New MacBook Airs offer all-day battery life, better graphics performance
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 versions of the MacBook Air, announced during Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote, and released and available today.
Based on a new fourth-generation core processor called Haswell ULT—the replacement for Intel's Ivy Bridge processor—the new lightweight notebooks feature significantly longer battery life, faster graphics performance, and greater energy efficiency.
The 11-inch Air improves from 5 hours of battery life to 9 hours, with standby for up to 30 days. The 13-inch Air goes from 7 hours to 12 hours of battery life. Wakeup time is 1 second. What does that mean for everyday life? According to Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing guru, you get up to 10 hours of iTunes movie playback and you can watch the entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings.
Designed for power savings, with more energy efficient CPUs, the new Airs have a slower clock speed while still delivering 40 percent faster graphics performance, Apple says. The MacBook Air is based entirely on flash storage, and is up to 45 percent faster than the previous version.
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