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Apple bumps processor on MacBook Airs, drops price

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<p>As predicted by some Apple-watchers, the company updated its line of lightweight notebooks on Tuesday (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/04/29Apple-Updates-MacBook-Air.html), bringing updated versions of Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors to the MacBook Air. Even more significantly, the company’s dropped the price of the MacBook Air models by $100 each, making the slim portables even more affordable than ever.</p><p>The new processors—which, like the versions in the last Air models (http://www.macworld.com/article/2041698/review-latest-intel-chip-boosts-speed-and-endurance-in-new-macbook-air.html), are based on Intel’s Haswell architecture—aren’t just about increasing performance on the MacBook Air line; the focus is on providing that performance without compromising battery life. Like their predecessors, these 13-inch and 11-inch MacBook Air models offer 12 and 9 hours of battery life, respectively. There’s also a minor increase in the amount of iTunes movie playback time you can achieve on the new Airs, from 8 hours to 9 hours on the 11-inch model and from 10 hours to 12 hours on the 13-inch model.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2148948/apple-bumps-processor-on-macbook-airs-drops-price.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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