Apple MacBook Air

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Reviews for theApple MacBook Air

MacBook Air: User Review
Source: Notebookreview.com
Is the MacBook Air for you? If you are in the market for an all-round light-weight notebook then the Macbook Air is one of the most portable and visually appealing notebooks on the market. Otherwise you may want to consider the MacBook, which is significantly cheaper and provides high performance computing, better connectivity and ample storage. The MacBook Pro will interest people who either require a larger screen, an ExpressCard slot, more RAM or a dedicated graphics card.
Mobilität sehr gut, Preis mäßig
User Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/29/2008
Rating: price: 60% mobility: 90%

Air Jobs on the rebound
Source: Fudzilla
Let's start with the basics. The Air is the best looking MacBook ever, and as far as I'm concerned, one of the best looking notebooks in general. Apple designed it with fashion-minded people in mind and it did a marvelous job. The good looks come at a price, but many people will be more than happy to sacrifice USBs, Ethernet and an optical drive to enjoy Apple's latest toy. So, what are the drawbacks? Lack of ports springs to mind first. There's no optical drive, either, meaning you have to cough up an additional $99 for an external SuperDrive and that hurts. No Ethernet ? Some people won't really mind, but others will.
Leistung schlecht, Mobilität mäßig, Ausstattung sehr schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/15/2008
Rating: performance: 40% features: 30% mobility: 60%

80% Apple MacBook Air, 1.8GHz & 64GB SSD review
Source: PC Advisor
The public reaction to the MacBook Air has been fascinating. Our original conclusion could probably be boiled down to “it's good for people it's good for, and not for people it's not” – this appeared to be a Rorschach test for readers, since we've received praise from MacBook Air critics and fans alike. Across the internet we've seen similar reactions, with some users embracing the product despite its compromises, and others attacking it as a product with no purpose other than to part fools from their money. Not wishing to sound like a broken record, but how you see the Air has a lot to do with your priorities. For some, the Air's lack of a swappable battery and its underpowered processor make it a terrible value proposition – like paying for black on a MacBook. We take the point, but have to disagree. For us, the value of dropping down a kilo in weight will make all the difference when on the move.
(von 5): 4, Verarbeitung 4.5, Ausstattung 3.5, Preis 3.5
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/09/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% features: 70% workmanship: 90%

70% Apple MacBook Air 1.8Ghz
Source: Techradar
The sealed unit approach means the battery is an integral part of the machine and there's no clear path for upgrading the memory or hard drive. This may work for an MP3 player, which isn't critical to your work, however, for a machine to be used for business, can you really afford to send it back to Apple when it needs updating? In field tests, where we actually took the MacBook Air out and used it until the battery died, we found it lasted for 153 minutes, which is fine for the morning commute, but isn't going to see you through a day's work. When connected to a wireless network, this dropped to 137 minutes to reflect the chipsets further power drain. The Apple MacBook Air is a fantastic looking laptop and a joy to use, but there are simply too many sacrifices.
3.5 von 5, Verarbeitung gut, Display gut, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% display: 80% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80%

80% Apple MacBook Air
Source: Reg Hardware
The Air is a 'love it or loathe it' machine, but don't let the naysayers put you off if it offers the form factor you prefer. Of course it's not going to be the laptop to suit everyone - you can buy cheaper or more capable Macs and PCs - so it's not a must have for the price-conscious buyer or the power-hungry. It's pricey, but with the exception of the tiny, basic Eee, the Air's no more expensive than other slim'n'light laptops. If form-factor is your prime concern, then the Air provides a good computing experience, and if our time with it is anything to go by, its port and optical disc limitations proved no handicap at all. Again, if you think they're going to be, there are plenty of other laptops out there that'll meet your needs instead. Of course, if you want to run Mac OS X on a thin'n'light machine, this is really your only option.
80%, Preis mangelhaft, Mobilität sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/11/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 50% mobility: 90%

Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit ist meins
Source: Plugged - 3/08
Formfaktor: Neid erregend. Lustfaktor: Hoch. Mit Apples jüngstem und der Welt dünnstem Notebook macht arbeiten endlich wieder Spaß. Stylischer kann man zurzeit nicht mobil arbeiten, das ist Fakt. Anfangs wird man sicherlich noch ständig das externe Laufwerk herumtragen, aber die zunehmende Verfügbarkeit aller Daten auf USB oder online macht auch das irgendwann verzichtbar.
Mobilität gut
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 03/31/2008
Rating: mobility: 80%

