January 15th, 2008
Apple Introduces the MacBook Air
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
It’s all Macworld, all day long today, right? At Macworld, in his keynote today, Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air, the thinnest (he says, and it sure looks like it!) laptop in production.
It’s priced at $1,799 to start and will be available in two weeks.
Specs:
3.0 pounds, 0.16 -0.76″ thickness, 13.3″ LED-backlit display, full-sized keyboard, multi-touch gestures on the trackpad, iSight webcam, 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU standard, 2GB RAM standard, 80GB hard drive standard - with a 64GB SSD optional, 802.11n standard, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR standard, and MagSafe power connector.
No internal optical drive, but you can get a $99 USB 2.0-based external SuperDrive.
Battery estimates with wi-fi on, 5 hours. We’ll see what it gets in real-life; these battery estimates are usually very generous. However, the bad news is the battery is not user-replaceable! In fact, the replacement of the battery is $129; you have to send it to Apple and be without your laptop for a few days. It’s bad enough when it’s an iPhone, but being without your laptop?
Jobs also spent quite some time focusing on the greenness of the Air; Apple has been criticized in the past over environmental impacts of its products.
According to Jobs, the Air has an Aluminum case, and a mercury- and arsenic-free glass display. The circuit boards are BFR-free and PVC-free as well. Even the packaging is more eco-friendly, with 56% less volume than the regular MacBook.
Two weeks, eh? Start the countdown.
VentureBeat » Roundup: Apple’s new ultra-portable notebook, Zynga launch, CNET’s poison pill, and more says:
[…] Apple releases the Air, Twitter left gasping — As usual, Steve Jobs used his keynote speech at the Macworld conference to introduce a new Apple product. This time it was the ultra-thin Air laptop, which will probably help continue the Mac’s trend of stealing market share away from Microsoft. Coming in at just three pounds and three quarters of an inch thick, it will also be the thinnest laptop on the market, at least according to Jobs. More tech specs here. The keynote also helped point out the limits of Twitter. The messaging service was on fire, with Mac fans firing off one-liners about developments — too many, apparently, because the service went down because of the load, confounding several live-bloggers, including Valleywag. (Some would call that karma..) […]
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March 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 am