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Apple nearly went with AMD for MacBook Air refresh
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Apple was reportedly close to producing a MacBook Air powered by an AMD Fusion APU. Cupertino even had a working prototype on hand but ultimately canceled the idea last spring, according to SemiAccurate.
Apple was interested in a low power Llano based MacBook Air for the powerful graphics. The system would have lost a little CPU power but the GPU would have been many times faster. But as we know, Apple once again went with an Intel solution – the only question is, why?
As it turns out, AMD wasn’t able to produce enough supply to meet Apple’s high demand. According to multiple sources, SemiAccurate says that even if the deal had panned out, AMD would likely have had to preferentially shift ...
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Upcoming MacBook Airs to use 400Mbps flash storage?
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Japanese blog Macotakara.jp is reporting from parts makers in Asia that Apple’s upcoming MacBook Air refresh, expected in the next two weeks, will use super-speedy 400Mbps NAND flash storage chips. In addition to being incredibly fast — even faster that the current MacBook Air solution, which uses an mSATA connector to connect the SSD to the motherboard — these new NAND flash storage chips would be soldered directly to the motherboard, bypassing any connector. If true, this new change would result in 100-times performance increase over the current solution, and coupled with a rumored bump to i5 / i7 processors, the new MacBook Airs should absolutely fly.
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Refreshed MacBook Air line could land July 19th with Sandy Bridge, OS X Lion, Thunderbolt
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Apple will refresh its MacBook Air line of computers on July 19th, iClarified reported on Wednesday. We began to suspect the update was imminent when early reports suggested that global supplies for the computer were in short supply in late May. Those reports were solidified earlier this week when stock of the MacBook Air at Best Buy and Amazon was depleted. The device is expected to pack the new Thunderbolt I/O port in place of DisplayPort, Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors, and the brand new OS X Lion operating system. 9to5 Mac said that Apple will likely offer Intel’s 1.8GHz Intel Core i7, 1.7GHz Core i7, and the 1.7GHz Core i5 in its new machines. We love the current design of the MacB...
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Next Generation MacBook Air with Sandy Bridge Processor to Begin Production This Month
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Anyone who recently purchased a MacBook Air may soon be kicking themselves as the next generation of Macbook Airs with Sandy Bridge processors could launch as early as July. A note obtained by AppleIn...
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MacBook Air in short supply as refresh nears
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Global supplies of Apple’s MacBook Air laptops are dwindling as the consumer electronics giant prepares to refresh the line, 9to5 Mac reports. The Apple enthusiast blog cites multiple sources in stati...
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Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs to start production in May
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Apple should start mass production of new MacBook Air models in late May, Concord Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo tells AppleInsider. The information is said to come from checks with suppliers and system bui...
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Newer MacBook Airs shipping with faster Samsung SSDs
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Apple was found on Friday to have given a low-key but significant speed boost to the solid-state drives in newer MacBook Air production runs. Most batches have been using Toshiba's X-Gale SSD, but Ana...
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Apple announces firmware update to relieve those nagging MacBook Air display issues
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Looks like relief is in sight for new school MacBook Air owners suffering from display issues: you know, with the faulty logic boards, and the flickerin' and the freezin', and so on and so forth. MacB...
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MacBook Air bugs addressed by OS X 10.6.5
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Earlier this month, BGR exclusively confirmed that Apple was working on fixes for a string of troublesome MacBook Air bugs. The issues were widespread, and they involved a variety of problems with dis...
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MacBook Air display woes addressed with OS X 10.6.5
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Those cool new MacBook Air notebook computers from Apple are having some issues with their fancy little displays that have been bothering users since the machines launched. Apple has been working on a...
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MacBook Air benchmarks: stock vs. built-to-order
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Ever since Apple announced the new MacBook Air — and we found out there was a built-to-order option which upped not only the RAM but CPU — we figured it would be worth putting it head to head with the...
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2010 MacBook Air owners reporting logic board and display issues
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Early adopters typically run into weird issues when putting their first generation gadgetry to use, and owners of the new MacBook Air models are no exception. Indeed, on the day of its release Apple h...
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Apple responds on missing Flash in new MacBook Airs, says get used to it
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The other day, we reported on the fact that those tiny new MacBook Airs are shipping without a pre-installed version of Flash. Based on Apple's
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13.3″ MacBook Air official: 7hr super-slim ultraportable
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“What would happen if a MacBook met an iPad?” Steve Jobs asked, with the instant-on, solid-state storage, amazing battery and standby time and thin & light build from the tablet crossing over to an ul...
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MacBook Air: all substance, no Flash
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Amusingly enough, you know what's missing from the new MacBook Air models? Adobe Flash Player. While preloaded on Apple's past hardware, out of the box here it just says missing plugin, with no click ...
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