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amazon Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) reviews
Design
Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) has a number of design changes compared to version 2010. If you see a lightning bolt icon next to the former site of the mini-DisplayPort port, which means you’re in the hands of one owner MacBook Air “born” in 2011 with Thunderbolt technology. F3 and F4 keys are two labeling allows new access new features of the operating system Mac OS X Lion. The F5, F6 is assigned to control the brightness of the backlit keyboard. Apart from those details that, the design of the Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) looks like the model launched last year.
Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) still carries a super-slim frame, with a thickness of 0.68 inch (1.73 cm) at the rear and tapered to 0.11 inches (0.28 cm) in the front bezel . However, some of Apple’s rivals have also achieved similar thinness, like the Samsung Series 9, Sony VAIO VPC-Z214GX, and Asus UX21, but they do not look like the MacBook Air is nà swallowing.
Weight machines remain at 2.9 pound (1,32kg). At this weight, the MacBook Air is still not the lightest laptop market, this position now belongs Z214GX model from Sony (2.5 pound = 1.13 kg). However, the quality and structure of the machine is still “top” through the solid aluminum Unibody frame powerful and luxurious.
13.3-inch wide-screen 13-inch MacBook Air’s Thunderbolt actually better than Apple’s previous models, with brightness and amazing sharpness. The resolution of the machine is 1440 x 900, the higher the resolution of the Samsung Series 9 opponents, the MacBook Pro 13-inch (no Thunderbolt), and the Toshiba Portege R835-P50X. However, Sony still Z214GX better screen, with a resolution of 1600 x 900.
Many users complain that Apple remove the keyboard lights off second-generation MacBook Air (launched in 2010). With the release of this year, Apple has brought back to this keyboard, making typing in low light conditions more convenient. Keyboard of the machine itself is still the type fitted to the entire line of Apple laptop and so far very few users complained about the keyboard. The touchpad is very responsive, multi-point support is very good, especially thanks to the operating system Mac OS X Lion, but the touchpad of the machine have been incorporated to add the same features on the iPad (use your hands to zoom in, zoom out, move , scroll the page …), so you’ll be feeling the new features on this touchpad.
Function
Compared to previous generation Macbook Air, Macbook Air are adding a second USB port, and additional SD card slot. This really is an “upgrade” for Macbook, although these features are common on all other laptops. Particularly, the Thunderbolt port is by far Apple’s proprietary features. This is a data transmission port based on a data transmission technology from Intel called Light Peak, is integrated inside the port mini-DisplayPort (the shape and physical properties of this port has not changed, and it can still be connected to an external monitor). When connected to a compatible peripherals Thunderbolt, the transmission speed can reach 10Gbps, ie by about 21 times the speed of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400, FireWire 800 by 12 times, and two times that of USB 3.0 . Especially, Thunderbolt can expand the technology to any connection, so data is transferred via PCI-Express peripheral ports. This means that any manufacturer peripherals third parties can also create a hub Thunderbolt-compatible to Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, DisplayPort, … However, now the peripherals Thunderbolt is still very little range, available only in hard drive Promise Pegasus R6 firm and Apple’s Thunderbolt display.
Macbook Air in 2011 still has some fairly limited connectivity. In addition to two USB ports and an SD slot mentioned above, a machine with an additional audio jack. The machine does not have an Ethernet port, but the port may not be necessary as the majority of users now only need a Wi-Fi connection is enough. However, if you regularly sit around and need to use the lack of LAN ports can cause inconvenience.
Although more expensive, SSDs (flash drive) is still Apple used for this model, with the main reason is to reduce the size of the machine (the size of SSDs as small as a stick of gum), it also help restart the machine very quickly from sleep state (sleeep) or initial startup. However, 128GB (can upgrade to 256GB) still seem modest when compared with the large capacity hard disk drive on the Toshiba R835 laptop rivals-P50X (640GB) and Acer Aspire AS3830TG -6431 (500GB).
Performance
The most important improvement to the performance of the MacBook Air is the CPU upgrade, from L9400 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs up to Core i5-2557 1.7 GHz Sandy Bridge, although this level of CPU speed is not high. Next is the memory upgrade from 2GB – 4GB, improve tasks related to speed. Cinebench 11.5 points higher machine reached nearly twice its predecessor model: 2:17 than 1.1. 13-inch MacBook Air CPU Thunderbolt is still kind of low voltage, so the performance of the machine is not handled by Z214GX Sony, Acer AS3830TG-6431, and Lenovo X1, particularly in Handbrake (2:09) and Photoshop CS5 (04: 55). However, the Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) has made very good HD video playback tasks or editing photos, access large data.
The upgrade of graphics processing power is one of the reasons has led Apple to delay the launch of the MacBook Air 2011. Thanks to Sandy Bridge technology, integrated graphics chipsets for processors of Intel Core i now can be compared with NVIDIA integrated graphics inherent in previous generation MacBook Air. With a new integrated graphics, 13-inch MacBook Air has been able to cope well with intensive 3D games just right (at the level of medium graphics settings) and run a 30-inch screen outside without being skip frames or freezes. In tests of PCMag 3D, computer 3DMark 06 scores is 4781, Toshiba R835-P50X higher (4550) and Lenovo X1 (4051). However, if you’re a gamer and not a fan of the MacBook Air, you can choose the Acer Aspire AS3830TG-6431 because this model using a 3D Nvidia chips stronger.
Macbook Air 13 inch Thunderbolt still 50WH battery, not that big compared to the Toshiba R835-P50X (66WH), Acer AS3830TG 6431 (68WH), and Sony Z214GX (45WH). Moreover, the Macbook Air battery is mounted on the machine type and is not removable, so you will not be able to use additional auxiliary battery when needed. Machine reached 5 hours 46 minutes duration in MobileMark 2007, is also quite good, but still lags Toshiba R835-P50X (9:36) and Acer AS6830TG 6431 (08:18). If, as Apple’s online announcement on for 7 hours surfing the Web, this is still a battery life “modest” compared with rivals.
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Apple MacBook Pro 13.3-Inch Laptop Intel Core i5 2.5GHz / 8GB DDR3 Memory / 500GB SSHD (Solid State Hybrid) Hard Drive / OS X 10.10 Yosemite / ThunderBolt / USB 3.0 / DVD: Buy it now
Apple MacBook Air 13.3-Inch Laptop 1.7GHz Core i5 / 4GB DDR3 Memory / 128GB SSD (Solid State Drive) / ThunderBolt / OS X 10.10 Yosemite: Buy it now
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch
Processor: Intel Core i5-2557M, 1.7GHz
RAM: 4 GB
Storage Drive: 128 GB SSD
Optical drive: no
Display: 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen, 1400×900 resolution
Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Sound Card: Integrated
Ports: 2 USB 2.0, 1 mini DisplayPort (Thunderbolt), Kensington Lock, 1 eSata, Audio Connections: 2, Card Reader: SD, 802.11 b / g / n (BGN), Bluetooth 4.0
Webcam: 1.3 MP, connect FaceTime
Battery: 6-cell, 7 hours
Dimensions: 32.5 x 22.7 x 0.3-1.7 cm
Weight: 1:32 kg
Operating System: Mac OS X Lion
