Apple engineers and the Chinese production workers did their best. In addition to huge battery, creative approach is felt throughout. For example, flash memory without permanent housing (as they are lighter and occupy less space).
An autopsy showed: there comes a "day tinsmith." Someone could very well make money on upgrade (and repair - life is life) laptop of the future.
2. Place MacBook Air III in life
As before, MacBook Air - above all - stylish and upmarket artifact, one of the most powerful tools to express themselves, so even with a hint of intellectual sophistication.
Shiny aluminum enclosure. Compact. At the narrowest point of the thickness of the shell reaches 2.8 mm (0.11 inches). At the thickest point - 17.2 mm.
Once it was a sensation, now it has become a tradition: the case of the new MacBook Air looks more attractive than other laptops in the assembled and painted "condition.
Bright screen, high resolution (more pixels than the base model 15-inch MacBook Pro, for a similar display offered as an option for extra money). Full-size keyboard and trackpad.
Despite the undignified-sounding name of the processor and the low clock frequency, the computer does not seem slow. In combination with flash memory and a NVIDIA 340M, sverhekonomichny great little motor pulls the device.
Air is not designed for heavy computing tasks. He could have done it with the role of the computer for a software developer or application designer - but for all of these goals are better decisions.
This notebook is the manager, head of the company negotiator.
And this is a great computer for the average user. For the user, the era of tablet PCs ...
The small size of the permanent memory? It does not matter. MacBook Air has two USB-ports. In 13-inch version - and even a slot for SD-cards. On the market offer a huge flash drives and hard drives. In addition, data are increasingly, and ever increasing volumes stored on remote servers.
Data storage outside the home, like everything else in this world, at the same time fraught with pluses and minuses. Plus, it seems, are beginning to prevail. In the end, not so much for ordinary users of data that really should be careful to encrypt and hide, and to place them in the most sheltered corner of the flash memory is always there ...
Ultra-compact notebook with a multitouch. Slightly less mobile than the iPad, but full-fledged computer with a computer operating system, with tens of thousands of programs for her counterparts who are still not designed for the iPad, or even considered, in principle intolerable of iOS.
Something in it.
Experts suggest that before the end of the year Apple will sell at least 700,000 third-generation MacBook Air. In other words, every fifth Mac sold in the current quarter should be hyperfine "eyrom", adopting the best from the iPad (immediate inclusion of the "after sleep", etc.).
Wait and see.
3. MacBook Air III - Technical details
In the MacBook Air III uses "old-time" processor, Intel Core 2 Duo. So even with the artificially reduced clock frequency, which reduces power consumption and heat generation.
In all third-generation MacBook Air - a very decent GPU NVIDIA GeForce 340M. It uses for its own ends 256 megabytes of RAM, which is not very great, but tolerable. Worse than the other: all the configurations of the new "Air" comes with only two gigabytes of RAM. Memory can be expanded up to 4 GB if you use Apple-tested and deemed appropriate DDR3 SDRAM chips with a clock frequency of 1066 MHz, and possibly to larger sizes, with untested chips ...
But this is vanity, which is not to face computer in its class.
Wireless capabilities - the standard for all modern laptops from Apple: AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi (ie, IEEE 802.11n, compatible with IEEE 802.11a/b/g), and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.
Number of USB-ports increased by 100%. Doubled. They now have two, both USB 2.0. On the left and right sides of the body. As before, the MacBook Air has no special Ethernet-connector, but to connect to a wired network can be - with USB-adapter.
Funny moment: the first time in the history of Apple, complete with a computer flash drive comes (with the operating system and iLife 11). The size of this flash drive - 8 GB, it is formatted as a read-only (with a ban on entry), but it's really stylish "flash drive" from Apple, which is relatively easy to reformat ...
That's now looks like a traditional DVD-ROM "Restore Mac OS X"
By the way, according to Jobs, these trackpad - the best option initiation of computers to the world of multitouch. As a result of numerous experiments, Apple came to a final conclusion: multitouch and vertical screen are mutually incompatible, that decision with very poor ergonomics.
Apple recently patented another solution to this problem - a computer screen which turns into a multi-screen while translating it into a horizontal position, but it seems a wise Jobs decided that the laptops of the future should apply a solution based on trackpad. The most amazing thing, that's now all will be, because the decisions about what to be a technical artifact of the world, he takes it.
Survived? But he has it pretty well.
4. MacBook Air 11.6 - features
Case dimensions - height from 0.3 to 1.7 cm, width - 29.95 cm, depth - 19.2 cm Weight 6.1 kg Diagonal screen size - 29.5 cm (11.6 inches).
The screen is glossy, with a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight, with support for millions of colors and the "native" resolution of 1366x768 pixels.
11-dyuymovka sold in two configurations - with the volume set of flash memory in 64 gigabyte (like most good iPad), and the volume of 128 gigabytes.
If sales of MBA III and in fact go bad over time appear on the market similar products with chips of higher capacity.
PhotoFast company has already announced plans for a 64 -, 128 - and 256-gigs "chocolate" for the 11-inch MacBook Air III.
These "flash chocolates" will be equipped with controllers SandForce, speed of reading data from them will be higher than standard cards installed in MacBook Air (250 megabytes per second against the 150-160 MB / s).
PhotoFast already reported about the amenities awaiting those who dare to agreyd with them: with the card user will get an empty shell, which can be set taken out of the Ayre with memory card and use it later as a big flash. Including and after the upgrade to transfer critical data to the new "chocolate".
