Apple is famed across the land for making beautiful products with a premium look and feel. The iPhone and iPad range are beautifully put together and instantly stand head and shoulders above the competition in that respect. Accessories like the Time Machine, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad have clearly had a lot of design research applied to them. Even the Apple TV is beautiful in its own simplistic kind of way. That leads us nicely onto the company's range of Mac computers. The MacBook and iMac are stunning to look at, but what if we had the option to purchase a sleek and mysterious looking black version of the MacBook Air?
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.
OS X Mavericks, Apple's newly-released update to its famed desktop operating system, may not offer a mind-boggling set of new features and improvements to the naked eye, but in actual fact, the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks both look set to reap the benefits of extended battery life.
Apple has just released an updated lineup of the MacBook Air with bumped up specs, more details can be found right after the break.
As per a report, a MacBook Air with Retina display is currently in the works, with a projected release bracket of Q3 2013. In recent times, the only rumors we've heard pertaining to the MacBook Air was that it would be getting a refresh around June, with no notable changes from the previous generations, but this report throws everything up into the air once more.
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.
Apple is not renowned for lowering prices of its products - no matter how many times consumers cry out for MacBooks and iPads to suit the more economical budget. But in order to ramp up pressure on the flagging ultrabook market, the company could release a slightly cheaper MacBook Air in a couple of months' time.
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.
This year's CES has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that 2012 is going to be the year that the computer market at large is going to catch up with Apple. At least, it will in the world of ultra-light, ultra-portable notebooks like the MacBook Air.
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.
