The back to school shopping season has arrived, with millions of students gearing up to head to college for another year of studies. As with the past few years, Apple's MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines remain immensely popular with college students, who appreciate the high-quality engineering, sexy looks and great usability of these laptops. Continue reading »
According to iFixit, a site that makes a mission of tearing apart every Apple product they can get their hands on, the new 2011 MacBook Air comes with a much smaller Thunderbolt controller than those used in the company's MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac mini models that are Thunderbolt enabled. It turns out that the new controller chip is one of Intel's 'Eagle Ridge' chips, a lower-cost chip that could encourage other device manufacturers to include Thunderbolt in their devices.
This week, Apple both released the new 2011 MacBook Air models and signaled that they are discontinuing the White MacBook - an iconic device that everyone knew was a MacBook simply from the familiar look of the stark white plastic. While many users are up in arms that the White MacBook is being discontinued, Apple has pointed to the MacBook Air series as the new go-to for those that do not require the performance of a MacBook Pro. Let's take a look at the two MacBooks and point out a few reasons that the MacBook Air beats the White MacBook. Continue reading »
As Apple released the new 2011 MacBook Air laptop models this week, it seemed fitting to take a look at the new Air and compare it to the MacBook Pro, which is still Apple's hottest selling laptop line. Let's consider these two options side by side and see just how one can decide between the Air and the Pro.
It only takes having the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro sitting beside one another to know which size and form factor most are going to prefer. The Air is a sleek, thin and incredibly light laptop, given the amount of processing power under the hood. The MacBook Pro is thicker and considerably heavier, thanks to its better display, larger case, and the many other pieces of hardware that power it. If you are the type that has to carry your laptop everywhere, there's no doubt that the MacBook Air will give your shoulder a bit of a break. If you don't mind having a larger laptop and don't care much about the Air's stealthy looks, the MacBook Pro is still a good looking option that always turns heads. Continue reading »
Alongside today's launch of OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple has finally blessed its incredibly popular MacBook Air lineup with upgraded processors and graphics hardware designed to take this thin and light notebook into the coming year. Last refreshed in late 2010, the MacBook Air was starting to grow a bit stale as it still included Intel's Core 2 Duo processors, which were far behind the i5 and i7 processors found in the MacBook and MacBook Pro. Let's take a look at Apple's new MacBook Air models and discuss some of the upgrades that each received. Continue reading »
