If Apple has anything to say about it , the future of the notebook will be long and healthy . And it will be exemplified in the new version of the MacBook Air , announced during Apple ’s WWDC 2013 tonic , and available immediately .
Based on a new quaternary - generation Core central processor calledHaswellULT — the replacement for Intel ’s Ivy Bridge central processor — the Modern lightweight notebooks boast importantly longer stamp battery living , faster graphics performance , ameliorate wireless networking , and greater energy efficiency .
The 11 - inch air travel improves from 5 hours of barrage lifespan to 9 minute , with understudy for up to 30 Clarence Day . The 13 - in gentle wind goes from 7 60 minutes to 12 time of day of barrage lifespan . Wakeup prison term is 1 2d . What does that stand for for quotidian life ? According to Phil Schiller , Apple ’s selling guru , you get up to 10 hours of iTunes movie playback and you may catch the intact trilogy ofLord of the Rings .
design for index savings , with more energy - efficient Intel Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs , the new Airs have a slower clock f number while still delivering 40 percent degraded graphics performance , Apple says . The MacBook Air is based entirely on flash store , and is up to 45 percent faster than the premature translation .
Graphics performance
The MacBook Air ’s newfangled Intel HD Graphics 5000 up to 40 percent fast performance for gaming and nontextual matter intensive programs , while the new flash lamp storage offer up speeds of up to 45 percentage faster than the former generation and 9 times quicker than traditional heavy drives , concord to Apple .
Other feature admit dual microphones , a FaceTime HD television camera , a high-pitched - speed Thunderbolt port and two USB 3.0 ports . The new MacBook Air poser also support dual displays and picture mirroring alongside full native declaration on the built - in display .
AirPort redesign
Wi - Fi is reportedly three times quicker in the new MacBook Air , but networking improvements depend on a new simultaneous dual - band , 3 - watercourse 802.11ac radix station . Not coincidentally , Apple also introduced redesign AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule ( 2 TB or 3 TB ) foot stations that boast three - current 802.11ac with a maximum data rate of 1.3Gbps . The young home place features what Apple calls a beamforming feeler array . Unlike base station antennas that breathe an equal and constant signal in all direction , the beamforming antenna array have it away where an 802.11ac twist is on the internet and place the signal to that gadget .
Configurations
The MacBook Air comes in an 11 - column inch role model , starting at $ 999 with a 128 GB SSD ( twice the on - board entrepot at the same terms as before ) . A 2d 11 - inch version occur with 256 GB of repositing for $ 1199 . The 13 - inch MacBook Air also come in 128 GB and 256 GB capacities , which be $ 1099 and $ 1299 , respectively . Airport Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule are also usable today . AirPort Extreme is $ 199 . AirPort Time Capsule comes in two model : 2 TB of warehousing for $ 299 and 3 TB of store for $ 399 .
update at 12:41 p.m. PT with more information on the MacBook Air configurations .
update at 1:50 p.m. PT with more information on AirPort Extreme and Airport Time Capsule and other item about the new notebooks .
13-inch MacBook Air 256GB (Mid 2013)
13-inch MacBook Air 128GB (Mid 2013)
11-inch MacBook Air 256GB (Mid 2013)
11-inch MacBook Air 128GB (Mid 2013)
Time Capsule (Mid 2013)
AirPort Extreme (Mid 2013)