This Air is not for everyone
Source: The Star
As a portable computer, it excels in many areas that others can’t – such as having a large screen, full-sized keyboard and decent processing power – while staying ultra lightweight. But the exclusion of an optical disc drive, limitations of Remote Disc, and lack of a user-replaceable battery, are shortcomings that will be difficult to ignore for most notebook users. We also find the Air more suited as a secondary device to a desktop machine because it depends so much on having another computer through which to install new applications. Despite that, we feel it represents a step in the right direction towards making notebooks more portable. We hope the next version comes with a built-in optical drive; we don’t think we are ready to give up on that peripheral just yet.
Display gut, Mobilität gut, Ausstattung schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/11/2008
Rating: features: 40% display: 80% mobility: 80%

71% Apple MacBook Air
Source: PC World
Ultimately, though, the air is a victory of industrial design and single-minded purpose. It has decent performance for an ultraportable, but few standout features to speak of beyond the superficial. And yet, I still can't help wanting to stop and touch it.
(von 100): 71, Leistung 57, Ausstattung 71, Preis mäßig, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 71% price: 60% performance: 57% features: 71% mobility: 40%

Ist weniger mehr?
Source: Mac Life - 4/08
Was leistet Apples jüngster Spross, was stört an ihm und für wen ist das Gerät interessant? Soll der mobile Mac der Hauptrechner sein oder möchte man viele Zusatzgeräte wie einen externen Bildschirm, Drucker, Scanner etc. anschließen, ist man mit dem MacBook Pro besser bedient.
Ausstattung mangelhaft
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 03/05/2008
Rating: features: 50%

MacBook Air
Source: T Break
All-in-all, the Air is a decent Notebook with an incredible design but not one for me. Its a bit lacking in features and performance and for version 2 of Air (does that sound weird?), I would recommend Apple to add a Gigabit Ethernet port, increase the display resolution and lose the glossiness as well as use a dedicated GPU to process graphics. A faster hard drive would be nice too but I'm sure that SSDs will decease in price. Also, CPU speeds keep going up so that wont be an issue. Yes, I might be asking too much but I am a demanding user. And from that prespective, the Air is not for everyone- especially as their primary computer. I feel that its a steup-up from MacBook so if thats what you're eyeing at or want to upgrade from a PowerPC based notebook, then you'll be more than happy with Air. However, if you're a Mac Pro or MacBook Pro type of person, you'll still fall in love at first sight but probably get over the honeymoon within two weeks time and start craving for more.
Ausstattung mangelhaft, Leistung mangelhaft, Display mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/27/2008
Rating: performance: 50% features: 50% display: 50%

60% Apple MacBook Air
Source: Comp Reviews
The MacBook Air is a very divisive design. Either you will love it or you will hate it. Design wise it is a beatuiful system that is extremely small and light. The problem is that it lacks a number of standard laptop features that it is very hard to really recommend it to anyone as their sole system. It is really best used as a business travel system in conjunction with another primary PC.
3 von 5, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 02/26/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% mobility: 80%

60% Apple MacBook Air laptop review
Source: Pocket Lint
Every Apple launch is something of an event and it's no different with the MacBook Air, as this is the thinnest notebook in the world. You have to admire Apple's enthusiasm and the MacBook Air is a great design statement but as a practical machine it simply doesn't match anything released by Sony. If you like style over content then you'll be happy, but we feel there are simply too many sacrifices in the MacBook Air to make it a compelling purchase.
6 von 10
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/18/2008
Rating: Total score: 60%

80% Review: Apple Macbook Air notebook PC
Source: vnunet.com
Apple says that the Macbook Air is a ‘no compromise ultra-portable laptop’. That’s certainly true in some ways: the unit measures less than 2cm thick (0.76in) at its thickest point, and even the somewhat-miffed Sony hasn’t really disputed Apple’s claim that this is the ‘thinnest laptop in the world’. Sony does win on weight as its Vaio TZ weighs just 1.24kg, compared to the Macbook’s 1.36kg. However, the Macbook Air has a bigger screen – 13.3in compared to 11.1in for the Vaio. Ultimately, though, Apple’s engineers know that there’s more to good design than just a spec-sheet full of numbers. The ultra-portable design is impressive, but comes at a cost in terms of limited performance and connectivity.
(von 5): 4, Ausstattung 4, Leistung 3, Preis/Leistung 4, Verarbeitung gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/14/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 60% features: 80% workmanship: 80%

Apple MacBook Air Review
Source: Notebookreview.com
Apple is pushing the envelope (cough cough) with the MacBook Air ... in various ways that some people will love and others will hate. On one hand they offer a super thin, lightweight design, but on the other they take away ports and give you a permanent battery. This notebook also suffers from some early release driver quirks, but those should hopefully be resolved in the near future. Overall I think this is a promising notebook that should force some other manufacturers to wake up and design some lighter and slimmer full-size notebooks.
Mobilität zufriedenstellend
User Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/06/2008
Rating: mobility: 70%

