A new MacBook Air laptop has been unveiled and Apple has hailed it as the first in a new generation of portable computers. apple laptop battery.

This claim seems principally to be based on the new way in which the MacBook will store and transfer its data, namely via solid state flash storage and various online services. The new storage systems are apparently 90 per cent smaller and lighter then traditional Apple hard drives, all of which mean the new Air is really quite impressively slender.

Apple describes its latest reinvention of the apple MacBook battery as having been “designed from the ground up to use flash storage exclusively” and the company makes clear that its recent research efforts in the realms of tablet PCs have helped inform development on the rest of its product range.

“We’ve taken what we have learned with the iPad – solid state storage, instant-on, amazing battery standby time, miniaturisation and lightweight construction, to create the new MacBook Air,” explained Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

The precise weight of your MacBook will depend whether you buy the 11 or the 13-inch variety but either way there wont be much mass left for you to carry around.

With FaceTime built-in and hard drive crashes “eliminated”, an new version Air could well be a worthwhile purchase but whether it will “change the way we think about notebooks”, or even laptops, as Steve Jobs suggests we might, is certainly still open to conjecture.

Prices on Apple’s newest laptop start from £849 for an 11-inch, two gigabyte memory, 64 gigabyte flash storage version and go to £1,349 for a 256 gigabyte device. HP laptop battery.

Earlier this week, Apple announced that it had generated profits worth more than £2 billion during the three months prior to the end of September and sold 3.89 million Macs in the process.