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Apple MacBook Air Presented By Steve Jobs

16 01 2008

Yesterday at the Macworld conference Keynote, Steve Jobs from Apple presented the world’s thinest laptop. The Macbook Air comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 1.6GHz, an 80 Gb Hard Drive and a 13.3 inch monitor as well as 2 Gb of Ram… With all these things included this Ultraportable Notebook from Apple is still less than 2cm thin (19.3 mm to be exact).

The Macbook Air has a street price of $1,799 and can be ordered now with delivery scheduled for three or four weeks in the US. The fully loaded version has a 2.0 GHz processor and a Solid-State hard drive (with no moving parts) and can be had for only $3,098.00 bucks. You can get the basic Macbook Air with an upgraded processor running at 1.8GHz for $2,099. If you are a teacher or a student and any university in the United States, or if you know a student if might be possible to take advantage of Apple’s Student Discount which can save you from $100 to $230 dollars.

Being so thin, this Macbook does not stop being functional. Although it does not have an optical drive (CD/DVD), you can order an external USB drive for only $99.00 while you can use another computer’s optical drive through a WiFi connection to a compatible Windows PC or Mac. This can be used to access files and for installations.

The 80Gb hard drive is actually borrowed from the iPods, this notebook does have a Micro-DVI and headphone outputs as well as one USB 2.0 connector, an iSight camera and an 802.11n wireless card for connectivity.

One of the most surprising thing about this new Apple Macbook Air is the battery life. Keeping so thin this battery allows for up to 5 hours of WiFi web surfing.

: Congratulations to Steve Jobs and the Engineering Teams at Apple and Intel for this awesome design. Please don’t forget we would like to see 160Gb and 250Gb hard drives as well as myabe 4GB of Ram.