60% MacBook Air
Source: Laptop Mag
When you weigh the compromises against what the MacBook Air offers, there are some good reasons to think twice and to wait for some of these innovations to grace the next iteration of the MacBook Air. But that’s reason talking. Our visceral reaction to the MacBook Air is that it’s a notebook we’d want to carry around everywhere. Road warriors who demand long battery life or a better selection of ports should pass, but this work of art is worth considering for corridor warriors who attend lots of meetings, as well as for commuters who do a fair amount of work while traveling to and from the office. You get an easy-to-use, secure, and fun operating system wrapped in the sexiest, thinnest package money can buy.
3 von 5, Display gut, Leistung gut, Mobilität mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 50%

MacBook Air
Source: Mac Life - 3/08
There's something in the air', hieß es schon im Vorfeld der Macworld Expo. Nicht nur, weil die Luft in den Gerüchteküchen schon längst geheimnisgeschwängert war, sondern auch, weil Apple jenen Slogan zum diesjährigen Motto erhoben hatte. Was kommen würde, war deswegen unter der Hand schon klar und dennoch eine Überraschung: Das MacBook Air, tatsächlich das 'dünnste Notebook der Welt?' Ein Verwendungszweck, für den es allerdings wie geschaffen scheint: Dank seiner kompakten Abmessungen und dem geringen Gewicht von 1,36 kg ist kein Koffer zu klein, kein Rucksack zu schmal, um das MacBook Air nicht ständig mitführen zu können. Einschränkungen müssen Kunden nicht nur bei der Anschlussmöglichkeit für Peripherie hinnehmen.
Mobilität sehr gut
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 02/06/2008
Rating: mobility: 90%

Ars reviews the MacBook Air with solid state drive
Source: IT Reviews
The $1,300 question is whether the SSD is worth the extra cash. The answer seems to be no. I experienced only moderate gains in battery life and not very noticeable speed differences. The one major benefit of the SSD model is that it doesn't cause the same types of slowdowns as the HDD model during times of high disk activity, and that's certainly a huge plus. Speedy read times are great, too, but they are balanced out by pokey write times. Still, even if it's more usable, it's hard to justify the huge price difference for the SSD model. If you've got an extra $1,300 to blow and, for some reason, haven't just bought a second computer with it, perhaps the SSD model is for you. For anyone else looking to buy an Air, the HDD model appears to provide the most bang for the buck.
Leistung gut, Preis/Leistung schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/05/2008
Rating: price: 40% performance: 80%

70% Apple MacBook Air review
Source: PC Advisor
The story of the MacBook Air is a story about compromise, the decision about whether the MacBook Air is a product worth having can be answered by one question: How much are you willing to compromise? Judged merely on the cold technological specifications, the MacBook Air can't measure up to Apple's other laptops. For those to whom the tech specs matter above all else, the MacBook Air can't be seen as much more than an overpriced, underpowered toy. But there will be those who, small drive and slow processor be damned, will adopt the MacBook Air as their primary laptop - simply because they want that laptop to be as small as possible. For those who factor size, weight, and — yes, we'll admit it — style into the equation, the MacBook Air begins to make more sense.
(von 5): 3.5, Verarbeitung 4, Ausstattung 3, Preis/Leistung 3
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/03/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 60% features: 60% workmanship: 80%

MacBook Air First Thoughts Review
Source: Notebookreview.com
As the old saying goes, "you never get a second chance to make a good first impression." Somehow, I don't think everyone in Cupertino was thinking about this famous phrase when they developed the MacBook Air. While the Apple MacBook Air is an impressive design with some innovative features, the number of sacrifices that had to be made in order to create this ultra-thin notebook severely limits this laptop. The lack of ports, low-capacity slow hard drive, and slow overall performance make the MacBook Air the weakest performing MacBook we've seen in the last few years. On the other hand, the MacBook Air is the sexiest looking MacBook we've ever seen. Sure, you can fit the MacBook Air in a manila envelope ... but most consumers won't be impressed if the $1,800 laptop that comes out of the envelope isn't very powerful. Stay tuned for our full review of the MacBook Air in a few days.
Leistung schlecht
User Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/31/2008
performance: 40%

