New MacBook Air Notebook Revealed at Macworld 2008
In this corner, weighing in at 3 pounds, hailing from Cupertino, California….
It’s thin, it’s light and it packs a pretty good wallop. The new MacBook Air notebook is probably the hottest announcement at Macworld 2008. How thin is thin? Well, Steve Jobs likes to say it fits into a manilla envelope. The thickness ranges from 0.10″ to 0.76″ and the MacBook Air is touted as “the world’s thinnest notebook.”
It doesn’t have a touch screen as many Tablet PC enthusiasts were hoping for, but it does have a multi-touch trackpad. What the heck is a multi-touch track pad? Think about having the touch capabilities of the iPhone on the trackpad of your notebook. You can pinch the trackpad to resize a picture or zoom in and out, rotate your index finger around your thumb on the trackpad to automatically rotate an image, and double-tab to drag a window.
The cool features:
- LED backlit 13.3″ widescreen display w/ 1280 x 800 - no touch
- 12.8″ x 8.94″ x 0.16″ - 0.76″ (that’s only 3/4″ thick!)
- 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor w/ 4MB cache & 800 MHz bus as standard
- 1.8 GHz processor optional
- 2 GB Ram standard
- 5 hours of battery life
- Multi-Touch Trackpad
- Magnetic Latch
- Ambient Light Sensor for Backlit Keyboard
- Micro-DVI out, USB 2.0 and Audio Out
- 802.11n wireless and Bluetooth 2.1
- 45 Watt MagSafe power adapter
- 64GB SSD hard drive $1,000 option! (80GB 4200 RPM 1.8″ PATA hard drive as standard)
- Optional external USB MacBook Air SuperDrive
And there was some garbage about being made out of 100% aluminum, mercury-free, and a bunch of other environmental junk. The MacBook Air is available for pre-order today starting at $1,799 and is shipping in the beginning of February.
Dumbest Move by Apple: Battery is not replaceable!
Apple, when are you going to learn?
What’s the Geekiest Drunkiest Coolest thing that we like about the MacBook Air? They asked Intel to shrink the Core 2 Duo processor, and Intel shrunk the processor by 60%! It will be interesting to see how this affects speed, battery life and heat; not only for the MacBook, but for future PCs that may use this same mini processor that is as thick as a nickel and wide as a dime. Amazing!
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