Up to 12 hours of battery life.
Thanks to compact all-flash storage in MacBook Air, theres plenty of room for a big battery. Working together with the power-efficient fifth-generation Intel Core architecture, this battery can post some impressive numbers. The 11-inch model gets up to 9 hours of battery life on a single charge and the 13-inch model gets up to 12 hours. That gives you all-day power for surfing the web or watching iTunes films. Put MacBook Air to sleep for more than 3 hours and it enters standby mode to conserve battery life for up to 30 days. And if you enable Power Nap, youll continue to receive new email and calendar invitations while your computer is asleep.
Fifth-generation Intel Core processors.
MacBook Air is powered by fifth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. This ultra-efficient architecture was designed to use less power and still deliver high performance. Which means not only can you do whatever you want - you can keep doing it for longer than before. In addition, the Intel HD Graphics 6000 processor offers advanced performance youll particularly notice with games and other graphics-intensive tasks.
802.11ac Wi-Fi. The definition of fast.
MacBook Air supports ultra-fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. When connected to an 802.11ac base station including AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule wireless performance is up to 3x faster than 802.11n Wi-Fi.
Fast all-flash storage.
Part of what makes MacBook Air so responsive is that its designed entirely around flash storage. Not only does this make MacBook Air much lighter and more portable than traditional notebooks, it also provies faster access to data.
Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.
With a Thunderbolt 2 port thats twice as fast as the previous generation, you can connect your MacBook Air to the latest devices and displays, the the Apple Thunderbolt Display. MacBook Air also comes equipped with two USB 3 ports, so you can connect the latest USB 3 devies and all your USB 2 devices as well.
Multi-Touch trackpad.
The Multi-Touch gestures in OS X make everything you do on MacBook Air more intuitive, direct and fun. And the spacious Multi-Touch trackpad is perfectly designed for them, whether its a three-finger swipe to activate Mission Control or a four-finger pinch to see all your apps in Launchpad.
Backlit Keyboard.
As incredibly compact as MacBook Air is, it still manages to fit a full-size keyboard that makes typing as natural as it is comfortable. And the keyboard is backlit, so you can type with ease in even the dimmest light.
