Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Item 4: In the air

MacBook Air (!) - The world's thinnest notebook
[
MacBook
MacBook Air
MacBook Pro 
]
 (and everyone fell silent on the internet)

13 inch display, full sized keyboard
.76" to .16" back to front
hes pulling it out of a document envelope..... it's aluminum!
unrecognizable port on the right side...
magnetic latch
LED backlit 13.3 display
Built in iSight Full size backlit keyboard
and.. .Multi-touch gesture trackpad! move windows, rotate photos, pan, zoom, pinch....
Really nice! (from tim: "I called it Oren! 1.8 inches? heh")
80 GB hard drive standard, 64 GB flash optional
tiny logic board
inte core 2 duo 1.6/1.8 GHz

bottom comes off for service. look very tech friendly (yay!)
intel CEO on stage.. credits apple for inspiration for smaller core 2 duo
processor is "thick as a nickel and wide as a dime"
MagSafe on the left, with USB, micro DVI, and audio out on right
$99 external SuperDrive

don't see firewire or ethernet....
steve explaining lack of optical drive...
Remote disc to use mac or pc optical drive
can install mac software from windows optical drive.
Just install a bit of software in any mac or pc andallow the Air to take control of its optical drive and mount discs wirelessly on the air's desktop as if they were local

battery life: 5 hours
weight: 3 pounds
2gb RAM standard
802.11/n + Bluetooth
$1799
ships in 2 weeks!
Order today!
there's an envelope TV ad.... very cool
environmental: mercury and arsenic free : )
main boards are bromide and PVC free

recapping... prepping for "one more thing" encore??

5 comments:

Ben said...

Hooray for tech-friendly! I want one...

Oren said...

dammit, tim. you win.

Unknown said...

wayyyy to expensive for that form factor. imho

nosound said...

just wait until you get your hands on one. then we'll see what you think. pumpkin. hehe

Daniel said...

You know, that's a pretty standard price for Ultraportable notebooks.