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date: 05/05/08
We are still hearing reports of MacBook Air overheating woe, well after an EFI update in April that was meant to address some of those problems. While hot computers are nothing new, the MacBook Air starts shutting down cores and offloading processes when things get bad, which means users are faced with aggravating stop-start freezing until they can manage to cool the computer off - or just put it to sleep and let it "rest."
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date: 02/05/08
Here’s a new celebrity using the Macintosh hardware: Jessica Simpson. Really hoping, that doesn't mean MBA's going to become a 'blonde' laptop.
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date: 28/04/08
The MacBook Air has become the best example for why companies should use LED (light-emitting diode) backlights in notebook screens, and is driving adoption, according to market researcher DisplaySearch.
LED backlights in display screens are an improvement technology for several reasons, including a stunning picture due to more vibrant contrasts, better power savings, and they’re easier on the environment because they contain no mercury and last longer.
They helped make the MacBook Air a marvel of thinness because they take up less space inside a screen - LED backlights are about half as thick as CCFL backlights.
The only problem with LED backlights is still cost, but prices are coming down.
The MacBook Air didn’t start the trend to using this technology, but its stunningly thin design will probably prompt other companies to put out similar notebooks...
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date: 22/04/08
We've already seen the MacBook Air in gold and crystals, but it seems that people just can't leave this laptop alone, with the folks at Computer Choppers (no strangers to gilded Macs) taking the laptop to heights of tackiness that Steve Jobs would ever dare dream of...
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date: 30/03/08
You might recall a couple of weeks ago, a guy got hassled by airport security because they couldn't make sense of his MacBook Air. It actually does look "very different" than 99 percent of the notebooks they're used to seeing under the scanner, in a way that would "pique some interest" of security personnel...
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date: 24/03/08
The "no-compromise" and "everything else is just hot air" statements are really very special.
The war for the "ultimate ultralight thin" title in the world of laptops has begun!
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