The MacBook Air is arguably Apple's best portable computer. It's thin, it's light and it's powerful enough for the vast majority of people to do everything they could ever want to. But it's lacking one thing, and it's the one thing that people want enough to upgrade to a MacBook Pro for, and that's the Retina display.
Over the last few weeks we have seen a lot of attention being paid to the future of Apple's mobile hardware and software. The annual speculation surrounding the next iteration of iOS has inevitably reared it's head ahead of this year's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. We've also been hearing about a number of possible inclusions that could form part of the next-generation iPhone. However, if mobile isn't your thing then a new post on Weiphone that outlines the purported future of Apple's MacBook lineup could be of extreme interest.
Apple has just released an updated lineup of the MacBook Air with bumped up specs, more details can be found right after the break.
Seeking to find brand new Apple products at a cut-price is a very difficult game to be involved in, but in a rare glimmer of hope for those trying to save a little of that hard-earned cash, Best Buy is running a series of deals on the MacBook Air as a Mother's Day special. Some specifications of the ultra-slender notebook have been dropped by as much as $100, and with a further $25 saved by entering the code MOM25, you might even be able to treat your mom (or yourself..) to a shiny new MacBook Air this Mother's Day.
With the holiday season over, the Apple rumor mill is clearly back at work. According to a new report, Apple is getting ready to revamp its notebook line yet again, introducing more models with high-resolution Retina displays, or maybe even phase out the older displays completely.
Although talk of iOS 6 has been rampant in the run up to WWDC, the speculation regarding a refresh of the Mac range has been equally rife. There has been a lot of on-off reports regarding a Retina display MacBook Air, Pro and iMac, and Apple has today confirmed, and debunked most of the rumors and reports once and for all.
It's a subject we've touched on a few times over the last couple of months, and now the hype surrounding the rumors of the iPad 3 have been somewhat satisfied, the tech world can switch its attentions to other potential Apple releases - namely a 15-inch MacBook Air.
It is growing to be an increasingly difficult task to keep up with who owns what patents, and with companies applying for, and being granted more and more, the task looks set to be come even more tasking. We have seen news coming out of California in the last few days that Apple have just been awarded an additional nineteen patents related to various products and technologies, one of which relates to the design of their ultra thin MacBook Air range.
Ultrabooks are something of a new breed, with Apple's MacBook Air their forefather. While we have had netbooks for a few years now, they've historically been underpowered, cheap and not always cheerful machines that were only there to fill a purpose until the tablets came along.
We all know that Apple has struggled with knock-off devices for a long, long time. Fake iPods first began appearing in China long before the iPhone and iPad were announced, or even thought of. Now though, even the touch-screen loveliness of Apple's flagship products find themselves being copied and sold on the black market.
