MacBook Air
Word is out from the Macworld Expo: in two weeks, the world’s thinnest Macbook–thin enough to slide into a large manilla envelope–hits the streets at just under $1800. MacWorld reports the MacBook Air will feature a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. It’s got an instant-on feature and weighs only three pounds. It’s powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo chip at 1.6GHz, but you can upgrade to 1.8GHz.
The MacBook Air will have a full-size keyboard, brightness sensitivity, and a 64GB solid-state drive option. The standard drive is an 80GB Parallel ATA running at 4200 RPM. There’s no internal optical drive but you can you can pay an extra Ben Franklin for a USB SuperDrive addon. In short, it’s totally geek-tastic if you have a thing about being first. But SOME of us will wait til the next iteration of this when they up the ante in the specs department. You can read plenty of grousing about the current specs–the fur is definitely flying in nerdland. On the upside, it’s got a completely recyclable aluminum case and has a lead and mercury-free display.
