“The World’s Thinnest Notebook” - MacBook Air - Fits inside envelope
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MacBook air goes from 0.76 inches down to 0.16 inches at the thin end. It’s 3lbs. It fits inside an envelope.
Magnetic latch, 13.3″ widescreen display
Multi-touch trackpad
Display is LED backlit. iSight is built-in. MacBook-like keyboard, but with an ambient light sensor
Otellini from Intel: The processor is as thick as a nickle and as wide as a dime.
1.6 GHz Standard Intel Core 2 Duo
80 GB hard disk standard, or 64 GB solid state if you are loaded
1.8″ Hard Drive
802.11n + Bluetooth
2GB memory standard
Price: $1799.
Music from the new ad for the MacBook Air is done by Yael Naim.
Yael Naim - New Soul
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January 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I thought it was going to be a small form-factor laptop, attractively priced to compete with the likes of the Asus EEE and they glut of UMPC’s. Turns out it’s a hugely overpriced vanity computer that doesn’t even come with a SSD as standard.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Or 1699 euro
January 15th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
€2,878.00 if you include the 64GB SSD!
January 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I never really thought Apple would try to compete with a £200 computer. They’ve never shown any desire to compete with it before, why now?
January 15th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
[...] Via Damien;- Apple have created the worlds thinnest notebook computer - the Macbook Air. And there was much rejoicing… [...]
January 15th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
It’s that enormous Steve Jobs that terrifies me.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
That’s his giant robot suit. So he can fight Cloverfield.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Just when I had finally decided to buy a MacBook Pro…..damn you Jobs.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Clearly the market cared less for this (and the rest of the keynote), AAPL down 5% - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=1d
January 15th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
John - that happens EVERY year after MacWorld. The price always dips. You can see this if you look at the long term charts.
The smart money says “BUY”
January 15th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
The smart money says the US stock market is going down (in a big way) so I don’t think I’ll be buying any equities thanks!
January 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
No touch screen? What year is this, 2007?
January 15th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
“Fits inside envelope” expensive letter but……..
January 16th, 2008 at 12:09 am
@roosta: The Macbook Pro is a much better computer than this yoke.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:02 am
For ‘thinnest ever’, read ‘least resistent to lateral shearing and cracked motherboards ever’ or ‘easiest to bend ever’.
The first non-portable laptop. Certainly it’s some kind of breakthrough, but then shit-flavoured ice cream would be, too.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Boo hoo. John didn’t get a £200 MacBook so he didn’t have to suffer with Linux on the eee PC…
January 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am
[...] correspondants on Damien’s blog don’t think it’s up to much (and this is before touching the device). One commenter [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 11:08 am
drooooooooooooooooool
January 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am
No Ethernet port. Thats a dealbreaker for my Gigabyte switch.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
[...] response to Apple’s big circle jerk yesterday, as covered by Damien and Cimota, I present some of my thoughts on the Macbook [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I’m really, really, really tempted to buy this.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Me too, I was just about to purchase a ‘black’ mac. My Powerbook died recently. I’ll let you all know.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I once spend a lot of money buying the new sony notebook, which at that time was an revolutionary 5 lbs. But it goes obsolete so quickly just like any other computers. I rather wait for the price drop for this one.