Thinking about picking up an ultrabook, but turned off by the high price? Apple is selling first generation MacBook Air models for as little as $699 right now. For that price you get a super-thin and light notebook with an 11.6 inch display and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. If you’re not keen on OS X, you can also…

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While the rest of the computer industry was busy cranking out inexpensive 10 inch netbooks with low power Intel Atom processors, Apple took another approach and launched the MacBook Air — a laptop that’s even lighter than a typical netbook, but which offers a larger, higher resolution display and a much more powerful processor. Unfortunately at launch the MacBook Air…

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Some folks like to say that the MacBook Air is an overpriced netbook, with a starting price of $999 since it’s smaller and less powerful than a full-fledged MacBook. Other folks like to say that Samsung and Acer’s Chromebooks are overpriced netbooks with prices starting at $349 since they have netbook-like components, but a simplified operating system designed to run nothing…

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Other World Computing is offering a new line of solid state disk upgrades for the MacBook Air. The company will sell you a 180GB, 240GB, 360GB, or 480GB disk, with the top of the line model offering almost twice as much storage as you can get with a standard 13 inch MacBook Air. Unfortunately the 480GB SSD also costs about…

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  Netbooks, Notebooks, and Tablets Apple 11.6″ MacBook Air w/64GB SSD for $850 – MacMall (via eBay Daily Deal) HP TouchSmart tm2t 12.1″ notebook w/Intel Core i5 CPU for $787 – HP (coupon: NB6688) Acer Aspire One 522 10″ netbook w/AMD C-50 dual core CPU for $298 – Walmart Velocity Micro T103 Cruz Tablet w/Android 2.0, 7″ screen for $150…

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Netbooks and Tablets Apple MacBook Air 11.6″ w/Intel Core 2 Duo for $949 – Buy.com Refurbished Apple iPad 32GB WiFi 3G Tablet for $670 + $4 s&h – MidnightBox Koby Kyros 7 inch tablet w/4G storage, Android 2.1 for $148 – J&R Nettops Zotac ZBOX w/Atom D510, NVIDIA ION 2, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD (no OS) for $250- Newegg Lenovo…

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Apple still has no plans to offer a netbook, if you define a netbook as a low cost ultraportable computer. But Apple recently released an 11.6 inch version of the MacBook Air, which at $999 and up is relatively cheap for an Apple laptop. And now the company is offering refurbished models for $849, making the company’s smallest and lightest…

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Last month a company called PhotoFast started offering the first storage upgrade kits for Apple’s new MacBook Air models. The SSDs were designed to fit the MacBook Air, and offered customers who purchased the cheaper 11.6 inch laptop the opportunity to install a 256GB disk. Apple only offers that model with 64GB or 128GB options. Now it looks like PhotoFast…

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The new MacBook Air notebooks are ridiculously thin, measuring just 0.68 inches at the thicket point and 0.11 inches at the thinnest. One of the reasons Apple was able to make the laptops that thin was the move away from traditional hard drives or 2.5 inch solid state disks. Instead, Apple went with tiny solid state disks that look more…

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Sure, the recently launched MacBook Air mini-laptop from Apple has a super fast solid state disk which is smaller, lighter, and faster than a typical hard drive, helping the computer boot OS X in just 15 seconds and resume from sleep pretty much instantly. But wouldn’t it be ncie if it were, I don’t know, say… 30% faster? A company…

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With a starting price of $999, it’s hard to call the new MacBook Air a netbook… if your definition of netbook is a small, cheap computer. But as far as Apple laptops come, the MacBook Air is probably the closest we’re ever going to get to a netbook. It’s smaller and lighter than a typical Apple laptop, and reasonably priced….

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That didn’t take long. Yesterday Apple launched new 11.6 inch and 13.3 inch MacBook Air ultraportable laptops. Today the folks at iFixit have posted a photo gallery showing what the smaller model looks like when you rip it apart with your bare hands (or maybe some specialized tools). Long story short, the vast majority of the space inside the case…

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