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Apple MacBook Air Review - CNET

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CNET have published a review of the new Apple MacBook Air (1.8GHz) Notebook. 'The MacBook Air includes the usual iSight camera, an LED backlit display, an ambient light sensor, and a big touchpad that works with multitouch gestures, such as rotating a photo by twisting your fingers on the touchpad. As for what's inside this slim laptop, we're looking at a 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, custom-made by Intel to fit into the slim chassis, 2GB of RAM, and a choice of either an 80GB standard 1.8-inch hard drive or a 64GB SSD drive (which really should be standard for something so forward-looking). Moving up to the SSD drive and faster CPU drives the price up from $1,799 to a whopping $3,098.

Bluetooth and 802.11n were expected, but the lack of an optical drive is a surprise--it's a smart space- and power-saving move we expect to see in more ultraportable laptops. External drives will work, and the Air can connect wirelessly to an optical drive in another nearby computer. Missing features we're less happy about having to live without on include any kind of mobile broadband, an SD card slot, FireWire, an onboard Ethernet jack, and Express card slot.'

Read: Apple MacBook Air (1.8GHz) - CNET

Posted by HCG Admin on January 17, 2008 12:08 PM |

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