As anticipated, Apple made a slew of announcements at their World Wide Developer's Conference keynote address including OS X Maverick, a new Mac Pro design, iRadio and, of course, iOS 7. Among the announcements, was an update to Apple's foray into the notebook market, the ultra thin MacBook Air.
During the keynote addresss, Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, unveiled a few new details about the MacBook Air notebook. The first thing Schiller highlighted about the device was its all day battery life.
The 11-inch model has been upgraded from a five-hour battery to a nine-hour battery. Meanwhile, the 13-inch model has been upgraded from a seven-hour battery life to a whopping 12-hour battery life. This means users no longer have to worry about charging their MacBook Air when they slip it comfortably into their bag and take it out for a day of work or leisure. Battery life was a major talking point for the company at the keynote speech with several of the features being offered on the new Safari, iOS 7 and OS X Maverick being touted as battery friendly.
As anticipated, the new MacBook Air will include Intel's fourth-generation Core processor, Haswell, which will help improve over all speed. In fact, speed is a key place of improvement as the device also offers Wi-Fi that is three times faster than its predecessor.
The new MacBook Air will be available Monday and start at $999 for the 11-inch 128GB version, the 256GB version will be $1,199. As for the 13-inch models, the 128GB will be priced at $1,099 and the 256GB will be $1,299.
The announcement of the MacBook air was expected as the most likely thing to be announced at the WWDC on Monday. Apple was not too secretive about its work developing the new notebook. 9to5Mac predicted almost every aspect of the MacBook Air's update and specifications earlier last week.
