Apple Debuts New MacBook Air
Apple today introduced a new MacBook Air model: its smallest, thinnest notebook, with faster graphics and more storage capacity.
Tue, October 14, 2008
Macworld — Apple on Tuesday introduced a new MacBook Air model—its smallest, thinnest notebook—with faster graphics and more storage capacity. The price remains the same: two models are available for $1,799 and $2,499. Apple anticipates the new MacBook Air to be available in early November.
The MacBook Air uses the same core graphics chipset as Apple's newly introduced MacBook Pro and MacBook system—the Nvidia GeForce 9400M, which is embedded on the motherboard. Despite the fact that it's integrated with the motherboard, as Intel's GMA X3100 was on the last generation of MacBook Air, this new graphics architecture promises 4 times the speed, according to Apple.
The new MacBook Air also replaces its Mini DVI video connector with a new "mini display port" that provides the same functionality using less space.
The MacBook Air's $1,799 configuration still incorporates a 1.6GHz Intel Core2Duo microprocessor, but includes a 120GB hard drive (up from 80MB for the previous generation MacBook Air) and 2GB of 1066MHz RAM—the same amount, but faster.
The $2,499 MacBook Air features a 1.86GHz processor and replaces the hard disk drive with a 128GB Solid State Disk (SSD), up from 64MB.
