Apple unveils “the thinnest notebook in the world” – the MacBook Air. Apple went and looked at most of the thinnest notebooks – Sony TZ series, for example and tried to distill the best of all of them –
- ~3 lbs
- 0.16 to 0.76 inches thin, 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep
- 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 × 800 pixel resolution
- full sized MacBook-style black keyboard with Ambient light sensor
- built-in iSight
- multi-touch trackpad (Move a window by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb)
- 80GB drive as standard, 64GB SSD as an option
- 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo as standard chip which operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, and uses an 800MHz frontside bus (1.8 GHz as an upgrade)
- 45w MagSafe
- 1 USB 2.0 port
- Micro-DVI
- 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1/EDR
- 5 hour battery life
- 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM
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