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The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598. Compare this to the original price of the 1.8GHz/SSD MacBook Air at $3098 just last week (Google Cache).

The base price for the 1.6GHz 80GB Hard Drive MacBook Air remains at $1799. The difference in price appears to be a combination of price drops in both the processor upgrade ($200 vs $300) and SSD ($599 vs $999).

We are likely to see new MacBook Pros from Apple on any given Tuesday. Those machines are rumored to come in the same 15-inch and 17-inch size delineations as the current models. It also seems that there won't be much difference in the footprint size between the MacBook Air...

Who will win? MacBook Air vs. Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N/B, Macbook Pro vs. Sony VAIO VGN-AR790U/B, Macbook vs. Sony VAIO SZ280.

In today’s review we will try to compare almost identical in terms of their specifications notebooks from Sony and Apple brands.

MacBook Air vs. Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N/B

We’d like to start with much-talked-of MacBook Air and his opponent, Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N/B. Most people even do not put them in a row, since no one can come up with an ultra-thin Air. This is a market’s novation. Again, it is Apple, which reaches new heights. To begin with, I think, we should address their core specifications:

As one could see from the table, the Sony notebook is much more inferior to the similar device from Apple. In respect to advantages, the MacBook Air has come much more ahead in this category. Almost for all parameters, from processor’s frequency to graphic chipset it holds the leadership. It lost, though, in terms of hard drive capacity, but I think in order to work and play games it is completely enough those 80 Gb which are already supplied with this notebook. In the first test the ultimate leadership received the MacBook Air.

The second test checked which notebook is more compact and comfortable in use, but the most important thing was, how long can it work...

Last month launch of "the worldest thinnest notebook," the MacBook Air, was hailed by many as another cool, must-have design from Apple.

But emerging criticisms of its drawbacks (short-battery life, the inability to swap out the battery, lack of ports, the internal SuperDrive, the cost) are dampening demand. Analysts are already lowering sales estimates for MacBook Air. About 60% of Apple resellers said the Air is attracting noticeably less buyers than the original MacBook. The research firm had previously projected that MacBook Air would account for 16% of Mac sales this year, but that appears too optimistic for now.

European fans finally got their Airs! It means that the computers will be available in stock pretty soon.

Many people worry, because the MacBook Air is really thin. The
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Details of Lenovo’s new ultraportable have been leaking out for nearly a month.

The latest bit of info on the X300 comes from a product page on Best Buy’s business site, which according to TrustedReviews and others listed a $2,744 configuration with a 13.3-inch display, 2GB memory, a 64GB SSD (solid-state disk) and a DVD burner. Meanwhile, a CDW product page states the X300 will be available on February 26. At this rate, there won’t be much left for Lenovo to announce.

Because of its compelling specs, the X300 has been dubbed by some reviews sites as a “MacBook Air-killer.” Never mind that Lenovo already has a loyal business following for its popular ThinkPad X-series ultraportables, while the MacBook Air has been shipping for slightly more than a week to mixed reviews. In any event, based on what has been reported so far, here’s how the two stack up.

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