Macbook Air Review

MacBook Air Review

The MacBook Air offers all the goodness of a Mac in the sleekest, slimmest body around.

The MacBook Air’s patented-technology aluminum unibody is designed to make the notebook sleekly slim and lightweight. Still, this doesn’t diminish its capacity to deliver full-capacity notebook performance.

At only 3.0 pounds, its glossy 13.3-inch, widescreen LED-backlit display with 1280-by-800 resolution is powered with LED technology, making it more power efficient. Since the entire notebook is also made with the environment in mind, the MacBook Air is highly recyclable and energy-efficient.

Notable Features and Highlights

The life source of this sleek notebook is the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, which is specifically designed to fit within the slim dimensions of the MacBook Air. Performing at speeds not commonly found on most portable notebooks, the MacBook Air is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo running at 1.86GHz or 2.13GHz. It’s geared for maximum productivity for users whether on the road, in the air, or in the office, with 1066MHz frontside bus, 2GB of DDR3 memory, and 6MB of L2 cache.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard gives the MacBook Air its visually attractive, user-friendly interface. The MacBook Air’s slim and sleek design doesn’t mean it compromises on graphics quality. Unlike regular laptops or computers, the CPU and the graphics processor of the MacBook Air –with all of the core logic – are built into a single chip. Its high-speed graphics are made possible with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor, which gives up to 6 times the graphics performance of other models. Because of this improved graphics performance in MacBook Air, everything in Mac OS X responds more smoothly and quickly. As a result, games are more fluid, making for smooth play; iPhoto loads more swiftly with crisp and vivid images; movie and video playback is top notch; image editing and building a blog is a cinch.

Other notable external features are the full size keyboard, spacious track pad and mini display port. The keyboard’s backlit keys make for an easier working experience in airplanes or conference rooms while the built-in ambient light sensor enables the keyboard illumination and display brightness to adjust automatically according to ambient lighting. A spacious track pad allows for Multi-Touch technology, which recognizes pinch, rotate and swipe gestures. In addition, the MacBook Air’s Mini DisplayPort makes for plug-and-play performance with the Apple LED Cinema Display, supporting VGA, DVI, and dual-link DVI connections.

In Conclusion

As for energy-efficiency, the MacBook Air’s intelligent software enables the hard drive to spin down automatically. It can also decide which processor is more suited for a particular task , and even manages CPU or GPU power so you can save on energy as you work. Size without the compromise. This is the type of high-speed and high quality performance that the MacBook Air promises, all in an ultra-lightweight notebook.