Every millimetre a Mac.Underneath all that thinness is a full-size fully capable Mac that can do practically everything its larger siblings can do. Minus a kilogram or two.All-Flash Storage. Instant-on gratification.If you have an iPod iPhone or iPad yoursquore already taking advantage of all that flash storage has to offer reliability speed and efficiency. So the decision to use flash storage in ... More info Every millimetre a Mac.Underneath all that thinness is a full-size fully capable Mac that can do practically everything its larger siblings can do. Minus a kilogram or two.All-Flash Storage. Instant-on gratification.If you have an iPod iPhone or iPad yoursquore already taking advantage of all that flash storage has to offer reliability speed and efficiency. So the decision to use flash storage in an ultracompact notebook like MacBook Air makes perfect sense. Flash allows you to access data quickly and it gives MacBook Air the astonishing ability to remain in standby mode for up to 30 days.1 Which means your MacBook Air snaps to in an instant whether you open it tomorrow next week or next month.Multi-Touch Trackpad. Itrsquos love at first click tap and scroll.The new MacBook Air includes a spacious Multi-Touch trackpad with a buttonless design so you can click anywhere. The Multi-Touch trackpad also lets you pinch swipe or rotate to adjust an image zoom in on text or advance through a photo album. Try the four-finger swipe swiping up or down to use Expos and swiping left or right to switch among active applications. Or perform the new three-finger drag to move your windows from one place to another.Long-Lasting Battery.Instant on. Even after a month off.Since space-saving flash storage leaves room for a bigger battery you can devote more time to the things you enjoy most. Things like browsing the web editing photos and watching videos. Get up to 5 hours of battery life on a single charge on the 11-inch model and up to 7 hours on the 13-inch model. Put MacBook Air to sleep and it enters standby mode to conserve battery life for up to 30 days.1 When you come back to your MacBook Air and open it up itrsquos on in an instant. So yoursquore free to go off the grid knowing yoursquore still on a charge.High-Resolution Display. Millions of pixels. Millimetres thin.Corner to corner and pixel by pixel the display on the new MacBook Air is both an engineering feat and a design breakthrough. It measures a mere 4.86 millimetres thin yet the resolution is so high yoursquoll feel like yoursquore looking at a much larger screen. And with good reason. The 11-inch MacBook Air features a widescreen 169 aspect ratio and a resolution greater than that of a typical 13-inch notebook while the 13-inch MacBook Air wows with a resolution equivalent to a typical 15-inch notebook.Portable Performance. NVIDIA GeForce Graphics. Power in motion. MacBook Air features the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor mdash the same one used in the 13-inch MacBook Pro. With a performance boost of up to 100 percent over the previous-generation MacBook Air2 the NVIDIA graphics processor provides outstanding speed and power for browsing photos watching movies or playing games. It also makes all the everyday things you do on MacBook Air mdash like writing email and surfing the web mdash fast and energy efficient. Intel Core 2 Duo Processors. Small in size. Big on performance. MacBook Air weighs less than 2 kilograms but itrsquos a heavyweight where it counts. Intel Core 2 Duo processors get the work done fast. So you can be every bit as productive on MacBook Air mdash but in more places. Live-blog the event of the year straight from the convention floor. Perfect your sales-winning presentation from the airport terminal. Cite references down to a T from the library stacks. MacBook Air lets you do everything you need to do whenever and wherever it needs to be done. Connectivity. Yoursquore free to go. To be truly mobile you need to go wireless. Thatrsquos why MacBook Air features 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 EDR. Wireless connectivity allows you to browse the web send email and print documents.3 It also lets you download music videos and mdash coming soon with the Mac App Store mdash applications. No matter where you are. MacBook Air has you covered when yoursquore staying in one place for a while too. Two USB 2.0 ports an SD card slot on the 13-inch model and a Minimize

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