Apple might claim MacBook Air as an ultra-thing laptop, but Sony corp seems responding the hunch by launching Vaio Y series. Vaio type VPCYA19FJ / B has the same screen size with one type of the MacBook Air, which has 11.6 Inch, but still Vaio Y design still considered to be very slim. Cnet in one of the article wrote that Sony Y series has only 3 pounds (1 pound heavier than the MacBook Air). The slimmest part of the new Y Vaio sized only 1.2 inches.
Sony Y series will be on sale in Japan on 27 November with about US$ 1336 pricing and may visit international market after that.
Here is a list of specification comparison between the MacBook Air and Vaio Y:
* Weight: Air: 2.3 pounds; Vaio: 3.2 pounds
* Thickness: Air: 0.68 inches; Vaio: 1.2 inches
* Processor: Air: Intel Core 2 Duo; Vaio: Intel Core I3
* Graphics Chip: Air: Nvidia, Vaio: Intel
* Battery life: Air: 5 hours; Vaio: 6 hours
* Storage: Air: 128GB SSD; Vaio: 320GB hard disk drive
* Memory: Air: 2GB; Vaio: 2GB
* Screen Resolution: Air: 1366 by 768 resolution; Vaio: 1366 by 768
* Ethernet: Air: N / A; Vaio: standard
* USB: Air: 2 connectors; Vaio: 3 connector
* Wireless: Air: Wi-Fi; Vaio: Wi-Fi
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Apple MacBook will come in a slimmer look, better specification and certainly cheaper price. Apple stated that new MacBook Air will come 11.6 and 13.3 inches screen. With the new design, MacBook Air has Tip reached 0.11 inches, and the rear body part reaches 0.68 inches.
In view of this product is more ‘sexy’ than previous versions. TG Daily in one its report wrote that the CEO Steve Jobs said the MacBook Air had recently abandoned the traditional storage and use SSD as a media storage.
The 13.3-inch new MacBook Air comes with SSD storage, LED backlit display, 1440×900 pixel resolution, Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Nvidia GForce Graphics 320M, full size keyboard, multi-touch trackpad, well-featured camera FaceTime. This version is claimed to survive to browse up to 7 hours. While the MacBook 11.6-inch version comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GForce 320M graphics, a full size keyboard, the camera featured FaceTime, a resolution of 1366×768 pixels, and the multi-touch trackpad.
11.6-inch new MacBook Air will be on sale for USD 1299 (64 GB SSD storage) and $ 1599 (128 GB SSD storage).
A leak around the launching of Apple’s new accessories ‘Magic Trackpad‘ is running around. Apple Magic Trackpad was said to have multi-touch capability like the one in Apple Magic Mouse. As Apple’s own accessories, this Magic Trackpad will be a good additional accessories compatible with Apple MacBook.
Some source estimated that the name ‘Magic Trackpadof Apple was issued by Apple it self, just in case other manufactures use label ‘Magic Trackpad’ to be connected to Apple Magic Mouse. So is this rumor is true or not ? let’s just wait and see considering there were still no logos or symbol(s) being announced.
