New Macbook Air gets Core i5, i7 upgrades

And we thought it wasn’t possible to get more powerful processors inside these skinny little babies but Apple has just announced that the 11-inch and 13-inch Macbook Air will get a Core i5 CPU with an option to bring it to Core i7.

The minimum specs of the new Macbook Air 11.6″ is now at:

Intel Core i5 1.6GHz Dual-Core
2GB DDR3 RAM
64GB SSD
Intel HD Graphics 3000
Price : Php49,990

Or you can bump it to a little more RAM and storag:

Intel Core i5 1.6GHz Dual-Core
4GB DDR3 RAM
128GB SSD
Intel HD Graphics 3000 256MB
Price : Php59,990

The maximum specs you can get for the same Macbook Air is now at:

Intel Core i7 1.8GHz Dual-Core
4GB DDR3 RAM
256GB SSD
Intel HD Graphics 3000 256MB
Price: Php82,020

The 13-inch Macbook Air also got similar bump in the specs:

Intel Core i5 1.7GHz dual-core
4GB memory
128GB flash storage
Intel HD Graphics 3000 256MB
Price: 65,990

All of the new Macbook Airs will come with OXS Lion out of the box, an SD card reader (for the 13-inch model only), Bluetooth 4.0 and Thunderbolt. 

This article originally appeared at - yugatech