New MacBook Airs to Get Backlit Keyboard?

Apple is planning to return the backlit keyboard feature to its MacBook Air notebooks, according to an AppleInsider report.

According to people familiar with the matter, backlit keyboards will join the string of hardware enhancements planned for the new 11.6- and 13.3-inch notebooks, which are also expected to adopt high-speed Thunderbolt ports, an upgrade to Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, and possibly high-speed 400MBps flash memory.

Given that the MacBook Air is targeted at professionals on the go, the backlit keyboard was a sorely missed feature. This was especially true because all three versions of the first generation MacBook Air included a backlit keyboard as a standard feature.


The new notebooks are expected to arrive on Thursday.

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