This was the one that had us all drooling and wetting ourselves today. Of all the leaked announcement, this was the one closest to the truth and the most desirable. The new, ultra-skinny MacBook Air has arrived.
From end to end, at its thickest it's just 0.76" thick, whereas at its thinnest, it's just 0.16". Well, it happened. Steve totally wowed his audience with this one. Despite being just a slip of a thing that can "fit in an envelope", it packs in a full size 13.3" widescreen, full size keyboard and iSight camera. It's LED backlit, and just bloody brilliant all round. Yes, I like Apple, so sue me.
To make it even more wonderful, Apple has packed in some of the features from the iPhone in terms of navigation. A large trackpad recognises a whole host of multi-touch gestures; basically, if I haven't said it before, you can take your right mouse button and... well, you know.
The chassis is not disappointing either. The hard drive is 1.8" and 80GB as standard, but there's a 64GB Solid State Drive option too. RAM is 2GB as standard. It is powered with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1.6GHz as standard, although you can upgrade to 1.8. Intel specifically made the Core 2 Duo 60% percent smaller for Apple. Gimme!
In something this tiny there is, of course, no optical drive, although a $99 is available as an accessory. But since this is built to be wireless, there's a much more clever feature. You can scan the vicinity for PCs and Macs and "borrow" their optical drives and use them as if they were your own. And you can see what's on them. What's more, this claims to be packing 5 hours of battery, so you should never be caught short.
Oh, and by the way, Hippyshopper fans, it's been designed with much more of an eco-conscience than other models. The case is recyclable aluminium, the display is mercury and arsenic free and there are no brominated flame retardants. There's also a focus on less packaging.
It's shipping in two weeks starting at $1799. I don't even want to think what that's going to be UK... whenever it's available (the Apple Store is still touting the Mac Pro over here). Ah yes, as a commenter beat me to adding, it's £1,199. Ouch. Where's the queue for selling out for free stuff...? (JOKE!)
It's £1,119. Oh dear. But I want one!!
It looks nice for sure, but my god the price for what you get, yuck.
Purely for those who have too much money and want to impress people on there travels.
A very expensive and simple laptop , but good looking toy.
How long before overheating problems and just wait until you have to pay apple to replace the stupid internal battery. Does the battery come with a 1 year warranty I wonder??