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Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, the latest addition to Apple’s Mac family. What’s so special about the MacBook Air? This notebook claimed as the thinnest notebook in the world. The MacBook Air is priced starting at $1,799 and will be available within two weeks.
"We’ve built the world’s thinnest notebook — without sacrificing a full-size keyboard or a full-size 13-inch display," said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO while introducing MacBook Air in the Macworld Expo 2008 at San Fransisco. "When you first see MacBook Air, it’s hard to believe it’s a high-performance notebook with a full-size keyboard and display. But it is."

The notebook measures only 0.16 inches (4 millimeters) at its thinnest point (measures 0.76 inches at its back) and weighs 3.0 pounds (1.3 kilograms).

The notebook comes with a full-sized keyboard framed in an aluminum enclosure that highly recyclable and mercury-free. It seems that the MacBook Air better for the environment (sky, water, trees) than other Macs.



The MacBook Air is equipped with a 13.3-inch widescreen TFT panel capable of 1280 by 800 native resolution. According to ts technical specifications, the system is based on Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor — featuring 4 MB of L2 cache — in 1.6 or 1.8GHz with 2GB of DDR2 RAM. Its also equipped with an 80GB 1.8" hard drive or an optional 64GB solid-state drive. Peripheral connections such as a single USB port, an audio out port and a micro-DVI port. MacBook Air shipped without Ethernet nor modem (sold separately as USB adaptors).

The MacBook Air is available for preorder now and should ship around the end of January. Estimated retail price range between $1,799 to as much as $3100.

For more information, check our latest review about MacBook Air here:
MacBook Air: The World's Thinnest Notebook.