Apple Debuts Envelope-Sized Laptop
January 16th, 2008 by Justin Ryan
The last few days — indeed, the last few weeks — have been filled with much speculation over what Steve Jobs would produce as Apple's newest and neatest offering during his "Stevenote" at the Macworld exposition. He certainly didn't disappoint.
Jobs introduced the Macbook Air by pulling the ¾" laptop from an ordinary manila envelope, and asking "How did we fit a Mac in there?" The system — which is 0.75" at it's thickest point but less than 0.2" at it's thinnest — boasts an instant-on back-lit 13" LED display, a specially created Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 1.6GHz, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and an aluminum casing. It lacks a CD/DVD drive, though an external option will be available for $100, and offers an optional built-in camera and 80GB hard-drive as options.
The Macbook Air is already available for pre-order via Apple's website, and will set you back anywhere from $1,800 to more than $5,500 with all the bells and whistles.
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I’ve always been
On September 10th, 2008 Ada (not verified) says:
I’ve always been accustomed to apple laptops and this new invention defiantly has my interest despite the heavy price. Of course lacking a disk drive must be how they made it fit, I admit I don’t use CD’s so much now but I’m sure for some people it limits the laptops usefulness. This sounds very neat though and aluminum casing is always a nice feature. One to add to the wish list I think.
I Don't Get It
On January 16th, 2008 Shawn Powers says:
I really don't understand the Macbook Air. I have a MacBook Pro (dual booting Leopard and Gutsy Gibbon), and I think it's size is fine. The Air seems like a MBP that has been stripped of much of it's usefulness, and then sold for the same price.
I guess it's neat that it's thin, and I could put it in an envelope and all. Honestly, though, I don't often find the need to put my laptop in an envelope, so that's a feature I'm willing to sacrifice.
Maybe I'm just lame.
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