Up to 12 hours of battery life Work through the whole day on a single charge on the Macbook Air, which provides up to 12 hours of battery life. The huge battery life is due to a larger battery, thanks to the compact flash storage, and the new Intel Core processor architecture which is extremely power efficient. Once the Macbook Air has been asleep for more than 3 hours, it enters standby mode, conserving battery life for up to 30 days. Flash memory storage By using flash memory instead of the standard spinning hard drive found in most laptops and desktop PCs, the Macbook Air delivers an almost instantaneous boot when you open the display. It also launches applications much faster and performs very rapidly overall. Apple has also chosen to get rid of the enclosure that usually surrounds flash memory (about the same size as a standard hard drive) which makes the device much more compact. Revolutionary Thunderbolt technology Developed by Intel with collaboration from Apple, high-speed Thunderbolt technology delivers an impressive transfer speed of 10 gigabits per second in both directions. The Thunderbolt port built into the Macbook Air allows you to connect to Thunderbolt-compatible peripherals as well as USB and FireWire peripherals using simple adapters. Using Thunderbolt, you will be able to move data up to 20 times faster than with USB 2.0. Thunderbolt supports DisplayPort for use with high resolution displays and is compatible with existing adapters for HDMI, DVI and VGA displays.