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MacBook Air 11.6 inch Review
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Apple has a special insight into the future of laptops. We need smaller and more beautiful, but without solving the speed and battery life. With that philosophy, the new MacBook Air made.
The 11-inch unibody MacBook Air is the smallest laptop ever from Apple came from. At the thickest point, the computer is still small 3 millimeters to 2 centimeters too short to tap. At its thinnest point, he has three millimeters too much not to exist. It is clear that this is very very thin.
Now it’s 11.6 inch screen is not the greatest, but it also keeps everything nice and compact and still give you a full keyboard at your disposal instead of 92% keyboards on netbooks to find and where you are very much to get used to. In addition, you will quickly forget that the thing you sit in your bag because it weighs just a kilo.
The screen may be very small, while working with the MacBook did we actually almost canceled. This is Apple’s resolution of the screen has been able to get very high. Here you can simply get lost on the screen of the 11.6 inch MacBook Air than you can on the screen of the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro.
If you think everything will be so small that a magnifying glass you sit behind the computer, then you’re wrong. Work going well on the Air (now we’re working on it) and this is due to the high resolution of the screen. On the other hand, it appears that the screen far from the same quality as that of such a MacBook Pro.
We have put these two side by side and the screen displays colors of the Air weather, but beside the Pro is it all a bit dull. The colors do not pop up screen looks black and not as deep as a pro. Now the screen of the Air also a lot thinner and fog the glass before, so we can understand. Still a shame. Moreover shiny screen is still considerable despite the lack of the glass.
Besides omitting the glass, Apple also left out the keyboard illumination. That we find a very great loss. We often work with laptops in poorly lit environments and it is still very useful to see where your buttons are. The MacBook Air also lacks a light sensor so you have the brightness of your screen will be set. We were therefore often dazzled by the unfolding of the small laptop computer.
A big plus is that the MacBook again or equal to jumps after opening. Now this is not entirely new to Apple notebooks. The MacBook Pro that we normally work with, does that and proper. The new Air takes a little bit longer out in the folded state. According to Apple, even thirty days. Now that we have not tested it and gamble that this will never happen because you do not generally once a month a few minutes at your computer.
In addition, the Air by Apple approximately seven hours with a full charge under normal use and a little surfing. We ended up about six hours normal use, but we have occasionally done a little more than a little surfing and typing in Pages. Because Flash also requires enormous power of the processor in a Mac, go surfing on YouTube some more at the expense of battery life.
Furthermore, we must do something to compromise of speed. We were with a 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-equipped MacBook Air by Apple as a test model and how you look at it, it remains a bit of a slow processor. Now we noticed not a lot of daily use – there is more than powerful enough for him – but when testing heavier applications do you notice that things are not going so well.
This is also because Apple only has 2GB of memory in this Air screwed and that’s just not enough nowadays. Fortunately, the slowest component of many laptops available in the new MacBook Air. Because there is no hard disk. Not scared, because you can save good stuff. Apple has chosen the hard disk drive for what it is and some full flash memory chips on the motherboard to paste.
This not only huge speed gains, making the lack of power of the CPU and the memory shortage is well masked, but it also means that the MacBook Air really quite quiet. The laptop makes no noise. As long as the CPU fan not shall be set, but this only happens if your computer overloaded and as we just said, this machine is not really suited for it anyway.
We are very pleased with the new MacBook Air. The laptop is very small, but the user does not think he really needs to return. Daily activities, more than fine on even the least powerful model, which is mainly due to the fast flash memory and high resolution screen. The lack of a DVD player and we do not miss the two USB ports are enough for us to work normally. We could also works very long. With an average of more than six hours of working time, we really can not complain. Apple has another great and looks great product on the market put us in the future we certainly do see in our daily work.
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