5. MacBook Air 13.3 - features
Case dimensions - height from 0.3 to 1.7 cm, width - 32.5 cm, Depth - 22.7 cm Weight 1.32 kg Diagonal screen size - 33.8 cm (13.3 inches).
The screen is glossy, with a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight, with support for millions of colors and a native resolution of 1440x900 pixels.
13 dyuymovka sold in two configurations - with the volume set of flash memory at 128 and 256 gigabytes.
Connectors on the left side housing. MagSafe, USB 2.0, headphone, microphone. From Apple.
Connectors on the right side shell. SD-slot, USB 2.0, Mini DisplayPort. From Apple.
In 13-inch MacBook Air III appeared slot for an SD-card.
It would be even more interesting if Apple used the port LightPeak, the first in the industry, but the debut LightPeak delayed, and he seems generally questionable. Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo, clocked at 1.86 GHz, the size of cache 3 MB. When purchasing the 13-inch Air "on demand", available variant of the processor with a clock speed of 2.13 GHz.
The duration of an independent course (not killed on the battery) - seven hours.
Personally, I prefer 13-inch model, especially one in which 256 gigabytes, which is two times larger than the disk in my "full-size MacBook Pro, 2006, in which the entire 120GB.
6. A drop of tar
Does this sound like the product on the laptop of the future?
We are not going to pay attention to the configuration. Gigahertz and gigabytes as they appear on the market quality and inexpensive components will grow. And due to the replacement processor to a more modern (Intel Core i3?) Are offered to us as "laptop of the future MacBook Air III does not change.
Ultra-compact and ultra-light notebook with a bright screen, high-resolution, full-size keyboard, no optical drive, no hard drive? This is not a netbook (even though, as the first part of a specific name refers not netbooks Russian denial, and "network", and partly a netbook), this is not a traditional laptop, it's really something new.
This multi-device, but no more (and no less) than many other models of modern notebooks, in particular - MacBook.
Trackpad, if you get used to it, and automatically, without thinking, to use his body language - a good thing, but with direct-touch objects on the screen it does not compare. On the other hand, there iPad. And the fingers do not obscure the screen.
But in general, the laptop of the future I imagined a little differently ...
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If it were not for Apple, and about any other company, and said her head during the presentation of another model of a model series that is the "laptop of the future, there would be no questions asked. During the presentation, another way: we exaggerate, we should talk about revolution and paradigm shift ...
Well, say - and said.
But we are talking about Apple, "Jobs said these words, and a product called, modestly, and austere, like his ancestors, MacBook Air, and in fact ambiguous.
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At first glance, it is simply improper for an expensive netbook. Judge for yourself: the screen with a diagonal of 11.6 and 13.3 inches (29.5 and 33.8 cm), Intel Core 2 Duo, and a total of 64, 128 or 256 gigabytes of flash memory instead of hard disk.
The cheapest modification of the cheapest model with a 11-inch diagonal is in the United States and taxes, as much as $ 999. The most expensive, and there on the same terms - 1599.
In the year of disasters and apocalyptic premonitions, to appoint such a price, as 999 units of money, just can not. Turn the price tag upside down. Inspire?
This is not a netbook (according to Apple). Not the laptop, as we used to see them. Not iPad, although Air announced it was during the grand show Back to Mac, in which the legendary iOS-device generously divided their achievements with Macs, and most of it went to this particular model. For example, in the cheapest MacBook Air III, with the most upside-demonic price tag, read-only memory is the same as in the most expensive iPad. And that both - the flash memory. And the same amount - 64 gigabytes.
Maybe it's true laptop of the future of fantasy, and unknown to us, a time when ordinary people with ordinary human needs are instead of notebooks and desktop computers buy tablet, and from the computer to stay a little bit of goods sold, will require incredible?
In this he seems to have everything perfectly: speak about it positively, even enthusiastically, mucks about him so very not heard ...
1. An autopsy revealed ...
If you really want to know what and how it is situated in an ultra-building, do not rush to open your brand new Air III, the fragrant smell of the factory.
First, it requires special tools, which you probably do not.
Secondly, even if such tools are available to restore the third Air after opening not everyone can. I could not.
Third, the 11-inch MacBook Air is pulled down "live" freaks (in a good sense of the word) from iFixit, and all I wanted to know, published on their website.
An autopsy suggested the possible cause of the strange, at first glance, loyalty Apple Intel Core 2 Duo: judging by the size of the heat sink and a minimum number of used thermal paste, the processor allocates very little heat.
In the history of Apple (the then Apple Computer) has been a model, incidentally, also a third, which, if in those times were already online and iFixit, forced to assume the same thing. It was the Apple III, and he warmed himself. Scary warmed.
What if Steve Jobs, as in the early 80's, contributed to the birth of the MacBook Air III, prohibiting engineers even think about measures against overheating?
Without Steve, of course, has not done - but with the temperature regime in the new Air is all right. A ULV (from the Ultra-Low Voltage) Core 2 Duo, operating at a reduced clock speed - the smart choice?
Naturally, Core i3 with multithreading and other technical gadgets would cause fewer problems, but most importantly did not in this, but the chief is all right ... But everything has its time.
Six large and flat gizmos - it's batteries. 11-inch MacBook Air, in standalone mode, running 5:00.
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