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MacBook Air update

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

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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128GB SSDs

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Paradise awaits as 64GB Solid-state disks are falling. The MacBook Air SSD version just came down from $3100 to $2600 last week. Now Samsung has a cheaper technology called multi-cell so 128GB are coming this year and 256GB sometime later. This is going to be a real boon for laptop users, so hang on!
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Solid State Drives

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Drool, drool, solid state drives are on the way. They are as fast as traditional hard disks. They are about $1,000 per 64GB drive which is still expensive but coming down fast. Think about it as the logical upgrade for your current notebook.

AnandTech: 64GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung and OCZ go mainstream new [...]

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