MacBook Air

The Winners The second generation of Apple's MacBook Air fixes many of our gripes about the ambitious original MacBook Air, adding more USB ports, an SD card slot, and a more powerful processor. Now, the Air stands to define an entire generation of so-called ultrabooks. These superthin laptops have no hard drive, start up instantly, and--short of a touch screen--do much of what a tablet can't thanks to their built-in keyboard. It turns out, the world still needs keyboards.

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