60% MacBook Air
Source: Laptop Mag
When you weigh the compromises against what the MacBook Air offers, there are some good reasons to think twice and to wait for some of these innovations to grace the next iteration of the MacBook Air. But that’s reason talking. Our visceral reaction to the MacBook Air is that it’s a notebook we’d want to carry around everywhere. Road warriors who demand long battery life or a better selection of ports should pass, but this work of art is worth considering for corridor warriors who attend lots of meetings, as well as for commuters who do a fair amount of work while traveling to and from the office. You get an easy-to-use, secure, and fun operating system wrapped in the sexiest, thinnest package money can buy.
3 von 5, Display sehr gut, Leistung zufriedenstellend, Mobilität mäßig
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/31/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 70% display: 90% mobility: 60%

60% MacBook Air
Source: vnunet.com
When you weigh the compromises against what the MacBook Air offers, there are some good reasons to think twice and to wait for some of these innovations to grace the next iteration of the MacBook Air. But that’s reason talking. Our visceral reaction to the MacBook Air is that it’s a notebook we’d want to carry around everywhere. Road warriors who demand long battery life or a better selection of ports should pass, but this work of art is worth considering for corridor warriors who attend lots of meetings, as well as for commuters who do a fair amount of work while traveling to and from the office. You get an easy-to-use, secure, and fun operating system wrapped in the sexiest, thinnest package money can buy.
3 von 5, Display sehr gut, Leistung zufriedenstellend, Mobilität mäßig
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/31/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 70% display: 90% mobility: 60%

77% Apple MacBook Air Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz - 13.3" TFT
Source: CNet
Apple's new laptop, the MacBook Air, may not be the true ultraportable that many had hoped for, but it still easily breaks new ground for small laptops. Mimicking the 13-inch silhouette of the current MacBook line, it's only 0.76 inch thick at its thickest, and Apple calls it the "world's thinnest notebook. The design is revolutionary, but Apple's MacBook Air will appeal to a smaller, more specialized audience than the standard MacBook, thanks to a stripped-down set of connections and features.
7.7 von 10, Mobilität gut, Preis/Leistung schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/25/2008
Rating: Total score: 77% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 80%

Dicke Überraschung: Dünnes MacBook
Source: Plugged - 2/08
Gemutmasst wurde es schon länger, doch als Steve Jobs Anfang Januar das MacBook Air aus einem Briefumschlag zog, blieb den meisten doch die Luft weg. Rekordverdächtig dünn und leicht, dafür muss man auf ein paar gewohnte Features verzichten, zum Ausgleich gibt es Neue. Display mit LED-Beleuchtung, was Platz und Energie spart. Überhaupt ist Platz sparen eine der wichtigsten Disziplinen der Entwickler gewesen.
Mobilität gut
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 01/25/2008
Rating: mobility: 80%

70% Apple MacBook Air laptop review
Source: PC Advisor
The MacBook Air has arrived, a third MacBook model that brings incredibly small size to Apple's laptop line at a premium price. After getting some hands-on time with the MacBook Air at Macworld Expo, we've got some first impressions. At the risk of sounding obvious, the MacBook Air is incredibly light and tiny. Initial impressions of the MacBook Air are almost overwhelmingly positive. It's incredibly light and tiny, and has all the features we've come to expect from the MacBook line. But there's no optical drive and the hard drive isn't the biggest.
(von 5): 3.5, Verarbeitung 4, Ausstattung 3, Preis/Leistung 3
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/22/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 60% features: 60% workmanship: 80%

70% Apple MacBook Air
Source: PC Mag
If your weight requirements extend to 4-pounds and under, then the MacBook Air is not best of breed. The Sony VAIO VGN-SZ791N and the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 are now the favorites. For those who pre-ordered already and were sold as soon as Jobs whipped out the manila folder, the MacBook Air is hands down the thinnest and prettiest laptop in the market. The MacBook Air is officially the thinnest laptop, and the lightest of those with a 13-inch screen. But there were compromises that had to be made.
3.5 von 5, Display sehr gut, Mobilität mäßig, Preis/Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% display: 90% mobility: 60%

Apple MacBook Air - First Look review
Source: Pocket Lint
As a piece of engineering, the MacBook Air is impressive and Apple should be commended for getting all that tech into a device that is so thin. Up close and personal it's very impressive and makes our 6-month old MacBook Pro look like someone from Fat Camp. So why aren't we getting all excited about it as much as we should? Well for us it comes down to that non-replaceable battery. What's the point of having a portable device if you have to be within 5 hours of a power supply. Granted 5 hours is a long time and Apple suggest that if you opt for the SSD option you'll get even longer, but the inability to be able to replace the battery on the fly is a deal breaker for us. It might be fine when you first get it out of the box, but what happens in 2 years time when you've got to take it back to Apple because the battery is giving you below par performance?
Display gut, Mobilität zufriedenstellend, Preis/Leistung schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/15/2008
Rating: price: 40% display: 80% mobility: 70%

