The 13” MacBook Air we’re looking at for this review has 2 USB 2.0 ports (one on each side), a new combo mini DisplayPort/Thunderbolt port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. We won’t go in-depth on Lion here, but the short version is we love most everything Apple has done in the new OS and it makes the 2011 Thunderbolt MacBook Air that much more pleasant to use.
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This is the first Mac to ship with Mac OS X Lion, and it has a few new keyboard keys that reflect new Lion features, and a large trackpad for gestures. 13” Air can last 30 days in standby, and it wakes almost instantly, even if it’s been off for a day. Battery life remains stellar at 7 hours for the 13” and a decent 5 hours for the tiny 11”. The mid-2011 refresh ushered in Intel Core i5 ULV CPUs with a 1.8GHz Core i7 ULV build-to-order option and capable Intel HD Graphics 3000 at the same price points as the outgoing models. Even the 11” packs a lot of punch in a size and weight that won’t drag you down much more than an iPad.
It’s mid-2011, and Apple has launched the MacBook Air I’ve dreamed of: a wickedly fast and absurdly thin and light machine that’s competitively priced. Why did Apple use the ancient Core 2 Duo? Because they claimed Intel’s integrated graphics in pre-Sandy Bridge days just wasn’t fast enough, so they had to go with an older CPU that could more easily be paired with third party graphics chips. Sure, it had custom NVidia 320M graphics for a little bit of punch, but the machine was only half as fast as the 15” MacBook Pro from early 2010.
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But the aging Core 2 Duo CPU, long discontinued in the world of Windows notebooks, just didn’t inspire those who needed real computing power. Skip forward to the fall of 2010, and the 13” MacBook Air ‘s redesign gets things right: the wedge shaped chassis had two easily accessible USB ports and a mini DisplayPort rather than the micro DisplayPort on the original Air. It had only one USB port, and that port was under a constricting but visually appealing drop-down door. It was clad in Apple’s signature metal casing and was very durable despite its diminutive form.
No ultraportable notebook was this thin or light magazine thin. When Apple released the first Macbook Air model in February of 2008, the world took notice. In Chief (twitter: Update, June 2013: Read our review of the Mid-2013 MacBook Air that replaces this model. What's hot: Very fast, impossibly thin, strong metal build, comes with Mac OS X Lion. Home > Notebook Reviews > 13" MacBook Airġ3" MacBook Air (mid-2011 Thunderbolt) Editor's rating (1-5):
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