Apple upgrades Mac Air with new features

Mumbai: Apple has updated its new notebook ‘MacBook Air’ with iLife and iWork apps. MacBook Air features a fast flash storage, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, up to 12 hours of battery life and is available at a starting price of Rs 65,900  in India.

It’s iLife lets you edit your favourite videos with iMovie, create new music , edit and share your best shots with iPhoto. iWork productivity apps, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, make it easy to create, edit and share stunning documents, spreadsheets and presentations. iWork for iCloud beta lets you create a document on iPhone or iPad, edit it on your Mac and collaborate with friends, even if they are on a PC.

The Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors work in conjunction with OS X Mavericks to give the 13-inch MacBook Air up to 12 hours of battery life and the 11-inch MacBook Air up to 9 hours of battery life. iTunes movie playback times increase to 12 hours on the 13-inch notebook and 9 hours on the 11-inch notebook, adding up to two hours of playback time to the updated MacBook Air.

The 11-inch MacBook Air comes with a 1.4 GHz processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.7 GHz, 4GB of memory and is available with 128GB of flash storage starting at INR 65,900 inc VAT (INR 62,642.59 ex VAT), and 256GB of flash storage starting at Rs 79,900 inc VAT (INR 75,950.57 ex VAT). The 13-inch MacBook Air comes with a 1.4 GHz processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.7 GHz, 4GB of memory and is available with 128GB of flash storage starting at Rs72,900 inc VAT (INR 69,296.58 ex VAT), and 256GB of flash storage starting at Rs 86,900 inc VAT (INR 82,604.56 ex VAT). Configure-to-order options include a 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.3 GHz, up to 8GB of memory and up to 512GB flash storage.

Its OS X Mavericks comes with 200 new features, including core technologies designed specifically for notebooks to boost performance and improve battery life. Mavericks introduces amazing apps like iBooks, which gives you instant access to your iBooks library, more than two million titles in the iBooks Store, and works seamlessly across your Apple devices. The new Maps app allows you to look up directions on your Mac and send them right to your iPhone or iPad, and with iCloud, whatever you do in apps like Mail, Contacts and Calendar also appears on your other devices.

“Macs have never been more popular and we’ve boosted the performance and lowered the price of MacBook Air so even more people can experience the perfect everyday notebook,” concluded Philip Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing.