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CNET News: Apple trots out new MacBook Airs with Ivy Bridge

2012-06-11
with the macbook air as you know the macbook air has revolutionized the very idea of the modern notebook with this all aluminum enclosure it's incredible unibody architecture it is a breakthrough and everyone is trying to copy it but they find it's not so easy our customers love how thin and light and incapable this incredible consumer notebook is and it is really changed the consumer notebook market so we're going to update it with some really great features and updates for example the latest processors we're now updating macbook air with the new generation 3rd generation Intel Core processors otherwise honest are you British depending on configurations they can run up to 2 gigahertz of dual core i7 see with intel turbo boosting they can get as high as 3 point to give you hurts you can configure up to eight gigs of memory and that's now faster memory 1600 megahertz memory in the integrated graphics that they run on a dramatically faster up to sixty percent faster so a really nice speed increase and as you know the macbook air is built entire run flash storage and now you can put even more in it you can put up to 512 get your buns it's terrible so siddity and quick to the launch applications to put up your machine to wake up from sleep but now I'm making it even faster it's up to twice as fast before it's over 500 megabytes as reads teen I know some of y'all don't know what that means it is faster than any hard drive that you can put in a notebook today we're also making the i/o faster on aware Avenue USC three and USD three is really the tough gets ten times faster than us speak to now other people started to ac3 into their products as well and this is how they do it so they're all ports on there maybe usually three for you three to four color code them so you can tell the difference that's not how we do it so here's the macbook air as you know the macbook air has a port on each side on customers like that and we're gonna have USB 3 as well as duty to support so you don't have to think about it you just use whatever port you want to the same camera technology that we have inside of the macbook pro facetime ATT 780 720p camera to cross the board a lot of really nice updates you know the macbook air comes in 11 h and 13 inch size so here the configurations let me bring up the 11-inch first let me highlight some of the things that have changed so it's soft 1.72 gigabits dual-core ipod there's more memory at the entry configured staff as well as up to 4 gigabytes of memory and we've got the integrated graphics now sixty percent faster of course faster flash faster USC and the prices of 999 in 1099 that's one hundred dollars less expensive than before and here are 13 inch configurations they see they start with a 1.8 figure it's dual core i5 faster memory faster graphics faster USD in 1199 and for 299 both one hundred dollars less expensive than before so that's the update to the macbook air and best of all start shipping today
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