Penryn MacBook Air!?!

Remember the MacBook Air? I am sure you do! After all, this is not only about Apple's notebook that's able to fit inside an envelope, as you were able to see countless times so far all over the Web - it's much more than that! For example, the MacBook Air provided a reason for some security specialists to earn no less than $10,000 for hacking it, and since we're talking about big money, it's also worth remembering the "Golden Age" MacBook Air, a custom made model, worth $40,000! Now, if we leave all these behind and look ahead, there's only one word to say: Penryn!

Obviously, we're going to talk about the same old rumor regarding the updates everyone is expecting to see. Basically, it's about changing the processor inside the MacBook Air. According to PhoneNews, this is as good as done already, and they even have some tech details about the revision of the thinnest notebook in the world(if I am wrong with this and something thinner was released in the meantime, please let me know!)...

As I was expecting, the external design is not going to suffer any major changes, as PhoneNews is claiming but the new CPU will be a standard Penryn-class Core 2 Duo, instead of the custom CPU its has now. The good news is that we'll see speeds going above 2GHz, but unfortunately power drain is also expected to increase. The interesting part is that while the Cupertino-based company will provide a more powerful battery, the AC adapter will remain the same 60W one currently in use with the MacBook family.

The article I mentioned earlier also says national retailers were alerted to be prepared for the upgrade, and that larger HDD drives are also expected to be added to the MacBook Air - 120GB for the default configuration, and an 160GB option, too, while SSD prices should keep the level where they are now...

These being said, there's only one more thing to add - nothing is official yet, but since more and more news channels claim this to be near, I guess we'll see this happening pretty soon.