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Apple to Update MacBook Air to Penryn Soon? – Mac Rumors
The external design is to remain the same, but the new MacBook Air is said to incorporate a new Penryn-class processor “from 2.0GHz and potentially beyond”. To compensate, Apple will be including a higher capacity battery.

In fact, the new revision of the MacBook Air will [...]

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Well, ilounge has a good first review set:

The White 16GB is going to be much cleaner with fewer fingerprints than the black one. I’m kinda regretting ordering the black one now that I’ve seen photos. The white one is actually quite cute.
Some folks are saying that this is really like iPhone 1.1 because other than [...]

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Hat tip to TUAW apparently, Tnkgrl has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The photos are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes [...]

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Early Version of Intel’s Nehalem Benchmarked, Much Faster than Penryn – Mac Rumors
Anandtech had access to a 2.66GHz Nehalem processor which they pitted against a 2.66GHz Penryn processor. Performance improvements ranged from 20-50% faster for the Nehalem chip. h.264 video encoding was tested and saw a 44% speed boost on Nehalem vs Penryn on the [...]

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