Macbook air Following months of fervent speculation, Apple has updated its MacBook Air laptop with new Intel Sandy Bridge CPU options, a data port for high-speed Thunderbolt peripherals, and a backlit keyboard (which was present in the original MacBook Air, but absent from the 2010 version). Not included, however, were other rumored changes, such as a black-colored chassis, or mobile broadband antenna. Also new are updated versions of the Mac Mini, which also gets a Thunderbolt port (while retaining HDMI output) as well as new faster CPUs.
However, the built-in DVD drive is now gone from the entire Mac Mini line. The timing of this new hardware coincides with the release of OSX Lion, the latest update to Apple's OS X operating system for Mac desktops and laptops. Lion was previously confirmed for a July release, via the OS X Mac App Store, and many sources predicted updated hardware for the MacBook Air, Mac Mini small form factor desktop, and Mac Pro tower desktop at the same time.
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The MacBook Air, a thin laptop with either an 11 or 13-inch display, was last updated in October 2010, making this an unusual refresh in that it comes less than one year after the previous models. But the MacBook Air, despite its popularity and positive reviews, was saddled with a processor from Intel's older Core 2 Duo series. Since then, Intel has gone through two generations of Core i-series CPUs, which are found in current MacBook Pro laptops. With this update, Apple is effectively leapfrogging a generation of processors, in order to use the most current CPUs. The Mac Mini, last updated in June 2010, has also been updated to use the Intel's latest Core i-series chips. Apple updates MacBook Air and Mac Mi
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