Hoo child, our tipster was mark on with this a single, Apple’s adding an 11.6-inch kin to its newly redesigned 13.3-inch MacBook Air. It’ll have the dual-core 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (upgradeable to 1.6GHz upon a some-more costly indication, 1366 x 768 fortitude, and the $999 starting cost for the 64GB SSD indication, with the 128GB version environment you behind $1,199. It carries over a aluminum unibody building a whole from a 13-incher, along with the same 2GB or 4GB DDR3 IMPEL options as well as NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics, but has to solve for a briefer 5-hour battery holdup. Full PR as well as Apple’s initial ad for this new hotness both await after a break.Apple’s 11.6-inch MacBook Air

Update: We’ve got the very first hands-on cinema with the brand-new appurtenance. Enjoy!

Show full PR textApple Reinvents Notebooks With New MacBook Air

CUPERTINO, California-October 20, 2010-Apple® today unveiled an all new MacBook Air®, a first of a subsequent generation of notebooks that will reinstate automatic tough disks as well as visual drives with Internet services and plain state flash storage. These subsequent generation notebooks have been:

faster-solid state peep storage is up to twice as fast as tough drive storage

some-more reliable-hard drive crashes have been separated

lighter and smaller-solid state peep storage is up to 90 percent not as big and lighter than tough drives

Available in 11-inch as well as 13-inch models as well as weighing as little as 2.3 pounds, a brand-new MacBook Air is Apple’s lightest and most portable cover ever. MacBook Air uses a same solid state storage record as iPad™ to broach instant-on responsiveness, up to 7 hours of battery holdup as well as up to 30 days of standby time.* Starting at $999, a affordable MacBook Air defines a subsequent generation of MacBooks.

“MacBook Air is a first of the new era of notebooks which leaves behind automatic rotating storage in favor of plain state flash storage,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve taken what we have learned with a iPad-solid state storage, instant-on, amazing battery standby time, miniaturization and lightweight building a whole, to emanate the new MacBook Air. With the amazing responsiveness and mobility, it will shift the approach we think about notebooks.”

With its pointing aluminum unibody enclosing, a new MacBook Air measures an incredibly thin 0.11-inches during its thinnest point as well as 0.68-inches at its thickest, and weighs only 2.3 pounds for a 11-inch model as well as 2.9 pounds for a 13-inch. Like iPad, MacBook Air was written from the ground up to make use of peep storage to one side. Apple’s custom-designed flash storage is 90 percent not as big and lighter than the required cover hard drive, contributing to MacBook Air’s mobile, featherweight design. MacBook Air’s flash storage additionally provides faster interpretation entrance as well as is some-more reliable than cover tough drives due to the plain state design.

MacBook Air facilities the full-sized keyboard for typing joy as well as capability, as good as the rarely acclaimed potion Multi-Touch™ trackpad found upon Apple’s MacBook® Pro, so you can corkscrew by web sites, flip through photos, as well as resize or stagger images all from a trackpad. The built-in FaceTime® camera, mic and stereo speakers are undiluted for video calls with iPhone® 4, iPod touch®** as well as alternative Macs.

Flash storage total with power-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processors as well as NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics delivers an preferred change of mobility, battery life as well as performance. MacBook Air features an 11.6-inch or 13.3-inch high-resolution LED-backlit arrangement as well as Mini DisplayPort to connect your 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display, projector or HD TV. Ultra-fast 802.11n Wi-Fi networking allows you to download music as well as cinema from iTunes®, back up interpretation to Time Capsule® as well as store or share files with MobileMe℠ as well as iDisk®. MacBook Air includes Bluetooth 2.1+EDR for wireless peripherals and dual USB ports creation it easy to sync as well as assign an iPad, iPhone or iPod® whilst regulating another device. The 13-inch MacBook Air additionally includes an SD card slot.

Apple creates a industry’s greenest notebooks and a MacBook Air is a latest Mac® cover to grasp EPEAT Gold standing as well as encounter Energy Star 5.0 requirements.*** Each unibody enclosing is made of rarely recyclable aluminum as well as comes customary with appetite fit LED-backlit displays that have been mercury-free and done with arsenic-free potion. Mac notebooks enclose no brominated flame retardants, have been PVC-free as well as have been constructed of recyclable materials.

Apple uses modernized chemistry as well as Adaptive Charging technology to emanate a MacBook Air battery that delivers up to 7 hours of wireless capability upon the singular charge as well as up to 1,000 recharges.**** The built-in battery design results in reduction waste, and burned out MacBook Air batteries can be transposed for $129, which includes designation and ordering of your old battery in an environmentally responsible demeanour.

Every Mac comes with Mac OS® X Snow Leopard®, a world’s many modernized handling system, as well as iLife®, Apple’s innovative suite of applications for formulating and sharing good photos, movies as well as song. Snow Leopard builds upon some-more than the decade of innovation as well as includes multiple facilities for moveable computing such as Multi-Touch navigation, advanced wireless networking, easy record pity, programmed interpretation backup as well as smart energy government. The brand-new iLife ‘11 facilities iPhoto® with overwhelming full shade views for browsing, modifying and sharing photos; iMovie® with powerful easy-to-use collection to transform home videos into fun theatrical trailers; as well as GarageBand® with new ways to improve your personification and create good sounding songs.

Pricing & Availability
The 11-inch as well as 13-inch MacBook Air have been immediately available by the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores as well as Apple Authorized Resellers. The 1.4 GHz 11-inch MacBook Air with 2GB of memory as well as 64GB of flash storage starts at a suggested sell cost of $999 (US) with a 128GB model for $1,199 (US). The 1.86 GHz 13-inch MacBook Air with 2GB of memory as well as 128GB of flash storage starts during a referred to sell price of $1,299 (US) with the 256GB model for $1,599 (US). Configure-to-order options as well as accessories include faster processors, 4GB of memory, MacBook Air SuperDrive® as well as a USB Ethernet Adapter.

Additional technical specifications as well as configure-to-order options and accessories have been accessible online during www.apple.com/macbookair.

*Battery life and standby time change by use as well as configuration. See www.apple.com/batteries for some-more report.

**iOS 4.1 compulsory.

***EPEAT is an eccentric organization which helps customers compare the environmental performance of notebooks and desktops. Products assembly all of the 23 required criteria as well as during least 75 percent of a discretionary criteria have been famous as EPEAT Gold products. The EPEAT program was recognised by a US EPA and is based upon IEEE 1680 customary for Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products. For more information visit www.epeat.net.

****A scrupulously confirmed MacBook Air battery is designed to retain 80 percent or more of the original capacity during the lifespan of up to 1,000 recharge cycles. Battery life as well as assign cycles change by use as well as settings. For some-more information revisit www.apple.com/batteries.

Apple designs Macs, a best personal computers in the universe, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and veteran program. Apple leads a digital music series with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing a mobile phone with its insubordinate iPhone as well as App Store, as well as has not long ago introduced the enchanting iPad that is defining a destiny of mobile media and computing inclination.

Via Engadget