#mac air

Apple today unveiled their smallest notebook so far -- an 11.6" Macbook Air weighing in at only 2.3lbs (1.05kg). It's much lighter and thinner this time -- between 17mm to 30mm on the side -- and since it's just 11.6" diagonally, this new Macbook Air is bordering into the netbook space. Apple's $999 introductory price point targets students the same way as they positioned the white Macbook (also priced at $999). Of course, there's the usual 13.3" Macbook Air that's also been refreshed with the new unibody design and components. When you order the new Macbook Air 11-inch at the Apple Philippines online store, you are also given the option to upgrade up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM. The "Pwn to Own" Hacking Contest held last week was a security battle amongst 3 major operating systems - MacOS X Leopard, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux. First one to hack any of the laptops gets to bring it home: VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1 MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2 The main purpose of this contest is to responsibly unearth new vulnerabilities within these systems so that the affected vendor(s) can address them. On the second day, the very first rig to be hack was surprisingly the MacBook Air (pwned in 2 minutes) via an undisclosed Safari browser vulnerability. Read more in our articles including "Apple introduces 11.6" Macbook Air" and "MacBook Air cracked in 2 minutes at PWN to OWN Contest".