Apple’s WWDC conference is live and the company has announced refreshed Macbook Air and MacBook Pro Lineup.
The Macbook Air will come with Ivy Bridge with 2GHz Core i7, with Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz. The FaceTime camera is now 720p, the display on the 11-inch model now 1366 x 768 + Intel’s HD graphics 4000. The 13-incher will 1440 x 900 2 xUSB 3.0 ports
Prices will start at $999 for 11 inch basic.
Alongside the new Air, Apple has also unveiled the new Macbook Pro, again with Intel’s Ivy Bridge [...]
The new version supports multi-threaded video decoding
Software giants Adobe on Saturday released version 11 of their Flash software along with AIR 3 bringing about accelerated graphics rendering support through Stage 3D. Adobe states that the new technology improves rendering times by a factor of up to a 1000 times over Flash Player 10. The capabilities of the new version of Flash allows for “console-quality” games on the Flash platform, according to their blog.
Also with version 11 comes support for 64-bit, and multi-threaded video decoding which previously was not available at all.
Apple has dropped a new load of goodies on us today, as we suspected, Apple has updated the Macbook Air to include new hardware and backlit keyboards.
Still this as ever the Macbook Air now has a refreshed price as well,
11 inch , Core i5, 1.6 Ghz, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD, $999 11 inch, Core i5, 1.6 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, $1199 13 inch, Core i5, 1.7 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, $1299 13 inch, Core i5, 1.7 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, $1599 Read the Full Press Release Below #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid [...]There have been many times that we’ve heard a song and strummed on our air guitars imagining ourselves to be Jimmy Page or Jimmy Hendrix. We thought we were awesome and the crowds went wild for us. Well, when we landed back into reality, we realized that not only did we not know how to play the guitar, but we didn’t even have one.
Well those days are past because a new product is on the market for all of us air guitarists. It’s called the Air Pick. The Air Pick is shaped like a standard plectrum and has a speaker with some electronics built in. It comes pre-loaded with up to 3 songs and can play the [...]
You may want to hold on to you next ultralight powerhouse purchase. Apple may be revamping the Macbook air launched just 7 months ago with the new Sandy Bridge processors and an added thunderbolt port.
“The Taiwan-based supply chain for Apple products will begin shipments of new 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch MacBook Air models featuring Sandy Bridge platform and Thunderbolt interface in late May for launch in June or July,” according to by DigiTimes.
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