Apple updates the MacBook Air, axes the white MacBook

Apple updates its MacBook Air thin and light notebooks, on Wednesday, alongside the much anticipated release of Mac OS X Lion, while unceremoniously interrupted his white entry level MacBook line.

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The new MacBook Air laptops, which have no optical drives (another example of Apple's push users towards a future without hard), the gain fast Intel processors - from the Dual Core chip running at 1, 6 GHz-core i5 in the lower end-11 - inch model, the dual-core 1.8GHz i7 core. The processors Core i7 i5 and are known to be very powerful, with variations of this line of chips running in Apple's MacBook Pro and iMac.

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A backlit keyboard and a port Thunderbolt were also added to the tunes in this refresh. Thunderbolt ports are capable of transferring data at a rate of 10 gigabits per second, much faster than USB 2.0, which transfers data at about 480 megabits per second. But now, there are not many external hard drives or cameras and other objects that use the ports because of the cost of the implementation of technology - Thunderbolt cable sells for $ 49.

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Despite the changes, the price range for the MacBook Air remains the same, from $ 999 to $ 1699. Apple updates the MacBook Air, axes the white MacBookp