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Last year's Air featured Intel's Core 2 Duo processors, based on an architecture that debuted in 2006.

While last year's updates were great alternatives to cheap, underpowered netbooks, they weren't fast enough to be a mainstream computer in 2011. If you want a portable Mac you can buy a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro.Īs the mainstream counterpart to the MacBook Pro, Apple had to do something about the performance of the MacBook Air. Apple isn't a fan of large complicated lineups so it retired the MacBook. With last year's update the MacBook Air did so well that it actually started outselling the base MacBook. Last year Apple introduced the first major update to the MacBook Air, bifurcating the lineup with the first ever 11-inch model in addition to the standard 13. It finally stuck a fast enough CPU in a small enough chassis and gave me a full sized keyboard to type on.

When Apple introduced the first MacBook Air back in 2008 I fell in love. Back when I was in college I kept buying increasingly more portable notebooks until I eventually ended up with something horribly unusable for actual work.