Introducing the New MacBook Air

Let’s think about this for a second. I do believe we are all familiar with the word, “thin.” Thin as in, “adjective, 1.having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite.” The question is, how thin can the new MacBook Air really get? To be exact, the New MacBook air from Apple, Inc. is the thinnest in the world. And, when I say thin, I really mean it too. The MacBook Air, at it’s thinnest point, is 0.16 of an inch! And at its thickest point, 0.76 of an inch. Thats about as much as your index finger. Now do you believe me? The designers at apple had a hard time getting it to that size though. They had to make many features on the Air much more smaller and thinner, of course, such as the battery and the hard drive. Everything on the Air has been reconsidered with thinness in mind. But, unlike most other laptops this thin, it still has a full size QWERTY keyboard, 13.3 glossy widescreen LCD display, and a full size multi-touch trackpad. Also, they have put a new innovative port hatch that flips down to reveal just 3 ports that you really need: a USB 2.0 port, a headphone jack, and a micro DVI port that supports DVI, VGA, S-video, and composite outputs. Even the MagSafe power adapter has been slimmed to fit the new Macbook Air. Even though it is so small, it still packs a big punch with an 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 gigs of DDR2 RAM. Also, it comes with an 80 gig hard drive and a optional 64 gig solid state drive.

Technical Specs:

• .16 to .75-inch thickness on top
• 12.8 x 8.94 inches
• 3 pounds
• 5 hours of battery life with everything running

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor at 1.6 or 1.8GHz, motherboard the length of a pencil.
• 800MHz frontside bus.
• 2GB RAM 667MHz DDR2 standard.

• 13.3-inch screen, LED backlit.
• 1,280 x 800 pixels
• Micro-DVI adapter (for DVI, VGA, composite and S-Video output)
• Intel GMA X3100 Graphics processor with 144MB RAM shared

• 1.8-inch 80GB HD or 64GB Solid State Drive (no moving pieces, but for a stunning $1,300 price increase!)
• Multitouch trackpad with gestures. Pans, zooms, rotates, etc.
• 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1.
• Optional external HD for $99, USB-bus powered.
• Full backlit keyboard.
• One USB 2.0, one audio port, one Micro-DVI

At just under 3 pounds, and just under an inch thin, the Macbook Air is not just portable, but with you everywhere you need to go.