And the installation is free, but you'll still have to hand over your machine to Apple until they can get the new battery installed. However, the battery is sealed and is not user replaceable. Bluetooth 2.1+EDR is part of the package too. With 802.11n Wi-Fi on for browsing the web, you get five hours of battery life, Jobs claimed. The Air ships with adaptor cables with full DVI and VGA ports on the end. Want an optical drive? That's an extra $99 for an external unit, though the Air can make use of drives fitted into other Macs. The port array runs to a MagSafe link on the right side, and a USB 2.0 port, mini-DVI connector and a headphone socket on the left, all three under a flap.

The 1.6GHz model comes with a 4200rpm 80GB hard disk drive, but the faster Air has a 64GB solid-state drive. All Airs come with 2GB of DDR 2 memory as standard. As the 1st Macs to feature solid-state storage, it has transitioned from 1.8' ATA-IDE to 1.8' SATA I, then II, then III, then onto custom-pinout M.2 SATA modules, to the more recent M.2 PCIe modules.

The Macbook Air packs a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, though a 1.8GHz upgrade will be available too. MacBook Pro - Air SSD Upgrade Kits May Be SATA or PCIe Modules Depending On Model The compatible MacBook Air SDD timeline is most complex.

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