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The MacBook Air
Steve Jobs introduced the world’s thinnest notebook, the MacBook Air. He first ditched the disadvantages on most subnotebooks, including smaller screens, slower processors and a shrunken keyboard.
The MacBook Air has a 13.3 inch wide screen LED backlit LCD, afull sized keyboard, an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 processor that was customized by In tel to fit into this ultra-thin notebook and an iSight camera. All these cramped into an aluminium case that is only 0.16-0.76 inches thick. This MacBook Air will retail at USD $1,799.
Notebook Power Saving Tips Part 1: Battery Life +20%
The simplest tip is also the most effective one – dime out the background light of the display. The fluorescent lamp is one of the biggest power consumption in a notebook. For the ThinkPad T43p, the display is dimmed using the key combination [Fn] + [Brightness], Power consumption is thus reduced by a full four watts. This measure has a potential of saving up to 20% power with respect to the total power requirement as it gets difficult to read a dark screen when the sunlight is strong. You have to take the surrounding light into consideration when dimming the display.
