Apple announced the slimmest notebook around, the MacBook Air. It only measures .16-inches and is slim enough to slip into a manila envelope. MacBook Air features a full-size keyboard and LED-backlit 13.3-inch display with built-in iSight. It also sports a new larger trackpad that supports multi-touch gestures. Similar to the interface of the iPhone where you can pinch in or pan out, the MacBook Air’s trackpad allows you to do the same, it even allows you to rotate images with two fingers, and move windows with a flick. Apple was able to contain the size by using the same 1.8-inch 80GB drive that's in the iPod classic. However the64GB SSD is optional. So far so good, but on the flipside just like an iPod, you can't just crack it open to replace the hard drive, memory or even battery. On full charge the batter will last you five hours. Also the thing doesn’t sport an Ethernet port either.
Apple MacBook Air steers clear of optical media, but there's a separate external you can snap up for $99. The laptop also features something called the Remote Disk that'll let the Air get data off the optical drive in any PC or Mac running the Remote Disk software. Pricing starts at $1799 and the Air will be shipping in two weeks.
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I just saw this awesome invention in the news. Found it amazing because its just too slim for a common laptop. How the hell did those processors, boards, and other hardware a common laptop has fitted in that very slim one? According to what I saw in the news, it can be inserted firmly in the brown envelope...Cool!
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