January 16, 2008

MacBook Air the world thinnest notebook

This is like one of those mythical products which hear of, except apparently this is real now and there are many Apple fans out there that will be scrambling around for details.

Technical specs

.16 to .75-inch thickness on top
12.8 x 8.94 inches
3 pounds
5 hours of battery life with everything running
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor at 1.6 or 1.8GHz, motherboard the length of a pencil.
800MHz frontside bus.
2GB RAM 667MHz DDR2 standard.
13.3-inch screen, LED backlit.
1,280 x 800 pixels
Micro-DVI adapter (for DVI, VGA, composite and S-Video output)
Intel GMA X3100 Graphics processor with 144MB RAM shared
1.8-inch 80GB HD or 64GB Solid State Drive (no moving pieces, but for a stunning £650 price increase!)
Multitouch trackpad with gestures. Pans, zooms, rotates, etc.
802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1.
Optional external HD for £50, USB-bus powered.
Full backlit keyboard.
One USB 2.0, one audio port, one Micro-DVI

The main thing that stands out is the thickness, .16 inches to .76 inches, which is just staggering.

Source [Gizmodo]