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Have no doubt: Apple is a company that makes money by releasing products people find value in. Its usual tack is to add features to revamped models and leave prices unchanged. More value, same price. Go ahead: Ask anybody who has recently bought a MacBook Pro, an iMac or an iPhone if they think t...
The new model also sports faster DDR3 RAM (still just 2GB), a faster 1,066-MHz front-side bus, and a notably faster Nvidia 9400M graphics processor . According to Apple, the Nvidia integrated graphics processor gives the new Air four times the 3-D gaming performance of the last model.
A Mac enthusiast, DeCanti lauds the computer's "incredible elegance, great operating system and incredible graphics." However, his list of frustrations includes poor Active Directory integration, Apple's exit from the storage hardware market, and a lack of advancement with the Sa...
Similarly, let's not forget that a laptop's screen, keyboard, and trackpad are things you're using whenever you're using the computer -- and the Air is superior to the MacBook, and comparable to the MacBook Pro, on all three counts. As for me, our family's new MacBook Air arrived last week.
What sets the new MacBook Pros apart from their predecessors is the trackpad. Apple is understandably proud of this new feature, which mimics the finger gestures used to navigate around its popular iPhone. It was introduced with the MacBook Air, but it's not included in the new MacBook mod...