The New MacBook Air

Apple released its new Macbook Air on the 20 October.  At its thickest point it is .68-inch and weighs just 2.9lbs.  It uses a complete unibody aluminum construction, has a full sized keyboard, full sized glass trackpad which is touch enabled, 13.3-inch LED display (1440×900), Core 2 Duo processor (1.86GHz or 2.13GHz ) , NVIDIA GeForce 320m and Facetime camera. Apple is also releasing a 11.6-inch version which weighs just 2.3lbs –  the specifications are comparable yet the screen has a 1366×768 resolution.

The old MacBook Air was 0.76-inches thick and weighed 3lbs. Battery life on the new machine is 5 hours for the 11.6-inch model, and around 7 on the 13.3-inch model. There is no hard drive or optical drive – Apple has moved to flash storage – solid state.  This means “instant on”.

The release of this new product reaffirms the importance of the Macbook to Apple. It was disclosed today that Macbook sales account for around 33% of Apples profits, at around $22 billion per year. To put this into perspective, if the Macbook was a  standalone company of its own it would be 110 on the Fortune 500 list!

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COREL releases Home Office suit for netbooks

With the growing popularity of netbooks, even software vendors have started to show immense interest in netbooks. Now, Corel has released a Home Office suit that is specially tailored for the netbooks. Some analysts kept saying that netbooks are just good enough for plain web-surfing and some light media on-the-go, but we knew that they can do much more than that. The Corel Home Office is a 3-app suit that can handle Word, Excel and Powerpoint presentations on a netbook easily. Corel is selling the Home Office suit for $69.

source: GadgetMix

Cheap Netbook for your office [Android]

Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Company, which we will absolutely never call by its full name again, has just dropped a juicy nugget about its forthcoming netbook. If you’ll recall, we recently caught wind of the ARM-based, Android-powered rig (the Alpha 680), which is expected to be a stripped down portable useful for web surfing and light duty Office use. Nixon Wu, Skytone’s co-founder, recently confessed that it’s aiming to sell the machine for around $250, and if all goes well, it should have prototypes ready by June and final products ready for consumption a month or two after that. Call us crazy (or just greedy, really), but we were totally hoping for this to ring up at $199 or less.