage exclusively.

With solid state flash storage, making the MacBook Air is 90 percent smaller and lighter than conventional notebook hard drives, but provides faster data access and more reliable than hard drives for notebook solid state design.

Specification of the latest generation of MacBook Air:

- Full-sized keyboard.
- Multi-Touch trackpad.
- FaceTime camera, mic and stereo speakers.
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz & 1.86 GHz.
- Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 320m.
- LED-backlit display.
- Mini DisplayPort.
- Wi-Fi 802.11n.
- Bluetooth 2.1 EDR.
- Two USB ports.
- SD card slot (13-inch model).
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
- ILife '11.

The price of the MacBook Air with 2GB of memory memory, 1.4GHz processor and 64GB of flash storage start of USD1.000, while the 128GB model priced USD1.200.