Fine-tuning sends MacBook Air to the top
Is it possible for any Apple product to suffer a lack of attention? Probably not, but if it were, it might be the recently revamped MacBook Air.
Released at the same time as Lion, the new version of the OS X operating system, the Air at first glimpse is little changed from the model that was introduced last year. But Apple has made enough improvements, most of them under the hood, to cement its position as the most enjoyable laptop you can buy.
The Air comes in two models. The smaller, weighing in at just under 2.5 pounds, has an 11.6-inch screen and 2 gigabytes of memory. Starting at $999, it is the cheapest MacBook of any kind. The larger, weighing just under 3 pounds, has a 13.3-inch display and 4 gigabytes; it starts at $1,299.
I’ve been testing the 13.3-incher, which comes with a gorgeous 1,440-by-900 high-resolution screen. Like all the Airs, it uses chips rather than a hard drive to store data.
The chips take up little space, helping make possible the Air’s lightness and thinness. And they contain no moving parts, making them more power-efficient and reliable than physical hard drives, which can fail with sometimes disastrous consequences. (Though not for you, of course, because you always back up your stuff, right?)
Since there’s no waiting around for a mechanical head to locate your data on a spinning platter, the chips make the Air very, very fast. From a cold start, it took me 28 seconds to get to the log-in screen on a hard-drive based MacBook Pro; the Air took 15 seconds. Shutting down the Pro took six seconds, the Air three seconds.
When Apple unveiled a redesigned Air last year, its brain, Intel Corp.’s Core 2 Duo microprocessor, was already antiquated. It could bog down if you had too many tasks going at one time.
The new models remedy that by replacing the Core 2 Duo with Intel’s newest-generation Core i5 processors, known as “Sandy Bridge.” Programs open quickly and there’s little slowdown even if you’ve got a lot of windows open. The zippier performance is particularly evident if you’re doing processor-intensive tasks like editing videos.
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Who hasn’t yet heard of Apple? For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, Apple occupies first place in the most popular and adored companies category today. The reason: superior performance, excellent features, speed, portability and much more. The team at Apple has launched a new laptop. Its name: Apple MacBook Pro MC725LL/A. Does this product rise up to customers’ expectations? We tested it and here is what we have to say.
Full-size backlit keyboardWe all know that, when it comes to looks, Apple shines. Their latest MacBook Pro MC725LL/A certainly rises up to design expectations with its precision unibody enclosure crafted from a single block of aluminum. The device measures 15.47” x 10.51” x 0.98” and weighs 2.99kg. All these make the new laptop a thin and light one; we had no problem whatsoever when carrying it around with us. Apple’s latest product has a 17” LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. The device also features a full-size backlit keyboard and a glass trackpad that doesn’t include a button (for larger tracking area); this trackpad sports a technology called Multi-Touch.
Core i7 “Sandy Bridge” quad-core CPULet’s now see how the laptop does in terms of processor. The MacBook Pro MC725LL/A boasts a 2.2GHz Core i7 “Sandy Bridge” quad-core processor with 6 MB of shared L3 cache. With its help we could, during our test for this review, could easily create content, play 3D games and manage digital media. Furthermore, the Turbo Boost technology enhanced speed and thus improved overall performance. Another technology, namely Hyper-Threading, helps each core of the processor to simultaneously work on two tasks; multitasking was, therefore, a piece of cake. We also liked the fact that the processor offered faster access to the laptop’s RAM and the built-in memory controller easily connected fast 1333MHz memory directly to the processor.
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