• MacBook Air is Apple's ultrathin lightweight notebook computer. Apple markets it as "the world's thinnest notebook."

• 1. Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
  2. Launched at Macworld 2008 on January 15, 2008
  3. Starting price: $1799
  4. 13.3" LED backlit display
  5. Built-in iSight
  6. Large trackpad to support gestures like the iPhone
  7. Tagline: "thinnovation"
  8. Not a sub-notebook

• New Features

  Announced at the October 14 Apple MacBook event, the new version of the Air will have the following features starting in early November:

  1. NVIDIA 9400
  2. 120GB hard drive
  3. Mini display port
  4. Price: $1799
  5. Second option: $2499 with 1.86GHz CPU and SSD

• Green Design Features

  The MacBook Air has an all-aluminum case, a mercury- and arsenic-free LCD screen, PVC-free internal cables, and the majority of circuit boards free of brominated flame retardants.

• Tech Specs

  1. Height: 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm)
  2. Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm)
  3. Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm)
  4. Weight: 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)
  5. Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed
  6. 800MHz frontside bus
  7. 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM onboard
  8. 80GB 4200-rpm Parallel ATA hard disk drive
  9. Wireless: Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
  10. Built-in iSight

• Quotes

  • "It seems, however, that almost everybody has missed the real significance of the MacBook Air. Sure, it's a very thin laptop that a lot of serious road warriors will buy, but its greatest importance lies in the fact that it will attract hundreds of thousands of new customers. All of these folks are going to flock to the Apple stores to see it first hand and while they're there..."' PC Magazine: Apple's MacBook Air Will Soar" (February 1, 2008)

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