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"  Design Yowza! It&amp;#039;s about as thin as a computer could be without bending like a sheet of paper. Sort of bucks the current Apple design trend, though, with a fat aluminum bezel around the screen, instead of glass all the way to the edges. Performance The dedicated Nvidia GeForce 320 is on identical to the GPU found in MacBook Pro 13-inch models, but the starting 1.4 GHz dual-core CPU seems a bit skimpy. The RAM, starts at 2GB, but is configurable (at Apple&amp;#039;s usual exorbitant rates) up to 4GB. Battery Life From the looks of it, this machine is 75 percent battery. We&amp;#039;ll believe the 30-day standby time when we see it, but anything close to that will be miraculous. (By the way, the &amp;quot;Instant On&amp;quot; claim Apple is giving for the Air is predicated on the idea that you&amp;#039;re waking it up from standby mode, which pretty much makes most Macs &amp;quot;instant on&amp;quot;.) Five hours of wi-fi surfing actually puts it at half the expectation for a standard MacBook.  Storage The step to all flash hard drive storage is bold, but probably essential to get something this thin. It should make the Air perform faster, but at a max of 256 GB, it pretty much disqualifies the Air as a primary computer\u2014but you knew that. Connectivity Surprise, surprise, the Air now has two USB ports, a definite improvement over the original Air. The 13-inch model has an SD card reader, too\u2014not found, alas, in the 11-inch version. Both have built-in mini DisplayPort, so they can support an external screen up to 2560 x 1600 pixels. Unfortunately, still no dedicated Ethernet port. Price Depending on whether you classify this thing as a netbook or an ultralight computer, it&amp;#039;s either a rip-off or a bargain. I think it&amp;#039;s more like a traditional ultralight than a netbook (Apple obviously won&amp;#039;t touch the Atom processor with a ten-foot pole). That makes the starting price of $999 pretty sweet. Honestly, though, I&amp;#039;m more impressed that the 256 GB, 1.86 GHz, 13-inch model costs only $1599, $100 more than a well-configured 13-inch MacBook Pro (although with far less CPU horsepower). Still, though, bump the processor up to a 2.13GHz chip ($100) and add 2GB of RAM (another $100), and you&amp;#039;re in high-end laptop territory. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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