The New MacBook Air is out

At 1.36kg in weight, 0.4 to 1.94 x 32.5 x 22.7 cm dimensions, 13.3in glossy 1280x800 LED widescreen and sleek looks it is one of the coolest portables in town. A new feature called "Remote Disc" lets you access the CD/DVD drive of any other Apple or PC.



The only drawbacks due to the slimming and trimming is the lack of speed at 1.6-1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, lack of main memory upgrade with only 2GB onboard, lack of space at 80GB 4200rpm PATA or a 64GB Solid state hard drive (need to pay extra), external DVD drive at $99 extra and most importantly you have to pay extra for the Apple Remote :-(

But if you're a traveling man not running big Apps, then this is the coolest toy around!

images from apple.com

The new Apple MacBooks and Pros are out?

I want to buy an apple MacBook and have been keeping an eye on things. I just heard this rumor that apple would be releasing the new MacBook and a MacBook Pro with the Santa Rosa architecture with a bus speed of 800MHz, and tomorrow is Friday (if apple keeps to the tradition of launching stuff on Friday) the new Macs should be out tomorrow. I noticed on the Apple websites too that 1st they had the new spec, but now they have taken away the whole Product Bar so that visitors cannot see the new Mac specs. Still if you search hard enough, you can find a link they forgot to take off, so here are the new spec,

The MacBook

• 2.0GHz or 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  
• 4MB shared L2 cache running at full processor speed
• 800MHz frontside bus
• 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

The MacBook Pro

• 15-inch MacBook Pro
  • 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
• 17-inch MacBook Pro
  • 2.4GHz or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
• 2GB (two SO-DIMMs) of PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
• 800MHz frontside bus

So whats New? Well now it is 2.0 - 2.6 GHz (used to be 2.0 - 2.4 GHz) , RAM upgradeable to 4 GB (used to be 2 GB), 800MHz frontside bus (used to be 667MHz), the MacBook with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (instead of GMA 950) and they also comes with new OS-X Leopard (watch the demo on the apple site Leopard is really awesome). The best news from what I have seen up to now is that, all the extra features with no price increase :-) WOW!

So I might wait another day or two to get my new MacBook. If you bought it recently, me deepest sympathies :-(