The I.T. Life

It sounds as if there is a MacBook Air update in the works, as Intel is building a new ultra low voltage chip that should replace Core 2 Duo chips that currently run them. Apple has stuck with the Core 2 Duo for several revisions now, which has confused many people considering the MacBook Pros uses i5 and i7 chips. Now, the reason that is likely behind this is the Core 2 Duo is a fairly low voltage chip, which would be required to allow the NVIDIA GPU chip. The rumor is that in June we will see these new MacBook Air’s, I’m hoping this is true because I’ve wanted to upgrade to a Air for a while but the old processor has been holding me back.

Within a day of my MacBook purchase apple release the newer and faster version. And now we can expect the 2009 will use the same (or very similar) LED back lighting that the air uses. This will be great for the environment (longer life, less manufacturing, etc) and also, longer battery life! (Though I can get a good 3 hours from my MacBook right now.

Well, if you are buying a new macbook air, its not worth jack. The guys are Ars Technica got there hands on a SSD macbook air, and a regular one.  And what were there results? The money you spend is all thin air (sorry for the pun). There tests proved that there is no real benefit. They gained very little performance and battery life improvments. This does’t make much sence to me, but, at least it proves the macbook air is full of hot air.