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Apple Reportedly Beginning Production of Next-Generation MacBook Air Models
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Black bezel
They need to implement the black bezel on the air like they do on the pro...the air's bezel now just looks a little outdated compared to the pros
They need to implement the black bezel on the air like they do on the pro...the air's bezel now just looks a little outdated compared to the pros
Poetry dude, sheer poetry.The airs are gorgeous, I wish I could afford one right now. Well, right when the new ones are released.
Not likely as they wouldn't be able to give it a full-sized keyboard and that is not only one of their selling points (their smallest computer has a full-sized keyboard), but also allows them to keep the same keyboard for (I believe) all models. To have that small a model would require a separate keyboard be made for it as compared to the one they use on pretty much all their models.
And why make a laptop of that size when there's the iPad?
The iPad pretty much does the job of being lighter, smaller and doing all you'd want such a computer to do.
A 7 inch screened laptop? That is a horrible idea lol. If people want anything that size they would have to get a crappy blackberry tablet or something. Just immagine using osx on a screen the size of four iPhones taped together.
That almost made me spit what I was drinking out on my screen lol
I did that on my macbook aluminum (08-09) model once, now the c key gets sticky sometimes
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why are they only going to make and ship 380,000 i thought the MacBook Air were high demand. Does this mean backorders upon launch?
+1 Wondering as well.
Can someone please explain how significative of an improvement the Sandy Bridge is over C2D?
Would it justify selling my 11" 1.6GHz, 4GB, 128GB SSD to replace with same on Sandy Bridge?
Love this laptop, best of the 12+ I have ever owned.
I've always assumed that's to keep the thickness and weight down to an absolute minimum, which is Apple's primary goal with the Air. The MacBook Pros and iMacs achieve the black bezel by adding a layer of glass over the display. It's entirely unnecessary, but gives you the aesthetics you're after.
As much as I like the look of the black bezel, I'd choose an anti-glare screen with no glass in front of it any day — so my brand new MacBook Pro has your 'outdated' aluminium bezel. Unfortunately, that costs us extra these days.
The future of Macbook Pro is to become a Macbook Air. By 2015 all Macbooks will be in that form factor. That was the grand vision all along.
i think 11" is the perfect size for the MBA imo. anything less than that, and the keyboard will be too cramped. battery life would take a hit too with a smaller form factor, since they wouldn't be able to include a good sized cell pack in there - and to me, battery life is the most important, so if sandy bridge means losing a bit of gpu power in exchange for better battery life - i'm happy with that trade off.
Ah yes by then Steve Jobs will have achieved his dream of purging "PCs" from our world.
I think the power tradeoffs would be too great. Not that Apple hasn't zig-zagged in the past, but Steve Jobs has pretty recently (iPad debut) slammed netbooks as not good at anything - just small, cheap laptops.
The cool thing about MacBook Airs is that they have full-sized keyboards, large trackpads, great battery life with acceptable power sacrifices. Going down to 7-inches, I imagine either the processor, storage, or battery life would suffer too much.
Ah yes by then Steve Jobs will have achieved his dream of purging "PCs" from our world.
3 years away. Apple killed its server line and almost all of its enterprise support in less than that.
I definitely agree with that.
My one & only humble wish for the upcoming MBA refresh is that they all come with backlit keyboards.
What rumour is that ? We heard an ARM based MBA rumour, but I haven't heard about the touch screen iOS MBA rumour, especially now that Steve Jobs himself during a keynote said "Touch screen computers just don't work".
Sounds like a rip-off of Lenovo's IdeaPad.
![lenovo-ideapad-u1-hybrid-tablet-laptop.jpg]()
yea but the Ideapad ain't Apple.
Imagine the best notebook combined with the best tablet..!
because it will run OSX with the keyboard and iOS as a touch?
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