Macworld: MacBook Air is Real and Has Multi Touch
Written by admin on January 15th, 2008 in Gadgets and Devices.
It looks like our sources were right, Apple has just announced the MacBook Air, “The World’s Thinnest Notebook”.
The MacBook Air sports a full sized, 13.3 inch LED backlit screen with a built in iSight camera and a full sized, backlit keyboard. The whole thing is just 0.16 inches thick. So thin, in fact, that you can slide it into an envelope.
The new notebook also has a multi touch trackpad, and it’s big. The multi touch functions can be customized, but the essentials are there too: the pinch’n'zoom of the iPhone, for instance. Apple have gone with a tiny, iPod sized 1.8 inch hard drive to save space, which will be 80GB in size, but – get this – there’s an option for a 64GB SSD!
Of course, in a Mac this size there’s no room for an optical drive, so Apple will sell an add-on superdrive for $100. But with the Time Capsule for wireless backup and storage and movie downloads, who needs it? You’ll connect the bus-powered drive to the MacBook Air’s single USB port, which is hidden behind a door on the side that also conceals a mini DVI slot for an external display and a headphone jack. If you don’t want to pay for an external drive, you can piggy-back, or borrow any drive on your network, PC or Mac, using the new Remote Disc feature.
To get a full spec Mac into a case this size, Apple asked Intel to make a special Core 2 Duo chip. That alone is amazing. The size of the chipset, though, is astonishing. The whole of the Mac electronics sit on a board the “size of a pencil”. One more thing. The battery life with WiFi turned on (as if you’d ever turn it off) is claimed to be five hours. That’s a seriously low-power chipset in there.
The price? For 2GB RAM, a 1.6GHZ processor, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 802.11n you’ll pay $1800. We’ll bring you the price of the SSD upgrade as soon as the store comes back online.
UPDATE: The Apple Store is back up. The basic model as listed above is $1800. The SSD model, with a 64GB flash drive, and a faster 1.8 Ghz chip, is $3100. Both available in three to four weeks.
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