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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iStand Notebook Media Bundle

From the professionals who dominate the iPod-dock, iHome, comes a product bundle that will take your compact laptop and transform it into an entire desktop work and listen station that’s still sleek, simple and free from ugly wires. The iStand Notebook Media Bundle (for both Mac and Windows) includes a laptop stand with an integrated iPod dock and speakers and a wireless keyboard with it’s own media controls…

So after you pick up this iStand Notebook bundle, your humble laptop will be a media-playing machine. Jam out to your iTunes collection or your iPod’s stored jams while you site pretty with your wireless keyboard on the couch. Plus, you get the added advantage of an upgraded home office workstation when you’re lot listening to music, with an elevated laptop screen and a non-compacted keyboard. Mac users will have their choice of white or silver finishes, while the PC version only comes in black. Yep, it’s just another ploy by ‘the man’ to keep the PC users down, we guess. The iStand Notebook Media Bundle should be available this summer and will retail for $299.99.

BriefCeramicASE

Designer laptop bags featuring some bold prints and colors are definitely not new. And it is about time that someone introduced some new pattern or design. And the one to initiate change is Greek designer Alexandros Stasinopoulos. And no, he didn’t introduce a new pattern. In fact he has introduced a whole new material for laptop bags. And so good is his concept that it even won him an IF Concept award. His creation is known as the BRIEFCeramicAse and is made from – ceramic!

This ceramic is certainly not your ordinary delicate ceramic. It’s the same ceramic from which high tech Chef knives are made and it’s scratch and abrasion resistant, extremely hard, and smooth to the touch. These amazing ceramic bags are a cool place for your laptops and other office documents. And the best part is that it won’t break even if you drop the bag. You can also decorate it in any way you want and turn it into a piece of art. A great material, it will definitely make a style statement.

More info: Unplggd.com