Changes in the design of the Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) is subtle. If you see a flash next to the previous mini-DisplayPort, it means that you have a MacBook Air in 2011. There are also new tags for F3 and F4, which reflects the new features Mac OS X Lion brings. F5 and F6 keys are now appointed to control the brightness of the illuminated keyboard. Even if the backlight of the keyboard was a lie of an addition, key layout is unchanged. Besides all this, see Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt), like its predecessor.
Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) to keep slim profile, measuring 0.68 inches and tapering to the rear 0.11 inches in the front. There are other ultraportables that are almost as thin as the Samsung Series 9 ($ 1,650 list, 4 stars), the Sony VAIO VPC-Z214GX, UX21 and Asus, but they are not tapered like the MacBook Air.
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Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) |
Weight remains the same 2.9 pounds. It is not the lightest on the market, ie the difference between the Sony Z214GX (2.5 pounds). Build quality is what continues to bind together the whole design, aluminum unibody structure remains the strongest and most luxurious of its kind.
The 13.3-inch widescreen reality outweighs the Apple MacBook Pro 13 inch (Thunderbolt), and many of his peers. Its brightness and sharpness is only surpassed by the number of pixels it packs in. As you can imagine, the more pixels you can pack in a screen, the most fantastic pictures, videos and watch a movie in high definition. Its 1440 by 900 pixels is higher than the series Samsung nine, the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the Toshiba Portege R835-P50X (list $ 850, 4 stars). Only Sony has a nicer Z214GX screen, with its 1600 by 900 pixels.
Many complained about Apple's move to remove the keyboard backlight is the second generation of the MacBook Air. MacBook Pro has had from the beginning, and is a feature that has made the Samsung Series 9 and Sony Z214GX very attractive from the point of view of writing. In this publication, Apple will return what it took, and writing experience, especially in low light environment, is much better. Flat-top keys blacks are not my favorites, because they do not have the depth and responsiveness than the Toshiba R835-P50X. But this I am being picky. This is the same keyboard is in the entire line of Apple laptop, and very few people have complained. Glass touchpad is not only a great laptop, but it clicks in and supports a series of multi-finger gesture. It plays an even greater importance, especially now that Mac OS X includes the IPAD-centric features lion bringing a whole new meaning by sliding and sliding.
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Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) |
Feature
The second USB port and SD slot has been updated the main features of the previous MacBook Air, although features common to all the other phones. Ray, however, is exclusive to Apple, at least for now. It is based on data transfer called Intel Light Peak, who lives inside the mini-DisplayPort (the attributes of the physical form and the port have not changed, and you can still connect to external monitors). When connected to a beam device loans, transfer rates can reach 10Gbps. This is 21 times the speed of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400, 12 times that of FireWire 800 and twice that of USB 3.0. If lightning is orderly use of which may extend through the connection, as data moves through the PCI-Express universal suffrage. This means that any third party device can create a center that works with lightning Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, DisplayPort, etc.
What other ports, the air is minimal. These two USB ports and an SD card slot and an audio interface should be covered by a series of devices that are used in a typical day. There's no Ethernet port, but many say that the Wi-Fi is more than enough. If the requirements of Internet connection are more sophisticated than the average, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 ($ 1,399 direct, 3.5 stars) and the Samsung 9 Series is the Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Bluetooth.
Although expensive, flash storage (or Solid State Drive) are used for a number of reasons. One is its physical size, a flash storage module is the size of a stick of gum, an important factor in maintaining the MacBook Air is so thin it is. It is also faster, especially when the laptop wakes from sleep or cold boots. Apple calls this "instant-on" and I could not agree more. However, the capacity of 128 GB (expandable to 256 GB) seems modest compared with the hollow rotating disk drives in the Toshiba R835-P50X (640GB) and Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG ($ 750 street, 4 stars) ( 500 GB).
Unfortunately, ray devices are few and far between. To date, there are now two of them: the promise of hard drive and R6 Pegasus Ray of Apple.
Rating: 5
Reviewer: HotblogReview
ItemReviewed: Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt)
