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New MacBook Air to hit market this month: Report

TAIPEI : The latest model of Apple's ultra-light MacBook Air is scheduled to hit the market by the end of this month, me
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The first shipment of the next-generation MacBook Air -- the thinnest line of Apple's notebook computers, shorn of a hard drive and disc player -- will be 380,000 units, the Taipei-based Economic Daily News said.

An 11.6-inch model will account for 55 percent of the units in the first batch, and a 13.3-inch model the rest, according to the paper.

It said that about 90 percent of MacBook Airs would be assembled by Taiwan's Quanta Computer, a leading contract computer manufacturer.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011