MacBook Air - Cutting Edge of Technology

The new MacBook Air is the best Mac. This machine is shaping the future of OS X, both as an operating system and a bridge between iOS and the desktop.The MacBook Air is a 13-inch entry model with 4 GB of RAM, 128 GB of flash storage, and Intel Core i5 dual-core processor clocked at 1.7 Ghz.

The MacBook Air itself is a thing of beauty. You’ve probably seen or tried one at your local Apple Store by now (and Apple’s website contributes to providing a good photographic indication of how lightweight this machine is), yet holding one in your hand – right, “hand” – for the first time is a whole new experience by itself.The computer is thin, but sturdy. There are no sharp angles – at the thinnest point, the border has been gently levigated to fit comfortably between two fingers, and because the Air is so thin and light, you can hold it with one hand from a corner without feeling much pressure on your wrist. It’s not that you can’t feel the Air’s own weight, but you can tell immediately tell the amount of grams you’re holding feels suspiciously low compared to older computers you were used to. However, there’s nothing suspicious about it: in fact, it simply is the highest point touched by Apple design to date. Both when closed (sleep mode) or open, the Air looks gorgeous. When the lid is closed, you can look at its profile and admire the wedge design with MagSafe and USB port, headphone jack and microphone on one side, and a Thunderbolt port alongside another USB and SD card slot on the other (the 11-inch model doesn’t come with an SD reader).

The 13-inch MacBook Air comes at a native resolution of 1440×900 pixels,

 with other supported resolutions including:

• 1280 by 800, 1152 by 720, and 1024 by 640 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio.
• 1024 by 768 and 800 by 600 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio

13-inch MacBook Air is much better than other apple products.For the sake of comparison, here’s a list of the screen resolutions I’m used to work with:

• 13-inch MacBook Air: 1440×900
• iPad 2: 1024×768
• iPhone 4: 960×640

Macbook air is much more fasrer than ordinary laptops.below there are some details .

Without FileVault

• 2.54 GB folder -> Copy -> 34.8 seconds
• 2.54 GB folder -> Compress -> 146.4 seconds
• 2.11 GB file -> Copy -> 25 seconds
• 2.11 GB file -> Duplicate -> 23.4 seconds
• Compress two 2.11 GB files -> 192 seconds
• Import two minute iPhone 4 video in iMovie -> no thumbnails -> 29.7 seconds, non optimized
• Import two minute iPhone 4 video in iMovie -> with thumbnails -> 53.7 seconds, non optimized
• Export two minute screen recording from QuickTime Player with “iPhone 4, iPad and Apple TV” settings -> 44.7 seconds
• Export two minute screen recording from QuickTime Player with “Share to iTunes with Mac & PC settings” (151.4 MB) -> 49.4 seconds

With FileVault

• 2.54 GB folder -> Copy -> 40.3 seconds
• 2.54 GB folder -> Compress -> 144.1 seconds
• 2.11 GB file -> Copy -> 28.4 seconds
• 2.11 GB file -> Duplicate -> 28.1 seconds
• Compress two 2.11 GB files -> 193 seconds
• Import two minute iPhone 4 video in iMovie -> no thumbnails -> 29.1 seconds, non optimized
• Import two minute iPhone 4 video in iMovie -> with thumbnails -> 59.5 seconds, non optimized
• Export two minute screen recording from QuickTime Player with “iPhone 4, iPad and Apple TV” settings -> 45 seconds

Battery Life

It wouldn’t be a review of a new MacBook without a mention of battery life. 

By shrinking the size of the machine and implementing flash storage, 

Apple’s engineers and hardware designers had to face a curious scenario:

 the smaller and thinner chassis left less space under the keyboard and

 next to the logic board, but the tiny SSD blades used by Apple (and the

 overall optimizations across the board) consequently made more space 

available for bigger batteries. So while you would think the MacBook Air’s

 small size had to force Apple to sacrifice battery life in order to achieve an 

ultra-portable design with high performances, in fact it’s quite the opposite.

 Apple’s miniaturization process has allowed the company to come up with

 new solutions to address common issues like the aforementioned relationship 

between the size of the computer’s enclosure and batteries, reaching a 

state-of-the-art symbiosis between power and portability, performance
 and efficiency.