Review: Apple MacBook Air 11-inch (2011)

Test and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

For the first time, Apple’s entry-level notebook might just be one of its most compelling offerings. The new 2011  11-inch MacBook Air (starting at $999) looks identical to the one we reviewed late last year  but we feel it Is a completely different notebook with a lot more  to offer.

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Apple's roaring Lion enjoys 1 Million first day downloads

OS X  Lion is enjoying an early milestone.

Apple today announced that in just one day, over one million users bought and downloaded Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system. Available through the Mac App Store for $29.99 (CAN), users are buying Lion faster than any other OS release in Apple’s history.

“Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Lion is a huge step forward, it’s not only packed with innovative features but it’s incredibly easy for users to update their Macs to the best OS we’ve ever made.”

Lion introduces more than 250 new features to the Mac, including Multi-Touch gestures; system-wide support for full screen apps; Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac; the Mac App Store, the best place to find and explore great software; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; and a completely redesigned Mail app.

Read about our inital impressions of OS X Lion in Marketnews.ca here.

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New MacBook Airs, Mac minis and Lion usher in age of Thunderbolt

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It's been an Apple extravaganza with updated MacBook Airs (now with backlit screens, Intel Core i5 processors and Thunderbolt ports), spanking new Mac Minis (sans optical drive) but with more powerful processors and up to 8GB of RAM. Apple also released the world's first 27" inch Thunderbold display with a built in Facetime camera. It was also time to bid goodbye to the white  MacBook which has been discontinued for good.

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The Apple Beat: Countdown to Apple's WWDC 2011

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Francisco - A few hours away from the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and expectations are running high on what the upcoming announcements  will mean for Apple and for the technology sector. iCloud, Apple's new streaming delivery service is expected to be big news, specially if it can deliver an entirely new model of content distribution to its hundreds of millions of existing iTunes users. Here's what we expect today.

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