Cyberguru Steve Jobs made an announcement at Macworld Expo Tuesday morning for what Apple states is the “world’s thinnest notebook.” The MacBook Air. Weighing in at three pounds with a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches, a width of 12.8 inches, and a depth of 8.95 inches.
With the standard silver finish of the MacBook Pro, now recyclable aluminum, the Air has a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen mercury-free display with arsenic-free glass supporting a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. A new feature of the backlit display is an “instant on” response that activates the moment you power on the computer. It also comes with the standard webcam, backlit keyboard (black), and ambient light sensor. The trackpad this time around has multi-touch capabilities, with gesture recognition similar to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The hardware: 1.8 inch 80GB hard disk drive, option of 64GB solid-state disk; Parallel ATA at 4200 RPM. 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM standard. 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo upgradable to 1.8GHz, which was custom manufactured by Intel to be 60% smaller according to Apple’s specs. The chip also has 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache at full processor speed with an 800MHz frontside bus. The MacBook Air also features a trimmed MagSafe power connector and 45 watt power adapter. USB 2.0, Micro-DVI, headphone jack, 802.11n wireless, and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. Apple estimates a full five hours of battery life with wireless networking on. The Air lacks an included internal optical drive, but will offer new software called Remote Disk, which allows borrowing of remote optical drives of other computers on the same network. Otherwise an additional USB SuperDrive will be available for $99.
The MacBook Air will retail for $1,799 and will be available within two weeks.
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