The New Mac Book Air

photo from apple.com

 Steve Jobs revealed the much anticipated MacBook Air refresh at the Apple's Back to the Mac event this morning. The thinnest Mac ever now comes in two variants, 11-inch and 13-inch.

The new MacBook Air models come with flash storage so anyone who uses iPhone or iPad already should be familiar with this type of storage. Both models have Core 2 Duo processors, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics cards, and 2GB RAM that can be upgraded to 4GB from Apple's online store.

Apple claims that battery life is up to 7 hours for wireless web browsing on the 13.3-inch model while 5 hours on the 11.6-inch model, and up to 30 days for both sizes when in sleep mode.

The new MacBook Air also comes with Multi-Touch trackpad that lets the user pinch, swipe, or rotate to adjust an image, zoom in on text, or advance through a photo album. There is also a FaceTime camera that will allow the user to make video calls through the Internet. FaceTime for Mac is still in Beta though.

Since the new MacBook Air has no internal optical drive, it comes with a "Software Reinstall Drive" that will be used to restore Mac OS X and iLife.

We checked the Apple Store Philippines and found out that the new models are now available and ship within 2 business days. Prices are as follows: For the 11-inch models, PhP51,990 with 64GB storage and PhP61,9990 with 128GB storage; For 13-inch models, PhP67,9990 with 128GB storage and PhP83,990 with 256GB storage.