Apple announces the 11.6-inch MacBook Air, now available for $999

an image of what was supposedly an 11.6-inch MacBook Air was leaked, some believed it to be true, some took it with a grain of salt. Then Apple came in with their "Back to the Mac" event and finally announced the new MacBook Air model. The 11-inch notebook will be together with it's 13.3-inch larger counterpart in Apple's launching of the latest MacBook Air redesign. Under this sleek machine is a 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo dual core processor with the option of having 2GB or 4GB DDR3 memory on board. Graphics will be provided by an NVIDIA GeForce 320M card. Although the battery life of this one will be a tad short with it's 5-hour life. Prices start at $999 for the 64GB model to $1,999 for the 128GB model. More eye-candy pics, first ad and full press release after the break.

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