Review: MacBook Air 2011

How to overcome a great success last year, and sell the same product, even for the same people? With the Apple iPhone has proved to be master in this art and now repeats the dose with the new 11-inch MacBook Air. Like a winning team does not move, the external design is the same as they were launched in October 2010, except the keyboard, which is now backlit.


What's in the box
Keeping that began with the Air Line launched in 2010, no CDs or DVDs, but now anything stick too! Everything needed for the restoration of your new MacBook Air comes into it in a separate disk partition. If even that fails to recover can be done online. Do not like it? You can buy a flash drive for $ 199.00 at the Apple Store. The traditional apple stickers still in the box. By connecting your notebook to find Lion, the new cat that lives in Apple computers.

Design
Reissuing the design of the previous edition, the MacBook Air 11 "has no external modification. In dimensional terms, there was a noticeable change in weight, just 20g more, now weighing 1.08 kg. Due to the small space, there is an SD slot, handy for downloading pictures and present in all other Macs today. Thus the thinnest notebook Apple continues with dimensions ranging from 0.3 to 1.7 cm.

Keyboard
A keyboard that glows in the dark seems unnecessary until you need it, this feature is no longer a privilege only of the line Pro Air either version 11 or 13 inches now have this functionality. Of course, like anything that lights up, it helps to consume battery. Our test was performed on a Portuguese keyboard layout, having the [c] and the seats ['acute], [^ caret] and [~ til] entered without the need for combination.

Battery
If the battery from the previous version was good, it got better. The model tested was the MacBook Air 11 "1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 with 4GB of memory. For activities such as heavy traffic and use WiFi, the battery lasted almost four hours. Now to type a text and work with spreadsheets without the need for grid connection and with a minimum screen brightness, the battery survived for nearly seven hours!

Display
With a resolution of 1366 x 768 screen on its 11.6 "LED-backlit technology glossy, MacBook Air is great for writing texts, emails, surf the web and also for watching movies. If you already have an adapter for the Mini Display Port connector (sold separately) it can also be used in the new Air to connect it to an external monitor.

Connection Thunderbolt
Much has been said about the new connection adopted by Apple, which now present in its entire line of computers. With it you can connect monitors and other peripherals such as external hard drive on the same connection, forming a clothesline. With this, the MacBook Air 11 "will not be limited to only two more USB connections, except that for this to happen more peripheral connection with this have to hit the market. Today, Apple is the only 27-inch Cinema Display.

Trackpad
The trackpad with multitouch technology (like the iPhone's display), makes up to four fingers simultaneously, very useful and versatile to use all the features of the interface gestures Lion.


Performance
Using an HD solid state (SSD) MacBook Air 11 "starts in just 19 seconds, the whole boot is slow after you're used to Air.Seu performance for day-to-day life of an ordinary user is very good.

Edit text, update your social networks or organize your music in iTunes are tasks done without owing anything to the other Macs, including a movie in Full HD (1080p) without choking. Combining this with the MacBook Air mobility is an excellent solution for daily interaction with the digital world.

Accessories
All this mobility, lightness and design has a price: not everything is integrated into the notebook. If you need to connect your MacBook Air to a wired network, using a CD / DVD or read a SD memory card you must buy an accessory, such as reduced space would not fit any more.

YouTube loses rack server in the U.S. and displays errors in place of videos

Productivity peaks may have noticed on Thursday, when the famous video site YouTube was off the air once again. By reports on social networks, the site is down for at least half time and there is an explanation of why yet. Although the site navigation is possible with thumbnail display of videos, none of the videos can be played. The reports are that the errors displayed range from Error 502 or Error 500, among others.

YouTube recently increased the size limit and time of the videos for users who do not have copyright problems with the site. Since then, a greater number of members now have the ability to send files up to 20 GB and lasting for more than 15 minutes, but engineers do not think YouTube did not anticipate a significant increase in traffic.

According to sources from The Next Web site, the reason for the unavailability of the site would be the "loss of a rack" on servers located in New York, although the official account on YouTube and Twitter only warns that engineers are working to restore it as much as before.

Yes, YouTube uses Google's servers which are notoriously very powerful. But no, they are not 100% free of faults.

HTC Ultimate with WP7 is approved by Anatel

The list of smartphones with Windows 7 Phone will be sold in the country is still unknown because the manufacturers and Microsoft itself are still a mystery, although some leaks can not hide. It seems that at least one name is already confirmed indirectly, because the system of the FCC approval of devices. In the agency's Web site were published late last month documents confirming the arrival of so-called HTC Ultimate in Brazil.


This model would, according to staff Geminder, HTC Titan with a different name, country-specific. He has a Snapdragon processor with 1.5 GHz clock, 512 MB ​​RAM, 4.7 inch screen with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, 16 GB of internal storage, and Windows 7 Phone Mango.

Although they are identical in design, it is not possible to know if the HTC Titan HTC and Ultimate are the same device as there are not many hardware details. Still, even if he seems to compete face to face with the current leads Androids that are flooding the market. We only hope that these devices do not take too long to arrive in the country.

Nokia will lay off 3,500 employees

In February this year, Nokia signed a deal with Microsoft to bring Windows 7 to its Phone device. Two months after the first sign of the negative side of the company's restructuring appeared to cut 4,000 jobs. Today Nokia announced that it will lay off 3,500 more employees, with 1300 Location of industry and commerce and with the 2200 closure of a factory in Romania.


But not all bad news: the 2200 employees working in the Romanian factory of Nokia employees will continue until the end of the year and should continue to receive salary, even without working until March 2012, which should give enough time for them find a new job. In addition to plant closures and layoffs, Nokia also will choose a CEO for the joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks, responsible for network equipment.

With lower than expected financial results, it is natural that Nokia starts to cut costs to remain active until the arrival of Windows mobile Phone 7. And that puts even more pressure on those responsible for its development, since if they do not do any success Finnish mobile phone giant may cease to exist.

But seeing that already "leaked" so far as the Nokia Sea Ray, I'd say the chances of that happening are slim. Do not you think?

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