MacBook Air (Late 2010) family

Macworld's MacBook Air (Late 2010) family Coverage

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  Laptop thieves stopped! Amazing recovery stories If you've ever lost a laptop or had one stolen, you know what an awful feeling it leaves behind. But a new breed of laptop security software is turning the tables.
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  Apple laptops, AppleCare dominate Consumer Reports rankings Consumer Reports has published its latest laptop rankings, and Apple's MacBook Air and MacBook Pro dominate the list. AppleCare also dwarfs its tech support competition.
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  MacBook Air SSD upgrade provides big storage, mixed speed results If you can afford it, OWC offers storage upgrades to the mid-2010 MacBook Air. The Mercury Aura Pro Express is available in capacities ranging from 180GB for $470 to a 480GB model for $1580, which is $20 less than the price of the high-end 13-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of flash memory.
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  OWC offers 480GB solid state drive for 2010 MacBook Air Other World Computing now offers a pricey but powerful 480GB solid state drive upgrade for the 2010 MacBook Airs.
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  New MacBook Airs and the circle of life Jason Snell is excited by the prospect of new MacBook Airs, but has a quibble with how its sales figures have been reported.
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  OS X update and the MacBook Air's 3D graphics performance Macworld Lab stumbled across a problem introduced by an OS X update on the mid-2010 MacBook Airs. While it may be a minor issue affecting a small number of users, we decided to share our findings.
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  Maclocks announces security lock for MacBook Air The MacBook Air thin, light, and portable design is appealing to both on-the-go customers and those who prefer five-finger discounts. Apple didn't build in a standard notebook security lock port, so accessory maker Maclocks took matters into its own hands.
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  A photographer's workflows for the MacBook Air Photographers who use the MacBook Air as a secondary computer need a workflow that allows them to integrate photos from the road into a master library at home. Two applications in particular, Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom, are well-suited for this task.
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  Field testing the MacBook Air for photographers On paper, the MacBook Air appears to be the answer to many roving photographers’ dreams. It’s small enough to travel in a camera bag yet fast enough to run major photography software. Derrick Story takes the 13-inch MacBook Air on the road for six weeks to see how it performs.
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  2010 in review: The year for the Mac To paraphrase literary icon Mark Twain, the death of the Macintosh was an exaggeration. On the last day of 2010, let’s take a look back at the previous 12 months, from a Mac perspective.
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  MacBook Air flash storage torture tests Macworld Lab performed torture tests on the flash storage in the MacBook Air, as well as on the SSD option for the iMac. Are these flash-based storage device susceptible to performance degradation over time?
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  Apple releases MacBook Air EFI firmware update 2.0 A small update for Apple's new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air addresses problems with booting and unresponsiveness.
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  Lab report: MacBook Air vs. Windows laptops Recently, after testing two MacBook Air models running Windows 7, we published results that showed the thin and light Apple laptops outperformed most Windows-based netbooks and ultraportable notebooks. Hundreds of readers commented on the article, with many of the comments going something like this: "The MacBook Air costs far more than many of the laptops you've compared it against. How does it do against similarly priced notebooks?" A reasonable question, so we went back and did the comparison.
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  Consumers vote Mac for laptop buying plans More than a third of American consumers planning to purchase a laptop in the next 90 days will buy from Apple, a market research company said this week.
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  Revisiting the insomniac Mac A Mac that had no sleep problems suddenly becomes wakeful. How I tracked down the solution.
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  Toshiba SSD opens door to MacBook Air alternatives Toshiba's new product, the Blade X-gale solid state drive series, may be the same ultra-thin solid-state drive that appears in the new MacBook Air. And that means PC makers could use them to develop Windows-based alternatives to Apple's ultra-thin laptop.
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  Bugs & Fixes: A trio of bugs make news Bugs related to Apple's Clock app, iPhoto '11, and new MacBook Air displays hit the newswire this week.
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  Some MacBook Airs exhibiting screen issues Over the last few days, news has been circulating about a video issue affecting the new 11-inch MacBook Air and one Macworld editor has experienced the problem first-hand.
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  2010 MacBook Air: ultimate-edition lab tests Macworld Lab takes a look at two build-to-order MacBook Airs: the 11-inch 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Air, and the 13-inch 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Air.
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  Is the MacBook Air a peek into the future of laptops? Much more than a "$999 netbook," the new MacBook Air might well be a harbinger of things to come in the world of mobile computing. Here's a look at three innovations to watch out for in future laptops.
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  Lab report: MacBook Air benchmark results Looking at the Speedmark 6.5 results for the new MacBook Airs, three things stand out: 1) SSDs are fast; 2) The SSD capacity did not affect performance; 3) The new MacBook Airs are faster than their predecessors.
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  MacBook Air could foretell death of laptop hard drives Analysts say Apple's backing and declining prices of SSDs could convince consumers and CIOs that hard drives aren't always needed.
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  The death of the laptop hard drive has been greatly exaggerated Will all of Apple’s laptops henceforth use flash-memory? In all likelihood, yes, but that doesn’t mean you’ll see Apple phase out magnetic-based drives entirely. The future of flash is bright, but it’s too early to declare the death of magnetic-based hard drives quite yet.
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  Apple issues firmware update for latest MacBook Air models MacBook Air (Late 2010) Software Update 1.0 fixes a pair of graphic issues that may flare up with the notebooks Apple unveiled on Wednesday.
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  Hands on with the new MacBook Air A hands-on look at the new 11- and 13-inch MacBook Airs.
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  Apple updates MacBook Air line Apple updates the 13-inch Air, adds a new 11-inch model, and gets rid of the hard drives on both.