(CNN) -- While Apple's Wednesday event was called "Back to the Mac," much of the undertones harkened back to its popular touch-screen products.
Apple released a redesigned line of laptops and offered a peek at new Mac software at a news conference at its Cupertino, California, headquarters.
The MacBook Air laptops will be available to buy Wednesday in 11- and 13-inch-display models. The smaller size costs $999, and the larger costs $1,299.
Neither model includes a hard drive or DVD player.
Instead, the MacBook Air uses what's called flash storage, a more efficient but pricier technology used in many of the company's other portable products. That costliness is evident in the base model, which only has 64 gigabytes of space. (It costs an extra $200 to double the storage).
This flash memory helps the new MacBook Air achieve between five and seven hours of battery life when surfing the Web, and 30 days of standby time. That also allows the computer to turn on almost instantly.
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