5 new features of MacBook Air 2013

MacBook Air has long been a staple of Apple. In the WWDC 2013 event, which took place this morning (June 11, Vietnam time), the company unveiled an upgraded version of this thin and light notebook with many valuable improvements.

There were no changes to the design, but the MacBook Air 2013 was an impressive hardware upgrade on Intel's Haswell processor platform.

Haswell processor

Apple said the latest MacBook Air version has the processing power of dual-core Haswell ULT chip (Ultra Light and Thin), which is intended for ultrabook. Therefore, the ability to save electricity is higher as well as lower temperature when operating.

Similar to the 2012 version, MacBook Air 2013 has 2 models of 11 inches and 13 inches, equipped with Intel Core i5 chip clocked at 1.3 GHz. Users can optionally add $ 150 to get a Core i7 1.7 GHz processor. Both versions come with 4 GB of RAM.

Improve graphics capabilities

Also with Haswell, the MacBook Air's graphics capabilities will be upgraded with integrated Intel HD 5000 graphics, increasing graphics performance by up to 40% compared to previous chip's integrated graphics and comparable. with some discrete graphics cards.

Impressive battery life

Thanks to the new processing platform, Apple promises the battery life of the MacBook Air 2013 will be impressive, up to 9 hours for the 11-inch version and 12 hours for the 13-inch version. These are incredible numbers compared to battery life on the 2012 version, with only 5 hours and 7 hours respectively for 11-inch and 13-inch versions.

Even when watching movies with iTunes, one of the most popular battery-powered apps, the MacBook Air 2013 maintained 8 hours with an 11-inch version.

The 13-inch version is designed with a higher capacity battery, for extended days of use and up to 10 hours when watching movies with iTunes.

Although not mentioned at WWDC recently, the Apple product information page shows the waiting time for the new MacBook Air up to 30 days.

802.11ac Wi-Fi connection

MacBook Air 2013 is equipped with the fastest Wi-Fi connection today, standard ac. The theoretical connection speed is 3 times higher than standard n.

Currently no devices are available for playback of standard Wi-Fi, Apple releases the Airport Extreme router with the ability to broadcast this standard.

Increase storage capacity and disk speed

At the same price, the storage capacity of the 11-inch and 13-inch versions doubled compared to last year's MacBook Air, from 64 GB to 128 GB.

In addition to the larger capacity, the MacBook Air 2013 SSD memory is also 45% faster than the previous generation.

MacBook Air 2013 is now available on Apple Store and users can order online today. The 11-inch version starts at $ 999 while the larger version starts at $ 1099 , both with Intel Haswell chips and 128 GB of memory.