Digital Home Thoughts - News & Reviews for the Digital Home

OK readers, here's the deal: I'm on the hunt for a new laptop, and I have certain specs that I want the laptop to have. Shockingly, the new 13.3" Macbook Air seems to come closest to the mark...but, given a choice, I'd prefer to not give Apple more of my money. I have no plans to run OS X regularly on it, so something that's built specifically for Windows 7 is more to my liking (rather than using Boot Camp on the Air). Read more...

"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).