Rumors!

Many of you may have heard the rumors about Apple releasing an ultra-portable notebook this year at MacWorld. Well, the rumors may be born out: we had heard rumors about the new notebook being called the Macbook Air, and there's definitely something in the air!

There are a few technical considerations for an ultra-portable that have generally kept them from being too popular. I'm looking forward to seeing how Apple engineers have addressed these issues. For one, optical drive tend to take up a lot of room. Don't be surprised if it uses an external DVD-RW/CD-RW drive.

As far as making a notebook thinner, the hard drive is an important factor. The current 2.5" SATA drives used in Macbook's and Macbook Pro's force those machine's to their current depth. We know, however, that Apple has considerable experience with the 1.8" hard drives they use in their iPod classics, and the capacity of those drives just keeps getting bigger.


As for the rumors about a multi touch trackpad: I'd love to see one, but i'm not going to hold my breath.