You Can Get Macbook Air Alternative for Under $1K Envy 13 is on Sale

Dec 292010
 

Envy 13 got on sale today it use to cost $1449 now you can get it for $999 and that’s $450 rebate straight from HP. Envy 13 is good competitor to Macbook Air or which is running currently at the same price as Envy 13 but with Envy 13 you get a lot more than with Macbook Air. Envy 13 comes with “Intel 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo Processor (SL9300), 3GB of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 Graphics with 512MB of dedicated memory” and Macbook Air comes with same processor 2GB of memory but only 64GB-128GB of storage.

So if you are Apple fan and don’t depend on storage so much I would go with Macbook Air but if you are looking for light weight laptop and quite good performance than Envy 13 would be the perfect solution.

Sources: Macbook Air and HP Envy 13

Apple’s MacBook Air Teardown Details

Oct 212010
 

Apple’s MacBook Air, which is lightweight 11.6-inch, has six separate lithium-polymer battery cells. In any of the laptop the battery is the main thing that rules it size and weight.

Ifixit today posted its typically thorough disassembly of the new MacBook Air. Their dissection revealed that the most of the space occupied by the six battery cells within the thin and lightweight machine.

The MacBook Air’s internal components are slightly different than the other 13.3-inch models coming from Apple.

This teardown details revealed that the MacBook Air’s 64GB of flash memory can easily disconnects from the logic board, but it is completely custom, and it means it is indicating that any other off-the shelf part cannot be successful to replace it.

This unique 64GB of onboard memory is made up of six main chips that is with four 16 GB flash memory chips and solid state drive controller from Toshiba, and a Micron OKA 17 D9HSJ DDR DRAM cache. Here, the proprietary solid state drive is just 2.45mm thick and weighs 10 grams.

The New MacBook Air matched a little with the current MacBook pros through using the same Broadcom Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip. Only difference is, it comes in different form factor to fit well into the tiny frame of the MacBook Air.

A tiny internal fan is arranged for the machine to ensure the cooling factor. Also, this MacBook Air’s ribbon cable connection points were arranged with epoxy over them and this will act as a perfect insulator. Perhaps this initiation is to prevent some of the issues as if their protective plastic wears out over time.

Included on the logic board are the MacBook Air’s inter Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz processor, Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics, and 2GB of Elpida J1 108EFBG RAM. Here, the RAM is permanently soldered to the logic board and it is indicating that it is not upgradable for MacBook Air.

Via IFIXIT

Apple’s Revamped 11.6-inch MacBook Air Will be Out Next Week

Oct 162010
 

Apple is now recognizing the consumers in the market for a true sub-notebook and unveiling next Wednesday its 11.6-inch MacBook Air, which is redesigned from the group up. This news is gathered by the Appleinsider through some of the best reliable sources.
Apple’s latest 11.6-inch notebook is informed to be coming from its Taiwanese manufacturing lines in the next week. Apple will launch the MacBook Air on Wednesday and shortly after that the MacBooks will be available in the market and this is according to sources.

The revised MacBook Air will have a novice storage system called as “SSD Card”. The Air is seems to be not much smaller than the current 13-inch MacBook, but definitely will be lighter in weight.

According to Appleinsider, the component perhaps a proprietary SSD drive alternative exclusively designed by Apple to integrate in Mac. Perhaps this is a borrowed technology from the iPods, iPads and Iphones, the way flash memory embedded in them. In fact, this approach is quite economical than the many other Netbooks what they are following now. This approach can result as quite economical for a consumer. It is true that Apple’s entry into this segment is very late, but it is appreciating that it came up with an economical procedures.

The new Air resembles almost like Apple’s 13.3-inch model, but scaled its screen to 11.6-inch. Here, the Appleinsider’s source seems to be mentioned that prototype appears to be more defined than the curved and that the side profile of the unit is slightly more wedge-shaped. It is also informed that the machine could weight as little as 2.7lbs.

Via Appleinsider