After two years, Apple’s MacBook Air finally receives an update. It’s now available in two sizes, the MacBook Air 11.6-inch and MacBook Air 13.3-inch. The MacBook Airs will include flash storage, 802.11-N Wi-Fi, Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics card, and a Core 2 Duo processor. Apple increased the size of the battery to provide five to seven hours of battery life when surfing the web over Wi-Fi, and 30 days on standby time like the iPad.

The models start at $1,000 and begin shipping today.

Until Apple designs a Mac netbook to ease the appetites of Mac OS X fans looking for something easier to carry around than a MacBook Air, users will be taking action into their own hands. Hackintoshers have successfully completed fully operational Leopard installs on the the most popular netbooks like the MSI Wind, Lenovo S10, Dell Mini 9 and HP Mini 1000.

With the recent release of the Sony Vaio P, we’ll have a hacked Mac OS X netbook that’s a mere 1.5 pounds and will be able fit into your back pocket. Stay tuned for more Sony Vaio P Mac OS X goodness!

(Always use a legal copy of Apple Mac OS X — Piracy isn’t nice)

When is a laptop case not a laptop case? When it’s the Vaja Leather i-volution. Designed to fit your MacBook Air like a glove, it provides protection against common nicks and dents without the bulk.

Pricing starts at $280 and is available in over 1000 leather color combinations.

Just because your MacBook Air fits inside an office envelope, doesn’t mean you should carry it around in one. Afterall, an office envelope offers little to no protection.

The Steve Sleeve by Timbuk2 however, is another story. You get the look of an office thin envelope but with the protection of a real sleeve. Plus it’s built from environmental friendly materials — ultrasonic seam welds use a nontoxic glue, the durable exterior softshell fabric & low pile brushed fleece lining are made from post-consumer pop bottles.

(via JoshSpear)

I’m sure many of you have been waiting for Apple to produce an ultra-slim portable notebook — I know I’ve been. The wait is over.

This morning at Macworld in San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air ($1799). Measuring only 0.16 to 0.76 inches and weighing 3.0 pounds, the MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest laptop.

Features include a 13.3 LED backlit wide screen display, a full-size backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight camera, and an iPhone-like trackpad with multi-touch gesture capability.

Additional specs include: a built-in iSight camera, USB 2, micro-DVI and headphone via a flipdown door, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.

There’s no optical drive on the MacBook Air. A “remote disc” feature allows you to “borrow” any nearby machines optical drive or you can purchase the optional MacBook Air SuperDrive ($100).

Two options are available: 1.6 GHz version with 80GB 4200-rpm PATA hard drive ($1,799) or 1.8 GHz version with 64GB solid-state hard drive ($3,098).

Great news for all Mac fanatics, but my only qualm is the rather slow and small hard drive in the 1.6 GHz variety.