Apple has officially announced refreshed MacBook Air laptops now running on the faster and more power efficient 4th Gen Intel Haswell processors.  The new range comes loaded with the new processors, flash storage, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, up to 12 hours of battery life and Apple’s iLife and iWork apps.

Apple claims that the new Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors work in combination with OS X Mavericks to give the 13-inch MacBook Air up to 12 hours of battery life and the 11-inch MacBook Air up to 9 hours of battery life. iTunes movie playback times increase to 12 hours on the 13-inch notebook and 9 hours on the 11-inch notebook.

The new MacBook Air is officially available through Apple Authorised Resellers. The 11-inch MacBook Air comes with a 1.4 GHz processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.7 GHz, 4GB of memory and is available with 128GB of flash storage starting at Rs. 65,900 inc VAT (Rs. 62,642.59 ex VAT), and 256GB of flash storage starting at Rs. 79,900 inc VAT (Rs. 75,950.57 ex VAT). The 13-inch MacBook Air comes with a 1.4 GHz processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.7 GHz, 4GB of memory and is available with 128GB of flash storage starting at Rs. 72,900 inc VAT (Rs. 69,296.58 ex VAT), and 256GB of flash storage starting at Rs. 86,900 inc VAT (Rs. 82,604.56 ex VAT). Configure-to-order options include a 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.3 GHz, up to 8GB of memory and up to 512GB flash storage.

“With MacBook Air starting at Rs. 65,900, there’s no reason to settle for anything less than a Mac,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.