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We heard properties got coming. Now it looks like it’s as if we have got a instant ultra-thin laptop sporting Intel’s custom-built, 65-nm processor mostly unveiled in Apple’s MacBook Air. At in regards to 3:00 moments to the Envy 133 video, Rahul Sood, Voodoo founder, reads this his new Envy 133 uses an “off roadmap chip” of Intel design that consumes 20 watts of power. Looking at the Envy spec sheet reveals a processor running at either 1.6GHz (SP7500) or 1.8GHz (SP7700), provided 4MB L2 Cache and 800MHz FSB. Right, folks are the particular specs as the customized CPU at last found inside of Apple’s MacBook Air. Also of note, LaptopMag displays the current Voodoo’s instant-on IOS is none a good amount as opposed to DeviceVM’s Splashtop that ASUS is already bunging to all of its motherboards. Make no mistake, such hunky chunk of carbon fiber is a great deal magical, it is just recently not the mystery it seemed when launched the morning.

We’ve already seen the MacBook Air bathed in gold and crystals, but it seems that people just can’t leave well enough alone, with the folks at Computer Choppers (no strangers to gilded Macs) only the latest to spare no expense in taking the laptop to heights of tackiness that no one from Cupertino would ever dare dream of. That includes 24kt gold plating over the entire laptop and, in a final stake through El Jobso’s heart, an Apple logo ensconced in multi-colored sapphires — not to mention a polished gold SuperDrive to go along with it. If your eyes can take it, you can find a few more pics in the gallery below.

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Bare Feats continues to pit Macs against each other in a no-holds-barred, up-against-the-wall benchmarking breakdown, and this time around it’s the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air in the octagon together. And things go about as planned — while the solid state drive in the MBA has its advantages, the processor and GPU (what little there is of it) in the MBA don’t even really compare to the MBP. Sure, it’s a small, super thin, super portable computer, but not only are you paying in cash for the portability, you’re paying in performance, too.

This doesn’t mean the MBA is a bad computer at all — for most tasks, it’ll work just fine. But complicated 3D graphics (both Halo and Unreal Tournament 2004 were tested) will be almost unplayable in games, and there will be a substantial wait, sometimes up to minutes more, for certain processor intensive tasks. If speed is a high priority (at least higher than portability), the MBA isn’t for you.

I would like to see how the MacBook compares, though. It’s not surprising that the MBP is a fast machine, but where does the MBA line up compared to the cheaper model?
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