Foreign Reviews

Apple MacBook Air Subnotebook
Source: Minitechnet
online available, Medium, Date: 07/19/2008
Rating: price: 40% performance: 80% display: 100% mobility: 80% workmanship: 100% ergonomy: 60%

80% Typisch Apple - kleines Teil für viel Geld
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 05/08/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 50% performance: 50% features: 30% display: 100% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 40%

Subnotebook von Apple
Source: Stiftung Warentest - 5/08
online available, Very Short, Date: 05/01/2008
Rating: price: 40% performance: 80%

Luftpost von Apple: Test MacBook Air
Source: Tom's Hardware
online available, Long, Date: 04/29/2008
Rating: price: 40% features: 40%

Flacher gehts kaum
Source: Stiftung Warentest - 5/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/25/2008
Rating: price: 40% performance: 80% features: 50%

Das dünnste Notebook der Welt
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 5-6/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/18/2008
Rating: mobility: 80%

Die Leichtigkeit des Seins
Source: mobile Zeit - 3/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/09/2008
Rating: performance: 70% features: 50%

60% Apple Macbook Air
Source: Chip.de - 4/08
, Very Short, Date: 04/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 60%

Die Leichtigkeit des Seins
Source: Mac Welt - 4/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 03/05/2008
Rating: price: 40% performance: 70% mobility: 80% emissions: 80%

80% Apple MacBook Air (80GB)
Source: Digital Trends
online available, Long, Date: 03/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% features: 80% mobility: 80%

MacBook Air
Source: AON.at
online available, Short, Date: 03/03/2008
Rating: price: 50% display: 80% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 100%

80% Ein Hauch von Laptop
Source: Connect - 4/08
, Very Short, Date: 03/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 40% features: 60% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 100%

83% Fliegengewicht
Source: Computerbild - 6/08
, Medium, Date: 03/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 80% performance: 86% features: 80% display: 84% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 88%

All you need is the Air?
Source: WCM - 4/08
, Long, Date: 03/01/2008
Rating: performance: 70% features: 50% display: 80% workmanship: 70%

90% Macbook Air im Praxistest
Source: ZDNet
online available, Long, Date: 02/28/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 70% performance: 60% features: 50%

Mobilität in einer neuen Dimension
Source: SFT - 3/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/27/2008
Rating: display: 80%

88% Apple MacBook Air im Test
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Long, Date: 02/24/2008
Rating: Total score: 88% performance: 70% display: 92% mobility: 88% workmanship: 99% ergonomy: 95% emissions: 85%

Das digitale Quartett
Source: Tomorrow - 3/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/21/2008
Rating: price: 40% display: 80%

Airotisch: Das Apple MacBook Air im Test
Source: Netzwelt
online available, Long, Date: 02/20/2008
Rating: performance: 40% features: 40% mobility: 60% emissions: 80%

Mini-Notebooks
Source: c't - 5/08
, Long, Date: 02/15/2008
Rating: performance: 40% features: 40% mobility: 80%

74% Apple MacBook Air (Notebook)
Source: Chip.de
online available, Medium, Date: 02/12/2008
Rating: Total score: 74% performance: 64% features: 51% display: 100% mobility: 90% ergonomy: 73%

77% Apple Macbook Air
Source: ZDNet
online available, Medium, Date: 02/08/2008
Rating: Total score: 77% price: 40% features: 70% mobility: 80%

The MacBook Air Hands-On
Source: Tom's Hardware
online available, Short, Date: 01/18/2008
Rating: mobility: 90%

92% Apple MacBook Air
Source: PC Actual
online available, Short, Date: 04/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 92% price: 83%

Steve Jobs y sus cacharritos: el MacBook Air a prueba
Source: CanalPDA
online available, Long, Date: 01/17/2008
Rating: price: 50% features: 50% display: 80% mobility: 90%

70% Apple MacBook Air FM4015
Source: PCM
online available, Very Short, Date: 02/22/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 60% mobility: 80%

Dunste notebook ter wereld
Source: Computer Totaal
online available, Short, Date: 02/08/2008
Rating: price: 60% performance: 70% display: 80% mobility: 90%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM chipset. It is the successor of GMA 950 and features a fully programmable pipeline (supports Aero Glass fully and DirectX 10 with newest drivers). The peformance of the X3100 is clearly better than the GMA 950, still demanding modern games won't run fluently.

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).

The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.

P7500 MacBook Air:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

13.3": This is a frequent and the biggest display format for sub-notebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few current, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.37 kg: This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist only few sub-notebooks, which weight less. 10 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

73.68%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.