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MacWorld: MacBook Air - World’s thinnest notebook?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

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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Concept: Sleek MacBook Touch (Pictures)

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Concept: Sleek MacBook Touch (Pictures)

Macworld 2008 is right around the corner, and these pre-Macworld photos already circulating the Internet. Enjoy!

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Some MacBook hard drives contain fatal defect, according to report

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Some MacBook hard drives contain fatal defect We’ve been hearing vague rumblings about potentially flawed MacBook hard drives for a day or two now, but a report from UK data-recovery firm Retrodata finally backs up all the noise with some hard data — according to the company, revision 7.0.1 Seagate drives manufactured in China have defective read / write heads that can become detached and slide across the surface of the platters, making recovery impossible. Apple says it’s only received “a few reports” of the problem, but Retrodata says the issue is severe enough to warrant a recall. MacBook users will want to fire up Apple System Profiler ASAP and check under the Serial-ATA listing to see what kind of drive they have — and probably start backing things up, just to be safe.