Apple used its Worldwide Developers Conference to yet again debut a new MacBook Air model.This model outside has no difference from previous model, but on the inside it’s a much better. Out of the box installation is very easy, but you can also replicate content from an older Macbook onto the new model and that is pretty faster.For me is been better if they make a little difference in outside design so people can quickly differentiate it from the old one. But it is what it is. Here’s the one article that I found about it.
Operating system
One downside of rushing out to buy a new Macbook Air right now is that it ships with Mac OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion, so when the Mavericks OS update comes out this autumn you’ll have to pay to upgrade. Mavericks will add several handy new features, including the ability to save and group files by tags rather than folders, and multiple monitor support.
However, Mountain Lion is still a well-designed and user-friendly OS, and won’t take those new to Mac OS much time to get the hang of if they’re switching from a PC for the first time. This is something that can’t be said for users moving from older Windows versions to Windows 8, in our opinion.
Mountain Lion sticks with the multi-touch gestures seen in its predecessor. Swiping three fingers upwards on the trackpad activates Mission Control, which automatically rearranges the screen to display all programs in a bird’s eye view. Mission Control groups similar programs together so a specific webpage or document can be found easily in a raft of open windows.
Additional multi-touch functionality includes pinch to zoom, plus the ability to rotate images and swipe between apps using the trackpad. When using a webpage, it is also possible to swipe left and right to go backwards and forwards between the pages, another small but time-saving feature.
Unlike on a PC, users are required to swipe up with two fingers on the trackpad to move downwards on a page and vice versa, although this didn’t take long to get used to.
Notable additions in Mountain Lion include a Notification Center, which is accessed by tapping the newly added logo on the right-hand side of the screen or by swiping two fingers from left to right on the trackpad. Scroll up while in the Notifications Center and you’ll see a toggle button that enables you to switch on-screen alerts on and off, if you don’t fancy being bothered by a pop-up bubble every time you get a Twitter notification or email.
Apple’s iCloud is more deeply integrated into Mountain Lion, which is excellent news for Mac owners who have also forked out for an iPhone or iPad. Once you’ve signed in with your Apple ID, iCloud lets you pick and choose which services you want to sync, including Mail, Contacts, Calendars & Reminders, Notes, Safari, Photo Stream and Documents. Once you’ve selected your choices, Apple will begin syncing the data from your iOS devices onto your computer and vice versa.
In the latest version of the Safari browser, Apple catches up with Google Chrome with its Smart Search address bar and fast loading times. Its extended tabbed browsing and multi-touch gestures make flicking through multiple websites easier than ever, and its new “sharing” feature is another nice addition, enabling users to share web pages via Twitter, email or iMessage. Our only complaint is the removal of RSS feeds from the web browser, and from the Mail application.