Digital Home Thoughts: Spotlight Turns to Notebooks Part 3: The MacBook Air

"With a new integrated graphics processor, MacBook Air changes the game and just about everything you do with it. The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M provides up to an amazing 4x performance boost over the original MacBook Air. Photos appear in iPhoto quickly. Transitions in Keynote are seamless. Games play more smoothly. And movie and video playback is better than ever before. No other ultraportable offers such amazing performance in such a slim design."

Not to be left out of the refreshing fun, the MacBook Air got a spec bump today also. Apple added their new Mini DisplayPort connector for video, and dropped the new GeForce 9400M in to replace the weak Intel integrated graphics it was originally configured with. The new Air is available in two flavors; a 1.6 GHz model for $1799 and a 1.83 GHz model for $2499 (this model also includes an SSD as the default storage option).