Jan 15
Along with the Time Capsule and movie rentals announcements at this mornings’ Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs perhaps saved some of the biggest news for last. He unveiled the long-rumored and speculated upon MacBook Air. The thing looks pretty darn amazing. In fact, he brought it on stage in an envelope. Intel has shrunk the processor down by 60%. The processor on this is apparently as thick as a nickle and as wide as a dime! The MacBook Air is 0.16″ to 0.76″ at its thickest. Now that’s thin!
Some environmental details:
- Full aluminum case (good for recycling)
- Mercury and lead free display
- Circuit boards are BFR free
- Retail packaging uses 56% less volume than the MacBook.
Some key features and specs:
- 2GB memory (standard)
- 1.6 GHz Standard, 1.8 GHz Option - Intel Core 2 Duo
- 80 GB hard disk standard
- 13.3″ display
- Magnetic closure
- 5 hrs battery life
- Superdrive acceessory available for $99
- 802.11n + Bluetooth 2.1/EDR
- 45 Watt MagSafe
- 1 USB 2.0 port (only 1???)
- Micro-DVI, Audio Out
- Multi-touch trackpad
- Backlit LED
- iSight built-in
The MacBook Air is pre-ordering today, and will ship in two weeks. You can pick one up from $1799.
Read more from Apple, or pre-order here.
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written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: MacBook Air, macworld
January 15th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Steves Keynote was awesome, a change from last year when all the attention was on the iPhone.
Reminds me of 2004 and 2003 and 2002!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
However:
In the keynote ? He looks thin, (his face) your Impressions:?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
At first I was really impressed with the macbookoAir, typical halo effect I suppose. However, once that passed I was left with the thought “what is the point in that laptop?”.
For $1800, I get a laptop that is for all purposes the same length and width as a macbook with less power across the board. The only difference is it is thinner, and has longer battery life, and fewer ports. Why would I spend more money on it?
As for the keynote, it was the first one I enjoyed in at least a year. But the coolest part, I connected my laptop to my HD TV, and the streaming webcast fillld the screen… not in HD, but standard definition in wide screen. It never once stopped to buffer either. Apple’s ability to do that is just amazing.
The one thing I am fascinated by is the Apple TV however. The Movie rentals sold it for me, and once its availlble in Canada and actually has the movies released on the same dates as the US I will buy myself one. But in the meantime I plan to buy 2 .. 1 for my mom and 1 for my mother in law for the FLickr Integration.. Now with 3 clicks of the remote (1. Photos, 2. Flickr, 3. Album on Flickr) they can keep up with the latest pictures of their baby grandson.
The MacBook Air though… I hope just floats away in the near future