MacWorld: MacBook Air - World’s thinnest notebook?
written by: Patrick Wong | category: MacBook | posted: 01/15/08| Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, a computer that they claimed to be the world’s thinnest notebook. How thin? Small enough to fit inside an mailing envelope. It’s priced starting at $1,799 and will be available within two weeks. White and Silver are Apple’s icon - you can expect MacBook Air to be either or combination of those colors :-)It features a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. The backlight have the “instant on” feature where it lights up the moment you turn it on! It weighs about 3 pounds, and sports a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches. It’s 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep. Now that’s slim! The keyboard is backlit, similar to MacBook Pros, and has an ambient light sensor that adjusts brightness automatically. The trackpad is also capable of recognizing multi-touch gestures, similar to using an iPhone or iPod touch.The MacBook Air equipped with a 1.8-inch hard disk drive with 80GB of storage capacity standard. A 64GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive optionally. Yes, there’s a webcam. The laptop is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo NEW chip running at 1.6GHz - according to Apple’s CEO (Steve Jobs) that it’s 60 percent smaller than others, designed for this product!!! With only 0.16-0.76 inches thick, we know everything will be external such as external optical drive (SuperDrive will cost $99) Apple estimates that with wireless networking turned on, the MacBook Air can get about 5 hours of battery life. Screen is mercury-free display with arsenic-free glass! |
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April 4th, 2008 06:15
I love how thin and light it is!
June 23rd, 2008 07:46
As the thinnest laptop in the world, MacBook Air looks really cool.. anyone will be impressed when first looking at it.. but the size is also limiting the features of this laptop
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