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Apple Fanboys, get ready to toss your old MacBooks into the recycling bin. There’s a new laptop in town.
Today at Apple’s Spring Forward event, Apple introduced “the thinnest, lightest, most beautiful notebook we’ve ever made,” says Apple VP Phil Schiller. It’s a full 24 percent thinner than the current MacBook Air.
For $1299, the new MacBook will sport a 1.1-GHz Intel Core M processor, 8GB of memory, and 256 GB of solid state storage. Another $300 buys you a slightly faster processor and twice as much solid state memory.
Practically the only thing not new about Apple’s new flagship notebook is the name. It’s still just called a MacBook. Here are the highlights:
* The first all-metal MacBook, it weighs only 2 pounds and is just 13.1 millimeters thick. WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth antennae are built into the case.
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* The 12.1-inch “retina display” features 3.3 million pixels.
* The pressure-sensitive Force Touch trackpad can differentiate between a light tap and deep press, then respond in different ways. For example, you can fast forward through a QuickTime video simply by pressing harder on the touch pad.
* It is first fanless Macbook ever, making it quieter and more energy efficient.
* Inside is a new high-density logic board that’s two thirds the size of the previous model. Squeezing the logicboard and using a variety of differently shaped batteries allows for 35 percent more battery, providing “all day performance” says Schiller. Apple promises 9 hours of continuous Web browsing or 10 hours of movie playback.
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