One year after the announcement of the iPhone, the latest Apple laptop: MacBook Air, which they claim is the thinnest laptop in the world. It is the MacBook Air really the dream laptop for all travelers or does conceal irreparable gaps?
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The MacBook Air comes with a display 13.3-inch LED widescreen display, MacBook Air, as dimensions than the MacBook, but its maximum thickness of no more than 0.76 inches. Like its predecessors, offers a wideKeyboard, a built-in webcam and the latest operating system Mac OS X "Leopard." The basic version comes with a signed Duets Intel and rhythmical to 1.6 Core 2 GHz, the MacBook Air 2 Go RAM, Bluetooth, 802.11n Wi-Fi equipped, and a 80 GB hardrive.
Look, keyboard, touchpad
The MacBook Air is immediately enticing. Breaking with the design of the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines provide a relatively simple, Apple chose to conceive a chassis veryedges slightly rounded, which helps to reinforce its thinness impression. Determine the size of 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 cm deep, like the MacBook is equipped with a display 13.3-inch LED widescreen has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels.
The MacBook Air weighs just under 3 pounds. The body shell of the MacBook Air takes a gray anodized surface similar to what we found on the MacBook Pro or the back of the newiPhone. Rather rigid, this dish makes a good impression to the extent that the MacBook Air adorned clearly less fragile than you might think. However, this soft surface to the key marks enough easily, the true nomads have to slip a protective cover.
Like on the MacBook, this keyboard uses a backlight, rather pleasant when using the machine in obscurity, of which the intensity can be adjusted independently of the screen. After severalDays of application and the necessary moments of adaptation, shows the keyboard of the MacBook Air itself is very nice.
The screen
The MacBook Air has a webcam (640 x 480) of poor quality and a microphone. It has a light sensor that automatically reduces the backlight LED when one is in a dark room. In this case, reduces the intensity of illumination of the keyboard. If your finger on the sensor: this immediately recognizes darkness, and theThe intensity of the screen decreases. With a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, the display of the MacBook Air a work surface less important than those of a certain 11-inch model, with which this increases the resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, but Apple provides some comfort then visual, with a definition fully compatible with the most users. From brilliant way, is the bright LCD panel, warm colors and round, but true. Increasing the brightness, the MacBook AirExternal light.
The MacBook Air inaugurates a new generation of touchpad, the iPhone has inspired the first mobile phone from Apple. And 'wider, a traditional touchpad. With three fingers, you can use the navigator Safari ... but not with Firefox. Most of these small functionalities do not radically change the user experience, but are part of the appeal of Apple products.
Connections
The three ports on the MacBook Air are proposed, which is located on the left side only,through a small hatch that once opened, leaves little time to reach them. In particular, if the line is thick, or if you use a large USB key, you will not be able to connect directly. To resolve this problem, Apple suggests suing an extension. These are fairly cheap, but now the cable is forced, something that multiply to reduce the appearance of ultra-portable machine.
Wi-Fi but not DVDs
The absence of DVD is voluntary (it is not enoughThickness in each case). Apple's marketing states that at a time when there are more wires, it is still necessary to have a DVD player? Apple plays the network card, you can use an application compatible with Mac and Windows XP and Windows Vista, the DAV and CD wirelessly. The reader of your main machine so that it can be used to install applications, transfer contents to the MacBook Air and even resettle your operating system, but it may take five to 10 times longer in Mayas with a DVD player. If it is a big problem you have with a $ 99 buy external USB 2.0 based DVD player.
Speed
Powered by a Core 2 rhythmical Duets to 1.6 GHz, engraved in 65 nanometers, the MacBook Air is not a speed demon, and is slower than the Apple laptop. The choice of Apple is therefore to ensure a level of acceptable performance for medium and light users.
If you're willing to spend more the MacBook Air has a strongThe publication of a processor frequency of 1.8 GHz but also and especially a type of flash memory SSD of 64 Go, similar to Lenovo ThinkPad X300 series is built. To take advantage of these improvements will be needed, but will pay a premium of approximately $ 1,300, which will bring the final price of the MacBook Air more than $ 3,098.
Performance
Certain applications extremely resource intensive work clearly slowly on the MacBook Air,thanks to its 1.6 GHz processor. In other words, the manipulation of large images in Photoshop or a video put your patience to edit a particular sample.
On the other hand, the manipulation of photos or video clips using iMovie works smoothly and without significant discomfort. The interface receives the liquid that you can expect of Leopard, despite the poor performance of their processors. Surfing the Web, no office, music and videosuffer from any problem. As for the games, we keep it simple, just select a different laptop.
Battery life
Apple talks about an autonomy of about five hours with activated WiFi. Proposed in the selection of Eco-mode in Mac OS X and the screen brightness to 75% of its capacity, the MacBook Air has been able to work at 3:15, before the low battery warning showed up.
Completion
You might think that with his MacBook Air, stretched Apple to create a new segment on the laptopMarket. Its impeccable design, low weight and extreme thinness makes it a good candidate for the ultra-portable category. But the inability to change the battery or the extremely limited connectivity will stop many professionals who generally this type of machine. The performance of the MacBook Air is for light users ie bloggers connected traveler enough, fans, journalists and other field personnel. You will have no difficulty in composing the work with photos,Preparing invoices and guarantee products or, then a presentation that all benefited from his excellent LCD screen plate.
Apple has tried to circumvent some of the drawbacks of the MacBook Air. The absence of DVD is taking the functionality of compensation in the amount of a network of readers to a remote computer, PC or MAC. The idea is interesting, even if in fact we can not imagine having to install anything substantial Sun The touchpad is improved, integrating more functionality to comeiPhone. Although these improvements do not revolutionize the way people interact with a computer, are quite pleasant.
You will need to add the MacBook Air external DVD, as well as a USB hub and a USB adapter to your Ethernet network, to ensure real comfort of use, and put it on an equal footing with other machines with corresponding price and functionality. Therefore, this decrease is what makes the charm of the MacBook Air: its thinness. The other solution would be toThey stress the idea that the MacBook Air only as an auxiliary machine, a light, portable and elegant, comes close to your workplace for the day of travel as planned and only light work.
This beautiful machine suffers from cruel limitations that other computers, sometimes lighter or less expensive, do not have. Despite the beauty of lines and ease of use of the MacBook Air, not deliver the ultra portable promise as expected. The previous MacBook performsis better, more functional and cheaper!
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