"This laptop is the featherweight of all notebooks weighing in at a tiny 1.38 kg, but despite it's wafer-thin dimensions it in no way feels unstable."
Rosie Khdir
This laptop is the featherweight of all notebooks weighing in at a tiny 1.38 kg, but despite it’s wafer-thin dimensions it in no way feels unstable.
What we like best
The keyboard is delicate and the keys nicely spaced and illuminated with a subtle backlight. The touchpad is not over responsive, only awakening at the touch of a finger rather than every brush of your misplaced wrist.
The MacBook Air has not compromised on the size of its screen either, boasting an LED backlit 13.3-inch display with fantastic 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. The image quality is nothing short of spectacular.
What we like least
Connectivity with the MacBook Air is not one of its strongest attributes. It only has a Broadcom 802.11n wireless card and to get an Ethernet connection you would have to shell out £19 for an extra cable which takes up the one and only USB port on the laptop.
There is no disc drive built into this laptop, making it difficult to upload software. You must either connect the MacBook Air to another Apple Mac and then transfer software, or pay out a further £65 for an external USB SuperDrive.
The Apple MacBook Air is a beautiful and elegant creation most suited to those who are into cloud computing who will mainly use it for social networking and a bit of light work or Internet browsing. But its lack of ports is a bit of an issue as far as we're concerned.
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Processor Speed
1.86 GHz
Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM
Up to 2 Gb 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Screen Size
13.3 inch
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M shared video memory
Hard Drive Storage
Up to 120 Gb
Serial ATA-150 4200 RPM Hard Drive
Battery
Built in 40 watt hour lithium polymer
Multimedia
Webcam
1 x headphone jack mini phone stereo 3.5 mm
Stereo speaker
Ambient light sensor
Ports
1 x Hi-speed USB
4 x PIN USB type A
1 x Hi-speed USB
4 PIN USB type A
Weight & Size
325mm (W) x 19mm (H) x 227mm (D)
1.36 Kg
Connectivity
Wireless LAN
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Ethernet
Operating System
Apple MacOS X 10.6
Apple MacBook Air 13 inch is one of the lightest laptops you will find anywhere, weighing in at a mere 1.38 Kg you will suffer no portability problems with this machine.
Apple MacBook Air 13 inch
The Apple MacBook Air 13 inch is a high-end Apple Mac one of the best available before the MacBook Pro was re-released. This laptop sports a great processing power with Intel’s Core 2 Duo, and 2 Gb RAM. What’s great about the Apple MacBook Air 13 inch is that such great components are available in such elegant form.
You may find a bit of difficulty with the Apple MacBook Air 13 inch lack of ports but it has the necessaries and a great connectivity so you won’t be missing out on much, unless you reall need a HDMI. The Apple MacBook Air 13 inch laptop has some nifty multimedia apparatus such as the Ambient light sensor and full function webcam.
If you want to find out more about its features, read the PC Site Apple MacBook Air 13 inch review.
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