Macbook Air World Thinest Notebook?

The MacBook Air (1.93  is a Macintosh notebook computer by Apple Inc. It is part of the MacBook family and the company’s first to feature a multi-touch trackpad and an optional solid-state hard drive. Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed the MacBook Air at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 15, 2008. Apple describes it as the “world’s thinnest notebook”, while it was the thinnest on the market at the time it was released there have been two prior laptops that were thinner that are no longer produced, at 0.76 inchescm) thick at its thickest point and 0.16 inches (0.4 cm) at its thinnest Weighing 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg), it is also Apple’s lightest laptop.

Overview

To reduce the computer’s size and weight, Apple engineers omitted certain features long standard on their laptops. It is Apple’s first notebook since the PowerBook 2400c without a built-in removable media drive. Users may purchase an external USB SuperDrive, or use bundled Remote Disc software to access the optical drive of another computer. It lacks a security slot^[6] and an Ethernet port, although a USB-to-Ethernet adapter may be purchased separately. Some have complained about the omission of these features.

The MacBook Air is Apple’s first laptop computer to be offered with an optional solid-state hard drive.

The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo chip first appearing in the MacBook Air that was redesigned to reduce its physical size by 60 percent.

The laptop has the magnetic latch system of the MacBook and an aluminum casing like the MacBook Pro. The oversized trackpad offers intuitive, iPhone-like, Multi-Touch gestures, an improvement over previous MacBook trackpads. Among the gestures are pinching, swiping, and rotating.

Dimensions

An Apple press release calls the MacBook Air “the world’s thinnest notebook” and says it “measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks” — such as Sony’s TZ series, Jobs said in his presentation. A common publicity stunt consists of showing that a MacBook Air can fit in a manilla envelope. Laptops thinner than the MacBook Air’s maximum height have been manufactured in the past, including the Mitsubishi/Hewlett-Packard Pedion (a maximum of 0.72 inches thick) in 1997 and the Toshiba Portégé 2000 (a maximum of 0.75 inches thick) in 2002.

Specification:

Component	Early 2008
Display	13.3-inch glossy LED-backlit TFT LCD widescreen display, 1280×800 pixel resolution
Graphics	Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144 MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
Storage	80 GB ATA hard disk drive 64 GB SSD optional
Processor	1.6 GHz Santa rosa Chipset Intel Core 2 Duo Merom, with 800 MHz FSB 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo optional
Memory	2 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM soldered to the logicboard
Wireless networking	Integrated AirPort Extreme supports 802.11a/b/g/draft n
Wired Ethernet	none, Optional USB Ethernet Adapter
Optical storage	none, Optional External USB SuperDrive
Camera	Built-in iSight, 640×480 pixel resolution
Battery	37 W-Hr Lithium-ion polymer battery 5 hours
Physical dimensions	22.7 cm D × 32.4 cm  W × 0.4~1.94 cm H 8.9 in. D × 12.74 in. W × 0.16~0.76 in. H 1.36 kg (3.0 lbs.)
Bluetooth	Built-in (2.1+Enhanced Data Rate)
Port connections	1× USB 2.0 1× Micro-DVI video port (adapters are included for VGA or DVI monitors up to 1920×1200 pixels) 1× Audio out (3.5 mm stereo jack)
Audio	1× microphone 1× mono loudspeaker External speakers must be plugged in for stereo.
Keyboard	Backlit full-size keyboard with ambient light sensor
Trackpad	Supports multi-touch gestures