“With the release of new models later this month, Apple is set to reinstate a feature to its MacBook Airs that went missing when the company overhauled the ultra-thin notebooks into more cost-affordable products late last year,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
“According to people familiar with the matter, backlit keyboards will join the string of hardware enhancements planned for the new 11.6- and 13.3-inch notebooks, which are also expected to adopt high-speed Thunderbolt ports, an upgrade to Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture, and possibly high-speed 400MBps flash memory,” Jade reports. “The omission late last year of keyboard backlights… from Apple’s current lineup of MacBook Airs was particularly glaring given that all three iterations of the first-generation of MacBook Airs (Early 2008 to Mid-2009) included them as standard features.”
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“The new Airs [will] make their debut sometime during the week of July 21st,” Jade reports, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Jax44,” “Lynn Weiler,” and “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]