

The 11-inch MacBook Air already gets noticeably warmer than the 13″. The highest case temperature I’ve seen reported is 103 F / 39.5 C.Īs the 13 inch Air has a larger vent to expel hot air, and has a larger aluminium case which heat can disperse over, it should get less hot than an 11 inch MBA. (This is probably why the new MacBook Air ships without Flash installed.) So Flash can cause your Mac to get hot. The new mid-2011 MacBook Air bottom case can get warm towards the back, particularly when the Air is under load.įlash, the most common web technology for video and annoying animated ads, can use a lot of CPU.

The 13″ has roughly a quarter more screen space and pixels.The 11″ is about half a pound lighter (270g).The 13″ has seven hours battery life, two hours more than the 11 inch.(Source: Apple’s MacBook Air Technical Specifications) Mac Air 11 vs 13 – What’s Different?
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Both the 11″ and 13″ can be bought with an upgrade to an i7 processor.Both sizes can be purchased with 4GB of RAM.Both have stereo speakers and a FaceTime camera.Both the 13 and 11 inch Air’s can have up to 256GB flash storage.Both have fast flash storage ( SSDs) instead of slow hard disks.Both sizes come with Apple’s latest operating system, OS X Lion.

