Monday, June 22, 2009

MacBook Air- Apple Introduces The World’s Thinnest Notebook

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs proudly introduced the new, incredibly thin Macbook Air notebook during his Macworld keynote today. It takes the title of "world’s thinnest notebook" measuring just 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, and a maximum height of 0.76-inches.

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In fact, Jobs brought the new MacBook Air on to the stage packed in a manila envelope to prove how thin it is.

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Macbook Air (starting price: $1,799) is slim, but it's not slim on features. It has 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, plus a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, as seen on the iPhone, that lets users pinch, rotate and swipe, and five hours of battery life! Powered by a miniaturized 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, Mac Book Air includes 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, or optional 64GB solid state drive, speedy 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1.

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MacBook Air does not include an opticle drive, but you can buy the USB-powered companion MacBook Air SuperDrive for $99.Ports on the MacBook Air include a micro-DVI port for connecting displays and projectors via DVI, VGA, Composite and S-video adapters, and USB 2.0, and a headphone jack. Apple’s MagSafe 45 Watt Power Adapter is also included.

MacBook Air $1,799 configuration features:

* 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280x800 resolution;

* 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache;

* 800 MHz front-side bus;

* 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM;

* 80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;

* Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100;

* Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters);

* built-in iSight video camera;

* built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;

* one USB 2.0 port;

* one headphone port;

* multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe; and

* 45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter

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