The new MacBook Air, reportedly set to emerge later this month, will see the return of the backlit keyboard according to a new rumour. AppleInsider claims to have sources close to the project who’ve told it that the next version of the ultra-thin laptop will bring back the feature.
It’s generally thought that the new MacBook Air will arrive shortly after the release of Mac OS X Lion this month. There are strong suggestions that it will include a Thunderbolt port, a bump to Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor and new high-speed flash memory.
Bringing back the MacBook Air backlit keyboard would be a welcome inclusion as the first generation of the machine included the feature only for Apple to ditch it when the current model was launched in October 2010.
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