New MacBook Airs Get Hit With a Thunderbolt

Gizmodo - Apple's brought both sizes of the MacBook Air line straight up to what you'd expect from a laptop in 2011, adding a Thunderbolt port, but more importantly some sweet Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 chips—and backlit keyboards.

The addition of the super-fast Thunderbolt port will future-proof any Thunderbolt-enabled gadgets you purchase in the future, and the backlit keyboard? Well, that's so bloggers can see in the night (in Apple keynotes).

11-inch Air

Three 11-inch models are now on offer, with the starting point being a model with 64GB storage, 2GB of RAM and 1.6GHz processor. The next model up has the same CPU speed, but doubles the RAM to 4GB, along with the storage to 128GB. Lastly, the custom model can be squeezed to an 1.8GHz processor, 4GB RAM and 256GB storage.

13-inch Air

Obviously, the real power belongs to the 13-inch models, with the base model coming with a 1.7GHz processor, 4GB RAM and 128GB storage, and the next level up providing much the same, only with 256GB of storage. The built-to-order model can be outfitted with a 1.8GHz chip.    More