MacBook Air- Apple Introduces The World’s Thinnest Notebook
Apple CEO Steve Jobs proudly introduced the new, incredibly thin Macbook Air notebook during his Macworld keynote today. It takes the title of "world’s thinnest notebook" measuring just 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, and a maximum height of 0.76-inches.
In fact, Jobs brought the new MacBook Air on to the stage packed in a manila envelope to prove how thin it is.
Macbook Air (starting price: $1,799) is slim, but it's not slim on features. It has 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, plus a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, as seen on the iPhone, that lets users pinch, rotate and swipe, and five hours of battery life! Powered by a miniaturized 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, Mac Book Air includes 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, or optional 64GB solid state drive, speedy 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1.
MacBook Air does not include an opticle drive, but you can buy the USB-powered companion MacBook Air SuperDrive for $99.Ports on the MacBook Air include a micro-DVI port for connecting displays and projectors via DVI, VGA, Composite and S-video adapters, and USB 2.0, and a headphone jack. Apple’s MagSafe 45 Watt Power Adapter is also included.
MacBook Air $1,799 configuration features:
* 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280x800 resolution;
* 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache;
* 800 MHz front-side bus;
* 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
* 80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100;
* Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters);
* built-in iSight video camera;
* built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
* one USB 2.0 port;
* one headphone port;
* multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe; and
* 45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter
